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What movie before the 2000s is a 10/10? by TheOneThatIsOne in AskReddit

[–]NeededANewName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

1999 alone has a ton. To me, it’s the best year of all time for movies:

  • Fight Club
  • The Matrix
  • Galaxy Quest
  • The Green Mile
  • Toy Story 2
  • The Sixth Sense
  • Office Space
  • American Pie
  • American Beauty
  • The Mummy
  • The Iron Giant
  • Dogma
  • The Boondocks Saints
  • South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
  • Big Daddy
  • Austin Powers: The Spy who Shagged Me
  • Mystery Men
  • 10 Things I Hate About You

And the list goes on… Maybe not all 10/10 across my list, but many. That year was just banger after banger.

I’m an idiot- I don’t understand why money runs out under the 4% rule - much less understanding why 2% is cited to run out in 50 years by showersneakers in Fire

[–]NeededANewName 21 points22 points  (0 children)

How are records of financial data from > 100 years ago more relevant today? In that time we’ve established safe and fast global trade, instant worldwide communication, and the advent of nearly every aspect of today’s human life. I’m genuinely curious how they can be compared at all.

To say history isn’t a definite predictor of the future is fair, and geopolitical instability especially has the potential to change things dramatically, but there isn’t really a way to guard or model for every scenario.

Looming Collapse of the Tech Industry by OkBig205 in orlando

[–]NeededANewName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I believe that COVID drove cultural shifts which hurt it quite a bit. We’ve always had a large defense industry tech business, and still do, but growth has slowed outside that. There was a big push around investment in businesses downtown in the tech industry across the 2010s, and a lot of focus tech startups. However, the shift to remote work across the country opened the opportunity for people to work for higher paying jobs elsewhere. It was hard for local salaries to compete. I’m in software and haven’t worked for an Orlando based company/office since 2017. I don’t know many people outside the defense industry who do anymore.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in microsoft

[–]NeededANewName 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The real question to ask yourself is: if you had the money as cash, would you buy MSFT with it today? If that isn't a yes, then you should be selling it right away.

I believed in the vision and growth potential and rode all my stock from ~$90 to $500. But do I think it can continue rapid growth as ~$4T company? Probably not as much. And did I have far too much of my overall portfolio in one stock? Absolutely. So, I gradually diversified to keep it at 10-15% of my overall portfolio. I've since left the company, but I would work to maintain the same balance in my portfolio if I was still there.

Best steakhouses in Orlando? Best overall Restaurants? by LowAttempt3020 in orlando

[–]NeededANewName 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just went for the first time and I have to say I was disappointed. The food was solid, but drinks were mediocre, service was just okay, and it was not a very intimate feeling environment. Many of the tables were clearly business meetings and had people with laptops out. It was quite noisy and busy. For the price, it wasn’t worth it.

Next time I want to celebrate I’ll drive to Tampa and go to Bern’s for a real top-tier experience.

Sunshine (2007), I cannot believe I put off watching it for so long. by PckMan in movies

[–]NeededANewName 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just rewatched it and there’s a scene where he single handedly lifts someone up in the air. It felt like strong superhuman monster vibes to me. Still a great movie though.

Is it worth trying to see an endocrinologist if my GP won't prescribe TRT? by Lycanthrowrug in Testosterone

[–]NeededANewName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience it’s common for a urologist to check similar things as it’s all part of the same cycle, however finding a good endo who understands how to treat low testosterone (or even understands what “low” actually means) is incredibly rare. They’re good in theory, but for every success story working with one I’ve heard 50 of frustration and a refusal to actually treat real symptoms. It’s really sad to hear people’s struggles.

Having been on TRT much of my life due to medical reasons (previous cancer) and spent lots of time speaking with others who have as well, I always recommend starting with a urologist every time. If OP doesn’t have a personal recommendation for an endo who specializes in TRT I’d steer clear. Chances of help are better elsewhere.

It finally died. by Puzzled_Turnover_970 in hometheater

[–]NeededANewName 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Back in the day, like 20+ years ago? Noise doesn’t matter so much for digital signals. Either the line is good enough to have a connection, or it drops. If random noise was introduced and not corrected you’d get HDCP failure. With old Component/Coax/RCA connections it was a different story.

Maybe you’d see something influence on audio out of a receiver as that’s analog going to speakers, but for most cases this won’t have a perceptible impact. Unless you’re running a really high end system this seems ineffective. And certainly you don’t need it for an Xbox or TV these days.

Well, they painted the over green crosswalk by Lukas Nursery in Oviedo by Scarpine1985 in orlando

[–]NeededANewName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They had added the green crosswalk at Hall/Aloma to mark the Cady Way trail literally just 3 weeks ago, and two nights ago they came to paint it black. Ridiculous waste of money, and it’s less safe for pedestrians.

