grioghar

When the Yogurt Took Over…

Survivor’s Guilt and a compulsive need to justify my continued existence in the role, coupled with sheer terror of losing my income, my home, and all the auxiliary benefits thereof have made me NEED to be seen by management.

My code commits are up, my bug finds are significantly higher, and I’ve taken on educational and sales initiatives to drive adoption and revenue in much bigger ways.

I was a poor Welfare kid who never had any idea about seeing the money I have in tech. Now, even though I’ve got 6 months of savings and skills that I’m sure will land me just fine, I’m pushing harder after watching a 25% layoff happen and seemingly more low-profile layoffs and reorganization.

It weird the first time you get paid a SV compensation, but live in the Midwest, making your income stretch, saving, and getting a few nice things: there’s still that inner poor kid who isn’t sure where the next meal’s coming from, or if you’d be able to pay for vehicle repairs or get your kids’ braces taken care of; all things that seemed unimaginable just five years back working IT regionally.

There’s the underlying fear that it’s all going to go away and you’ll be back to paycheck-to-paycheck after learning life doesn’t have to be that way.

That’s what keeps me motivated; I cha fed my stars, and I’m looking to make sure I keep them changed and give my kids a life I couldn’t have fathomed.

So, I push harder and work even more to make sure my place at the table is either secured, or a great portfolio to have on hand to show the next place.

I can’t tell if this is noble or pathological, but I know I’m stretched thin emotionally and am not sleeping because of it. Here it is 3AM, the soul’s midnight, and I’m thinking about a few projects I still need to do initial commits on and start some regression testing…

Bah.

Tomorrow…er, later today, right?

And on my weekend even.

Definitely pathological.

I don’t understand this 200K thing…

Are you some sort of bad person for making what the market pays you?

It reeks of jealousy and brazen callousness because someone has secured compensation outside their reach or imagination.

I don’t get it.

Means don’t care about home repair, particularly foundation repair, new windows to remove draftiness, and siding repair all hitting around the same time, draining your savings right when layoffs start occurring.

We do quite well, living well within our means, allowing us to be able to cover these types of big once-in-a-home owner’s lifetime surprises, but a layoff could mean we’re simply making the place nice for the next folks while we bail out to find something new.

Life ain’t cheap and the social safety net has been used and abused to the point bad timing can destroy everything you’ve worked for with one unexpected meeting with HR on some random Tuesday.

The issue is the R naught. (Arrr Not)

This is the number of people you will spread the infection to.

Flu has a R of 1.

Covid Alpha/Beta have a R of 3-5.

Delta has a R7-9.

Omicron is allegedly 15+, and unlike anything we’ve ever seen outside Measles.

Giving you a death rate of 1% infected, to keep it easy. Current numbers in the US are 1.56%.

So, 1% dead of spread of a R1 is going to be a lot slower and manageable versus 1% of R7. The exponential (Logarithmic?) rise of infections will kill a lot more, a lot faster, and have knock-on effects everywhere within the healthcare system, and society as a whole.

The only hope is that by rule, typical virus evolutions are less virulent, but we’re still not sure of that at this time. The big fear with omicron is that the spike protein mutations are immune-system dodging and faster infecting/more contagious, but that the payload within is still functionally the same. The mutations not on the spike are not changed enough that virologists are hopeful at this time.

Sorry, wall of text. Hope this addresses the question.

The age-old ‘those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.’

And

‘History doesn’t repeat, but it does rhyme.’

He actually explains that in one of his other replies: after 10 days of infection, you’re not fighting the virus anymore, so monoclonal antibodies are useless.

Covid, the virus, doesn’t typically kill you directly: the cytokine storm that some people seem to have afterwards is what kills them.

That’s why people making statement about “my immune system is strong” are speaking from a position of ignorance. You don’t want an over-reaction of your immune system in response to viral load. This is what the vaccine helps with by giving your immune system a chance to develop an immune response without having to go nuclear trying to clear the infection.

The storm is why people are ok at day 7-10, then suddenly crash on day 11-4, seemingly out of the blue. They have a hyperactive response that begins destroying healthy tissue, particularly the lungs and the heart, given the concentration of ACE-2 receptors, which is where the virus binds easiest to. Your immune system, still trying to develop an answer to this novel infection, goes scorched earth to attempt to clear any and all rogue RNA that is detected.

That’s when you lungs start to hardened and fill and pneumonia kicks in; it’s all the dead tissue in your lungs from your now CoVid-induced autoimmune disorder.

This is why steroids are given - they blunt the various inflammatory responses a cytokine storm brings on. Problem is, your immune system do go hard in the paint, and sends EVERYTHING it has.

This is why using an anti-parasitic in this moment makes a whole lot of no sense.

This is why HCQ makes no sense at this stage.

The new oral anti-virals have the same issue: you have to get tested, diagnosed, and get these into you AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. The oral antivirals that are being tested stop the replication process of the virus, or that’s the goal.

The less viral load, hopefully a more blunted immune response, the less or no organ destruction.

Make sense?

As someone who has lost friends and family to QAnon, I find your statement ignorant and unhelpful. Your anecdotal experience isn’t even remotely reality. I really really wish it was.

Q is fake, but there’s a whole subset of seemingly rational people who are being sucked into the void of this cult.

I mean, look at the subreddit this was posted in.

Yeah, I had a real hard time with this at the beginning, knowing how people behave.

