@landon20s@UofIllinois Also consider Northwestern, U Chicago and other great schools in the state. Need to improve retention percentage substantially across the board.
President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous.
Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.
@foxyjewishmama I still remember being out for an evening walk with my partner when we moved back to Lakeview from NYC over a decade ago, and stopping to ask about what an unfamiliar smell was. (It was clean, fresh air coming off the lake)
the white sox need to banned from playing baseball for the rest of the season. but not because these things are on purpose. it’s like when you take a senior citizen’s driver’s licence away. they are incompetent to the point where they are a danger to others
@AlexPalcuie@doomie What was that? Too distracted by the view from the Chicago office.
It's really funny when people who don't work here know what's going on better than I do. I should pay better attention I guess?
@DynamicWebPaige I was oncall for spell correction back in 2010. It was also basically indestructible, and I think the only time I ever got paged for it was when some of the larger models (Bulgarian iirc) would take too long to load on restart because GFS stole iops on the server the task was on.
@stratus@rakyll No argument on the perils of "launch and leave", but thankfully less feasible these days as a career strategy. (Also great to hear from you stratus@, hope life after SRE has been good for you!)
@rakyll@stratus Coming up on year 15. Company isn't a uniform experience, parts are innovative, fast and understand how to utilize the advantages of being at a Fortune 10 company that inherited the tech legacy of Bell Labs, Dec WRL, SGI and others. Other parts aren't.
@etkralicesi As someone who was among the last ever to don the blue shirt, khakis and blockbuster name tag (the cool independent store wasn't interested in hiring me) 100% why I follow. Impeccable taste.