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  1. alavaz

    Job Hunting

    Well... That title sucks for one. It isn't really that common, so like all of the salary research sites (glassdoor, payscale, indeed) are comparing it to marketing or AV type bullshit jobs and coming up with an average salary of 85k even in high COL markets like NYC and DC. Does your company...
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    EQ TLP - Vaniki (Level-Locked Progression)

    I have almost the same story except I worked at Arby's. I doubt my Harmon turned out ok. :emoji_shrug:
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    New World

    They buffed little shitty faction quest elites too. A buddy and I spent right around 12 minutes killing some elite mob in ebonscale for 1400 faction tokens.... At least now I know to immediately cancel those missions until they fix that shit.
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    New World

    This game will be a cabin in the woods to most MMO'ers. It's quaint and you're enamored with it for a while, but in a few months you'll be ready to go back to sweaty city. At best it will be a boutique offering for the RvR dick beating PvP crowd, who by the way are super frothy and annoying on...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Lol so you learned Perl with nano and fight that choice to the death... You must be unemployed.
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    Pappy

    I honestly feel like no one really "likes" heavily peated scotch, they just want to be hipsters about it. My buddy was all into Laphroig and he finally got me to try it and it tasted like someone dumped a full ashtray into a sock and soaked it into a bottle of the shittiest whiskey they could...
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    Pappy

    Go for that Blanton's. Great gift bottle.
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    Pappy

    Try some regular old Glenlivet 12. No smoke whatsoever.
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    Pappy

    Do you know what all he has in his collection? Blanton's always make a really nice gift. Great looking bottle and tastes good as well and in NC you can pick it up for about $70.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I can see vim or emacs... nano means you went out of your way to use a shitty editor.
  11. alavaz

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    How'd your interview go? I'm also doing the loop here in 2-3 weeks - virtual of course. As much bad as I've heard about working for Amazon, The people I've spoken too seem down to earth and the work sounds honestly pretty great. Ironically, their leadership principals don't scream bullshit to...
  12. alavaz

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    At my last job our "cyber" guy asked in one of our weekly meetings if we could open up this long list of ports or disable the firewalls on all of our servers so that he could "scan for vulnerabilities." I've never seen so much laughter at a work meeting. I do think that certain aspects of cyber...
  13. alavaz

    Project 99 - Green Server announcement

    Zaide's stream got me sucked into this too lol. Lvl 6 druid right now, names Alavaz.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Yeah you have to be a global administrator to create custom fields too which is super dogshit design. I don't even think the custom fields table has any ties to projects whatsoever. It's just one big old table that any project can use - which I suppose is why you have to be a global admin.
  15. alavaz

    The Official Guitar Thread

    My 7 string doesn't get as much play as it should and I definitely could not go without a 6 string. My latest acquisition is a Classic series USA strat and I'm loving this thing. Ironically, my very first guitar was a Mexican strat and I didn't care for it all that much. Especially after I...
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    Health insurance benefits questions

    Feeling like you are personally covering someone's family is the wrong way to look at it. It's just money, what's competitive in your industry? small business unfortunately can't compete as well with health insurance because they don't get the big bulk discounts. Id just check out the Obama...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I've got multiple teams accounts that I never use. One for my company, one for the unit I work for and a big army one. I've never had trouble signing in to any of them though surprisingly. Download - WinAuth. I installed this on my work laptop since we can't have phones on site and it solved the...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    We have Jira and I dislike the ticketing part of it (might just be our setup). We're supposed to track our tasks in it, but there's no way to assign multiple people to the same task, so we wind up duplicating the tasks for each person which I think is lame.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    ^ that. To add a little more detail you would usually trunk and port channel all of the networking so a blade chassis would drastically reduce the amount of physical cabling (i.e. 4x to 8x 10gb connections per chassis was pretty standard at the time) and that was how we were able to get rid of...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I've worked places with worse. There were TVs on the walls of the data center showing nagios and every time I'd have to patch something in, it required spreading the spaghetti a part so I could find a free port. When I'd do that, several nodes would always go red up on the tv. A lot of the...
  21. alavaz

