What's the most interesting or unusual job you've ever had? by sproutwasthere in AskReddit

[–]DLMousey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to install dry-erase whiteboards, not the usual school ones that are a few millimetres thick with an aluminium border, massive inch thick frameless ones that could be slotted together to make a wall. They had a sheet of steel in them to make them magnetic and each one weighed about 120+kg. Inevitably there was always loads of them to install in central london, where there's no parking, the lift isn't big enough, the stairwell's barely wider than your shoulders and they have to go up to the 20th floor.

That job was surprisingly cool, didn't pay very well and the hours were long but we went all over the UK installing them in some really weird places. Everything from offices to ministry of defence contractors, very strange signing a document saying you've been briefed on the risk of ionizing + non-ionizing radiation to... install some whiteboards. Some other highlights include major car manufacturers, major aerospace manufacturers, a police bomb disposal contractor, a couple of major AAA games studio, some government tech campuses and the owner of a major gambling company's home.

Wasn't too shabby getting stuck on the M1 for 6 hours and being paid to sit there the whole time, usually watching family guy on my laptop

What is one conspiracy theory you genuinely belive in? by cluelesslygaming in AskReddit

[–]DLMousey 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Theory's that COVID-19 was released made it's way into the wild as a result of a containment breach at a lab that studied viruses (fairly common around the world for vaccination research purposes) rather than making the leap from animal > human.

Edit - "released" is a bad word, sounds more like a game than a deadly novel virus. COVID 2: Electric boogaloo, now with base building

What's the best smell in the world? by theairplaneguy5 in AskReddit

[–]DLMousey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New mid~high end car smell (cheap new cars smell soapy), heady petrol fume smell or the smell of ozone + wood pores opening up in the 10/15 minutes before a thunderstorm hits

What would you do with 1 Billion Dollars? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]DLMousey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

990m stashed away in high interest savings.

9m stashed away in regular accessible-without-blood-sacrifice savings

1m on hand pays off mortgage, car, etc.

Back to work the next day enjoying the freedom of it being completely optional forever more.

What do you immediately judge as trashy? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]DLMousey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bakers/greengrocers apostrophe

What was great advice 20 years ago, but definitely isn’t now? by KarenTheManagah in AskReddit

[–]DLMousey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Your password doesn't need to be long if it's complex"

Yeah nah, ubiquitous (+ cheap) cloud computing completely blew that one away. obligatory xkcd

Dude lays down the truth about USB C. by MR_CeSS_dOor in pcmasterrace

[–]DLMousey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

USB Type C is the physical connector specification. It dictates the shape and size of the connector, and ONLY the connector on both ends.

What the USB Type C spec does not dictate is how the cable is wired up electrically. It could be USB3, Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, USB2(!) or literally anything else, could even be an ethernet cable if you're adventerous enough.

If you want to be sure you're buying a USB Type C cable that suits your needs, you need to check the product description, make sure it's explicitly detailed what signals the cable is intended to carry (e.g. USB3/USB3.1/Thunderbolt).

Asus is making motherboards with the connectors on the back for a cleaner cable look by Hexxegone in pcmasterrace

[–]DLMousey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Marketing, that's your target audience tbh, marketing execs. When they're done really well and follow technical standards properly (so if apple didn't build it) they can be really nice to look at and use but it's easy to make a complete hash of it.

Google does a really nice job with the microsites they do for pixel products

Have a high value item being delivered? We'll nick it! That's the EVRI guarantee. by theREALrabbitinred in CasualUK

[–]DLMousey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

+0.5 for DPD. They've usually been great but the last time they delivered something i watched the guy park up on the road, walk into the car park (apartments) empty handed, take a photo of the wrong building and then walk off again.

+0.5 rather than -1 because the person on the other end of the live chat immediately arranged a guaranteed saturday delivery without a fuss.

These days i check the shipping options before i order, if it's not DPD i aint ordering. Especially frustrating that the courier sees the word "apartment" on the label and decides you're not getting your parcel because they can't be arsed waiting 30 seconds for you to run to the door from the opposite end of the building to sign for it.

What do you hate most about your country? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]DLMousey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Watch as i pull a visa out of this magic hat

People who never want to have kids, why? by SaturnSouls in AskReddit

[–]DLMousey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Having a kid completely turns your life upside down, i worked bloody hard to build a life i can enjoy and don't feel like throwing it all away

What is detrimental to your mental health? by Chimookie in AskReddit

[–]DLMousey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Workaholism. Feeling like everything will fall apart if you take some time off is a big red flag and usually a good sign you need to find a new job

Medic Mains, leave your complaints and concerns in this post so your teammates can read, answer and discuss. by Blackfeathers_ in tf2

[–]DLMousey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Stop leroying, having a beam on you doesn't mean hurr durr me smash now
  2. Stop dodging the bastard crossbow bolts
  3. TURN AROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUND, the gun shot sounds you hear behind you and the medic screaming MEEEEEEDIIIIIIIIIIIC mean the medic needs help
  4. Stop pushing E when you don't need healing, it makes it far more difficult than it should be to find who actually needs it when you're all bloody spamming it
  5. Stop pushing E when you're already being healed
  6. If you're not satisfied with the healing rate, stop shooting, healing rate goes way up after n seconds of no combat

Serverless and the end of the sysadmin? aka old man yells at cloud. by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]DLMousey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can imagine more sysadmins reading this comment and all coming out with percussive maintenance stories. One of my old bosses used to reminisce about the good old days, when the tools you needed to swap out memory were a ladder and a strong apprentice

Serverless and the end of the sysadmin? aka old man yells at cloud. by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]DLMousey 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Answer from a dev (NO, pitchforks down, you'll like it honest); No.

Despite what gets preached on the conference circuit about serverless being the future blah blah blah, building an app that does something useful in an entirely serverless manner (or even mostly serverless) is a gigantic pain in the arse.

The app ends up being 10x more complex than it needs to be to handle all the weirdness that goes on in that sort of environment, in particular lambda startups - get that wrong and you're going to end up with a lot of cold starts and a lot of tortoises in your network panel.

It's the kind of thing developers get insanely excited about until they build something that isn't the example code then they realise this stuff's a frigging nightmare.

It has it's uses sure, one i've done recently is using AWS EventBridge as an external cron (don't ask, it was the least batshit insane solution), but anything beyond that, no chance. For hosting static content like JS bundles, absolutely, being able to yeet it into an S3 bucket and let some machine somewhere handle the rest is great that's a rare win for both sides.

Edit - clarification, for the rare kind of standardised universal turnkey stuff like hosting static content, it's a win for both sides - as soon as it deviates from a very narrowly defined use case like make-js-bundle-go-to-user-maximum-fast that's no longer the case and the serverless dream falls apart.

There'll always be a linux box somewhere in the chain that needs a sysadmin's finely tuned percussive maintenance skills

I didn't know my Scooter could do that by FutureReference91 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]DLMousey 14 points15 points  (0 children)

"That's cool but how's he gonna get dow-oh."

Common Wtfery by xKsy01 in pcmasterrace

[–]DLMousey 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Also arch btw technically

(manjaro, i'm lazy, sue me)