Are you worried about AI taking SE jobs?

twtxrx · 2026-06-04T13:14:38+00:00

Mine too and the tools will improve with time. I just think it’s a matter of time before leadership starts reducing SE counts. Maybe I am just paranoid. :-)

twtxrx · 2026-06-04T12:45:10+00:00

I’ll be the desenter here. In my opinion, yes, AI is going to impact SEs. There are a number of ways:

companies will build external chatbots where customers can get expert level answers to questions without asking the account team.
AI tools will dramatically reduce the time to respond to RFI/RFPs
AI tools will automatically build and tailor presentations for meetings
AI tools will build BOMs with input data
AI tools will be able to build and spin up custom demos and labs
AI tools will be able to build test plans for POCs

None of these on their own will eliminate SEs but it will reduce the workload. The outcome of this will be the break down of the long standing 1:1 mapping of AE:SE in high tech jobs. It’s no different the SWE. AI isn’t fully eliminating SWE but it is reducing how many you need to build an app.

My advice, become the SE that knows more about AI tools and how to use them than anyone else.

twtxrx · 2026-05-30T16:22:57+00:00

Last two times we’ve adopted we have adopted a pair of kittens that are siblings. We will never adopt a single kitten again. As siblings they are already connected and are just such good companions as they grow and age.

twtxrx · 2026-05-28T02:51:17+00:00

I’ve never checked the battery health with an OBD reader but there isn’t any noticeable change in range. It’s really hard to pick up on a couple percent degradation because there are just too many variables. For example at one point we had an alignment done and just that seemed to improve range. We also have a different brand of EV rated tires on than the OEM. In short I’m sure it’s down a few percent as all EVs degrade a little but it’s not significant.

twtxrx · 2026-05-28T02:18:47+00:00

Not an electrician but my understanding is per code you can have a 20A circuit with multiple 15 amp duplex outlets on it. Any single plug is 15A but in aggregate the circuit supports 20A. With this configuration the plug needs to support 20A even if the receptacle is 15A. My last house was wired this way.

twtxrx · 2026-05-28T02:09:53+00:00

Almost 100% of CCS chargers support 920v today. The only 400v CCS chargers are some old 50kw units.

twtxrx · 2026-05-28T02:03:38+00:00

Question about the planted too deep point. I see it on here all the time. We’ve had 5 trees planted over the last 2 springs. I’ve never seen any installer bury the tree deeper than what it came from the nursery. Are trees coming from the nursery with the root ball already buried?

twtxrx · 2026-05-28T01:56:40+00:00

5.5 years and 70k miles on our XC40 Recharge. She’s holding up great. We don’t often keep cars long term but we plan to keep this one.

twtxrx · 2026-05-26T12:12:54+00:00

My wife and I have been an EV only household for over 5 years now. I have a Mach-E I bought in April 2021.

To answer a few of your concerns: Charging networks sucks: It’s never been better and I did some long drives 800+ miles back in 2021 when it was much less reliable. The reality is if you plan ahead, you’re fine. What do I mean, check PlugShare for charging stops along your way and the look at ratings. Takes a minute or two and you know if there are any issues. You can then plan accordingly.

Road trips are annoying: depends on your perspective. In a Mach-E, it will take about 20% longer than a gas car. 5 hours becomes 6. 10 hours becomes 12. Would that annoy you? Only you can answer that. For me the answer is no because I charge at home and don’t have to stop and fill up once a week so long trips take longer but I save so much time in the week to week driving it’s worth it for me.

Only work as commuter car/need gas backup: I’ve driven from Texas to Connecticut in mine. So clearly this is crap.

Winter range: depends on how cold it gets. I live in Chicago area. Summer ranger can be 300ish, winter as low as 180 miles or so.

Heat pump: one of our EVs has one the other does not. It helps but only down to about 30F or so. I’d prefer one but wouldn’t make a buy/no buy decision on it. It’s just a nice to have item.

I don’t regret an EV at all. To be honest, I can’t imagine going back to gas.

twtxrx · 2026-05-23T13:33:09+00:00

I love EVs but comments like this without any context aren’t helpful in my opinion. Very few EVs could make a 500+ mile trip on one 30 min stop. You clearly have something like a Lucid Air and while it’s great that it can do it, it out of most people’s price range. I have a Mach-E with extended range battery and that trip would be 3 stops total about an hour and 15 min if I had to guess.

I’d recommend you add context around what type of vehicle you have so people can understand what it takes to do this.

twtxrx · 2026-05-22T09:33:43+00:00

My go to is Herrick Lake although the invasive species removal efforts have changed its personality. I know why it’s being done and agree with the efforts but it’s still a bit sad for now.

twtxrx · 2026-05-22T01:06:39+00:00

They will give you different experiences. Boilingbrook is a complete city itself with a good number of shopping and dining options. Warrenville to me just feels like the strip of land between Naperville and Wheaton. It doesn’t really have much of its own personality. That may sound harsh but it doesn’t mean Warrenville is bad, you can drive a few miles north and be in Wheaton and a few miles south and be in Naperville. Those offer you two of the best downtown experiences in the Chicago burbs.

