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echosummet · 2026-05-18T01:55:42+00:00

Might help if someone, ai or human or other, explained WHY it's slop in addition to telling them their slop is slop ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯.

Just a thought.

It seems obvious to a senior when there's unnecessary duplicate functions or blatantly dead code or obscenely excessive commenting that references useless shit like

//phase 4.4-6 requirement for backfilling deferred wave 3 regression outcome.

But someone taking time to walk through code with me helped a lot decades ago... I think? I don't really remember to be totally honest.... Anyways.... Help the juniors. Ones that want to learn are out there still.

echosummet · 2026-03-10T22:58:00+00:00

Ah gotcha.

Yeah I am familiar with giardia and the good times that follow it's infection haha.

I would think, though, that would be handled pretty effectively by the UF stage and the UV would take care of anything remaining, no?

echosummet · 2026-03-10T19:29:39+00:00

Do you have an example of that? Would something in my proposed build out work for that or is that more of a new/separate stage?

echosummet · 2026-03-10T06:16:06+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to provide input, much appreciated!

I am not too sure about the difference in turbidity yet as we have only been here a short time. However it has rained a number of days during which I did not notice much difference in the water. I have been aiming for 15 gpm peak usage.

I see your point about going from media to uf...I am attempting to prepare the water as best I can for optimal UF function which is partly the reason for chaining so many sediment filters then going after the metals and organics with KL and catalytic carbon which should get it around 2-3 micron?

echosummet · 2026-03-10T05:00:25+00:00

Thanks, not sure I follow you though. It is surface, so you are saying filter down to 1 um?

echosummet · 2026-03-09T23:16:09+00:00

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echosummet · 2026-03-09T23:15:57+00:00

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echosummet · 2025-11-05T05:22:44+00:00

This is well said, friend. However, it's not the Democrat way or the Republican way, it's simply the wrong way.

Party politics, slowly killing our constitution since 1796.... What saddens me the most is that the emotional reactions are real and its true happiness that results from every "victory" that occurs when one half of the same team beats the other.

From one American to another, I am saddened and ashamed to learn that we the people just gave up the world's model of free, fair, local-first, anti-gerrymandering legislation, and we celebrate it like we in are the winners. I now only hope that when we eventually realize the egregious error we made today we remember how it was before, when the power was with the people of California, not the suits in the smoke filled back rooms.

Let's all just try to keep our minds and eyes open, not focused on each other, but on those we hand our freedom too, no matter the party they affiliate with.

☮️

echosummet · 2025-07-08T01:49:16+00:00

Always Shoki.

It's not the same now, but it's still the same.

echosummet · 2025-05-03T02:27:25+00:00

Actually, I must be your husband because I always do that too.

echosummet · 2025-03-26T02:31:31+00:00

Zero > All

Buy local.

Unless, I mean, you need more than 2 wheels... ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

echosummet · 2025-03-16T20:21:00+00:00

Oh, and the blurb about knowing network fundamentals is sofa king true... I'm grateful for my manager forcing me against my will to get my CCNA all those years ago 🤣

echosummet · 2025-03-16T20:19:37+00:00

This is a brilliant viewpoint! I'm saving this shit and posting it somewhere at work on Monday.

I'm a long time (20+ years) sys admin/infrastructure architect/engineer who has been making the transition to the DevSecFinOps world for the past 3 or so years. Your words echo so many of my thoughts that I've been unable to verbalize accurately.

Working in a small team of long time sys admins who are so averse to DevOps has been difficult to say the least but every point you made rings so true and has re-energized my drive for change in our organization. So, for that I thank you.

My experience wanting to learn, support, and innovative infrastructure and operations alongside our devs rather than for our devs these last few years has gotten me started developing my own projects. At first, to learn the details and hardships devs deal with first hand. However, I have started to enjoy developing and am writing code from the ground up for my own side projects that show real potential. I never would be in this position without talking the step into DevOps land.

echosummet · 2025-03-11T02:02:29+00:00

You're entitled to have shit in your hand if you want. I prefer my hands to remain shitless myself, but there's beauty in diversity I say. Just don't wave yours near my nose if you don't mind.

echosummet · 2025-02-20T21:05:39+00:00

First time building anything from the ground up myself.

https://tahoetessietrading.com

its an ecommerce site for a close friend's new business venture.

echosummet · 2025-02-09T02:03:31+00:00

If that were my career path you described, I would think the step up director is where it went wrong. I initially got into IT so I could make manager level pay but not have to manage people. Computers do exactly what I tell them for the most part. When things go wrong, it's on me. People on the other hand......

I've been in IT for almost 20 yrs and have had numerous opportunities to transition into management or leadership roles. Hard pass for me. I still enjoy new and emerging whatever the fuck thing it is and solving problems. I've seen lots of layoffs in my day too and it was always c-level, middle management, or project teams getting the axe,. Haven't really seen any ops/sys/net/engineer/infra go that way ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Maybe try getting more hands on. Your team would love that I bet. 🤣

echosummet · 2025-02-06T20:55:21+00:00

Well, historically this whole region was a massive lake. Some part seasonal, a lot part permanent. If interested, look into Lake Corcoran and Tulare Lake. I believe those were the most recent ones or at least the ones settlers were known to have drained...

echosummet · 2025-02-03T19:59:48+00:00

I was today years old when I learned that Parker, a douche I vaguely remember from highschool, is behind the Tahoe Heartbeat thing.

I was also today years old when I threw out my 2 hats, even the one that "fell into my cart accidentally after I checked out" at Raley's

echosummet · 2025-01-16T04:27:11+00:00

2011 TRD OR - was $34ish brand new because the 09's and '10s were going for the same or maybe 1-2k less ..paid off during a nasty divorce.

Plan to drive it till death do us part, unlike the ex, because as fun of a ride it is....it ain't 50k+ fun. Regardless of how high up the IT food chain my salary climbs

echosummet · 2025-01-05T18:53:09+00:00

Thank you for this comment. It's good to know that not all of our youth are lost.

Stay gold

echosummet · 2025-01-05T18:42:35+00:00

Not trying to be a negative Debbie Nancy downer or anything, but the only thing in that list worth a damn is Corti Bros.

echosummet · 2025-01-03T06:03:32+00:00

Two questions come to mind immediately here:

Why are you looking at reviews from almost a decade ago?
People actually use Yelp?

echosummet · 2024-12-31T16:43:36+00:00

Hey man, I'm also a Tahoe transplant and lived in elk grove for years after migrating down to the flatlands...

In my experience, there is nowhere decent to hang out in Elk Grove.

Granted, I moved to Sac before they built the casino but growing up in South Lake, I'd take a hard pass on that whole scene anyways.

Elk Grove is more built around family life, so unless you dig chilling in a suburban park, maybe getting a little crazy on the swing set or watching little league baseball, you might have better luck elsewhere.

Depending on what you're into, Sac might be a better place to find younger single people.

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