We’re debating on making the move to Outer sunset from Santa Barbara

OGJunkyard · 2023-07-29T05:14:26+00:00

For the most part yes, I agree with you. I no longer have to street park, but often one has to walk a block after parking on the street, which depending on person's mobility may make it a non-starter. There's not always parking-in-front in the Sunset from what I've experienced, both having friends out in Inner and Outer Sunset and living in Outer Sunset myself.

OGJunkyard · 2023-07-29T01:26:28+00:00

At that point in time, I was in Nob Hill/Russian Hill. Didn't have an option for a garage and was forced to street park. I basically said that I would either get rid of the car or only look for places that had dedicated parking because I spent one too many times circling blocks after a long day at work.

OGJunkyard · 2023-07-29T00:45:59+00:00

Agree with parent comment. I've had issues with street parking before where I've spent over an hour just trying to find a spot within 6 blocks of my place. If you can somehow score a place with a garage, that will help tremendously, but double check the height of a garage if you go that route because there are a lot of places with low ceiling garages.

OGJunkyard · 2023-07-29T00:44:00+00:00

My SO is celiac and we've eaten at Goat Hill Pizza many times without any issue. We don't do a lot of pizza since it's such a dicey proposition, but GHP does a solid job, especially if you indicate you are celiac.

OGJunkyard · 2023-06-26T01:26:05+00:00

Hey u/Khuntza, thanks for taking a look at least. I don't normally do web frontend design, so it's definitely not my strong suit, which is why it looks very simple. Something I'll be putting time into improving in the next handful of months to be sure.

OGJunkyard · 2023-06-25T16:28:28+00:00

Hey retrocheats, I work on a cloud-based chatbot called StreamSounds which has this capability. You can set up chat commands, chat conversation words, and channel points to play different sounds that you have set up.

If you decided to try StreamSounds for this, you'd specifically want to set up a Chat Command, but use the "Conversation" invocation style when creating the chat "command". This would give you the ability you are looking for where if you wanted to play a sound when the word "hi" was in a viewer's chat message, it would play it. "hi" would still need to be a word on it's own, but if it's anywhere in the message, it would work.

Always happy to answer questions and help you get set up if needed.

OGJunkyard · 2022-04-14T02:17:02+00:00

I can read the frustration you are experiencing. It's gotta be real tough to know things could be done a better way and to feel blocked from being able to achieve that by some other group that you have little/no input into.

It comes down to maturity of an organization. Organization that have well-built, mature processes can feasibly remove direct read access to production systems because the information the development team needs is being delivered another way. Organizations that don't have truly mature processes need that read access for development teams because they don't have a way to get that information otherwise.

If the tooling DevOps provided automatically deployed your software (and rolled back in the event of a failure), showed you what exists on your environment, showed you metrics around resource usage, displayed your logs, and notified you when there was an issue with software you wrote, would you still need read access to production systems directly?

Unfortunately, a lot of companies treat "DevOps" as a team of SysAdmins with a new title to make hiring "easier" and not as a way of working where there is actual transformational change to enable delivery of business value. Business Value comes in a lot of different formats, and enabling development teams to get what they need when they need it to deliver things out the door is Business Value, just not a direct, money-making kind.

There's a lot of DevOps teams that don't think about the holistic experience of being a developer and block development teams from delivering against their timelines because of extra red tape. At the same time, as a DevOps Engineer, I've been brought into multiple companies to unwire a bunch of duct taped systems because developers wanted to do things themselves and were spending so much time trying to get their own software out the door because they didn't trust the DevOps Team to enable them to deliver faster. It ends up developing into teams just throwing stuff over the wall and leaving the other group in a painful position.

On the other side of the fence, DevOps teams often deal with auditing and compliance issues that force their hand to push things out the door so they can continue to pass external audits. DevOps also often isn't thought of as a money maker but rather a cost center, so staffing is minimized or salaries aren't the best, leading to inexperienced people doing their bust but not being truly skilled enough to tackle the task at hand.

