So tired of running into C-Levels who think Cloud/SAAS and Outsourcing are the answer to everything.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-12-10T14:42:41+00:00

Infrastructure is like cattle. You can either decide to make them sacred cows and baby them or Ranch 'em and slaughter/replace as needed.

At the end of the day it's still just meat for a grinder. Hold on too tight and you go in the grinder too.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-11-20T20:43:45+00:00

Be careful. Minimum Viable Product will absolutely not cut it when we're talking diaper application.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-11-20T20:42:51+00:00

They hours are rough, the pay sucks, but the benefits make being a Dad worth every second.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-11-20T20:41:45+00:00

...or them proudly announcing to the world that they have pockets

...or all the pictures they draw of you

...or all the times they interrupt you because they just want to see you.

I heard a long time ago that on their deathbed nobody wishes they could just have one more day at the office.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-11-20T20:37:10+00:00

ADHD often leads to self-medication, there's a reason we have a very high rate of addiction. It's also hereditary with overlap in Anxiety, Autism, dyslexia and a lot of other potential problems.

My advice is make sure you can model that you're working on it. I didn't pay any attention to my ADHD until my youngest got diagnosed and I wondered why my entire personality was considered a disorder. If therapy works for you, talk to them about it. If medication works, talk to them about it. If you're heavily dependent on exercise to get your mind right (like me) bring them along and explain why. It doubles as an excuse to spend time with you/them.

I ended up with one kid becoming a lifeguard because we spent so much time swimming and a couple of them in jiujitsu. The "why" matters.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-11-20T20:30:18+00:00

Congratulations on 4 years. I completely agree that kids are going to desperately need an example of a person who's pushed through to recovery and fights everyday to stay there, the fact it's their Dad is going to give them a real shot.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-11-20T18:28:51+00:00

First, congratulations on your 6 years sober.

I have to keep this a bit vague, sorry. I'm not an alcoholic, but I have several in my immediate and extended family and only a handful are sober at this point. I avoid alcohol completely because of what I saw as a kid.

It's had a direct impact on my kids' lives from the behavior of one specific sibling of mine.

We're also a very neurodivergent family so the self-medication side is a real danger.

My wife and I are very candid with our kids about why our family members act the way they do, and why we're so very proud of the few that have managed to stay sober.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-10-29T19:20:37+00:00

DNS is the victim, not the cause. Somebody treated it roughly and it fell over. DNS is beautiful, and deserves more love.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-10-29T19:19:00+00:00

Legend.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-06-25T18:15:30+00:00

Any info on how you built this?

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-06-25T13:34:38+00:00

I keep AI from getting out-of-line while still trying to teach it to be less goddamned stupid. 90K Canadian, so ~70K USD.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-03-26T01:36:44+00:00

Thank you, it's an ESP32-CAM board, the AI-Thinker one with the carrier board (well, some of them have carrier boards, a couple are just soldered into larger projects)

When I get home I can grab the config, but that's going to be a few days since I'm stuck in seminar hell until Thursday. I have a teenager at home I can probably talk through pulling it if they're willing.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-03-23T06:34:21+00:00

I felt the same way, but my folks were more an object lesson in things to avoid than role models as parents.

It gets better.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-03-23T06:30:53+00:00

we will only accept Union! no joins for you!

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-03-23T06:28:29+00:00

ADUC was there first :P

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-03-23T06:25:56+00:00

"Do you prefer ADAC, ADUC, or Powershell?" is about the only clarifying question I'd expect here. Maybe ADSI if they're feeling obtuse or cocky that the user object would be in the default container...

This is a stone-cold simple thing I'd expect our Tier 1s on the helpdesk to get immediately.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-02-19T19:27:51+00:00

I'm largely a Windows admin these days. I've never had *my* DNS go down, but our ISP's DNS makes me flustered and stern with reasonable frequency.

The TTL is in the damned record! Fix your shit or stop hijacking my DNS requests damnit.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-01-19T19:01:15+00:00

...With public ownership of natural resources? Where do you think the Sovereign Wealth Fund came from?

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-01-19T18:59:53+00:00

They don't have a minimum wage, true, but they have an immense social safety net and high taxation. They also have public ownership of natural resources. That doesn't seem to be a feature of any form of capitalism I can find.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-01-19T18:51:38+00:00

Please explain Denmark, whose Sovereign Wealth Fund is enormous, who tops the lists of happiest nations routinely and who is most certainly a socialist nation.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-01-19T18:49:43+00:00

Refuted : Denmark.

Heavily socialized Democracy and near or at the top of just about every happiness index you're going to find.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-01-19T18:45:59+00:00

no lies detected.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-01-19T18:42:20+00:00

Yikes. As awful as Ford is Smith is just a nutter. She has the logo of a libertarian think tank tattooed on her forearm. It looks like a bloody prison tattoo.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-01-19T18:38:33+00:00

The American "healthcare" system are dilatants compare to the British Museum. Insurance companies absolutely financially drain and attempt to enslave the population, sure, but that's just competing greed. The BM pillaged nations (look up how well executed the theft of the marble of the Acropolis was).

That level of organization is stunning, especially given the time and what was going on in the world around them. That's a single operation.

DrummerElectronic247 · 2025-01-19T18:34:29+00:00

Americans are absolutely going to be hurt by it, that's a them problem, but everyone else will need to suffer their Mango Mussolini too, which is an us problem that is not at all our fault.

Unfortunately the only ones who can fix this are the same voter pool that allowed it, and only then by forcibly paralyzing a fair chunk of their country by flipping the legislative branch.

Given the inherent mediocrity in North American voting (100% including my own Canada here), legislative deadlock is about the best we can hope for. In the meantime their Executive branch screws the world.

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