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  • One could argue the requirements have changed because the security and compliance part of the world finally caught up to modern software delivery concepts. Even the most dinosaur apps at compliant orgs are being dragged kicking and screaming into new CI/CD tools where applying governance and custody chains and permissions and approvals are all self documented automated hooks.






  • I had a dream of owning a proper sized tub. Finally bought a house and got all ready to upgrade the bathroom and it turns out the tub isn’t even the expensive part. After talking with about 5 different general contractors and engineers, we learned that to hold up a real tub, the whole fucking house basically has to be rebuilt with twice as thick beams and twice as many 2x4s. Even putting one down on the ground floor is a full upgrade to the beams and posts in the crawl space and basement. It was going to cost ~25-50k in re-engineering of the framing and associated removal and repair of drywall/plumbing/siding/insulation/electrical/trim/flooring/etc… plus reinforcing the stone foundation

    Turns out most houses built on the east coast between 1800 and 1950ish literally can’t have a good tub because water is super fucking heavy and these things are built out of toothpicks


  • Averages are fun. It’s likely Opsy roles do have the highest average. But it’s also very true that devs have the highest ceilings. There’s just very few devs making 600+ and the majority at 120-150. Then there is an absolute shit load of opsys making 160-200. So in ops you hit the ceiling super fast while the occasional dev just keeps rocketing to bullshit pay but the averages are what they are

    (Hiring manager for devops. I get the raw data through a corporate data broker)





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    5 months ago

    Meh. Whenever my warranty is about to expire I just ride the resale value and upgrade knowing I’ll sell the old one for a hundred bucks less than I paid for it and get a new warranty for the new phone. I get a new phone every two years for basically $200 and someone else buys my used one probably doing the same thing and selling their old one for $100 less than that.

    Over a decade I’ve spent one new phone’s worth of dollars for 5 phones.





  • Seconding the other comment, lots of orgs picked .lan and then over the last few years have moved things into the cloud and .lan has become a meaningless soup since half the shit isn’t even on local network. Now it just means “needs a vpn or ztn to talk to”

    Luckily my last three orgs finally bought a second domain for private dns. It’s quickly becoming a pattern that myorg.com owns myorg.tech or whatever for private traffic. Domains are cheap as fuck compared to everything else a business spends money on, it’s really silly how many people are using hacks for this


  • As much as I think commercial real estate is minimally linked to the rest of the economy, it’s been well established that you can’t just convert office buildings to apartments.

    Floor plates aren’t cut to manage the changes to the floor plans in some cases not even being designed to carry the weight as modern office buildings often utilize floating plates so adding more walls actually would cause all kinds of issues with the walls as the building wobbles around. The plumbing doesn’t have the capacity and also is centralized in the buildings despite apartments each needing it, requiring more alterations to the floor plate. The windows requirements for bedrooms leaves most of the central space of the building unusable or everyone has kitchens and living rooms with no windows…. It’s often cheaper to demolish the building and start over than it would be to modify it.

    To get a real idea of this look at apartment buildings in manhattan. They are either long and skinny towers or they are the size of a block, but have a massive quartyard running down the middle where office buildings are solid all the way through.