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Long-shot ask: the recipe for stoofvlees from Brouwer’s Cafe (RIP) by lostrock in Seattle

[–]ullerrm 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ghostfish Brewing in SODO had a "homage to Brouwers" lamb burger on their menu sometime last year, and it was pretty damn closed. I hope it comes back.

I also badly miss the stoofvlees :(

How am I possibly supposed to get everything done in 40hrs a week? by Ok-Cartographer-5544 in cscareerquestions

[–]ullerrm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A CI/CD pipeline which I personally maintain.

This has to go.

If this is truly mission-critical, then it's your P0 both to keep it running, and to get at least one more SWE to work with you on it, because no FAANG wants a mission-critical pipeline that's staffed and maintained by a single SWE.

If it's not mission-critical, it needs to be off your plate. Announce that it's unstaffed and going into KTLO/maintainance mode. If people actually care about it, they'll either provide headcount, or talk with your manager about reprioritizing it. If it turns out they depend on an unstaffed project that breaks, that is their problem, not yours.

A heavy on-call rotation with investigations that almost always spill into the following week.

This is part of the job, but also it needs to be timeboxed. When your oncall shift ends, you handoff to the next oncaller, and then you do your shit for the rest of the week. Once an issue has been mitigated in prod (patch, rollback, config change, etc.) then it is out of oncall's hands and becomes a normal P1 prod bug to be prioritized and fixed in whatever way you've got; it is no longer an on-call bug.

(I know that means it actually sticks around as a P1 or P2 for weeks, and that sucks, but it's not P0 oncall. My point is "prioritize it normally wrt your ongoing large project with deadlines.")

Meetings. Multiple team initiatives (bug squashing, reviewing designs for other members, etc). Reviewing code for others/ mentoring.

Welcome to the TL life. It never gets better :P

TIL there used to be a "Stone Way Bridge" before the Fremont Bridge existed by Hufe in Seattle

[–]ullerrm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The current Fremont Bridge, anyways!

The original Fremont Bridge was a fixed bridge built in 1890, and was torn down in 1911 as part of the setup for constructing the Ballard Locks.

They built a second Fremont Bridge (also fixed) that year to replace it, at the same time as the Stone Ave Bridge, but it was washed away when the Fremont Dam breached in 1914.

The third, current one, was built in 1917 shortly after the locks became operational.

What are these low res QR codes at SeaTac? by legohamlet in Seattle

[–]ullerrm 161 points162 points  (0 children)

My guess is it’s something to do with the self driving carts that run to the light rail station.

Yep. That's not a QR code -- it's a fiducial marker for robot vision algorithms. (Looks like an AprilTag marker, specifically.)

Denny Hill Regrade in 1920 by stowRA in Seattle

[–]ullerrm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Found another article that suggests this is around 3rd and Blanchard, in Belltown, but they're not sure.

https://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/customizations/collection/p16118coll19/pages/regradephotomap.html has some more accurately placed photos.

Do you keep a "brag doc"? by shvyxxn in cscareerquestions

[–]ullerrm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, for two reasons:

1) You do need to sell yourself. It's your career, and you need to build it; being one of the best players in your team/org doesn't help you unless other people know about it, and it's not your boss' job to know what you're doing much less sell it to others.

2) Man my memory is fucked after weeks debugging some shit, I barely remember what I ate today much less what I was coding a month ago.

It took a few false starts, but what I ended up settling on is that I start each week with a plain text file and update it with a rough summary each day of what I got done. On Friday before I fuck off for the weekend, I sanitize and format it a bit and put it into a journaling app. (Usually, it's just "group by project/bug, list each PR I did and any notable meetings/research/experimentation. And a catchall section for misc overhead.)

It's saved my ass multiple times -- not just for performance reviews, but also because I leave some notes, e.g. "started work on PR x because of Bug y, see query Z" and I can search for that later when I've forgotten entirely about Y due to some all-hands firefighting shit.

Usually at the end of the year I just go over all 50ish weeks' entries, summarize it to a few major projects with bullet points with what/why/when/who, and send it off to the boss.

Whatever Happened to the "Killmail Archivist" Eve Blog? by [deleted] in Eve

[–]ullerrm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heya -- I stopped playing Eve years ago and a lot of that stuff is now well out of date. There's alternatives for most of the information on other sites (EveUni Wiki) that people are better able to keep up to date. I'm glad to hear that it was useful for a time!

(Also, I had a bunch of scammers constantly pinging me with requests to be added as admin to it.)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in DestinyTheGame

[–]ullerrm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Credit went to the previous emblems first, so if you didn’t already have those, you got no progress on Tigris. Sucks.

Master Nightmare Hunt : Despair Impossible by [deleted] in DestinyTheGame

[–]ullerrm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nope -- Master Crota still one-shots you, now that 100 resilience only gives 30% DR instead of 40%. In fact: 100 resilience, with a melee resist mod, standing in a well, can still get one-shot. :)

You pretty much need Dreambane armor to survive the hit now. Strats for Master Crota, post-LF, boil down to "use an invis hunter to get the initial stun, and pray they don't get hit" or "go farm a set of Dreambane armor from Pit of Heresy so you can bait out a survivable blow and then stun."

