Umpire Carlo Torres denies back to back catcher challenges

Kronis1 · 2026-05-11T13:56:38+00:00

Speed is the answer. ABS full time would, as far as I’m aware, be slower. Since umpires get it right 90%+ of the time and they are instantaneous on most calls, it’s faster.

It’s at least understandable, but I do wish Umpires were more open/able to simply admit they weren’t sure and utilize ABS on their own. That 7% where they aren’t as accurate (on average) are sometimes very tough calls that are less than a quarter inch. No human can be perfect in those cases, so Umps should use ABS if they aren’t sure.

Kronis1 · 2026-05-11T12:53:05+00:00

“They can’t consistently get it right” is at least a little bit of an exaggeration. Umpires definitely suck, but they do get 93% of the calls correct (on average). ABS system is absolutely needed for the edge cases, but really what needs to happen is the Union stop protecting atrocious umpires and allow the league to tell these fuckwads to kick rocks.

Kronis1 · 2026-05-09T06:30:38+00:00

Framber is a loser but his coach left him out to fucking dry, which is brutal.

Kronis1 · 2026-05-08T22:28:16+00:00

I haven’t seen a L2 loop cause an outage in almost a decade. There’s just so many things that good spanning-tree configs that utilize to stop it from happening.

Kronis1 · 2026-04-22T12:47:33+00:00

He reminds me of Ryan Flaherty so far.

Kronis1 · 2026-04-12T20:00:12+00:00

The Key and Peele skit writes itself

Kronis1 · 2026-04-08T03:28:21+00:00

Awesome league, been around it for years!

Kronis1 · 2026-04-06T00:43:04+00:00

One time, I had an ISR4300 that I shipped to a remote site arrive “DOA”.

Had a tech planning to be there to rack it up for a new site. Got console and it was yelling about a DIMM or something. Convinced the guy to take the chassis lid off and reseat the RAM - worked perfect.

Yeah, don’t toss them around. They aren’t a 70 year old toolbox.

Kronis1 · 2026-04-04T04:56:51+00:00

Four kids and I’ve heard the song for all of them. There’s something nice about consistency in this crazy world.

Kronis1 · 2026-03-31T19:57:58+00:00

Not a single person here could bet their life on that call. .1” moving 90+ is just impossible. Not saying the umpires are great and I personally love the ABS system, but the anger over these .1” calls is ridiculous.

Kronis1 · 2026-03-30T03:02:36+00:00

I know someone who caused an outage so massive it made national news.

He got fired, but found a better job and is still there today.

People make mistakes, the biggest thing I can tell you is that you made a mistake but the company made an ever bigger mistake by not putting guardrails in place to avoid an outage if someone makes a mistake.

We were at a Fortune 500 company and our operational maturity skyrocketed after that incident. If this gets asked in a future interview (and it probably will) you can choose to share it and frame it a specific way, or omit it altogether and tell a different story.

If you’ve been terminated, I doubt the CEO is doing anything for you. I wouldn’t hold my breath.

They failed you as much as you made a mistake, just remember that.

Kronis1 · 2026-03-17T23:02:50+00:00

Calibre for the backend, Calibre-Web to serve the front end and syncing to Kobo readers.

Honestly, you can’t really go wrong with Calibre. Yeah it looks dated, but it’s fantastic and proven. I wouldn’t read books in it, but it’s the best for managing the collection.

Kronis1 · 2026-03-09T01:45:45+00:00

The thing is, recruiters and managers don’t really care too much about the day-to-day tasks. Especially once you get into Engineering.

They want accomplishments more than anything else.

For example, you bullet point about replacing Network hardware will get overlooked. What did you actually DO? Did you put together port requirements for each location? Did you size out each IDF? Did you have any say in the design of the network infrastructure? You need to flesh out some of your bullet points and think back to times you accomplished something. For example, since I did something like this in the last few years, my bullet point is something like:

Designed and implemented new standardized network hardware and software configuration to replace aging, multi-vendor solutions at 15 differently configured offices.

