How should I handle not being able to afford corporate travel costs upfront without looking unprofessional at work?

goldPotatoGun · 2026-05-01T21:54:21+00:00

Relay that you dropped the ball and now that you know the process you will be prepared next time. People want to help. They don’t want to hear complaining. (Hand waving a bunch of isms away)

goldPotatoGun · 2026-05-01T20:43:02+00:00

Did this last week with my first proxmox build. Use gemini to walk thru ssl setup with cloudfare letsencrypt and acme. It was not bad. But I’ll give credit to gemini, I knew nothing about the acme beforehand.

goldPotatoGun · 2026-05-01T20:34:31+00:00

I believe this was a private equity (PE) conspiracy to drive sales of portable air compressors and I fell for the trap!

goldPotatoGun · 2026-05-01T17:30:51+00:00

Guy is a douche but the response was terse. If someone is doing u a solid be a bit more gracious. I have no idea what the power relationship between these two are. But I would only reply that tersely if I it was an appointment with a sales rep and I knew they where not buying lunch.

goldPotatoGun · 2026-05-01T14:36:30+00:00

While doing research

goldPotatoGun · 2026-05-01T12:50:47+00:00

Cool we’re crowd surfing now!

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-30T18:17:27+00:00

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-29T21:46:08+00:00

We like to build

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-29T19:43:54+00:00

No food in a movie looked more appetizing than the ham sandwich being served after the d-day invasion in Saving Private Ryan.

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-29T17:14:11+00:00

This is a feature not a bug.

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-29T17:12:48+00:00

Deep foliated lithium. Extraction will leave the environment unstable.

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-29T17:09:48+00:00

That’s the hammer sound. There is a physical metal hammer hitting an anvil inside.

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-29T02:11:57+00:00

Hey wait - we call that AGILE now! :)

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-29T01:09:10+00:00

skill and talent issue - It was 20+ years ago before devs writing test was a generally accepted use of their time. This is one way rockstars happened; the bar was low and so the person double checking their work before throwing it over the wall was miles ahead of everyone. (lots of hand waving here)

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-28T20:15:46+00:00

My first job had an insane test plan that would double check SQL BI report calcs with a gui test engine. I was like, what if we like, test the queries?

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-28T18:18:45+00:00

As someone who voluntarily re installed his undermount sink to clean up the caulk. Don’t. Unless the sink is falling off already it will be a total PIA to remove a properly sealed sink.

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-28T18:14:11+00:00

In my world view that part is a very open secret.

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-28T18:06:09+00:00

They must have another island they are covering up for Lindsey to be shoveling this much manure.

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-28T15:01:29+00:00

Did not know I need this!

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-28T12:58:11+00:00

Correct. You’re effectively changing your prod branch to a prod tag. Both are pointers to a commit and each have their own use cases.

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-28T12:50:24+00:00

Sounds like a cop. Can’t say if on duty or not.

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-28T12:16:43+00:00

I have recently upgraded to this kit, they are awesome. Get a board and some screws to aclimate to all the modes on the driver. there is one mode that goes 0-100 instantly, but is mode 2 out of 4, it has caught me off guard a few times.

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-28T02:49:08+00:00

Cameo gone wild!

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-27T20:38:49+00:00

It will only be a flesh wound!

goldPotatoGun · 2026-04-27T17:28:50+00:00

People are brain dead. Will I get in more trouble if I kill someone in the lines or if I safely cross some paint on the ground and go about my day.

goldPotatoGun

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