Hi hi. I know no one posts here anymore but I recall Rusty at one point saying auth 0 sucked. After working with them for over 2 years, I just want to come and completely validate this. You were right all along Rusty!

Yooooooooo

What is everyone up to these days

We're all posting in the Computer and Tech Help Forum these days

yea lol @ the forum merge

For me I was laid off in feb 2020 after my sketchy startup went tits up. Found a junior level devops engineering role for an ecommerce company, got promoted to Devops II earlier this year and I think I’m staring down the barrel at another one next year if my big project goes well.

Devops is definitely a good fit for me. I don’t like programming all day, but I do like to sometimes program. This company is good, I am probably a bit underpaid from what recruiters are telling me, but I am learning a ton every day in a fairly low pressure environment so I’m sitting still for now.

I haven’t been keeping up with the forum changes at all.

Infra/dev ops work is going to get you paiddddd so grabbing experience and promotions right now seems like a smart move. We’re always criminally understaffed in infrastructure work so I imagine we would just throw money at good candidates.

I’m rising to the point where I’m in meetings, designing and delegating way too much actually work. It would be nice to go back a stage and actually write code again I think, but I don’t want a pay cut just hoping my company ipos someday and I could go be an early eng at a startup for a while without a pay cut crushing me financially.

My only advice for new tech employees is to try to avoid lifestyle creep as you earn more and more.

Glad to hear that it came out well for you jmakin. Good to hear that you're doing well as well, PJo. Good advice about lifestyle creep.

As for me, I couldn't take working with the idiot consultants any longer, so retired in June 2020.

Yes, a lot of being able to do that was avoiding lifestyle creep. I've always had a simple lifestyle and been fortunate to have a decent amount of skill in a high-paying field.

Of course, haven't traveled like I would've liked due to the plague, but a couple camping trips around the good old USA each of the last two summers. Other than that, just lots of stuff around the house/yard.

Everyone be safe and well, have the kind of holidays you desire.

If I wrote to you, “copy the code at the right” and showed you this line of text

https://youtu.be/XG5BcU1ZGiA

Would you know what I was referring to?

I think it refers to "XG5BcU1ZGiA"

I think it would be clearer to say, "copy the text after https://youtu.be/"

Copy everything after the last slash

Yea, I already am making the national avg for a senior devops role, and I’m pretty sure if I become a lead here it’s much higher salary. I’m throwing disgusting numbers (to me) at recruiters for positions and they aren’t batting an eye lol. I actually hope to get where you are eventually, because I don’t really have a passion for this stuff, I just happen to be good at it and think I’m a better fit for managing. I just dont wanna be a manager that knows **** all about the tech.

Thanks! I have definitely not avoided lifestyle creep but I’m not overextended. Just upgraded a few things that desperately needed upgrades. My hobbies are mostly pretty cheap.

Congrats on retirement! I hope to take this rocketship to the moon and retire in my early 50’s.


My rough gameplan is to learn as much as possible in the next 3-5 years, start feeling confident, and land a senior role at a FAANG (actually AANG because I’d never work for facebook)

If I may, advice related to lifestyle & retiring.

Every time you get a raise, put more of it "away". Not only increase your contribution to tax-deferred retirement accounts, but throw extra $ at your debt (especially mortgage, if you have one).

Like anything, building a solid financial footing takes diligence. Each paycheck, I'd know how much cash I want in my "rainy day" money, plus outstanding debts. For many years, every extra penny beyond those went to either investing or paying principal on my mortgage.

It took me too long to realize that I should have a "fun money" sub-account as well...once I did that, I was able to fund my travel adventures from the overages.

Instead of saying, "Hey, I've got an extra $X to spend this check," say, "Hey, I've got an extra $X this check. That means $M toward the mortgage, $I to investments, and $F just just have fun with." Of course, the percentages that turn $X into $M, $I and $F may vary over time with one's desires and needs (along with the number of/reason for sub-accounts). The core idea worked well for me. If anyone wants to take that idea and modify it for their own purposes, please do.