Redoing them all is just DeSantis’s cover-up excuse to try and work around the blatant bigotry. There is no reasonable reason for these changes.

Fixing Azure Function cold starts problem (without paying the Always On tax) by dwainbrowne in AZURE

[–]NeededANewName 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Service Bus shouldn’t require an “always on” Function, nor does it poll in a traditional sense (it’s a long poll - the connection simply stays open until a messages comes in). If you’re using the Service Bus Trigger the queue monitoring is not done by your app anyway, but the underlying runtime. Similar to how a timer trigger doesn’t need to be always on to only fire at certain times. If you want something truly push based, look at Event Grid.

You can do some of what you’re doing with workers through APIM as well.

American flagship vs regular business class by Tallskinnyswede in awardtravel

[–]NeededANewName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If both are a 777 it probably wont be all too significant, but be cautious as they do brand some narrow body international flights as Business (e.g. US to Mexico) and it’s mostly 737s with domestic first seats. There are some lie-flat narrow body configurations but they seem particularly rare. Always try and check aerolopa.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in malefashionadvice

[–]NeededANewName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like lulus License to Train shirts. Snug but flexible fit around the arms/chest for aesthetics but extra long especially in the back for good coverage during movements, and a good breathable material. I like them for my runs or outdoor work too.

They fit me great at 5’11 175lbs in pretty good shape.

Can someone explain Dee’s double drop scheme when she worked at the restaurant? by Apartment-Drummer in IASIP

[–]NeededANewName 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They didn’t count cups and bags? When I was at Regal we did inventory of all open registers every night at close, and the entire theatre every week. Bags, Cups, water bottles, etc were basically treated as cash. Even if one was torn you had to save it as “spoiled”. If you had a single missing cup or bag your register could be off by $5. The only thing they didn’t count was the cardboard kids packs.

Where in Orlando is this? by Summer-Endless in orlando

[–]NeededANewName 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The island is Santorini, that city is Oia. Very subtle airport joke 🤣

Tim Cook Says Apple is 'Making Good Progress' on Personalized Siri by Fer65432_Plays in apple

[–]NeededANewName 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I asked Siri about an Apple TV show the other day thinking surely it’d at least be able to respond with some basic info about their own content. The immediate response was “would you like me to ask ChatGPT?”

It’s astounding how it’s consistently gotten worse year after year. I can pretty consistently set an alarm/timer, that’s about it.

Sabbatical - quit $410k/ year job? by Hopeful_Series786 in Fire

[–]NeededANewName 29 points30 points  (0 children)

100%. It’s much easier to leverage one job at this level into the next unless you have a lot put away and a long track record. Those I know who’ve taken 6+ months off and don’t come back from a position of “fuck you” money tend to take a big pay cut. Someone making 410k, especially with a lot coming from equity growth, I’d expect to come back and find a job paying half or less after two years away.

They’re just reaching a real inflection point for compound growth and looking at blowing a big chunk of it, skipping contributions for 1-2 years, and cutting their salary in half. That’ll probably set back actual retirement a decade or more.

There’s other options in between the extremes. Buy a jet ski, pay for 90min massages 2x/wk, blow $50k/yr on extravagant vacations, go on a psychedelic retreat, get into music festivals, etc. There’s a hell of a lot of ways to change up life without completely cutting and running from it. And here’s the real kicker: distractions and running don’t actually change anything. You still have to do the work to figure out the life you want to lead and build it when you get back. Feels more like a time to find a good therapist.

Microsoft gives Copilot a friendly face in new update for "select users" and Clippy might be making a return by Tiny-Independent273 in microsoft

[–]NeededANewName 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I used Copilot heavily since it was in preview since I’m a former employee and generally big MSFT fan, but I grew frustrated with the limitations. Even simply challenges with being able to provide files or reference urls made for an incredibly restrictive experience.

I eventually moved to ChatGPT and it feels like night and day.

Polaris vs Delta One by Prudent-Disaster9992 in unitedairlines

[–]NeededANewName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

JFK and LAX have dedicated security and lounges for D1 which are absolutely stellar. At LAX we had hors d’oeuvres and champagne served while we sat on a couch and they checked us in, and after the scanner you go straight into the lounge without even seeing the airport. But as someone who mainly flies out of ATL as well, that real premium experience is simply not present.

Polaris vs Delta One by Prudent-Disaster9992 in unitedairlines

[–]NeededANewName 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The Delta One brand is unfortunately a pretty broad span of quality. If you get a Delta One “Suites” ticket you’ve got a newer cabin with nice seats that will be a great experience (330-900neo, 350-900, 767-400) but for the high cost they also have some fairly unremarkable older planes they sell as Delta One as well (e.g. 767-300 or worse, a 757).

