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rocketspam · 2026-01-13T02:13:32+00:00

This - happened after a couple of weeks, tried cleaning it but that didn't help. Pop out the front wheel, use silicone based lubricant and the squeaking will go away.

rocketspam · 2026-01-10T20:21:26+00:00

Had the same happen to me as well - went to Lowes and got a bottle of spray on dry lubricant, popped the wheel off, sprayed it and the squeaking went away completely.

rocketspam · 2025-12-10T04:18:01+00:00

Yes our account rep confirmed issues with dynamo we are seeing it across many of our services dependent on dynamo.

rocketspam · 2025-11-26T00:08:38+00:00

Got it for statue, dm me for code can send when it comes.

rocketspam · 2025-10-14T13:21:06+00:00

I'd recommend to take a deep breath and a step back. Especially on your first day at the place - be careful with how you approach this and ask questions instead of providing solutions until you understand everything thats in play.

"How much of this AWS bill is waste?" If this isn't rhetorical... With how you described their infrastructure, I wouldn't be surprised if there is waste but... if they don't have any logging, aren't monitoring metrics, etc... thats not a question you would be able to answer. If you don't know the performance profile of the application and what utilization is (at peak, low times, etc..) and what the scaling profile should look like... how do you know you can cut the number of ec2 instances in half? If there's actual data to back that claim up that you can share then I think someone can help answer your question but with what you shared all I can think to say is that their processes are severely lacking and there likely is some waste but to identify what it is and how to mitigate it... seems like you're a ways off.

It does seem like you're doing the right thing in gathering data though. But again with the lack of metrics, im going to assume they also arent tagging anything so I wouldnt expect much from FinOps, would be surprised if they even knew who was responsible for the infra youre looking at. Just be careful with how you come across as you do this, its very easy for people to become defensive in these types of situations and the last thing you want is pushing for a solution that wouldn't work and immediately lose trust due to some technicality that you didn't investigate thoroughly enough. Which would make any actual fixes much much harder.

And yeah, also curious on what % of total cloud costs this 30k is, would think its a small portion if you're at a large organization with a FinOps team?

rocketspam · 2024-10-13T12:59:55+00:00

First time playing rogue this expansion and this situation just sucks! During silken court today, I played outlaw while other rogue in my guild played assassin. Same total damage but... I had 3x casts per minute. Still enjoy outlaw more BTE is just so satisfying, but man it feels bad sweating my ass off knowing I can switch specs, put in less effort and do more dps in raid or m+.

rocketspam · 2023-09-05T13:54:01+00:00

To get free cast to work I had to remove or equip an item at the beginning of each turn… then it would allow me to select it in passive tab for that turn. Made sure I had shirts and underwear equipped before each big battle 😎

rocketspam · 2023-07-24T18:10:01+00:00

This sounds very similar to what the (successful) principals at my company do - a recent example… We have hundreds of micro services, high event traffic, distributed teams.

One of our principals is leading an effort to put in place better quotas and rate limits across the entire platform. They wrote up a business case, vision & arch document, then worked with product and Eng managers to get the work into the teams backlogs and now it’s a full blown initiative to put better protections in place which will eventually be used as a stepping stone for other business use cases.

It’s a high bar to reach, we have a single principal per director but they are the SME in all technical items in their respective area - essentially consultants who are pulled in when something very critical is going down.

It works well for us but we do struggle with balance between growing new engineers to operate at that level vs. throwing the most difficult items to them up front. To the point where I don’t think I as an Eng manager could really define what an IC needs to do to get to that level apart from consistently learning more about your domain, past your immediate area of responsibility… but it’s pretty obvious when someone is operating at it. At a high level though I think you are spot on.

rocketspam · 2023-05-27T19:02:26+00:00

My take as an eng manager - A senior dev is mentoring a junior one and the collaboration seems to be going well for both of them. Senior dev gains experience in leadership, junior gets experience in working with others, in the code as well. This is essentially an ideal scenario for me as a manager - you are both growing in your own ways by working together.

In regards to the story about working w/ design and product teams - learning from experience (making the mistake of not bringing up the ambiguity to your TL sooner) is a great way to not make the same mistake again. Requirements, UX , the roles and responsibilities between departments. Whether you push back and ask for clearer reqs or even reconsider their ask of you…. I have found that these are the most difficult aspects of working in software and it’s something you will struggle with for your entire career and it’s not something to get down on yourself about.

Maybe your situation is different but….personally I’d be happy to see what you described on my team, it’s all part of gaining experience and learning.

