[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 57 points 5 days ago
[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 72 points 1 month ago

I was a platform engineer for a cyber security company for 6+ years and had worked in another ramshackle garage-based startup before that. I was burnt out and angry all the time. On call for a week out of every month.

I recently got a job writing software fully remote for a medical device company with a single 30min interview with a non-technical manager.

They don't even know how to use my skills well. My "mentor" can hardly write an Excel formula. My boss has once seen an excruciatingly simple app I made at someone else's request. I built it in a couple hours. It has a file chooser button and a run button. Blew her mind. Multi-platform builds are now automated via CI/CD. I seriously over-deliver and they won't ever know it.

I actually put in about 30 hours/week and bill 40. I have 3-4 short meetings a week to interface with a couple vendors. None of them, even my 1:1 with my boss is on camera. It just isn't done. I get maybe 2 chat messages and 2 emails a day.

Easiest $150k/yr ever. And my spouse has great benefits through work.

Why the hell would I ever go back to "tech?"

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 152 points 2 months ago

Might even call it a cargo cult.

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submitted 2 months ago by Botzo@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

I don't really have anyone else to shout at about this, but it's an amazing way to host services in rootless containers entirely in user space using systemd (systemctl --user).

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 60 points 4 months ago

so promising in the early days.

About that... Some more news did a whole episode on his career showing that he's been an opportunistic grifter this whole time.

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 74 points 6 months ago

From the CNN article:

The speech is not a filibuster because Booker is not blocking legislation or a nomination. The Democratic senator’s speech will keep the Senate floor open – and floor staff working as well US Capitol police members detailed to the chamber – for as long as he continues speaking, but lawmakers had concluded voting on Monday before he began his remarks.

So purely performative. Not a filibuster.

I mean if it's a first step and others follow, then good. But why not filibuster a nomination you disapprove? (I have no clue if filibuster applies to a cloture vote. These fucking stooges and their silly made up rules of decorum...)

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submitted 8 months ago by Botzo@lemmy.world to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

Got the uppers painted and installed.

Time to find some MDF for the face frame, drawer fronts, and shelves. Which reminds me, I need a router bit for the integrated drawer pulls she wants.

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 70 points 9 months ago

I had a dream 15+ years ago where I walked onto a school bus holding a 5ft long tube of fudge striped cookies over my shoulder and Peter Jennings looked up and said "Nice strip of cookies." I was so confused, I woke up and laughed.

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submitted 9 months ago by Botzo@lemmy.world to c/woodworking@lemmy.ca

My first project is really coming together!

Built a set of drawers cabinets to my wife's specs for the closet. Still have uppers, face frame and overlay fronts to do, but the garage was too full to keep going.

4ft (122cm) tall bank of drawers with full extension soft close undermount slides. 88in.(222cm) wide.

Feel free to make fun of the 2x4 toe kick! Rest assured I've learned my lesson.

All cuts made with my portable DeWalt table saw after breaking down sheets with my Ryobi circular saw and a harbor freight clamp as an edge guide.

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 99 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Exactly.

We cannot afford to fall victim to the Nirvana fallacy.

We must work within the system to change the system or we risk being excluded entirely.

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 107 points 11 months ago

This just in: scientists disprove validity of thought experiment; philosophers remain concerned that they've missed the point.

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

So that's why they're called "rolling" releases!

/s

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 71 points 1 year ago

Absolutely.

Sidenote: I keep seeing "xitter" being used, is it safe to assume it's pronounced "shitter"?

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

Let's test a mastodon link instead!

https://mastodon.social/@KraftTea/112922529525115222

Or or, and hear me out (actual campaign presence): https://truthsocial.com/@KamalaHQ/posts/112917651295728303

[-] Botzo@lemmy.world 80 points 2 years ago

FTFY: ~mourn~ celebrate

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