It's pretty nice to be at a point where you've got money in the bank and a place to live free and clear. Whenever some ridiculous work-related bullshit comes up, you always have the option to just say, "No, I think I'll just leave instead."

Anyone ever start their own online radio station from a phone?

Thanks golddog. I think I got a pretty good handle on my finances so far. I lived (surprisingly comfortably) on $30k/year in so cal for a long time and still struggle w kind of living like a broke college student, so every time I check my accounts I am surprised to see they just kinda always go up no matter what I do, so if it goes above a certain amount, I dump that into another account that eventually is used to go to my investment accounts, which kinda happens a lot.

It’s a dumb poorly thought out system but I’m quite pleased with how everything’s been going so far.

Serious q. What do you guys think of this metaverse concept? I’m really bear-ish but I’ve been completely wrong about tech trends for years. I hate the idea completely. I guess it won’t really impact anything I do unless they make me get smart glasses for meetings and ****.

I have heavy bias against zuck so I’m trying to see if it’s really as stupid and horrible (if it actually works) as I think it is.

I love this. These questions strike at the heart of what I think makes AI interesting.

I'd settle for an AI that knows when I type someString.indexOf["-test"], duh of course I actually meant someString.indexOf("-test") - so I don't have to stare at my stupid code for 5 minutes trying to figure out why it's not working.

Already reported unwanted groping- it will probably turn out just like second life, which was extremely sexual.

Warning NSFW (swearing):



One of the greatest monologues ever IMO.

Juk

Yeah, I've wished for this too; especially if you have to move between languages regularly - you can get "syntax blindness" and stuff like this gets excruciatingly hard to see.

Another irritating one is when the compiler tells you "missing bracket on line 21, character 18 in file xyz"; just give me an option to agree and add the ****ing bracket!

Juk

Hah, nice one Juk. I'd forgotten about that. Goodman so great.

While I didn't use those words exactly, in my next-to-last job before retiring, I certainly used that sentiment when leaving. Bunch of dumbasses.

Seems this thread is effectively dead, but here it goes anyway.

I want to play with some data tools and I have an idea for a play project that basically takes the "shots gained" approach from golf and tries to apply it to poker hands/position.

I need a big bucket of hand histories though. I've seen sites like ******** (Edit: 'card past' 'casino employee') where I can buy 40 million hands (limiting myself to a single form/limit of NL) for around $150. Which is around what I'm willing to spend here.

But before doing that, is there a good free source of hand histories at this scale (millions)? Some recommended site to purchase hands from? Anything like that?

Edit: Are these sites sketchy and that's why it's censored? Or is this just a 2+2 no-advertising thing?

Any reason you need real hands? You can just generate them too.

The goal is to break the game down into parts. Could be by starting hand, position, or street. Or any combination thereof. And then compare an individuals performance relative to the baseline to find out what parts they’re particularly good/bad at. Almost everyone is a net winner with aces, but the magnitude of the amount can still indicate if someone is “good at” playing aces. But to do this you need real data or else your baseline becomes meaningless and you’ll just get back out numbers driven by the parameters you use to generate the bands.

jj i totally get what you're doing and think it's awesome

i also think some players may be willing to give you hh if it means they'll be ranked as a lot of midstakes players would love to see their peen listed at the top ie best player with suited connectors from early position

I could get HH from individual players but then my sample is really biased towards those players and I'm not sure I'd get enough players to smooth out individual tendencies. Although I'd get to see hands that don't make it to showdown - which would be really valuable.

The bulk hand histories should be a much more representative sample of player skill - but only seeing hands that made it to showdown is going to bias the results in a different way.

I think I'm going to go ahead and get the bulk hand histories because that seems faster to start with. If the data seems interesting I might see if some people want to try and supplement the dataset with their own hand histories.