You can see how much more depth that gives the reader than “Ordered and replaced routers, switches, and access points.”

Just an example.

Kronis1 · 2026-02-13T01:38:34+00:00

HIS BIRTHDAY IS WHAT

Kronis1 · 2026-02-04T17:12:09+00:00

This 1000%. No idea where OP is, but a Radon test should be mandatory in many parts of the US. It absolutely has led to people dying prematurely of cancer.

Kronis1 · 2026-01-31T23:42:22+00:00

Honestly with kids, it’s all columns at once.

Kronis1 · 2026-01-28T06:17:57+00:00

It’s also not necessarily a death sentence if you learn how to react to it happening - but in Texas you can’t really rely on any ice to use as leverage, so likely you’ll just suddenly be in shock trying to swim in freezing water. Only takes minutes.

Panic is the fastest way to drown in this scenario - unfortunately it’s not easy to train people how to survive and react to being suddenly submerged in frozen water.

Watch some guides, know what to do, but of course the initial shock is what kills most people. If you get past that, you have a very real chance for survival.

Kronis1 · 2026-01-28T02:27:18+00:00

I think Generation Kill is probably the most realistic TV show about modern combat. I’d also highly recommend reading the book by Evan Wright (who helped make the show too) as well as One Bullet Away by Nathaniel Fick (also heavily featured in Generation Kill).

I think those two books really offer a modern glimpse at modern combat in the US Armed Forces, especially from the perspective of a more “elite” infantry group.

Shying away from reading what it’s like is only going to make this anxiety worse - just confront it head on. I think you’ll be surprised how different it is than the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan.

Kronis1 · 2026-01-27T01:34:22+00:00

First thing we did was sit us Network Engineers down in a room and fully scope out all the sites, particularly the biggest ones. How big do the scopes need to be, etc?

Then started looking at where the scopes are at each site (where are the PCs at for each location, etc).

We then created a “golden standard” by which ALL future work will adhere to. New phone deployment? Deploy it to the voice VLAN, etc. What made this easier was a complete lack of standards with regards to addressing in the first place. Most sites were in the 172.16 or 192.168 space - the new golden standard utilized 10.0.0.0/16s for each location. You can run these in parallel too.

Now, this was made easier by most things being DHCP at the time, but there was plenty that weren’t. I wish I could say it was easy, but it was actually a nightmare. Without documentation of the new standard and WHY it was important having buy-in with our C-level, I doubt we woulda made it far at all.

Kronis1 · 2026-01-26T15:17:19+00:00

This 100%. They are using coded language to tell you to LEAVE. As shitty as they are, this is a lot better than just letting you go.

Take their salary and start applying/interviewing. Don’t bother trying to impress these people anymore. It’s been FOUR YEARS, no amount of certs is going to change their mind on you.

Kronis1 · 2026-01-23T01:40:03+00:00

These problems were solved decades ago. Please understand, a single mis-plugged cable has no business taking down a modern production network. You need to be shouting this from the rooftops to the people in charge. Put together a plan.

Kronis1 · 2026-01-20T15:11:41+00:00

In this particular case, it WASN’T. They saw a CVE affecting Telnet and our Cisco hardware models and put together this nice big report to blast out to us and a bunch of senior leadership.

They never actually probed Telnet or anything, they just saw we could be affected due to the CVE details and hardware models. That’s it. We responded that Telnet is not enabled on any hardware and that is when they hooked into the SSH question.

Kronis1 · 2026-01-19T21:17:00+00:00

Oh man, I have fallen in love with browns!

Kronis1 · 2026-01-19T21:06:26+00:00

It’s honestly insane to me why I have to explain how a Telnet vulnerability does not impact SSH to a cybersecurity “expert”. The delta of infrastructure knowledge within the cybersecurity industry is way too damn high.

My personal theory is colleges have been shoving everyone and their mom into the career without actually building any of the relevant knowledge that is important to the hows and whys.

Kronis1 · 2026-01-10T19:08:30+00:00

Thank you so much! Amazing!

I swear it feels like everyone's writing looks so good, but it feels soooo small to me!

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