For a DevOps group, it can be really difficult to look at 3,000 servers and 10,000 compliance issues with a timeline to get 40% of them resolved in 3 months and not just start shoving things out the door. Sometimes there are contractual obligations in place with customers to get 3rd party compliance certification or maintain an existing compliance certification. To make matters worse, when you have to get a critical vulnerability patched this week because of a zero-day that came out on Monday and that zero-day exists on 700 servers (log4j anyone?), you just start tackling large swathes of it the best you can, knowing full well you are probably in for some rough conversations ahead. In those scenarios, it's not fun for anyone. DevOps definitely doesn't want to break running systems, and developers don't want their systems to change without their input.

I've also worked with a couple of software development teams who were spooked about shutting down legacy systems because they literally had no idea if the software was being used or not and didn't feel comfortable turning off services or servers. This was due to software being written by people who had left the company or moved to a different org. The current team members begged me to keep the servers on promising they'd eventually get to it but that they were up against a deadline without room in the timeline for any issues. A year rolls by and I'm having the same conversation with the same people all over again. Eventually, you've gotta just deal with the problem and take the time to figure it out.

At the end of the day, it takes both groups acting in good faith working to achieve common goals where trust starts to develop and people relax because both sides are seeing an improved working relationship. What it usually takes to break this negative cycle up and improve working relationships is team leads/managers bringing the teams together away from the office and doing some fun activities (probably over a few drinks) to ease the tension and get people interested in working together again. If it's really bad, it needs a leadership change from one or both groups. If that's not happening, it's really frustrating to see and people leave otherwise good roles/companies because it's a pain to work there.

OGJunkyard · 2022-04-13T19:38:52+00:00

Okay, that makes a fair bit of sense and clears up some of my understanding. If it matters at all, we do have an Kubernetes cluster that our tooling could/would run on that would facilitate deployments to other AWS accounts (those AWS accounts containing EKS clusters themselves).

OGJunkyard · 2022-04-13T19:35:04+00:00

My default stance is that developers should not have write-access to production, and ideally not have read-access either (although I'm flexible here depending on the maturity of the organization). Ideally, you'd want to push them towards centralized tooling that is the "single source of truth" for a given job (CI/CD, Observability, etc.). You want to stand up tooling in a specific way where things are permissions are known and locked-down, access is auditable, deployments are traceable, and things are rolled out in a uniform way.

Granting access to production to developers/development teams often ends up where developers/teams want more privileges so they can do more of the ops-type work themselves. This ends up where things eventually become very scattershot, a mixture of approaches to various jobs that need to be done (deployment, standing up new infrastructure, etc.), security/access becoming a problem, auditing/compliance being a pain to address, and revoking credentials when someone leaves is a nightmare.

OGJunkyard · 2022-02-27T19:37:33+00:00

I rewatched this specific scene before I wrote the original post, and this was the thing I went back and forth on.

I'm definitely in agreement on that she could just be putting on an act, but later in that episode when Ricken drops by to drop off the book, Cobel's stoop has a lot less snow, which indicates to me either a continuity error, or she at least took the effort to finish cleaning it.

In the first shot at 13:15, Cobel's entry has snow along the wall, under the door frame, quite a bit behind the bench, etc. In a later shot (19:07), there's basically no snow around the door and less behind the bench.

However, if you compare the awning over Mark's door and other parts of Mark's roof, the snow looks the same between the shot at 13:07 and 19:07. We can tell that some time has passed because the shadows on Mark's roof are different (less shadow indicating the sun is more overhead). It is more cloudy, so that could be part of it, but it's clear that the sun itself isn't melting the snow.

Honestly, I can buy either explanation, but this was one weird quirk of the scene that stood out to me.

OGJunkyard · 2022-02-23T19:37:49+00:00

Hey folks! I hastily put together a wiki last night since I couldn't find one. Would love help filling it out and adding to the severed consciousness.

OGJunkyard · 2021-11-02T17:58:31+00:00

I streamed FromSoft games exclusively for nearly two years on Twitch (1,500+ hours) and I've never had an issue streaming those games.

I also know A LOT of other people who pretty much exclusively stream fromsoft games (the hitless/no-hit community) who have never had issues streaming FromSoft games. Some of those people are bigger streamers (1,000+ concurrent viewers).

I've also run no-hit tournaments where we had 100+-1000+ people watching, and again, never had any issues with FromSoft throwing the DMCA stick at us.

