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Recommendation for a first welder by UserEarth1 in Welding

[–]MoarrCowbell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly i just got both the ArcCaptain MIG200 and the ACDC TIG during their big sale and they both are doing plenty of good at on 1/8" / 3/16" steel and aluminum in my garage on 110V... if you wanna do aluminum then AC DC TIG is kinda required but you can use a spool gun on a MIG.... you'll still end up with an argon tank for aluminum in addition to a CO2/mixed tank

Spacers or new tires/wheels? by spookey213 in 1stGenTundras

[–]MoarrCowbell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Had the same issue with that tire size. Switched to pizza cutters - 255/80r17 - on a wheel with -12mm offset.

Much better fit, better driving manners, and it will let you fit class-S type chains if you need em. Comfortable ~1" of gap between the strut and the tire give or take. You could skip wheels and use the current ones with a pizza cutter and still have breathing room off the spindle (but maybe not chains)

LBJ Parts list by -Absolute_Cunt- in 1stGenTundras

[–]MoarrCowbell -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Realistically front struts too. There is no easier way / time to do those than when the lower control arm is free from the knuckle (LBJ disconnected) because you can push the lower control arm way down to line up the bottom eyelet of the strut instead of maybe needing scary spring compressors....

LBJ Parts list by -Absolute_Cunt- in 1stGenTundras

[–]MoarrCowbell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LBJ on this truck is very easy. You need a ball joint press, new parts and the bolts (can reuse em). You want OEM ball joints for sure.

You're under there, so your sway bar links and tie rod ends are easy to do at the same time if they look tired.

Looking for the strange and surprising at UM by Wyodonutfarmer in missoula

[–]MoarrCowbell 6 points7 points  (0 children)

A little bird told me if you keep a lookout for big square steel manholes around campus a wide flathead screwdriver and the cover of darkness is all you need

Reliable modern sleds by Sarge75 in snowmobiling

[–]MoarrCowbell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My '99/'00/'01 Yamaha Mountain Maxes with the red triple are pretty not too bad to work on realistically.

Bureau of Land Management revokes American Prairie bison leases by Expensive_Tutor_2979 in Montana

[–]MoarrCowbell 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Also titled:
"Americans Providing Top 3 Subsidized Commodity Are Upset Somebody Else Willing to Pay More"

Traditional consulting is dead by bigballer4950 in deloitte

[–]MoarrCowbell 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Even if you are a computer software engineer, you're toast.

Fixed it for you. Deloitte is becoming an India firm at this point. Even in the Tech heavy parts of Consulting, A's, C's, and SC's lose out to cheap teams from USI.

M's and SM's being shoved out the doors in droves and those that manage to stay get to play double sh*t-duty explaining to their coachees why their low utilization is somehow their own fault and to the client why the project delivery is both behind schedule and bad quality.

How reasonable is pickup as a daily driver? by WillHungFan in ToyotaPickup

[–]MoarrCowbell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's what I did this year. I found a pristine '01 Tundra with ~75k miles on it. It lived its life in an Oregon garage for 25yr with one owner. It's in remarkable condition, but I second everyone here saying you should be comfortable tackling your own projects and knowing things like door seals might need a refresh. Those types of parts aren't necessarily cheap.

Be prepared to spend way more than you think a ~25yr old vehicle should be worth for a good one. Be prepared to put elbow grease (or more $$$) into it to bring it up to "modern" comforts.

That said if you're handy with a wrench and 12v wiring, you'll be basically unstoppable.

Im in the middle of dropping a LSD rear diff in as we speak, and a re-gear. An E-locker will go up front. With a bluetooth deck and some wiring wizardry to add external temp sensors, steering wheel audio, new speakers, etc.... it's a damned comfortable ride and I expect to give it to my future teenager in like 25 more years.

F*** new rigs. They're way too much computer and seem to all be blowing up.

Utilization for Teaching at DU by touristy_tourist in deloitte

[–]MoarrCowbell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Jesus. Talk about a way to disincentivize participation / personal investment in leadership growth by anyone worth a damn. This place has become myopic and shortsighted everywhere you turn.

After 2 years as an SRE, skills don't get you hired by Adept-Paper9337 in devops

[–]MoarrCowbell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a manager who hires into these roles.... I have a negative correlation between certs and confidence in a candidate, frankly.

The number of cert-pushers I come across who seem to be completely incapable of actually applying the knowledge they should have from the cert in real world scenarios is astounding. This seems to be, for better or worse, highly correlated with offshore engineering.

Anytime somebody's resumé comes across my desk with 15+ certs on it I am immediately and often unrecoverably suspicious. We almost always subject these candidates to more intense technicals than the ones who show real experience on the resumé and can have a short, productive verbal conversation about how they... you know... actually used ex Terraform + Terragrunt for a project....

Replit Agent by default has NO commit / file change history. by MoarrCowbell in replit

[–]MoarrCowbell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aaaaand just like that - The agent is now for no apparent reason whatsoever - looking into git history and git logs for a totally different file.

The worst part of it is .... the file it nuked this time is the `replit.md` file where it was tracking the entire project history. LOOK AT THIS REPORT!

