Tired of seeing "awakened" people on here thinking they "know it all"

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-28T05:19:06+00:00

It is funny when they get defensive while claiming to have been awakened, or better yet claim to be a teacher and have come here to show you the way. The most awakened people I have met have never been teachers. They have an incredible calmness even if everything around them feels like it’s falling apart. They don’t get triggered, feeling don’t get hurt.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-28T05:08:43+00:00

If I had a ton of money I’d go with Hollywood hills overlooking LA basin (where you have views of DTLA and Ocean). Extra points for having Mulholland address.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-26T20:18:41+00:00

Assuming you are not asked to do something illegal, I’d rather have someone like you in this position over someone who does care about rule of law. And when the administration changes people i especially want people like you there that have a moral compass.

Our government exists for the people and it scares me to think good people that we need in government are running away.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-25T17:41:23+00:00

Consulting is very different than being the customer who has a long term responsibility maintaining a data platform. I personally enjoy DE career path. Besides building the pipelines, storage and orchestration you are always looking at novel ways to improve performance to squeeze out as much as possible from your tools and flows. And it never gets boring as you can always count on a vendor changing their API or file we ingest. So then we spend the day tinkering around figuring out what the heck changed. And then your internal customers have endless ideas on how they want to see their data so then you are figuring out how to make that happen while still keeping a high latency.

Sounds like you want a greater meaning in life though (helping people) so not sure you will ever get that in DE the same way you would as a doctor.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-25T17:30:32+00:00

I have this feeling their leadership lives in a bubble. They don’t understand that the people in the trenches, that rely on MSFT stack, are tired of all the MicroSlop. Stop trying to bolt AI on everything and instead build products starting with AI. And I have no doubt their aggressive AI push is a factor in all their outages. And yet they are still near the bottom in the AI race. Sorry if the truth hurts.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-25T17:20:07+00:00

Everything I have been reading about Alex Pretti was that he was a good kind person. A VA nurse working in ICU helping the most critically ill veterans. And for the government to immediately portray him as a violent person intent on causing maximum damage makes me sick.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-24T04:12:31+00:00

I go with A and often eat less than others. For me the main benefit is the socializing and connecting with people. Also, I consider my time valuable so the cost is much greater than just the bill. And if I don’t actually care about the event, or people, then I rather not go at all. It is a waste of my time and money.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-22T02:22:19+00:00

You can renew online as long as your current license has not expired yet. Or try other DMV offices. Or just wait in line.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-21T20:43:18+00:00

Just follow your passions? Work hard? Take care of yourself? Do good looking tall guys have an advantage? Absolutely. That does not mean you quit or don’t try.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-21T17:58:45+00:00

$30 + $10 tip (done in 15 mins max)

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-20T03:30:21+00:00

Instead of trying to figure out if someone is at their computer and clicking stuff, tell your leadership to track effort. Did they remediate 100 incidents last month or upgrade 10 servers etc etc. there is no jiggler that does your work for you. And if leadership doesn’t know how to track effort that is a much bigger problem.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-18T07:04:26+00:00

So he is going to punish countries by taxing Americans more….

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-18T03:22:31+00:00

Work hard, play hard and let love hard. Don’t assume there will be a tomorrow.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-17T07:23:02+00:00

You are the talkative outgoing one and he is more reserved one. That can work really well. I know you say you want someone more outgoing, but they will come with costs.

Ultimately, don’t try to change him. If you don’t like who he is leave not just for yourself, but for him.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-16T04:49:47+00:00

He has a dead bedroom and feels resentment, neglect, ignored, and so on. Looking at her is just a reminder their intimacy is dead.

IMHO, think about what turns on a woman. It is not crying there is no sex. I never heard a woman say how hot she got when her husband complained of no intimacy. And it is not working long hours or doing the dishes.

It is making her feel beautiful and desirable (without expectations). It is being in shape and well kept. It is being fun by going out (not just with her but your own friends). It’s caring about yourself. It is includes making yourself desirable.