    Difficult programming question

    Python or PowerShell. I've used this PS module dfinke/ImportExcel to do some spreadsheet stuff before.
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    Everquest TLP - Aradune and Rizlona Servers (Now with real customer service)

    I've leveled lots of toons from 9 to about 22 off of just the Lake Rathe aviaks at the arena entrance. Until about 12 you just do the little guys, then from 12-15 or so you can do both the two big ones and the little ones and then push to 22 on just the big ones alone. They are super easy to...
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    Health Problems

    I had some crazy insomnia a couple of years ago. Not the standard toss and turn kind either, but I would fall asleep for 1-2 hours and then wake up and have this really weird experience where I would doze and jolt awake for the next 4-5 hours. I'd literally get 5-10 minute little naps the rest...
  24. alavaz

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Html AP is my jam. I've built quite a few apps to scrape and archive data from some seriously shit (designed) websites using this lib. You can use this lib quite effectively with powershell as well.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I have native bash/ssh yuk7/CentWSL , microsoft/terminal, microsoft/PowerToys and chocolatey (soon to be replaced with an official package manager). I'll never touch another Mac.
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    Working From Home

    That's the law. FMLA, everyone gets it. Now whether you get it paid or not is another matter entirely....
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    Working From Home

    Government would have to change some policies and rewrite our contract before I could work from home. For my specific role, I can definitely be more productive if I have the option to go onsite, only because of the disconnected nature of our networks. For certain tasks like writing code /...
  28. alavaz

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    I foresee cri-o winning the runtime wars for anyone slightly invested in Kubernetes.
  29. alavaz

    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    Lol. Hoss makes a good point. A lot of this boards members are on the spectrum and will take what I wrote very literally... My son is 9. He will be getting zero tattoos until he is 18 as minors are not legally allowed to get tattoos. When he is 18 and a legal adult, if he chooses to still get a...
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    Marriage and the Power of Divorce

    I remember when I got my first tattoo. My family was all cool with it as long as it was somewhere I could cover up - I of course chose bicep cause that was the cool guy spot. Fast forward 20 years and I have mostly full sleeves and no one gives much of a shit about them. People I've just met...
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    We've got about 5-6 serious horde guilds and probably 4x as many alliance. We went to Felwood launch day and traded attempts with an alliance guild on Lethon until we killed on our third attempt. Then Emiriss spawned, and alliance pulled first and wiped. Then we pulled, got him to 15% and wiped...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    The problem isn't the COBOL. I bet anyone of us could write decent COBOL within 2 days with just the internet for reference. The problem are the systems themselves. Those old S390s are worlds apart from the x86/windows/linux that we know and love.
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    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    Generally no because you want them to handoff to the strongest AP. But... I do with mine as I've found the best performance in having separate 5ghz / 2.4ghz networks. I have an upstairs and downstairs 5ghz network and then one whole house 2.4ghz network. I put all of my roaming devices on the...
  34. alavaz

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    If anyone wants to be the savior of NJ: The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator https://www.tutorialspoint.com/cobol/cobol_environment_setup.htm
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    Routers & Other Networking Stuff

    I'm a fan of asus routers. I have 2x ac68u's that still work great. I played around with meshing them, but the performance was subpar to using one as a wired ap. If you can do a cat 6 run, that will give you the best performance. Also, if running cable is possible, I'd buy a small AP that...
  36. alavaz

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Don't worry I'll take care of America for you guys. You're welcome!
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    AOL used to be heavily client based and I recall having a version that would give you access to all of the "premium" stuff. I think it just had modules that it would load / unload (or flags it would set) based on your account type, but I guess you could force them to stay loaded somehow. I...
  38. alavaz

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    If we didn't have VPN I'd definitely be laid off. Luckily it works well and the gov is cool enough to allow us to work remotely - which is pretty unprecedented for this type of work.
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    World of Warcraft: Classic

    I'm on a low pop RP-PVE (yeah...) server and it's a surprisingly stable community. Horde is outnumbered 4 to 1 though, so the only thing we don't get are world dragon kills. Though this week we ran a successful batphone pug raid as and got Horde first Azuregos.