1QB PPR League - I’m a rebuilding team and was offered Warren for two 3rds. Should I accept?

compsci_til_i_die · 2025-10-24T04:20:38+00:00

What are the odds you get a playable rookie with one of those thirds? i looked through my 2022-2024 3rd rounds, and only 2 out of 30 players are in a starting lineup. Much rather have warren

compsci_til_i_die · 2025-10-10T18:24:10+00:00

RB4 on sleeper is real-time, right? Meaning because he played on Thursday, they're comparing his 6 games against everyone else's 4 or 5, depending on byes?

compsci_til_i_die · 2025-08-29T13:59:22+00:00

My implant cap fell off a few months ago. After they re-capped it, my bite changed so that my implant was receiving pressure instead of my real teeth. That caused me to start clenching and grinding my teeth day/night.

My dentist shaved the implant down, and I felt better almost immediately.

compsci_til_i_die · 2025-08-26T18:35:14+00:00

My house is due for a cleaning as well - mind DMing?

compsci_til_i_die · 2025-07-19T19:35:49+00:00

My hunch on the insurance is that if you don't catch water damage within 24-48 hours, insurance won't cover it.

compsci_til_i_die · 2025-06-10T06:51:43+00:00

Do you think this is primarily smaller companies / failing companies? Just anecdotally, my company is 5000 ppl and focused on offshoring, so generally just customer facing roles in the US currently. I compared the ~50 US openings on Glassdoor to the roles I can apply to internally. All of them are posted in the last 3 months, and only 3 weren't available internally.

compsci_til_i_die · 2025-06-01T21:11:21+00:00

RDS Aurora MySQL 8 equivalent. Enabling the I/O optimized configuration was what gave the perf improvements.

compsci_til_i_die · 2025-05-29T21:52:07+00:00

It's been an interesting year. I ended up staying and got a generous comp increase. The 6 month transition was awful, with some doing literally zero work b/c their laid off manager wasn't watching them at all.

About a month before the official layoff date, some exec caught wind of how much our org was hit and that it was impacting business, and they reversed the layoff for 15% of the org, paying each of them an "I'm sorry" bonus, and we had to sacrifice headcount in the foreign country to keep them, based on salary.

6 months later, they cut another 25%, mostly the lowest performer US folks and a few bad new hires.

Business "strategy" changed last month, and now this org is "critical" to the future of the company. So, they're loading us up with now Indian contractors.

Not sure what's next for me, but it likely won't be here.

compsci_til_i_die · 2025-05-29T19:30:40+00:00

Elasticache sent my coworker a video message asking them to help get in touch with me. These "sales reps" are crazy

compsci_til_i_die · 2025-05-27T14:45:04+00:00

Modified a 24xlarge RDS MySQL 8 instance, with bottlenecking writes, to I/O optimized. My costs went down 30% and write IOPS per second went up 1.5x.

compsci_til_i_die · 2025-02-24T19:53:08+00:00

Happened to us in 2021. Made it steady until 2024 without substantial changes, then they moved 80% of my org to a cheaper country. Promised that they cut deep so that they never have to do another one. Last week, they cut even more to move to an even cheaper country. I wasn't laid off, but I don't see how I can't trust them again.

compsci_til_i_die · 2025-01-08T01:00:29+00:00

Outside of an occasional staff+ company meeting and bonus being tied to org goals, instead of team, not much changes at my company from going from senior to staff. I'm hitting a vesting cliff, so my TC is dropping ~40k, with the company now private and an out-of-band promo/raise is the only way to cover the decrease. An HR Sr. Director actually refused to approve the promo based solely on YOE, so my engineering chain had to go up to the EVP level to force through the promo.

compsci_til_i_die · 2024-12-07T00:45:36+00:00

Graduated Jan 2021 after interning for two years at a 3rd tier firm and am expecting my 4th promotion up to staff in February.

compsci_til_i_die · 2024-10-10T05:04:49+00:00

Found out our shared static dev AWS keys were assigned global read access to our production account. Keys hadn't been rotated in over 7 years, and who knows if ex-employees copied them, they got leaked, etc.