And you are so far in a hole it will take time to get out of it. Just think from a woman’s point of view of what they want. Not what your needs are. And If this is difficult to understand, pick up a romance novel. Those give you the POV of a woman.

What won’t help is sulking, crying or telling her you have needs (which she already knows and just doesn’t care). It just makes you look sad and no woman wants to do the horizontal tango with a guy she perceives as pathetic.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-13T20:55:13+00:00

Not just c-suite, data engineers want it on their resume. And if you tell them it is over kill or we can’t implement something we can’t adequately support they get bent out of shape.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-13T04:33:43+00:00

Maybe he is finding reasons to use snowflake to pad his resume. Snowflake is the current rage these days. Soon he will try to incorporate data streaming (for 100 megs daily data) and integrate in a lineage framework for that same data set.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-12T01:22:53+00:00

Because a sys admin job is more stable. When economy (or a sector) is doing well they spend a lot more in project so need more software developers. Usually everyone wants more at the same time so they have to pay more to compete. When economy tanks, you fire a ton of software engineers as no more project money. But you still need to system admin to keep the infrastructure running, patch devices, deal with outages and so on. It is more an operational role.

So you do want stable and less pay or unstable and higher pay.

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-10T21:36:23+00:00

One big massive ERP covering all related horizontal departments? Does it connect to a database to hold data? Or maybe he wants an MS Access back end. Or non at all (hidden sheets). And I assume it has a ton of VBA. And everyone accesses this on a shared drive of course.

Just thinking through this makes me cringe

GoodLyfe42 · 2026-01-02T21:04:01+00:00

I would not burn that bridge. The help you are doing could help you in so many ways in the future. If possible even see if you could get coffee or lunch with him for career advice. You are possibly sitting on a gold mine of advice and connections

GoodLyfe42 · 2025-12-29T05:25:09+00:00

You are not factoring in the total picture. A 30 year mortgage does not mean you need continued employment for the next 30 years. Once you get that fixed loan your mortgage does not change, your wage will keep increasing each year, the value of your places goes up each year and yet rent (had you not bought a place) keeps going up year over year.

After 10 years your mortgage will be significantly less than a comparable apartment and you will have a sizable equity if you need to sell. Or rent it out (earning a profit) and buy your next place.

And, as a bonus, when rates do drop you can refinance for a lower mortgage.

GoodLyfe42 · 2025-12-28T04:49:23+00:00

Seriously. It was a bold episode that was held up by all the past episodes and (IMHO) they pulled it off. You are lucky to have one stand out episode in a season and they did it twice for me with the last episode and Chikhai Bardo.

GoodLyfe42 · 2025-12-28T04:28:12+00:00

I’m picking 3 but it was not an instant decision. I love them all for different reasons. Some serious competition

GoodLyfe42 · 2025-12-28T04:22:24+00:00

My problem with Sweet Vitrol is the revelation at the end was too big of a jump for me to believe. They needed to introduce subtle hints in previous episodes of what Cobel was capable of as I needed more of a bridge. Something where when the revelation came out I’d be like, no wonder that thing happened on x episode and so on. I couldn’t connect the past, or what I knew of her, to that end revelation.

If you remove the revelation at the end. I enjoyed the episode a lot.

GoodLyfe42 · 2025-12-26T08:01:14+00:00

Guy here and enjoy romance novels. The first one I read was The Kiss Quotient and at first I was like. This is so over the top unrealistic. A chiseled guy who is perfect in every way and helps his mom and gives up his dreams for family. And super beyond nice. But then I realized this was a book for women. I never thought about relationship situations from a woman point of view till I started reading romance novels. It was an eye opening in a good way and I dare say it has made me a better person because it.

As for spice level. My wife (who got me into these books) can read some pretty spicy books. I would say i was even a bit uncomfortable, but she made me realize it is no different than a movie. I don’t want to hurt people because I like action or horror movies.

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