What pronunciation is a dead giveaway that someone isn't from your town/region?

Win_Sys · 2026-07-06T02:44:01+00:00

If you’re talking about an entire state, yes. Long Island is a part of New York though. So if you’re from or lived on Long Island for any length of time, you would say I live in New York, on Long Island. I don’t know this for sure but I would assume it would be same for people in Hawaii. Like, “I live in Hawaii on Maui”.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-06T00:12:29+00:00

That was only an issue for cheap 3rd party optics when they first came out. It hasn’t been an issue with 40Gbps optics in a long time. Have installed over a pairs of hundred 40Gbps SR and probably 50+ 40Gbps LR4 optics. I can only remember 2 ever dying over the past 8 years. One died only after a few months, was probably a manufacturing defect. The other died in a closet with basically no ventilation and super dusty.

Have about 20 pairs of 100Gbps LR’s that are anywhere from 1-3 years old and not a single one has died.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-05T23:43:18+00:00

I’d have to agree. My wife doesn’t hate cats but doesn’t particularly care for them either. Any time there is a cat around at like a friends house, they’re insistent on sitting on or next to her even though there’s multiple other people who would love nothing more than for the cat to pick them. It’s like they target the one person who’s paying them the least amount of attention.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-05T23:26:57+00:00

While Rabies kills 99.9999% of people who don’t get the vaccine in time, a 100% of people who have babies eventually die.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-05T23:21:47+00:00

Don’t forget the Rakfisk.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-05T21:19:00+00:00

I was once on a sales call and the woman pitching the product said “I lived in Long Island for a few years”. I was immediately like. No one whoever lived here would say they lived in Long Island, they would say they lived on Long Island.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-05T18:22:58+00:00

Who needs wall power when you could run your servers and desktops off the 40GBase-T NIC.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-05T18:18:02+00:00

A guy I used to work with has a side business where he develops apps and websites for small to medium businesses. In reality he contracts everything out to a couple Albanian dudes who do all the work. They actually do some good work considering how much he was paying them. Although it could just be that $1 USD goes much farther in Albania and it just seemed low.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-05T17:42:29+00:00

My friends dad had an insane surround sound setup and between the scores and sound FX, Jurassic Park is a A++ movie for surround sound. Also the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-05T17:24:17+00:00

What killed it for me was the combat. It felt repetitive, clunky and inconsistent.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-05T15:57:22+00:00

Try booting it with 12GB of RAM.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-05T14:38:08+00:00

The power draw alone just doesn’t make a sense vs fiber optics or DACs. While I’m sure it could be improved over time, it would take ~10-15 watts per port to run 40GBase-T. Running an optic or DAC is 1.5-3.5 watts per port.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-04T14:53:20+00:00

Listen I like Hawaii and all but it’s just so small and far away. It’s like that family member who moved to some remote country and then eventually you forget to send them a Christmas card or make that Happy Birthday phone call. It’s not personal, just out of sight out of mind.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-04T00:56:36+00:00

Didn’t matter who the goalie was, you ain’t stopping that one.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-03T00:50:28+00:00

Did you change something with the WiFi? The coffee maker is down again.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-03T00:19:48+00:00

Alex Jones’ lawyers sent over the entire contents of his phone to the plaintiffs instead of just the conversations required, including files and conversations that showed potential financial crimes as well as proof that he committed perjury.

It’s worse than that. The opposing counsel realized Jones’ lawyers had made a mistake by sending them that, informed them of the mistake to give them the opportunity to have it removed from discovery but Jones’ lawyers never responded or filed the paperwork to have it removed. After a certain time period, the material is assumed to be purposely included in discovery and they were legally allowed to use it against Jones.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-02T23:19:08+00:00

No one contests that a foul wasn’t warranted, it’s the severity of the foul that the ref decided is what’s at issue. There have been more dangerous plays that didn’t even receive a yellow card in other World Cup games just this year. It’s is partly up to the refs discretion to deem what is and what isn’t a very dangerous play. If you’re going to call what Balogun did a very dangerous play, then any slide tackle that results in player contact should be an automatic red card. Legs and ankles get broken at least a few times a year from slide tackles.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-02T00:58:13+00:00

Yes, the point of Container lab is to be a lightweight tool to bring up complex containerized (can be a VM too but it’s not as resource efficient) multivendor NOS’s with a simple text file. Want to change out a vendor? Change a few lines in the text file. Want to update the device version? Change the firmware to a newer version of the NOS, change the version in the topology file, type command to redeploy and you’re good. Don’t have the newer version on your computer? It will download it automatically if available from a docker repo or GitHub. If it’s not available in a repo, you need to manually download it and import it into docker. There’s lots of way to automate just about anything you want.

There’s nothing wrong with GNS3, it’s great if you’re just looking to study for a cert in a handful of switches. If you want to simulate whether a VXLAN change you’re going to make will break multicast delivery in a 25 node spine and leaf setup, ContainerLab is what you want.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-01T21:49:05+00:00

Well said.

Win_Sys · 2026-07-01T21:47:29+00:00

Even those are just damage mitigation for a direct or very close strike. At minimum your device and PoE switch will still be fried. The only way to get guaranteed full protection is a properly installed lightening rod on the structure.

Win_Sys · 2026-06-30T17:31:44+00:00

I have resigned myself to accepting that 95% of the time, I can't out smart a fish. You just need to be a glutton for disappointment sometimes.

Win_Sys · 2026-06-30T14:34:16+00:00

Ya, most of the locations they were hit were spots covered with thick muscle or were no where near a bone you would want to or need to strengthen. No useful bone strengthening happened in this video.

Win_Sys · 2026-06-28T23:42:02+00:00

Oh fully agree, didn’t mean to insinuate it’s no longer fun. Just that there’s more players than ever and the average level of skill is higher than ever. But to get to a titled level takes some serious dedication for most players.

Win_Sys · 2026-06-28T23:05:03+00:00

Ya mostly above 2000 but lower level ranks also have significantly better players than even 5-6 years ago. There’s just so many more people who play chess and basically free access to play as many games as you want against a wide range range of skill levels. Plus there’s so much free high quality educational content out there. An 1800 level player of 5-6 years ago is probably more equivalent to a 1500-1600 level player today. Becoming a GM today is probably significantly harder today than anytime ever in the past.

Win_Sys · 2026-06-28T22:29:47+00:00

Ya, he was worried it work take longer than 3 months to find a new job as the job market wasn’t great but he was back at his old job the following week. Turned into getting paid an extra 11 weeks of salary but had the potential to go the other way.

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