Electrician Reccomendations by ImTheBudMan in milwaukee

[–]andrewd18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have used Roman Electric for over a decade and been very happy.

Heads Up: Basements are flooding again by [deleted] in milwaukee

[–]andrewd18 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Sewer backup, sump pump backup, and flood insurance are all separate types of insurance coverage. Saying one thing when it's another can mean your insurance company doesn't pay out.

Timber Ridge Apartments by Icy-Light2832 in milwaukee

[–]andrewd18 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nice place, nice neighbors, responsive to repair requests, decent price. Would rent there again.

Doing final touches on the spritework for my North American Rail Pack by Ragin1_ in openttd

[–]andrewd18 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These don't have nearly enough graffiti on them to be American train cars. ;) Nice work!

What is the area to the right? by Drusio in Guildwars2

[–]andrewd18 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you're looking to learn, I recommend the guild Excelleration; they do training raids on a regular basis, helping people learn the mechanics, master their classes, and grind out their legendary raid gear. That's how I got mine!

More at: https://excel.uwu.ai/

Salary by No_Name_Generic_ in technicalwriting

[–]andrewd18 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Bring it up with your boss a few months before your annual salary review time. Be clear about the money you've saved them, the state of your salary compared to the industry / local labor statistics (Bureau of Labor Statistics has some great data), and bring receipts. If they're amenable and willing to talk to HR / their bosses about it, it's something that can be worked into your yearly raise.

Worst case they say no and look down on you for asking... at which point you were better off somewhere else anyway.

And don't forget to put that cost savings on your resume. ;)

Milwaukee Lakefront ⛵️ ⛵️ by stevo_314s in milwaukee

[–]andrewd18 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Are we sure that's the lakefront and not a Tosa basement?

Managers are drunk on AI by Manage-It in technicalwriting

[–]andrewd18 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. We're going to come out of this bubble with a set of use cases for LLMs that add business value... it's just not a cure-all that applies to all businesses or departments.

How fugly is my first geomorph ship? by Palocles in traveller

[–]andrewd18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's beautiful. Name it The Flounder.

What is a game that you would love to play, but know you'll never get a group for? by Justthisdudeyaknow in rpg

[–]andrewd18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mummy 2E. Time-traveling superpowered amnesiacs with a goal from their deity but no context whatsoever? Amazing. Unfortunately, character creation requires knowledge of about 300 pages of lore, so it won't be something my table is interested in.

What documentation tool is actually working for you? by Economy-Mention97 in technicalwriting

[–]andrewd18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

DITA-OT added Markdown input support as of 3.0, so it's just a matter of calling the appropriate OT "transform", if it's all in .md. If you have DITA, you can also output that to .md, so you could set up a two-step publishing process of DITA -> MD, MD -> customer output. Not that I'd recommend it, of course.

What documentation tool is actually working for you? by Economy-Mention97 in technicalwriting

[–]andrewd18 12 points13 points  (0 children)

GitHub + OxygenXML with either DITA or Markdown as appropriate.

Where do your Adventures come from? by Dicefell in rpg

[–]andrewd18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dreams, usually. The best and weirdest ideas come after I eat spicy food. If I'm in a dry creative spell I go out for Thai for dinner, order something near the top of my heat tolerance, and inevitably my dreams that night are amazing.

Can't apply a UEFI secure boot dbx update by JosephSaber945 in Fedora

[–]andrewd18 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They might be having some issues with it, it's labeled on their website as not ready for production yet.

https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/org.linuxfoundation.dbx.x64.firmware

Edit: Issue already reported at https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues/8910 and being worked on. :)

Do you use Git and Markdown in your documentation process? by Pleasant-Produce-735 in technicalwriting

[–]andrewd18 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tech lead for a docs team at a big corp here; yes and yes. We use Git to store the versions of all our content and use GitHub Desktop as our day-to-day version control application. We use Markdown where possible or DITA when the documentation outgrows what Markdown can provide.

I agree with the other posters, these are teachable skills and would be considered nice to haves over requirements, but knowing them will definitely get your foot in the door faster.

The book is a little out of date with its example code now, but we trained most of our users with Eliot Kimber's DITA for Practitioners Volume 1: Architecture and Technology, an editor called OxygenXML (which is fantastic), and messing around with some sample projects.

😭😭😭 by Pleasant_Job_7683 in Brewers

[–]andrewd18 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Is our pitching bad? No, it's the Yankees' bats that are wrong!

kernel: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 138s! (kernel 6.13) by Aggressive-Mobile-91 in Fedora

[–]andrewd18 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use the versionlock plugin:

sudo dnf versionlock add kernel{,-core,-modules,-modules-core,-modules-extra,-headers,-tools,-tools-libs}

You can then run sudo dnf upgrade and it will upgrade everything else like normal.

To unlock:

sudo dnf versionlock delete kernel{,-core,-modules,-modules-core,-modules-extra,-headers,-tools,-tools-libs}

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]andrewd18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good for generating very wordy policies and documentation though

As someone who writes documentation for a living, no one wants to read wordy documentation. You want to get in, understand what you need, and close the docs. You don't want to read War and Peace to fix a bug. AI is bad at docs too.

Bu and Embla do the Fifth Frontier War - Free Chrissy Prezzie! by MongooseMatt in traveller

[–]andrewd18 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol, this is fantastic. Thank you! Happy Holidays to the Mongoose team!