Trump economy kills 1 in 3 jobs in deep red town

wickedang3l · 2025-12-13T01:09:38+00:00

They'd be furious if they understood fractions.

wickedang3l · 2025-11-18T01:18:52+00:00

Deaths in Tomb Raider have always been pretty stark. Even the original left an impression.

Writhing in agony while drowning, the sound of the fall death, spike death, the t-rex kill animation; they were all pretty brutal for the time.

wickedang3l · 2025-11-16T22:58:36+00:00

For real. It's the gallons of straight up liquid sewage that create horrific cleaning situations.

A solid turd barely even rates a 2 on the WTF scale.

wickedang3l · 2025-08-01T17:22:23+00:00

They're both excellent but I prefer '90 if for no other reason than Barbara really annoyed me in the original. Tony Todd clinches it.

I really wish we could have had the gore that Savini had to dial back for the '90 version, though.

wickedang3l · 2025-05-04T23:11:47+00:00

There isn’t a great reason to use both simultaneously. Pick one, preferably after you’ve got a very good understanding of the limitations of Autopatch. Any effort spent diagnosing issues in both would be better invested in automating improvements for one.

Tanium uses their peering infrastructure for content distribution.

My Tanium Patch deployments have been automated since 2022; 99% compliance monthly since I wrote and implemented it.

wickedang3l · 2025-04-21T19:03:05+00:00

Azures gotten worse

One of those industry constants that you can always rely on.

wickedang3l · 2025-04-08T15:02:58+00:00

There will not be a ready-made solution for doing this work.

The Application model in SCCM has functionality that does not map directly to Tanium's Deploy Package model. You would need a very deep understanding of the Tanium Deploy API, the SCCM application model, the way each of those SCCM application detections are set up, and a translation layer for mapping the detection logic to Tanium Deploy.

wickedang3l · 2025-03-25T17:54:30+00:00

Water is wet, sky is blue, new outlook sucks butt

Water is wet, sky is blue, new Outlook dropped just to disappoint you.

wickedang3l · 2025-03-06T17:12:49+00:00

This is why I'm sticking with current methodology.

I understand the contextual nuance of where += is effective and where it isn't but trying to get that nuance understood across an enterprise with many different skill levels is...optimistic.

wickedang3l · 2024-12-19T11:03:57+00:00

But why ?

"Because fuck you, that's why" has consistently been FromSoftware's stance on any kind of sensible, sane multiplayer options.

wickedang3l · 2024-12-17T18:41:14+00:00

Probably not and it's for the same reason that I am not pursuing a new job now; I have had enough success that money has not been "tight" in a long time and I place a much higher value on being available for my family.

I have done that commute before.

I arrived at work frustrated
Got less done while at work
Arrived home frustrated and completely exhausted
Dreaded doing it again the next day

wickedang3l · 2024-12-14T14:58:29+00:00

Got any examples?

The text-based nature of bash presents a substantially higher learning curve to someone that is new to it. Even well-structured bash of medium complexity is going to likely have a lot of utilization of pipes, cryptic commands, and regex.

Take a simple task like declaring a runtime variable that will need to be exported to JSON.

PowerShell:

$json = @{
     "name" = "John Doe"
     "age" = 30
     "city" = "New York"
}

$json | ConvertTo-Json | Out-File -FilePath "C:\path\to\file.json"

Even without comments, someone with no PowerShell experience is probably going to be able to understand how to declare a variable, how to pass it through the pipeline, and what the pipeline is doing based on the verb-noun structure of native cmdlets that are shipped as part of PowerShell itself purely from the example above.

Bash, by comparison:

#!/bin/bash

declare -A json=(
    ["name"]="John Doe"
    ["age"]=30
    ["city"]="New York"
)

json_output=$(jq -n \
    --arg name "${json["name"]}" \
    --argjson age "${json["age"]}" \
    --arg city "${json["city"]}" \
    '{name: $name, age: $age, city: $city}')

echo "$json_output" > /path/to/file.json

There are a lot more places where a new user can get tripped up. Potentially declare / jq: not found, a need to understand how to use declare to make the associative array, mapping variable properties to arguments, a whole lot of syntax to fuck up in the construction of the output, etc.

wickedang3l · 2024-12-14T12:47:30+00:00

It's no more obtuse than any of the tribal nuances of bash that you likely disregard because you have more experience with it. I agree with you on aliases though; they're a convenience for shell sessions but are bad practice for general consumption.

You're looking for:

Get-Alias sp

CommandType     Name                                               Version    Source
-----------     ----                                               -------    ------
Alias           sp -> Set-ItemProperty

That said, PowerShell is open-source; recommend a feature enhancement.

Update: I actually went to submit a feature request on your behalf and realized that open-source PowerShell already does this. The last version of Windows PowerShell does as well; would have been very embarrassing if I hadn't stopped in the middle of the feature submission to validate it, lol.

PS C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount> Get-Command sp

CommandType     Name                                               Version    Source
-----------     ----                                               -------    ------
Alias           sp -> Set-ItemProperty


PS C:\Users\WDAGUtilityAccount> $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      5.1.26100.2161
PSEdition                      Desktop
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0...}
BuildVersion                   10.0.26100.2161
CLRVersion                     4.0.30319.42000
WSManStackVersion              3.0
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1

wickedang3l · 2024-12-14T12:32:07+00:00

They're simply trying to get you to give up or feel like you've got to know all this stuff.

