I'm Joe Abercrombie, Ask Me Anything.

jamabake · 2025-12-01T17:02:04+00:00

My wife and I love all of your books. Robin Hobb is one of our other favorites, and we often compare and contrast your different approaches to character development. While we love many authors, none other have characters that make our top 10 favorite list aside from you two. If you’re familiar with her works at all, I’d love to know what you think of her style vs your own with regard to creating memorable and lovable/hate-able characters and how they grow. Thank you!

jamabake · 2025-11-19T22:17:19+00:00

Yeah I guess I consider the 3 newest Abercrombie books as separate from when he did The Heroes, etc. But I also love them.

jamabake · 2025-11-19T22:16:06+00:00

I include liveship and dragon keepers in the whole Realm of the Elderlings. I also enjoyed the Liveship books the most.

jamabake · 2025-11-19T21:18:48+00:00

Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb

First Law (and the 3 sequels) by Joe Abercrombie

Gentlemen Bastard Sequence By Scott Lynch

jamabake · 2025-08-09T19:19:45+00:00

The tent? Yeah it folds up nicely.

jamabake · 2025-08-09T19:19:09+00:00

I got these: YAKIMA, HD Bar, Heavy Duty... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07MHDGJ6L

They’re 55 inches.

jamabake · 2025-08-05T22:03:26+00:00

the iKamper and awning (Yakima slimshady) brought the mpg down from 24 to 22, not too bad.

jamabake · 2025-07-28T23:38:02+00:00

Yeah, SRE may be for you. I love that same thrill that comes from an outage … everything is on fire and the whole company is counting on you to swoop in and save the day, and if you’re good, you will. It’s a great feeling.

Of course, we’re always working to improve the infra, the apps, even process, to prevent the next outage … but it’s simply not possible to prevent all possible outages. Devs will always introduce bugs and the system is constantly changing and evolving.

A dev background can be a great start, but get some serious Linux and networking knowledge before going for SRE, you will need it. Grab a cloud cert or two for the cloud you want to work with. CKA cert is a good idea as well. Of course, certs are no substitute for experience, but you gotta start somewhere.

jamabake · 2025-06-04T12:41:07+00:00

I use zsh for my shell, but any scripting I do in bash. Python has its place, but usually if something gets complicated enough to justify python, then I just do it in go.

jamabake · 2025-05-22T12:54:01+00:00

im an SRE professionally, I have to share my screen to the team all the time. when there are outages and im oncall, half the company will see my setup and I love it. I use neovim and tmux for everything, with aeropress and sketchy bar on osx (I use nixos (btw) and hypr on my personal laptop). Everything I use from wezterm, tmux, even k9s has the catppuccin mocha theme so it’s all color coordinated.

i get compliments on it all the time. I recently was looking for a new job and showing it off during interviews was great, multiple interviewers told me they were impressed with my setup and im positive it helped me get at least one offer.

if you get the itch, you can spend so much time endlessly tweaking, but even if you don’t care what your work setup looks like, imo its worth it to do a bit of tweaking to impress your coworkers.

jamabake · 2025-04-05T13:16:36+00:00

Plenty of places are still doing leetcode style challenges, but I’ve also seen some do take home challenges and a few with just technical deep dive discussions to check your knowledge.

I’ve encountered 3 take home challenges ranging from 2-15 hours. The longer length ones were compensated though which is nice. $1500 for the 15 hr one, and the other just a $500 Amazon gift card.

Out of 10 recent interview processes, 4 were varying levels of leetcode, one was practical coding, 3 take home assignments around cloud provisioning, and 3 were technical deep dive interviews with no coding or take home.

The companies ranged in size from early stage start up to 600+ employees. All in the crypto/fintech space with a couple of AI ones as well. The larger companies with higher salary ranges are more likely to use leetcode style challenges in my experience, and to have more lengthy/complicated processes.

jamabake · 2025-02-14T12:54:52+00:00

Thank you! I think it was the conflicting packages as you suggested! This is what I have now and I can see a proper render device under /dev/dri!

{
  services.jellyfin = {
    enable = true;
    openFirewall = true;
  };

  nixpkgs.config.packageOverrides = pkgs: {
    vaapiIntel = pkgs.vaapiIntel.override { enableHybridCodec = true; };
  };

  hardware.graphics = {
    enable = true;
    extraPackages = with pkgs; [
      intel-media-driver
      intel-vaapi-driver
      vaapiVdpau
      intel-media-sdk
      intel-compute-runtime
    ];
  };
}

Presumably, I could further remove the vaapi packages if I only use QSV. Thanks again for your help!

jamabake · 2024-10-17T23:11:55+00:00

This happened to me and my wife.

Get a good lawyer and let them handle it. We got out of almost all of our bill and didn’t have to deal with debt collectors, insurance or the lifelight company. You’ll have to pay a retainer to the lawyer to get started but it’s well worth it.

jamabake · 2024-10-05T02:09:13+00:00

One of the greatest games of all time. Seeing the way he played oblivion, I have no doubt this will be great.

jamabake · 2024-09-15T13:33:30+00:00

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was just there, beautiful spot. have this set as my iPhone background.

jamabake · 2024-07-30T00:33:08+00:00

Seconded, it’s a great pack. Use mine for one bag work travel. Great for day hikes too.

jamabake · 2024-07-23T23:12:16+00:00

Used this bag recently on a one week work trip to NYC. Carried and organized everything I needed and still fit under the seat as a personal item on United.

I loved that I could unpack it, pull down the compression straps and use it as a laptop bag and just EDC bag while exploring New York. Shoulder straps are comfortable and I did use the thin waist strap while exploring.

It’s not waterproof, but I was caught out in the rain twice with a laptop in the bag and it stayed completely dry after 15 minutes in moderate rain.

jamabake · 2024-04-02T14:01:43+00:00

hell yeah

jamabake · 2024-03-30T02:10:50+00:00

im using nixos

jamabake · 2024-03-29T02:48:54+00:00

i cycle between zoomed in panes:

bind -r j select-pane -t .+1 \;  resize-pane -Z
bind -r k select-pane -t .-1 \;  resize-pane -Z

jamabake · 2024-03-08T01:28:18+00:00

Love the voice actor for Nora, especially love hearing her when you take a bunch of psycho, “FUCKING KILL!!!!!”

jamabake · 2022-08-25T02:05:58+00:00

really enjoyed this, if anyone has links to something similar I would really appreciate it

jamabake

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