Trying to be as apolitical as possible here, but the leadership flopped hard and wrong here, and…well…welcome to the endemic reality.

As an aside: the World of Warcraft model was more accurate than most would have expected.

Care to elaborate on the three points you mentioned with more specificity?

Once i point it out, people can’t look at the logo the same again.

It’s an erect penis, ya’ll.

I challenge you to provide proof of this statement outside a politically slanted source.

Hundred to one, it was NetBus or BO. You could view active windows and get window freeze frame.

The message dialogue would have looked like Windows 95/98, with a reply option. BO was more extensible; ButtTrumpet would run and announce to the person who installed it that you had come online. Another BO plug-in allowed you to change how the message interface worked. My guess is someone saw your IP, and someone checked out your IP to find you open.

I’ll tell you, when I found someone who had open BO/NetBus, I would assign a password to their configuration so they weren’t open to anyone other than me. I have to imagine that hash was was easy to crack, but at the time, I thought it was a solid way to keep people from getting messed with by anyone other than me.

NetBus.

NetBus was the GREATEST Win95/98 remote admin/spying software outside BO.

Network scan? Don’t mind if I do. Huh. So many machines. Let’s see what windows they have open.

alt.sex.grannies (or whatever it was back in the day)

Fire off a message “NO. Turn that off. C’mon, man.”

Actually got a reply back.

“OK. I’m sorry.”

Do the title bar refresh and see it’s closed.

That was my favoritest random memory of NetBus in the wild.

Hex-editing Intergrade at certain points allowed you to bypass authentication and go RIIIIIGHT in.

I didn’t know what that meant at the time, but my buddy sure did.

He was kicked out of school a few weeks later for editing his grades.

You single-handedly made me interested in computers deeper than playing Doom and Duke Nukem 3D. You made a 12th grader who didn’t have a decent computer at home start learning DNS and saving his dollars for a Pentium to start programming on.

I got into so much trouble my Senior year of High School with your software, but it put me on a path.

Your software and NetBus was all I needed. We owned EVERYTHING, and I mean EVERYTHING in our town until we got found out. Naive me at the time thought it was really cool, until the Detectives showed up…

Here’s to you. Thank you.

+1

Some of my favorite random people I’ve met, I met playing in various games then gave them my Discord channel.

Good, good times.

My time to shine.

BO and NetBus nearly got me arrested on the Friday before my Prom.

I want to tell the rest of this story, but I worry about the statue of limitations and whether the crimes committed are still prosecutable.

I didn’t, at the time, realize what we were doing outside “near, we’re in the ISP’s computers?” but, uh, I found out when the Detectives knocked on my door and took a 16-year-old me downtown to discuss “what I’ve been up to on your computer.”

That story ends with my friend getting kicked out of High School, The HIPAA law guidelines being drafted around some of his actions, then his passing away of an unknown heart issue at 20.

His naive partner-in-crime going on to having a great career in IT.

Side note: we had almost every teacher’s Netware login before we graduated. =)

RAM. Harddrives. Video cards. Gas. Bitcoin. Gold.

C’mon meow. Hyperbole helps no one.

100% emergency services can hear (and record) every word you say while while you’re talking to 911.

Am aware of several folks going to prison from confessions when they thought they weren’t being heard.

Wait.

Explain your ‘Satoshi was found’ statement.

Where are such massive components made? How do you balance a crankshaft that’s a block long and takes up the space of a row of houses? Where are these monsters forged, cast, and built? It’s simply amazing.

(Edit: yeah, it’s in the article. Would love to see the process.)

The Boys? Invincible? Fleabag? Transparent? Marvelous Mrs. Maisel? The Expanse?

I disagree with your premise entirely. I see them trying to unseat HBO as the resource for all the pop culture shows you remember twenty years from now.

I definitely believe them to be bolder than Netflix for their breadth of original libraries.

That might be a little bold, but that’s what I see them trying to do.

Ahhh, brings back memories of the LRP back in the day.

Just a heads up: if you’re asking these questions, you might want to reconsider until you understand it more.

You’re going to need: A new modem A new router

You’ll need to talk to Cox and give them the HFC ID and Serial number.

Then, you’ll need to connect everything, and configure your router so that it’s secure.

That’s a nebulous word, ‘secure,’ because my security might be different than yours, but you’ll want to make sure the router is locked down so outside attacks are avoided, and the neighborhood isn’t using your services.

So, take that in consideration.

Did exactly this, and it’s so far going pretty well.

Anything questionable, I can confront, or be prepared for, they know it’s happening, I’m good with it…

And then my punk ass teenager decided to change the id on the phone to get past the controls.

I’m mad, but more proud. Way to think around the problem!

You’re grounded.

“Hacking” has real world consequences if you get caught. Try harder, padawan.

What you’ve just detailed here is exactly why there was an elevated level of concern during a particular 4-year window, and a general sigh of relief once that time had passed.

How are people not building in Terraform for an easy ‘destroy’ at the end?

I know it’s rhetorical and a lesson learned myself, but yeah… I would expect folks to learn to use this tool to help manage costs this way.

I wonder what the science is behind this.

If people are up, I can’t lock in; there’s a constant distraction somewhere in my mind.

If I’m the only person awake in the house, I seem to hit flow state with ease.

I’m so glad it’s not just me.

I have been unimpressed with the over-complication and the...lacking API.