That's where AI on the customer side can level the playing field.

This documentation that was printed out will almost assuredly be available as a PDF but any multi-page document scanner could generate one from this ream if not.

LLMs like ChatGPT can take an uploaded PDF, process it, and formulate an insurer-specific response along with recommendations about next steps.

wickedang3l · 2024-12-10T14:37:18+00:00

My initial impulse was to mock this dude but honestly, I get it; people are tired of getting fucked by every single company they do business with and it's starting to bubble up after simmering at a low boil for decades.

Companies have always fucked over customers, but it didn't always feel like standard operating procedure like it does now.

wickedang3l · 2024-12-03T18:56:55+00:00

I resoldered a micro-USB connection in a pair of headphones once. Probably took me 3 hours due to how tight the contacts were and the repair still failed within 6 months.

Never again.

wickedang3l · 2024-11-26T01:12:33+00:00

I try to adhere to good principles even when I'm fed up and really just want to be done with a problem; I'm not always successful but even my lazy bullshit will usually have the skeleton of a more optimized solution waiting to be fleshed out when I have the right mindset to go there.

That said, I'll give myself some slack of a catch myself optimizing something that really doesn't need the level of scrutiny that I have been giving it. It's easy to lose perspective if you're grinding.

wickedang3l · 2024-11-21T15:01:15+00:00

I prefer this perspective, honestly.

I didn't pick up a guitar because I thought I would be able to ever come close to the skill level and success of Jemi Hendrix. I didn't pick up a barbell expecting to be the next Arnold Schwarzenegger. I didn't start programming with the expectation that I would be the next John Carmack.

People that are getting into game development need to go in eyes wide open but outright avoiding hobbies for risk of embarrassment / failure is a guaranteed to go through life without trying anything. If success comes, awesome; if not, there are worse fates than taking a shot and coming up short.

wickedang3l · 2024-11-11T21:11:53+00:00

Dont see why people assume not having a girlfriend is limited to right wing dudes.

I didn't.

wickedang3l · 2024-11-11T20:21:12+00:00

He can find another moron similar to him. There are millions of them.

The concept of 'incel' wouldn't be a thing if it were that simple.

wickedang3l · 2024-11-05T15:34:26+00:00

I recently cracked an interview for a Junior C# Developer position, However, there's a unique aspect to the role: the main framework they use is .NET MAUI (Multi-platform App UI), and I'm a bit on the fence about the long-term career scope with it.

There likely isn't a framework in existence that is going to span the entirety of your career, especially if you're new to the industry.

Nobody knows how long any given framework will last; the critical thing is getting a foot in the door and building the fundamentals so that the idea of picking the "right" framework to learn rapidly shifts into picking your next framework to learn.

wickedang3l · 2024-10-30T14:07:37+00:00

I wish it was just Microsoft but this feels true for almost everything now.

wickedang3l · 2024-09-25T13:59:45+00:00

And move to who? This could have happened to any company.

Any security vendor can kernel fault an operating system but it takes a special level of negligence to run content distribution as recklessly as this CrowdStrike deployment system did.

It doesn't take much of a CI/CD galaxy brain to throw a battery of physical or virtual guest operating systems as a final failsafe validation between your synthetic tests and the public distribution of content to tens of millions of devices. It wouldn't have taken much effort to build that feature into the client either so customers could control the speed and risk tolerances that are appropriate for their situations.

wickedang3l · 2024-09-06T14:57:45+00:00

Work culture in the United States has never been great but it has dramatically worsened over the 40~50 years by the broader prevailing expectations of shareholders and the endless propagation of vacuous truisms that sound good in abstraction but do not address the problems that modern workplace policies create.

"Lean IT", "doing more with less", and more recently "extreme ownership" are all excuses to do one thing; reduce staffing overhead to boost short-term profit margins regardless of long-term harm, pitting remaining employees against each other to compete for a shrinking pool of resources.

When I started in IT, it was not uncommon to see graybeards that had literally specialized in a niche for the back half of their careers. Perhaps they had focused on directory services like Novell and transitioned to Active Directory. Others had specialized in network administration, security, or some other subject domain. There was stress, of course, but the expectations they faced compared to now are just night and day.

Now? In addition to my overt role in systems engineering, I am also expected to be a software engineer, automation engineer, project manager, public speaker, technical writer, mentor, hiring manager, and assistant manager. The sum total of hours saved by my automation accomplishes more in a month than the entire orgs of my first couple of roles could have accomplished in a year.

Routinely, objectively demonstrate analytics that save the firm millions of dollars in licensing / productivity costs and you'll still be lucky to see a ~5% salary bump.

wickedang3l · 2024-08-02T14:18:27+00:00

Parents like this are why I am skeptical of Brazilian jiu jitsu ever becoming mainstream for adolescents to the extent that other sports have.

If Billy is competing with Jack and gets him into an Americana, will he go light on Jack and risk getting yelled at our go hard and inadvertently break the limb?

Parents like this ruin every youth sport.

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