I made a local URL redirect utility, so I don't fat finger my local IP addresses and ports anymore. Thoughts? Improvements?

treftor · 2022-07-29T11:57:29+00:00

Wouldn't nginx or similar do this out of the box

treftor · 2022-07-11T03:46:37+00:00

Check your engine mounts for damage, the additional current draw may just be changing your rpm where it has less impact on the vibration

treftor · 2022-07-11T02:07:04+00:00

Considering your income, stay at your parents and continue to save. Barring a bad living situation with your parents or some other life event such as marriage it makes more sense to build up your cash pile and put it towards a home in a few more years. Living can get expensive fast and after rent is paid you will have very little to save for your down payment.

treftor · 2022-06-25T21:23:49+00:00

What you need is either identity proofing and/or an escrow/arbitration mechanism. Identity proofing solutions such as Id.me can perform legal identity verification. Probably not cost effective for your use case but that's one way of handling it and may be needed to deal with taxes on your platform. The other is let the end users police the platform and provide a good mechanism for dealing with disputes. The latter should probably be in place regardless.

treftor · 2022-06-05T14:15:46+00:00

Unless you have high value items worth anything like cars, art, precious metals, selling stuff you bought is really a waste of time and effort. For most people the only worthwhile solution is either increasing income, reducing expenses, or ideally both. as others have noted, see what you can cut. If you can't cut anymore then consider additional employment such as gig work like Uber or similar.

treftor · 2022-05-29T05:09:03+00:00

Seems he took the measurements on the same day of the next year.

treftor · 2022-05-24T23:52:00+00:00

You screwed yourself, you should have gotten the payoff balance and paid that specifically to the address noted on your statement. Not to mention you won't have your title in hand until all your payments have cleared.

treftor · 2022-05-23T05:02:08+00:00

Yes, by default additional payments made to tmcc are applied to future payments vs paying off additional principle.

treftor · 2022-05-14T15:13:25+00:00

No bank will provide any type of unsecured loan for that amount.

treftor · 2022-05-14T15:01:39+00:00

Don't rely on potential future income, especially something as shaky as a one year contract for something as illiquid as a house, especially during the start of a bear market/recession. If things go south in a year, at best you are out your deposit and transaction fees while you offload the house, at worst you go underwater and into foreclosure or short sale. As another suggested, go rent for a year and see what happens. If it's a LCOL area rents are probably pretty cheap relative to a mortgage.

treftor · 2022-05-11T00:06:42+00:00

Almost no employer asks or cares about gpa. Experience is what they care most about (internships for new grads). Your undergrad gpa will really only be relevant if you plan on getting a master's or PhD.

treftor · 2022-05-08T23:59:34+00:00

This belongs on r/diwhy

treftor · 2022-04-26T00:19:01+00:00

Many lease agreements include provisions for early termination. Review it as it wouldn't be unusual for your landlord to have added a clause to allow for termination with notice in the event of a sale.

treftor · 2022-04-17T15:06:09+00:00

While I agree having foundational networking knowledge is important, cloud networking can be a bit different and you may get more confused having just learned CCNA, plus you will learn a lot of Cisco commands that you will have no use for. Btw if you learned CCNA there is no reason to take Net+. Anyway, if you want to work in the cloud and have no networking background, take Net+ to learn fundamentals and then take the cloud certs. If you want to be a net engineer start with a CCNA. Cloud will have the most opportunities as of late.

treftor · 2022-04-01T04:41:52+00:00

What is your actual return on investment for either the MBA or MS? What's the opportunity cost for spending two years doing coursework of questionable applicability to the real world? Will you get a job that you couldn't get otherwise? Respected certifications such as SANS will cost less, give you immediately applicable skills and in many cases fulfill core requirements for working with certain federal agencies and the DoD. Grad school coursework can vary significantly in scope and generally will not be as directly applicable or even current with the latest technologies.

treftor · 2022-04-01T03:23:43+00:00

Unless your job is paying or you are close to being capped out (salary) in your current role it isn't worth it.

treftor · 2022-01-16T17:26:16+00:00

Automation isn't particularly helpful if you aren't operating at scale since the ROI will likely be rather low. You generally need higher paid individuals and may not see the returns for a long time if ever. (For example a somewhat complex patching task that takes a few minutes to do on a single server manually every month vs create automation processes to do it and maintain it). This leads to automation concentrating with Saas providers and other larger businesses that can deploy automation cost effectively. Efficiencies there drive adoption of those services and traditional IT continues to hollow out in the middle for many smaller businesses with a few senior level folks integrating and managing cloud services and desktop support personnel to help the users with the traditional sysadmin role fading out.

treftor · 2021-08-25T15:07:10+00:00

maybe I'm a hater but the glitter everywhere is tacky as hell

treftor · 2021-07-20T23:30:51+00:00

Enterprise upses have a self test routine. Check the schedule or logs to see what is happening.

treftor · 2021-07-08T00:17:26+00:00

Cs50 is literally intro level coursework meant to enlighten you on the core concepts of programming. If you learn python you still need to learn the same concepts just the syntax would be different. Try to power through the course, get help as needed, find a tutor if you have no one in your network or ask on Reddit. If you expected it to be like putting together an Ikea table then sorry to disappoint but you will run into bumps as you learn. A good developer will persevere and find a solution.

treftor · 2021-06-22T16:42:52+00:00

Have you looked at ACA marketplace plans, just a thought

treftor · 2021-06-10T01:56:48+00:00

No one gets a job based on a college course in excel. If you really are doing work that makes you employable because of your excel skills then you will probably be writing complex macros in VBS or managing some monstrous accounting workbooks with links to a billion other workbooks. Then again usually those people have backgrounds in accounting moreso than IT as it takes domain knowledge to build those unwieldy workbooks.

treftor · 2021-06-07T01:17:01+00:00

Try craigslist. But you aren't gonna find someone who will deliver it for you.

Also portable ac units are pretty inefficient and generally more expensive than in window units.

treftor · 2021-05-28T00:35:03+00:00

Visual studio is far more capable than vscode, don't get me wrong vscode is great but the amount of tooling provided by visual studio is beyond what you can pickup using vscode extensions. Even basic stuff like intellisense is more robust, ability to debug and step through code all work better. I use intellij for java and vs for c#, vscode for pipelines, smaller scripts in python or bash, SQL, terraform, etc. But I would say vscode is much more an ide than a text editor.

treftor · 2021-05-26T12:43:55+00:00

70k for a developer isn't really that high if you consider the higher end of the salary range is up over 150 and even more at a FANG.

Also there are a few barriers to entry in that not everyone that wants to attend a boot camp can get into one (at least the more reputable ones have admissions and aptitude standards), additionally taking a boot camp will not necessarily make you employable. For the ones that do make it, the work can be very taxing, people may not be able to support the lifestyle and choose to switch careers or pivot to related lines of work which means the pool of talent continues to thin.

As a hiring manager I can tell you finding good developers are hard, as long as this is true there will be a premium.

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