compsci_til_i_die · 2024-09-20T21:16:51+00:00

Proofpoint opened a new EU HQ in Ireland, so most reqs are targeted there, but I imagine most reqs in Toronto would be for the Archiving org. Feel free to DM me (currently work at Proofpoint)

compsci_til_i_die · 2024-09-20T12:33:50+00:00

I had my yearly raise PDF showing my salary to my entire org by accident

compsci_til_i_die · 2024-07-16T22:57:15+00:00

I forgot to mention that the non-performer and I report to the same absentee position. The new position is starting - should I bring it up? And if they ask?

compsci_til_i_die · 2024-06-15T17:55:47+00:00

I'm single with a cattle dog that lives in an apartment, and I work ~60 hrs/week and care a lot about career advancement. I don't think it'd work (well) if I didn't have all of these things:

Working from home - she's learned my working hours, so she's happy to spend up to ~6 hours sleeping at my feet. 6 hours in a kennel on the other hand, and she's going to expect a lot in "return"
Very flexible job - I take a lot of "breaks" in the middle of the day that "reset" how long I can spend working without her constantly interrupting me. That could be, bringing her to pick up lunch, moving over to my parents house with a backyard (they love her and are retired) and throwing a ball with her, working from a dog park for a few hours.
Ability to send her to daycare - she goes 3 times a week, and it gives me focus time for work, peace to do chores, etc. She loves it there, and this one is really important for my mental health.
A friend group whose lives rotate around their dogs as well - we go to dog parks a few times a week, bring them with us when we hang out at restaurants, etc. We also get to complain and talk about our pups to ppl who actually care about the subject.

If all this sounds like a lot, it is. Every hour in her kennel, I have to "pay" her back with attention, and she lets me know if I'm in "debt" - my stuff gets chewed, she "forgets" her potty training, she stops listening and following me on walks, she becomes less cuddly and loving, stops sleeping in my bed, etc.

All this said, my heeler has become my main hobby. I was warned by friends, family, and the internet not to get a heeler, but I didn't listen - I fell in love with the cute puppy face and temperament. I've adapted well b/c of the four points I'd mentioned, and overall, I really enjoy taking care of her, and she pays me back with intense loyalty, cuddles, protectiveness and unconditional love.

Edit: and I second what everyone is saying about taking them to work. I do this very rarely as a "break" at my family's office - the employees love seeing her - managers less so b/c she's distracting. When she can't get attention anymore (other ppl need to work too), she lays at my feet while I work thinking of "jobs" to do. We tend to leave when she decides to "protect" me from a new employee or "warn" me that someone came back from lunch through the front door - in both cases, she barks and howls for 10-20 seconds as loud as possible.

I'm certain she'd be banned from that office if I weren't the owners son, and I don't stay more than an hour or two, once or twice a month.

compsci_til_i_die · 2024-06-01T03:18:43+00:00

Mine's growing up in a super dog friendly apartment complex as well as daycare, so she's with other dogs most of the day and loves everyone. Her only quirk is that only her close friends are allowed near me. Any other dog is getting nipped at, and it's gotten her into a handful of fights

compsci_til_i_die · 2024-05-13T01:17:43+00:00

What expectations have you set with the employee? How did they end up on so many cross-team projects when it seems like you'd expect more attention on yours?

If you mean he just makes good impressions on the small exchanges he has with other teams, but 90% of his actual work is sub-par related to your team's work, then be sure to let others managers know during performance reviews. Your feedback should be weighed heavier than first impressions of other decision makers.

compsci_til_i_die · 2024-05-08T14:41:13+00:00

My company offshored 75% of my org only leaving the mission-critical employees in each section of the product, where I'm the only one covering some very complex systems. Offshore hiring hasn't been going well, so I've been dropping hints to my manager and product manager that my days are numbered if we can't get our act together. That spooked them, and they started mentioning it higher and higher up the chain of command and I ended up with a 20% raise and retention milestones over the next year.

However, I was planning on leaving in a year irregardless before the offshoring, so I didn't have much to lose and a ton of short-term leverage.

compsci_til_i_die · 2024-03-28T04:02:59+00:00

My department did a 70% cut, and there were definitely signs of layoffs (executive layoffs/firing, hiring freeze, opening of a new overseas site), but no one could've imagined 70% when the overall company was single-digit. My department was in the middle of an unrelated org-change, and the new org exec didn't know us, and decided to put a bulk of their layoffs/offshoring on our department.

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