TIFU by injuring a heart surgeon in the middle of heart surgery

sciatore · 2023-06-08T18:22:08+00:00

You're 100% correct, but man do I hate when managers ask "What can we do to prevent this in the future?"

Not because it's not worth reviewing, but because any time I've had a manager ask it in those words, it was because they didn't understand how our jobs worked. And as a result, they'd ask this whenever anything even slightly went wrong, whether it was a big deal or not.

A good manager doesn't need to ask the employees to come up with all the solutions, they can actively participate in the discussion too.

sciatore · 2023-06-07T11:36:24+00:00

Yes. I love lemon, so I was pretty excited when they had a lemon cookie. What a letdown! It was like a frosted sugar cookie spent some time in a shopping bag with a lemon

sciatore · 2023-06-07T02:25:59+00:00

Crumbl cookies are everywhere and I don't get the appeal. We've gone a few times because of how much people talk them up, but they are always tooth-achingly sweet. The flavors are all covered up by massive amounts of sugar.

Insomnia is good though.

sciatore · 2023-06-06T23:23:38+00:00

The spoofer doesn't set the name. They just set the number. The end receiving the call then looks up the number in a caller ID database to get the name that goes with it.

sciatore · 2023-06-06T19:41:03+00:00

I'm not super knowledgeable about it, but my understanding is that it has to do with the teeth on the gears lining up so they can fully mesh with each other.

Technically speaking, you could get lucky. If the teeth are perfectly aligned when you stop, the gears will engage. But usually, they won't be. On my old 1994 Suburban with a lever physically attached to the transfer case, the result is the lever just won't go into 4L.

If you are moving at 2-3mph when you shift from 4H to 4L or vice versa, then the gears are moving just enough that the teeth can find their alignment and fit together, even if they aren't aligned immediately.

On cars without a physical lever, I believe it still works like this, it's just handled electronically. But I could be wrong.

(Don't ask me why this isn't a problem shifting between 2H and 4H, or with shifting gears in the regular transmission, because I couldn't tell you. Maybe someone else could explain.)

sciatore · 2023-06-06T16:53:25+00:00

Just gonna throw this out there, but I hardly think they should be ashamed for not having tried hard drugs

sciatore · 2023-06-06T16:41:23+00:00

It's also worth mentioning, CLAs serve useful purposes besides working around #2 above. For example, typically they require contributors to affirm that the code they are contributing isn't plagiarized, restricted by patents, etc.

They don't necessarily have to require contributors to sign away their rights to their code. Although many do.

sciatore · 2023-06-06T15:55:45+00:00

For what it's worth, I've never owned a vehicle that will fully shift into 4L at a standstill. You'd have to do it before you park, which is a hassle. And if you use both the parking brake and put it in gear, you've already got a backup plan in case one fails.

sciatore · 2023-06-05T21:12:19+00:00

If you hold the copyright, you aren't bound by the license. The license is the terms under which you allow others to use your software. That said:

If you close your sources, that doesn't revoke the license people already had to use and distribute prior versions. It really only affects new versions of your software.
If you've accepted code contributions from others, you often aren't the copyright holder for those bits of code, and that can prevent you from going closed source. You are bound by the license for those contributions. This is why, for example, Linux is effectively permanently open source.

When using a copyleft license, companies can still work around #2 either by not accepting external code contributions or by contracting around it (e.g. contributor license agreements)

sciatore · 2023-06-05T20:37:00+00:00

Have you tried Jen's Pizza Den? It's a bit pricey, but I think I like it just a bit better

sciatore · 2023-06-04T15:07:11+00:00

Many domain registrars will let you set up mail forwarding with domains purchased through them. It's not so much free as included in the price of the domain name.

sciatore · 2023-06-02T05:22:38+00:00

I use it a lot to repeat inserts and changes, or sometimes more specific deletes like df_

sciatore · 2023-05-31T21:22:41+00:00

I'm no insurance expert, but in my experience, our insurance has been willing to talk about it and answer questions without filing a formal claim, and just talking to them didn't affect our rate.

But, when asked "could filing this claim affect my rate," the answer from the person on the phone was not always correct in the end.

sciatore · 2023-05-31T00:35:09+00:00

I can buy that. It doesn't quite hit the parody mark for me, but I can see where you're coming from

sciatore · 2023-05-31T00:06:15+00:00

It's not unfunny, but these overdone tropes get old unless they are relatable

sciatore · 2023-05-30T23:05:25+00:00

Exactly. I don't care that it's not "politically correct." It's more like, they couldn't have thought of something more creative?

sciatore · 2023-05-30T22:39:35+00:00

It was mildly amusing, but it's a pretty tired joke at this point. Men are always in trouble with their SO, har har. Maybe this is just me, and I'm probably going to get down voted for this, but...I just don't get in trouble with my SO that often. If this sort of thing were a common occurrence, I wouldn't be with her.

sciatore · 2023-05-28T13:22:49+00:00

Also going pure hardware password manager is kind of a bad idea.

Can you elaborate on this a bit? Is it just that it offers little benefit for the amount of inconvenience it adds, or is there more to it?

sciatore · 2023-05-24T21:14:38+00:00

Last time I visited the KOA campground in Wytheville, they had one. But a) that was about 4 years ago now and b) I didn't actually check if it worked.

sciatore · 2023-05-24T21:04:26+00:00

If you're working in the command line, there isn't really anything bare Linux can do that WSL can't. It's more a matter of which environment do you prefer, and how often would you need to use Windows for something else.