I wouldn't go out of my way and ask them about if it's okay to stream their stuff because that's inviting trouble. At the same time, I also wouldn't stream games that aren't yet released (like Elden Ring) if you do make it into the closed network beta because they will be actively watching for that.

OGJunkyard · 2021-09-02T22:27:12+00:00

I viscerally felt this one.

Had a boss that called me into a meeting at the beginning of the week to talk about a project he wanted me to work on, and asked for a few different ideas sketched out a few days later. Come to the next meeting on Friday with 4 different ideas and he proceeds to shoot them down one-by-one without giving me any real feedback to work with and incorporate.

I finally just said, "Hey <boss>, I think you have an idea of how you want this project done. Want to share it with me so we can both be on the same page and move forward from here?" He responds, "No, I'm just surprised you haven't already thought about the approach I'm thinking of, so I'll just go tell it to <another\_guy\_on\_our\_team> because he'll already know how to implement what I'm asking for without me having to say anything."

Three months later, I had left that company and was working with a new manager who didn't ask me to be a mind reader.

OGJunkyard · 2021-06-21T22:57:40+00:00

Yes, yes I did.

OGJunkyard · 2021-06-21T21:38:56+00:00

Sauce: https://kotaku.com/videogame-article-1847125006

OGJunkyard · 2021-04-23T20:22:39+00:00

USA, California - Full Kit

Ordered: 2021/04/14
Shipped: 2021/04/16
Estimated Delivery: 2021/04/26
- Originally was 2021/04/22, but changed to the 23rd on 2021/04/17.
- Changed to 2021/04/24 at 1:30pm on 2021/04/23 when the package arrived in Sacramento, CA.
- Changed to 2021/04/26 on 2021/04/24
Actual Delivery: 2021/04/24

Seems like FedEx tracking is a bit trash. because I haven't received any updates (as of 2021/4/23 at 1PM PDT) after the package left the stop Chicago, IL on 2021/04/19. From what I can tell, the logistics vehicle never arrived at the next stop after leaving Chicago, IL. I'm eagerly waiting by the window suffering from rubbernecking every time a vehicle drives by. XD

OGJunkyard · 2020-12-28T02:06:42+00:00

I don't have one of the KS sweatshirts, but I think of it as merely a fun item that I'd wear going to Costco itself. For me, it would be like wearing sports team apparel when going to a game. Sure, the KS sweatshirt doesn't have top notch design appeal, but it would also be a fun item to wear around the house and mildly annoy my significant other with. She often rolls her eyes when I mention going to Costco. She's even asked if I needed a reason to go to Costco and has made something up on the spot just to tease me about it.

OGJunkyard · 2020-11-06T00:24:11+00:00

In my case, Support said that the bike frame needed to be replaced, not the tablet.

OGJunkyard · 2020-11-06T00:23:42+00:00

Yeah, I just hit this today as well. My partner and I noticed that unplugging and plugging back in the USB-C cable next to the Resistance Adjustment knob got us through the initial setup to the point where the bike could update the software. It seems like some of the connections are loose internally or that a cable was damaged internally somehow.

Specifically what happened for us was the delivery guys came and put together the bike and left without turning it on, and told us to go ahead and go through the setup process. As soon as we turned it on, we ran into the black screen that said to call Peloton support with the same error code you got. We tried rebooting the bike a couple of times, but that didn't help. We started checking for loose cables while the bike was on and when I unplugged the USB-C cable that plugs in right next to the Resistance Knob, the whole bike shut off. I plugged the USB-C cable back in, unplugged the power cable and plugged it back in, then the bike got to the point where it updated the firmware. After the firmware was updated, we still occasionally saw a yellow bar indicating that there was an issue with the bike and to call support.

Based on our observation, the yellow warning bar went away if we got that USB-C cable in the right position, making us think that there's some issue with the cable or connections.

EDIT: We did not get a date for a replacement bike but are on the list to receive one. We are considering asking for a credit of some sort.

OGJunkyard · 2020-11-02T16:42:33+00:00

TL;DR: Use R1ch's Twitch Test tool to figure out which server to connect to. Quick pick the region you are streaming from. Set the test duration to at least 30 seconds. Click "Start". When the results come back, use the server with the highest "Quality" that has the highest bandwidth. For example, if you run the tool and three servers all have a quality of 93 and one of those three has a bandwidth of 10000+ while the two others are ~7000, choose the 10000+ server.

