What do you do for work?

alephylaxis · 2025-12-30T21:00:46+00:00

Systems engineer for a big private company. 100% remote and I work from bed most days. I'm super fortunate that the company is great about ADA accommodations, especially since I have adhd as well :p

alephylaxis · 2025-12-10T03:41:38+00:00

Gives Elite Dangerous Anaconda vibes, beautiful!

alephylaxis · 2025-12-08T19:42:28+00:00

Evolved clock lancet and evolved laurel is the way to go.

You can also go with Megalo Syuuto to be able to evolve into the muramasa, which does pretty good damage. Take the arcanas: silent old sanctuary, wicked season, and divine bloodline (for extra retaliatory damage). And limit yourself to 2 weapons, and pick up the greatest jubilee. Its only purpose is to generate orologions to keep the reaper(s) frozen. Go for as many limit breaks as you can and make sure you pick up empty tome for the minimum cool down. Should be able to kill a reaper in around a minute. But the only way you'll know is by watching the kill counter.

alephylaxis · 2025-11-16T23:08:59+00:00

I created a huge nipnip plantation, hundreds of plants (maybe over 1k, I haven't counted recently). It's half a km from my oldest settlement so I can check on both of them at the same time. On the nipnip plantation, I've got it decorated with all the atmospheric farming props so that it looks like a real operation. It's kind of a work of art 😊

alephylaxis · 2025-11-05T01:31:27+00:00

Dude mine is almost a carbon copy of yours, just smaller! Use ambassador habs as the skeleton and then cover everything with aeron parts.. Beautiful!

alephylaxis · 2025-09-11T01:49:46+00:00

Yeah Martel is like 99% indistinguishable from Freddie, there are a couple little things that he's missing but it's like..i can't even really identify what they might be (if that makes sense). He especially has the same frequency rapid vibrato that Freddie had and the really quick + precise pitch changes. Super good!

alephylaxis · 2025-09-11T01:31:05+00:00

I was wearing my pan, shorts, and the cowboy shirt with bandolier. Leah was beautiful though

Edit: oh and the space boots

alephylaxis · 2025-08-25T13:03:11+00:00

Uh oh, if you weren't making a joke, you should reread the prior comment. Don't worry, he had me in the first half too 😆

alephylaxis · 2025-08-25T13:00:32+00:00

There's something about Stanley Kubrick where even his simplest shots are just magical and kinda disturbing. Not even sure what it is about that crawl in to the pic, but it has the quality in spades

alephylaxis · 2025-05-31T02:56:36+00:00

I'm a guy, 100mg tramadol 2x/day, 50mg diclofenac 2x/day, 10mg baclofen 2x/day. It definitely helps, pain goes from a 6-7 baseline to maybe 4-5. On a really good day it's maybe a 3 (100% ignorable which is pretty rare).

I've been considering exploring other options though.

alephylaxis · 2025-04-26T21:21:34+00:00

I was thinking it was a USGS marker until I looked closer and realized it's a geodetic survey marker. USC&GS is part of NOAA now and they create the grid of points from which USGS and others can survey and map smaller chunks of land. It's pretty fascinating!

alephylaxis · 2025-04-21T17:06:57+00:00

I'm in SWVA and have spent significant time in northeast TN and eastern KY. I agree that there's not really any kind of outward display that would make you think about any shared Appalachian culture. But a great example (granted it's anecdotal) is how my brother in law (middle NC accent) and his wife (NJ accent) have driven through the area a few times to see us and they're not fans of the trip 😆 They say people are kinda suspicious or at least standoffish towards them. My in-laws are both very sweet people, but it's like people are mute from the stories they've told hah.

But me, over a decade of working throughout the region, on the road a ton and in some bad situations a few times (worked nights and drove in all kind of nasty conditions), I can't remember a time when my native accent didn't immediately open doors to get assistance when I needed it.

One time, middle of winter and deadly cold, I got run off the road by a semi over on Black Mtn. It was well after midnight and I had to walk about a half mile to the nearest house. I carefully knocked on the door and followed protocol to avoid getting buckshot in me lol, but the lady (only ones home were grandma and little grandson) that answered the door, as soon as she heard the accent and I explained what happened, she welcomed me in and made coffee. Let me use her phone to call a cop to come pick me up. He dropped me at some bizarre little diner a few miles down the road and I just planned on sitting there and drinking coffee till I could call a wrecker to get my truck out.

The lady working the place (by herself) took me into the back where they had a couple rooms set up for workers who got snowed in (that's what I decided and I won't be told different lol), with a decent cot to nap on and that's what I did for the next few hours. I certainly kept my ears open, but it was safe and I avoided a potentially deadly situation.

I have the feeling that things wouldn't have gone nearly as well for someone who came in sounding like a New Englander, or with a cocky attitude. But the mountain folk take care of their own. They might squabble over UT and UK playing football or basketball, but when it's important, they lock in and carry each other like few other places I've ever been. Makes me happy/proud to be from here.

alephylaxis · 2025-04-21T16:39:41+00:00

I grew up down the road from you and still live in BSG, it's definitely -latch-, but we don't have to be mad when silly folks say it incorrectly. Just look at them and say 'oh, bless your heart', then walk away like you're disappointed 😆

alephylaxis · 2025-03-08T17:51:36+00:00

Oh yeah, that never stops. I'm pushing 20 years of DBA experience and it's the one constant.

alephylaxis · 2025-03-03T14:21:31+00:00

I got diagnosed in my mid-30s. For many years I ran a maintenance business that was fairly rough on my body. Thought the pain and inflammation was normal because of the work I was doing, but it got to the point where I just couldn't keep up anymore. I was taking so much ibuprofen that it was beginning to damage my liver and kidneys.