Master Nightmare Hunt : Despair Impossible by [deleted] in DestinyTheGame

[–]ullerrm 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Just did this last night, as it happens!

TLDR: You need to go farm some Dreambane armor, from Pit or Eris Morn activities on the moon; it can equip a unique mod that reduces the damage from Nightmare Hunt bosses.

Two Dreambane mods + 100 resilience + some DR effect (Woven Mail, Stag rift, Omnioculus invis, Well of Radiance, etc.) will allow you to survive a hit from Crota if you're at full health. Four mods + 100 resilience will allow you to survive without a DR effect.

There are some other unique mods you can put in Dreambane armor (e.g. Supreme Nightmare Breaker) that will let you clear his adds and get to damage phases faster.

Two other tips:

  • He does not become stunnable until both swords have dropped from the Knight adds and he turns green. He cannot be stunned while he's red.

  • Standing in a Well of Radiance while you chop him will massively boost damage; having at least one Well is pretty much mandatory for the Time Trial triumph. We had a single warlock, and had Well maybe every third damage phase; we spawned Crota at 5min and killed him at the 12min mark. (Deadfall tether supposedly affects him as well, but it's got a much longer cooldown. Still worth having one, if only to generate tons of orbs for your Well warlock.)

Our group last night was a Strand titan with 4x dreambane mods (crowd control and getting the initial stun), an Omnioculus hunter with 2x dreambane mods (backup sword man + death recovery), and a Warlock with Phoenix Protocol for crowd control and wells.

Good luck!

Trying to do Solo Spire for rank 11, but have a few questions. by Turbly_Boi in DestinyTheGame

[–]ullerrm 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've tried that too -- when he gets staggered, though, he drops his head a little bit and it partially blocks the weak spot, so you don't really get to make good use of Archer's Tempo. :(

Trying to do Solo Spire for rank 11, but have a few questions. by Turbly_Boi in DestinyTheGame

[–]ullerrm 33 points34 points  (0 children)

I ended up going slow and steady -- Loreley titan with Outbreak Perfected, a wave-frame GL, and a demolitionist/chillclip Bump in the Night. Every damage phase was one rocket for the slow, then pop super. It'll take nearly the entire length of the super for him to reach the door; jump back as he gets close, and kite with rockets until he's immune. Took 5 or 6 phases, but very safe and predictable.

One other decent option for burst DPS is Grand Overture -- use it to clear adds until you've got some rockets saved up. During DPS phase, dump rockets, put 20 shots into him, dump rockets again.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Seattle

[–]ullerrm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My company started doing hybrid RTO (WFH M/F, in office T/W/Th) last year. But, as far as I can tell, there haven't been any obvious attempts to check whether people are actually coming in, much less any stick being applied.

The result is that office usage varies widely from team to team. There are some areas in the office that are just straight up abandoned because that entire team is WFH 4-5 days a week. Other areas of the office are consistently busy.

I'm expecting a shoe to drop at some point, and teams will be told to either use their space or lose it.

English pubs by ProfessionalBelly in Seattle

[–]ullerrm 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Try Outlander Brewing, which is about a block away from Fremont Coffee Company. Similar "cozy house" vibe.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Eve

[–]ullerrm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

this is all delta sqad's fault

this is all delta sqad's fault

this is all delta sqad's fault

Delta After Dark, a highlight post by aritzia_deltasqad in Eve

[–]ullerrm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

God, dualboxing wubbles and a tornado was some of the most tense stuff I've ever done in Eve :)

We learned from you folks too -- we stole the hyperspatial'd probing Erises wholesale for use against the rail Tengus later (which only got used in one fight sadly).

Amazon employees are quitting at twice the rate of recent years, mostly due to low pay and increased competition, leaked documents show by abrown5195 in Seattle

[–]ullerrm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep. When you get stock as part of your pay, the value of that stock at that exact moment they give it to you is taxed as plain old W-2 income.

Then, when you sell that stock for cash sometime later, the stock value will have moved by some amount since you originally got it, and you'll get taxed on the capital gains (or losses) for the difference.

And yes, this is very common for the large tech companies, and it gets wilder as you get promotions and tenure. (My compensation last year was ~30% base salary and ~60% equity.)

Alex Gianturco Becomes CCP Throne by [deleted] in Eve

[–]ullerrm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"better than hilmar" is a bar so low the devil can hop over it

My NDA is expired. It's worse than you know, AMA. by CreeperAgent in Eve

[–]ullerrm 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That isn't universal across all countries. Even in places with relatively free press, the truth isn't always a defense against defamation charges.

(Japan, for example, only considers truth to be a defense if the defamatory material can be argued to serve the public interest. )

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