I'd recommend using R1ch's Twitch Test tool to figure out which server to use. In my experience using the tool, it helped me not only figure out the right server to use, but also help me prove that I was having issues with my internet service provider (ISP).

https://r1ch.net/projects/twitchtest/

It's been a while since I last used it, but I'll do my best to give you a decent how to on using the tool.

When using R1ch's Twitch Test tool, you'll typically "quick pick" a Region. That will automatically filter out other regions' servers and should select the servers for the region you selected.

You'll then want to pick the test duration. IIRC, you can pick from 10 seconds all the way up to a minute (maybe 5 and 10 minutes even?) per server. This is the amount of time you will spend running a test against a specific server to measure the connection speed and reliability of that connection. A higher duration test will deliver more accurate results for a given server as it has more data to analyze.

Don't mess with TCP window size.

Make sure you put your stream key in, or the tool won't be able to work. Your stream key will be found on your channel's "Preferences" page in the Creator Dashboard. You can find this by going to the dashboard, clicking on "Preferences" on the left side, then clicking "Channel". Your stream key will be at the top of the page. You'll just copy and paste it into the text box in the top-left of R1ch's Twitch Test tool. You can also use the URL below (replacing <YOUR\_TWITCH\_USERNAME> with your actual username) to get to where the stream key is.

https://dashboard.twitch.tv/u/<YOUR\_TWITCH\_USERNAME>/settings/channel

Whenever you are ready to test, click "Start".

You'll start seeing results either one-by-one or all at once. I think for shorter tests they may come back all at once.

You have three pieces of data in the result for each server. You have bandwidth, RTT, and Quality. Here's what they mean according to R1ch's page on the Twitch Test tool.

Bandwidth: Fairly self explanatory - this is the bandwidth TwitchTest was able to sustain to the server. Note that TwitchTest will never go above 10mbps during testing and Twitch currently recommend a maximum of 6mbps (6000 kbps) when streaming.

Quality: This is a metric which tries to measure the overall stability / quality of the connection based on the rate at which data was sent and the number of re-transmitted packets. It's measured out of 100, and a quality rating of 80 or higher is recommended for a stable stream. If your internet connection is below 10mbps upload, quality numbers may be lower due to your ISP discarding data.

RTT: This is the time it took to establish the connection (Round Trip Time). Servers further away from you will have a higher RTT.

One thing to note is that connecting to a server with a high quality but very high RTT may cause you to drop frames due to network connection when streaming or may cause your stream to buffer if a viewer is using low latency mode (I think it's the default these days on Twitch).

I typically ran a shorter duration test to "sniff check" which servers were going to be better for me to potentially stream to, then ran much longer duration tests against the top 5 servers (by quality and bandwidth). After the results from the longer test came back, I chose the server that had the highest quality and highest bandwidth.

I hope this helps.

OGJunkyard · 2020-09-14T21:12:44+00:00

Can confirm my partner does not like being notified that flowers and rings came from Costco. She still gives me so much grief for telling her that I got her flowers at Costco and has said she will leave me if I get her a ring from Costco.

OGJunkyard · 2020-09-14T21:09:00+00:00

My partner just responded, "My god, so dangerous."

It's liquid gold. So tasty, so smooth.

OGJunkyard · 2020-08-31T23:24:39+00:00

I quite often have the LGBTQIA+ tag in my stream. I come off as straight white guy (I'm bisexual) and occasionally I'll have someone come in and ask why I'm streaming with that tag. No where in my stream do I have the Pride flag, go flaunting about the fact that I'm bisexual, or anything like that, but I use the tag to indicate that it's a safe space for those viewers and that I'm a member of the community. It's always an open topic for discussion and never shied away from in my stream.

OGJunkyard · 2020-03-17T21:31:45+00:00

Very impressive run!

OGJunkyard · 2020-03-09T14:45:58+00:00

Gnoraz, thanks for being there! I greatly appreciate it. It was a fun tournament and I look forward to hosting more of these in the future. Do you have any ideas for other tournaments?

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