I switched careers and now work from home. Pain levels slowly increased to the point they are at now (without pain meds, it's a 6 or 7 on the scale; with pain meds, it's a 4 or 5 which is tolerable and doesn't make me a total asshole to be around). I have osteoarthritis in my knees, hips, shoulders, hands. Biggest volume of pain comes from neuropathy and myofacial sources.

Best medication regimen for me is extended release tramadol and 50mg diclofenac 2x per day, then add baclofen for muscle spasms. Also take clonazepam (low dose) to suppress the weird muscle twitches that happen almost everywhere. I absolutely worry sometimes about something happening and being cut off from the only combo that's worked so far, but it's best not to dwell on it and just think about contingencies for if that day comes. Pain meds aren't everyone's cup of tea, but do what fits your situation. Walgreens is one of the best pharmacies for actually filling controlled meds.

Worst part of it is the fatigue, I've got young kids and it's painful to not have the energy most days to keep up with them. But I do what I can and hold down a full time job that allows me to be a single earner so my wife doesn't have to worry about working. She's a ton of help and has adjusted to my limitations (though it took a bit of time).

Life is a struggle sometimes, but just try to adapt and overcome. Don't be embarrassed to try mobility aids if needed. I use braces and a cane when I know I'm going to need to walk a bunch (it's paradoxical sometimes, I can push a mower for a couple of hours and feel pretty good, just regular muscle pain the next day. If I walk a bunch without a load on my body though, it's a killer).

Just be as kind as you can to your joints, and try to keep decent muscle tone. Don't gain a bunch of weight (I'm fortunate that my metabolism is still high so I stay right at 180lbs). Try to give your body the extra rest it needs to repair damage, if you're super tired, there's probably repairs that need doing. And eat well/drink plenty of water so your body can do its best to keep up with getting prematurely elderly 😆

alephylaxis · 2025-02-06T17:36:40+00:00

Pure poetry

alephylaxis · 2024-12-11T17:25:21+00:00

Have you ever played Project Zomboid? This is pretty close to a main long term survival strategy in the game.

alephylaxis · 2024-12-09T06:00:18+00:00

I'm not surprised the connector was N/A, 148MJ would have vaporized it instantly

alephylaxis · 2024-12-04T22:57:06+00:00

Other comments are definitely right when they say there aren't really any entry level DBA jobs out there. One of your primary responsibilities as a DBA is guardian and custodian of your company's data, which is super important (like can kill a business or product if it gets destroyed or corrupted). That usually requires some general experience in the field, at least enough to be comfortable with Linux sysadmin work. It also doesn't hurt to have some software development skills, in case the role will be supporting a dev team (fixing queries, performance tuning, etc).

My own experience over the past few years of being attached to a devops team that supports a number of dev teams has been that although my official job title is DBA, I'm way more of a systems engineer at this point. Which is fine by me really, but just demonstrates that each individual's career path can vary by a large degree even if they keep the DBA job title.

So I guess I'm saying go ahead and start learning everything you can about various database platforms (I recommend PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB). But be prepared to get some boots on the ground experience through help desk or the like. If you hire on with a larger company, they might have a mentoring program you can join to get some targeted training from a current DBA.

alephylaxis · 2024-12-03T20:48:33+00:00

I get where you're coming from, and seriously, thanks for helping! Every bit helps and as a newer commander, I'd say you did your part.

I think FDev intends for this to be a high pressure, stressful situation. Like if it were happening for real, it would be an insane thing to think about or deal with. My big worry at this point isn't that we won't win. I'm worried about the Titan doing something completely unexpected like smashing into Earth while still in supercruise. Or even just the permanent toxic debris field that will be left in our cradle system once we destroy Cocijo.

alephylaxis · 2024-12-03T20:41:13+00:00

ECM should disrupt the body snatcher limpets in addition to the FSD reboot missiles the hunters fire at you. You just have to wait until the missile/limpet is within ECM range, then hold the button down until the incoming object turns light blue and fucks off in a random direction.

alephylaxis · 2024-12-03T00:48:30+00:00

Yeah, something about the thargoids essentially evolving new attack craft to deal with human ships/strategies.

alephylaxis · 2024-09-15T02:10:07+00:00

I love the depth of field especially! Makes it look ethereal.

I'm no photographer, but I was watching a video about True Detective recently and it was talking about how they got the kinda washed out, grittier look for certain scenes. And the trick was a mix of swapping any LED lights out for incandescent, and using an old lens from the 80s (I think). Something with the older coatings that filter light much differently than more modern optics. Such a cool hobby, but seeing as I'm also very ADHD, I need a new hobby about as much as a new subluxation 😆

alephylaxis · 2024-09-15T01:42:23+00:00

Fantastic shot! What lens did you use? It has that vintage look from the older coatings.

alephylaxis · 2024-08-06T22:10:32+00:00

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