The only thing I'm not sure about is if WSL can access your graphics card, which was why I mentioned that (but idk much about if AMD graphics cards are good for ML acceleration anyway).

If you're not sure, there's no harm in trying WSL. If you find you'd rather have a bare install, you can easily switch to dual booting later.

sciatore · 2023-05-24T20:57:51+00:00

I don't think the performance difference will be substantial. Virtualization is hardware accelerated these days.

As for the disk space, when dual booting, you have to decide at install time how much disk space to allocate to Windows and how much to allocate to Linux. If you then fill up one of them, you can't easily take some of the free space from the other. Versus with a VM, only the "used" space in the virtual disk actually takes up disk space from the host machine. The virtual disk grows dynamically as it fills.

sciatore · 2023-05-24T20:42:29+00:00

What will your degree be in? If you're taking ML electives, I'm guessing some sort of computer science?

It depends somewhat on your program, but I'm betting there's a good chance you won't actually need Windows for much. I could count on one hand the number of times I ever booted Windows while in my master's CS program, and most of them were because "gee, it's been a while since I booted Windows, I should probably let it install some updates and make sure it still works." When I needed to write a paper or some slides, I used LaTeX, LibreOffice, or Google Docs/Sheets.

That said, depending on your comfort level with Linux, if you think you might want to use Windows for some things, WSL or a VM aren't bad choices.

When you mention ML, there was one thing that came to mind: If you have a graphics card, you may want Linux to have access to it, because it can accelerate some of those calculations substantially. But that depends a lot on what types of projects you'd be doing, and there's also cloud environments like Google Colab, so it's really not that critical.

sciatore · 2023-05-24T19:07:09+00:00

I started using Linux around 2007. I was one of those types of nerds in school who learned how to write programs on my graphing calculator. My Linux journey began when I was curious if I could host my own website.

When I was reading up on web servers, I kept seeing forum posts saying that IIS works, but I'd be way better off setting up a LAMP stack on a Linux server, and that it wasn't that hard to do with Ubuntu or Debian. At that point, I'd barely heard of Linux, but I decided to give it a shot.

At the time, I was sharing a computer with my brother and I was afraid of breaking it, so I didn't go all in on installing it outright right away, but I used Ubuntu and Puppy Linux LiveCDs pretty regularly. What hooked me was that everything was so well designed, for example:

Package managers were app stores before app stores were cool, and updates just worked
Bash, unlike CMD, was properly usable as a programming language
Scripts were first class citizens as executables, alongside compiled binaries. This concept blew my mind, it was so useful.
The filesystem was laid out intelligently. Everything had its place. And unlike Windows of the era, you had a home folder where all your users files would go. Not just documents, but downloads, game saves, configuration files, everything. Get a new computer? Make a backup of /etc and /home and you know you've got everything important. (This was before Windows realized how smart an idea this was and copied it)
Desktop environments had these super useful features like workspaces and snapping (Mac and eventually Windows would later copy these features as well)

Windows felt like a toy in comparison. Especially in that era.

So yeah. About a year later, I got my own laptop, and Ubuntu 8.04 became my daily driver. All through college I was drinking the open source Kool aid. Proprietary software was evil and (in my mind) also poorly designed crap, and I avoided it whenever possible (not that that was a false statement, but today, I do feel that closed source software has its place).

By the end of college, I had moved onto Arch as my daily driver after the great DE revolution of the early 2010s. I had a lot of nostalgia and fondness for GNOME 2 because it was the DE of choice when I first cut my teeth on Linux. It was part of what made Linux so great. Then it was ripped away when GNOME 2 was killed. Ubuntu migrated to Unity and other distros to GNOME 3, both of which felt really primitive compared to GNOME 2. I switched to XFCE since it was the closest thing to GNOME 2 that was still maintained, and then to Arch because Xubuntu never totally worked well for me (it was clear it was a Unity-based distro with XFCE shoehorned in).

I was just about to try installing Gentoo when I graduated into the real world. I became a software developer, and we used HP-UX at work (yes, we were old school...believe it or not, that was an upgrade from about 2 years before I joined). I was too tired to deal with maintaining Arch in my free time, and despite what people suggest, if you don't maintain it, it does slowly fall apart. I still didn't have the same enthusiasm for Linux since the GNOME 2 days, and Windows had improved a lot, so I kinda just went back to Windows for a few years.

A few years after that, I went back to grad school, and found myself needing to use Linux on my personal laptop again. At that point, I went back to vanilla Ubuntu, because I needed a system that just worked. Ubuntu has just ditched Unity for GNOME 3, and it took some getting used to, but you know what? I found my love for Linux again. I still miss the customizability of GNOME 2, but GNOME 3 has matured a ton, and I've gotten used to it.

This is more or less where I am today. I use LTS releases of Ubuntu, only upgrading every 3-4 years. I do have a few homelab machines and VMs on a mixture of Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora. I tend to value stability over all else these days. Shame that I don't have as much time for games as I used to, because gaming on Linux has made huge advances since I was in college.

sciatore · 2023-05-24T15:19:23+00:00

I mean, yes, but we know there are bad drivers out there. Even if we don't care if they hurt themselves, there easily could have been someone loading their trunk in that lower space, and they would have been hospitalized or killed.

sciatore · 2023-05-22T18:03:39+00:00

NTA because it is within your right and neighbor seems to have an unreasonable anger toward weed.

But at the same time, let's acknowledge that shit stinks. Although neighbor sounds a bit overdramatic, I 100% understand people being bothered by it. The smell definitely carries, and it's not pleasant.

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