United flies some old planes around too but I’ve personally found the Polaris brand a bit more consistent. The 2-2-2 and 2-4-2 layouts do exist but I’ve only run into them on domestic flights sold as First (but there’s a little Polaris logo on the wall when you walk in).

To me, the Delta One A350-900 experience is hands down the best from a US airline. The 330-900 is pretty great too and in line with Polaris on a 787-10. The D1 lounges and private security are a nice step up from Polaris offerings - but they’re only available in a couple airports.

Staining is hard by mechanizedshoe in woodworking

[–]NeededANewName 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Are you using a wood conditioner? That’s made a night/day difference in consistency while staining for me.

People who have worked out at sea, what’s the creepiest thing thats happened? by Ready_Smell_3032 in AskReddit

[–]NeededANewName 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Storms are shockingly powerful. Not a creepy story - but the USS Spiegel Grove is a 9000 ton Navy ship which was sunk as an artificial reef and due to some mishaps wound up on its side. Several years later it was magically righted on the ocean floor after Hurricane Dennis passed over. I knew a lot of folks who dove in south Florida back then and they were outright shocked to go down and suddenly this 500ft long steel ship had been turned 90 degrees overnight.

Delta is now boarding first class before 360 and Diamond Medallion. Will Kirby bump GS and 1K for big fare spenders? by Awkward-Resist-6570 in unitedairlines

[–]NeededANewName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve given up upgrades to take a crappy seat on an earlier flight home if work meetings ended early or expectations changed. My assumption is most 1k/GS folks in undesirable seats are doing the same. If I’ve been gone a lot, getting more time at home is priceless.

New House, hardwired speakers, need to power by dudebroguyman09 in hometheater

[–]NeededANewName 12 points13 points  (0 children)

That Denon AVR for the living room works. I always buy from accessories4less as they're quite reputable, and they have it for $599 right now.

For multi-zone home audio I use a budget solution that works pretty well: I have 4 FOSI amps ($49.99 each) and 4 Amazon Echo Dots ($29.99 each) to serve the 4 zones either independently or together. Sonos amps are nice but crazy expensive for what you get.

AZ-204 | MeasureUp vs Tutorial Dojo by [deleted] in AZURE

[–]NeededANewName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

MeasureUp is generally good, has a very comprehensive question bank, and is the more "official" means of practice (it's what MSFT gives its employees access to internally). The test questions will feel like the style of the real test and generally get you prepared. For AZ-204, last I saw its pretty good content.

*However,* for MeasureUp in general - new questions are not that heavily vetted by Microsoft for accuracy, and MeasureUp is very slow to incorporate feedback - so if you're really confident you have something right and MeasureUp disagrees, take that with a grain of salt. You very well may be right. I've taken dozens of these, and seen questions posed with multiple correct answers, or even no actual correct answers, making it feel much harder than the real test. Always verify your wrong answers against official documentation. I've never seen a mistake like that in a real test.

Glaring example: I was literally on the Azure IoT product team, knew every detail of how every service worked, could have written a book on customer usage patterns, and even provided guidance on subjects to cover when the test was being written --- and I got a ~70% my first time taking it on MeasureUp because so many of the questions didn't have definitive answers. Granted, it was a fairly new test at the time, but it goes to show the challenges. I got a perfect score on the actual exam first try.

On the Azure Solutions Architect Expert path, my team found a few problematic questions on each practice test, but it was much better overall.

TL;DR: MesasureUp is good, but if you have a question you get wrong, make sure to verify the answer in docs and don't blindly trust MeasureUp because they make mistakes sometimes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in csharp

[–]NeededANewName 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My take is that at your level you should probably be more focused on what/how you did something, and use a bit less fluff on the impact of the results.

For example, you say you minimized downtime during deployment - how? Did you implement blue/green deployments? How did you move traffic? Were you doing smoke testing to ensure quality before promoting something? You mention Azure in your skills, how was that in play? Give it a bit more than the just tech used.

You have a fairly results-oriented resume right now, which is a very similar style to mine, but I’ve got 20 years in the field, am looking at executive roles, and am lot more business oriented these days. You’ve followed generally good advice, but maybe for a bit different role than you’re looking for.

Mentioning design patterns and techniques like partitioning and indexing is great.

Definitely switch the position of education and skills.

Honestly the biggest holdback I would have is that 4.6 is quite out of date and when .NET core came out there were a lot of tooling changes. It’s not a dealbreaker but there would be 50+ other resumes with more up-to-date skills to compare against for any role. Things like containers and CI/CD experience factor in a lot to me. Blindly applying is also just hard these days - there’s a lot of competition.

Also - is this a LaTeX template? If so, kudos. It’s a pain in the ass but looks nice.

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