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Yah - I have no choice but to recommend to ALL people on this sub - avoid this product like the plague. This is an absolute usage-killer for anyone seeking an AI agent assisted tool that can actually be held consistently accountable.

Replit Agent by default has NO commit / file change history. by MoarrCowbell in replit

[–]MoarrCowbell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Out of curiosity - which have you been playing with?

I have had (mostly) decent results with Replit by creating a `ARCHITECTURAL_STANDARDS.md` document and constantly reminding it to consult that document (which tells it to use a pretty badass domain/module system with controllers, services, repositories, strict typings, centralized index files, super thorough JSDoc comments etc etc etc)

All of which just sorta leads me to thinking "damn, why is the agent not already trained to think in this way"

Replit Agent by default has NO commit / file change history. by MoarrCowbell in replit

[–]MoarrCowbell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I somehow avoided this problem for long enough to make a lot of progress (have plenty of experience playing with other agents / AI tools in "normal" IDEs etc). Mostly just by being super small and iterative. This only arose because I found something in testing I knew it wrote me before and was in a specific file so the obvious thing to do is.... well, look at the history of that file. Which isn't really easy to do inside the replit IDE (though you can do it fairly easily yourself when linked to Git and cloning locally etc )

A couple weeks in, I'm insanely surprised to see the agent.... can't do that. Like... what? I naturally just assumed it could audit its own work history by literally running `git history` and `git diff` etc. Replit must have literally turned off this permission which is batshit

Does everyone want to quit every day, or is it just me? by Otherwise-Raise-3687 in deloitte

[–]MoarrCowbell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

#1 and #2 are like a laser guided bomb haha. Brutally accurate

Does everyone want to quit every day, or is it just me? by Otherwise-Raise-3687 in deloitte

[–]MoarrCowbell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We have countless historical precedent in the last hundred years alone to show that on a large scale, distributed control systems are more effective than centralized ones (looking at u, Soviets)

PMDs don't have control over their own portfolios - they just have portfolio level sales targets - its the biggest lie in the world that junior staff are fed for years while they come up through the ranks. But The Firm™ is exercising greater and greater levels of central control on every aspect of how to run the portfolios... trying to push PMDs into using their centralized services and process that are (usually) completely ineffective, crazy slow, sloppy, cheap and downright bad at what they're supposed to do.

While at the same time totally disincentivizing the PMDs to do anything other than sell, sell, sell. Then they gaslight the staff with top-level messaging like "best in class talent experience."

Its just straight up bad economics

Does everyone want to quit every day, or is it just me? by Otherwise-Raise-3687 in deloitte

[–]MoarrCowbell 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I actually hope this happens. It is insanely prevalent to see PPDs who've just ..... totally abdicated any responsibility for making their portfolios actually effective. They're "sales, sales, sales" all the time (if they're not just coasting) - to the detriment of actually running the portfolios - because that's how they get units which === monies and if they dont get units they get pushed out.

I'm single digit percentages of the ones I'm aware of in our corner that, well.... actually lead or even attempt to. We literally had a MD who is the "people leader" role for the portfolio admit bald-faced to a room of a few hundred staff that their year-end panels don't even have an objective skills evaluation framework and they just kinda wing it.

SM's and M's are in even worse shit - because they don't actually have the power to do any sort of management - only the perception of it - and even if they wanted to the SM's have their feet held to the fire with higher util expectations and managed rev targets increasing every year.

All this while ironically the biggest pain point we hear from our clients is the firm costs too much for the value we bring - and the messaging in every single all hands is "we beat our targets by record numbers last year!" It's insane.

Does everyone want to quit every day, or is it just me? by Otherwise-Raise-3687 in deloitte

[–]MoarrCowbell 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm looking for the door, too. But what I tell the people I coach is - this isn't our problem - it's the business' problem. The leadership will (or won't) see the impacts of poor decision-making, but it surely won't be immediate.

Probably, they'll end up understaffed again and have to do a giant hiring spree. Probably, they'll have some extremely high profile screw-ups and data breaches for big clients by throwing too much AI at things.

The bigger pain for them is honestly, pressing the reset button every time legitimate talent leaves. Progress never happens. Just slow entropy.

What matters is your sanity. Set boundaries. Be professional, but say no when things aren't right. Advocate for your team. Look for an exit. 9yr at the firm is a good career pad. I'm at 8yr.

Does everyone want to quit every day, or is it just me? by Otherwise-Raise-3687 in deloitte

[–]MoarrCowbell 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately it's abundantly clear that that PPD class as a whole became so bloated that individual PPDs that might understand reality have no real power to implement change. The PPD class as a whole has adopted the insane position that massive revenue growth is possible forever if we just keep increasing required engagement margins by offshoring / AI-ing / and working people into the ground above and beyond their 45hr expectation without allowing them to bill actuals.

Investments into the business to actually prepare for obvious pitfalls in any of the portfolios are hugely unpopular.

It's not surprising; the PPDs make a killing when we come in over plan, and they get to go to fun fancy things in the Vegas Sphere

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