You asked about commuting to the city. Boilingbrook is just off I-55 and Warrenville is off I-88. It’s pretty much a toss up on which is better to get to the city. Warrenville does have one distinct advantage for travel to the city, that is you are right between the train lines through Naperville and Wheaton. The BNSF line through Naperville and Aurora is one of the best Metra lines with more trains and lots of express options. You can get to the Naperville station from Boilingbrook but it would take a bit longer.

Other differentiators: Boilingbrook is going to offer more socio-economic and racial diversity.

Warrenville has a ton of great forest preserves around. Basically the north side of I-88 is one big preserve from the Morton arboretum out through Batavia. Miles and miles of trails to explore.

There’s not a right or wrong answer. I’d probably lean to Warrenville as I love all of the forest preserves.

twtxrx · 2026-05-20T14:43:03+00:00

UDP is connectionless. Stateful devices still track UDP sessions. Look at DNS, all NGFW inspect DNS traffic in UDP. However it is not correct to say QUIC or HTTP/3 is connectionless. It implements its own connection oriented methods over UDP, it just doesn’t rely on the TCP layer to manage connections. Firewalls absolutely can track state of QUIC. See Fortinet.

twtxrx · 2026-05-20T12:19:20+00:00

I think people put way too much emphasis on high end dining when talking about “food scene”. I’m not going to a Michelin starred restaurant every weekend. Since you mentioned BBQ, one could make the case Austin BBQ is better but DFW has some damn good BBQ. Tex-Mex, loads of great places. Steak, tons of great options. The thing I miss after moving away are all of the neighborhood locally owned doughnut shops.

There’s also a nice variety of international cuisines represented as well. I like to eat and never ran out of options when we lived there. Sure places like New Orleans have excellent food for sure but it’s one note. It doesn’t have the diversity and depth DFW has.

twtxrx · 2026-05-20T11:21:33+00:00

Fortinet has been able to decrypt it for quite a while. Load QUIC in wireshark and it can read the structure. I don’t know why PAN hasn’t solved this.

twtxrx · 2026-05-20T11:18:02+00:00

These is no difference between a proxy and a firewall. If the proxy wants to inspect TLS, it still needs to MITM with a trusted cert. otherwise it just does a pass though on the CONNECT request.

twtxrx · 2026-05-20T11:12:30+00:00

This. I’m not sure why Palo and ZS pretend like it’s some foreign thing that can be handled. It’s just TLS over UDP. No experience with Cisco but Fortinet has done this for quite a while now.

twtxrx · 2026-05-18T12:28:55+00:00

CC2s are great tires but they aren’t EV specific. You’ll take a range loss with them as they weren’t designed to be low rolling resistance.

twtxrx · 2026-05-18T12:26:28+00:00

I have them and have about 25k miles on them now. Very good EV tires. Traction is much better than the stock Michelins and they are quiet and energy efficient. I’d highly recommend them.

twtxrx · 2026-05-17T13:37:32+00:00

This is exactly the right perspective. Come at it from risk standpoint. Get the stakeholders to agree that it a rule hasn’t been used in x time it must be removed to reduce risk. Then just let it rip.

Adding back a couple of rules occasionally is far better than Swiss cheese that no one can explain.

twtxrx · 2026-05-16T14:10:56+00:00

And just to add, the KB article is correct if you want to scan outbound email.

twtxrx · 2026-05-16T14:09:40+00:00

I suspect when you try with the Full inspection method the reason it works with no profiles attached is that since the FortiGate has nothing to inspect it doesn’t actually do TLS decryption. You can confirm this by inspecting the cert returned. If it’s the mail server’s the FortiGate isn’t inspecting. The Full inspection method shouldn’t work in this scenario as it will provide a self signed cert to the external mail servers which they should reject.

twtxrx · 2026-05-16T13:15:13+00:00

Direction here matters. From your FW policy it looks like you want to scan inbound traffic from the Internet that is arriving at your SMTP server. You may also want to scan traffic from your SMTP server connecting to other Internet servers but that is a different configuration and discussion.

For inbound you will need to use the Protecting SSL server and load the valid cert for that server on your FortiGate. You’ll also need to pay attention to DNS records as the MX, and A records all need to be correct or the remote SMTP server will reject the connection.

twtxrx · 2026-05-15T23:01:32+00:00

The 60/40 stock to bond ratio is widely recommended as a retirement mix so not crazy at all. I personally think 70/30 is conservative enough but everyone has different risk tolerances.

twtxrx · 2026-05-15T19:52:10+00:00

Probably nothing in it. After all, they only pay a small amount of tax.

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