James Penick

I work on cloud infrastructure @ Yahoo, opinions are my own.

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@bhaines0 @datachick "Inside of you there are two general councels"

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@QuinnyPig Yahoo didn't have a whole lot of say in the matter of going private.

Shareholder economics, activist investors, etc.

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@Moike_the_Squid Welcome to the streak society baybeeee

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@aevavoom Ngl, I'm jealous. Wish we were there with y'all

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@Valgar666 @tjcrowley Or chicken

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@scalzi The deputy looks out their window and sees a grown man in his bathrobe enjoying a chicken pot pie & pickle burrito while walking his cat "yes. Something is definitely going on. No, we cannot prosecute. Please don't send the swat team. This is more uncomfortable for us than him."

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@scalzi So anyway this is what happens when you give an "AI" image generator the prompt "show me an author that's gone Full Weird"

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@Moike_the_Squid Aw man that is ass. You're so far into this car already, any chance of saving it?

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@bhaines0 1. Check phone for high priority comms
2. Check slack for medium priority comms
3. Take dog outside. Watch dog & Stare at a tree. Regain the will to live.
5. Check email.

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@olix0r Wait till you learn about drywallers....

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@bhaines0 @GergelyOrosz Not yet, it'll be a little while yet

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@Moike_the_Squid Still not as bad as that cut on your thumb. Yeesh. Stitches I'm assuming?

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@Moike_the_Squid We used to have some hardware in our datacenters that suffered from a last minute component change, replacing surface mount caps with electrolytic. NBD, except they happened to surround a temperature sensor. This would cause the machines to periodically read over temp

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@Moike_the_Squid Sometimes id finally get back home only to have to turn around and go back for another machine.

The only upside was I was hourly at the time.

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@Moike_the_Squid So they would shut down. Since it's a soft power off you can't just use the smart pdu to reset the power. Also this datacenter wasn't supported by our prod site operations people at the time, so I'd have to drop what I was doing and head in. 24/7.

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@Moike_the_Squid Where from?

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@sigje I have a very active internal monologue. I can silence it if I work carefully to blank my mind, but it's easiest when doing simple repetitive tasks. Medication has changed things dramatically for me, and made it MUCH easier to reach that meditative state.

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@sigje "yooo Elon we need to improve engagement."

"Limit the people who engage the most from participating."

"Masterful gambit, sir"

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@bhaines0 Yasssss