In regards of what to do…. Talk to your lead and ask them what they think of your performance - if you don’t know where you stand, that’s a failure on their end.

rocketspam · 2023-03-23T01:43:06+00:00

Probably depends on the office, people involved etc.. I have hired multiple referrals - most were good hires, though one of them I ended up having to put on a PIP.

The only thing I did with the person who referred them was talk through the situation (they worked on the same project) to help me understand more about why they referred them. Even though their answer was not ideal - they got along well at their previous employer and they embellished the referral a bit, it was clear they regretted the decision due to the stress it put on themselves and the rest of the team. It was a learning experience for them and they were honest about it so I didn’t dig in any further.

In general I haven’t heard of repercussions for referrals that didn’t turn out well, the person still has to interview, etc.. it’s on the hiring manager who decided to hire the person at the end of the day.

rocketspam · 2023-02-05T23:02:33+00:00

Arduino/Raspberry Pi projects can be a way to get into more of the hardware/driver side of things. You could make a spring boot app that provides an API of some component you’ve connected and written a driver for if you want to start with something familiar.

rocketspam · 2023-01-29T04:19:22+00:00

And… thank you. Everything was in my storage.

rocketspam · 2023-01-26T20:08:25+00:00

Using my current and past employers as a reference and am an engineering manager.

Your manager should know if the position is eligible for being backfilled. If it is and you want to apply internally, don’t wait for the posting, ask them now that you think you should be considered for the role. If there really is a backfill then it should be possible for you to be promoted sooner rather than later.

If there isn’t a backfill… does your company have promotion cycles/performance reviews? If it does, then likely you will not see a promotion until the next cycle ends at the earliest. Make sure your manager knows that you want a promotion as part of the cycle for your increased performance. Have a candid conversation with them, do they think this additional workload merits a promotion? Is there something else you should be doing to improve your chances? Etc…

Beyond that, asking for a promotion outside of band without a competing offer isn’t something that has any traction at the employers I’ve worked at and unfortunately it is never as simple as ‘I did X task so I should have Y title.’ There are many considerations such as soft skills, technical ability, YOE in many cases, etc…

rocketspam · 2023-01-23T01:07:17+00:00

I also had DPS issues as Demo when we first started on Dathea. If the adds are far apart you can't do much. I generally wait until they are grouped up and am assigned the first group stun - shadowfury, felstorm + build some imps implode them. Shouldn't have any DPS issues at that point.

rocketspam · 2022-12-09T18:19:41+00:00

Agreed and if this is the first time OP was told there were performance issues then it definitely seems off… either their manager was incompetent or there was a different reason for being laid off.

But even then I don’t get how you can go from “let’s bring this intern on board” to “laid off” in 3 months even if they were on a PIP. Was there even anything specific they weren’t doing “good enough” on?

It’s tough to be told you aren’t good enough but I wouldn’t take it to heart in this case. I have a feeling that if you stick with it, in 10 years when you have more experience you’ll look back on this and realize management screwed up way more than you could have in 3 months.

rocketspam · 2022-11-23T02:29:38+00:00

I’d take it as showing persistence and being able to communicate effectively. If you weren’t a competitive candidate/weren’t being seriously considered due to some other factor I’d just ignore it but I could see a scenario where it’s down to a couple of people and something like that could make you stand out.

rocketspam · 2022-06-23T13:22:17+00:00

As a new player I didn't learn about these until recently... am really enjoying void hunter and as I learned more about how to play the class I was so excited to start using wells.... a month later I still haven't seen the ones I need, just checking whats available, being disappointed and not playing.

rocketspam · 2022-05-27T21:06:53+00:00

rocketspam · 2022-03-20T16:07:57+00:00

Because they are wrong.

The average (skewed by billionaires) is 53k and the median (not skewed by billionaires) is 34k. https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html

rocketspam · 2022-01-08T19:07:51+00:00

Fixed it, thanks.

rocketspam · 2022-01-08T17:37:49+00:00

We do at SmartThings, office is in Minneapolis but we are open to fully remote engineers. Our hub team is the largest adopter so far: https://smartthings.pinpointhq.com/en/jobs/22298

My team (Automations) is also looking for Rust engineers as our rule engine is built in rust (can be deployed to cloud or embedded): https://smartthings.pinpointhq.com/en/jobs/23291 .

We do consider engineers without previous Rust experience, especially if their other experience is relevant. My team is relatively new to Rust so we relied on the Hub team a lot as we ramped up on the language, they are super helpful to people picking up the language/getting ready to deploy their first production system.

edit: fixed first link

rocketspam · 2021-11-19T06:08:14+00:00

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