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I’d randomly start throwing away packages and talk about the surge in porch pirates in my neighborhood
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Time for another ‘my dog is awesome’ thread
blacklab replied to Patricio Swayze's topic in Daily Texan
Luna got very interested in Iggy on the small screen, I moved him over to the projector and Luna stared for about 5 minutes. I moved Iggy away and Luna stared at the screen for another 5 minutes waiting for iggy to come back.- 9880 replies
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Lodge is changing it's comp system. No longer earn per hour, but instead get a meal comped after playing 6 hours. Your old comps are good till 3/31 and then go away, so use em if you got em.
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I don't know if it's just having not seen a race in a while but me and the kiddo really enjoyed the race. They should station fire trucks around the races and randomly have them soak the track for some of the boring circuits. As a mercedes fan such weird mixed emotions for LH. Kinda want to root for him but kinda not. Him on the radio reminded me of a few weeks ago when I hurt my leg and just wanted to be left alone and my wife kept nagging me about not putting my leg in the correct position when I was moving it to the position that was most pain free and got really really mad when I wouldn't move it the way she told me to. Should be a fun season with at least 4 teams being competitive and a few of the shit teams being able to get drivers into the top 10.
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The Cloud Engineering Thread of Dominance
blacklab replied to StassneyHorn's topic in Business and Markets
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if you can't post in this thread without personal call outs or attacks don't bother posting here.
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The Cloud Engineering Thread of Dominance
blacklab replied to StassneyHorn's topic in Business and Markets
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The Cloud Engineering Thread of Dominance
blacklab replied to StassneyHorn's topic in Business and Markets
They are going to get $200k less out of us next year compared to this year. I've never dealt with a bigger bunch of assholes in my life. Our data loads vary every month, some months we do a bunch of stuff and some months hardly any. Our bills range from $5k to $40k. Every year they insist we sign a minimum $20k per month deal. It would cost us $100k extra a year to do so. Every year they insist we can't be a customer unless we sign this deal. Every year I say ok, we'll give you a choice, We won't sign a deal and we'll spend $200k, or we'll spend $0. Every year same song and dance. Last year they insisted we have a meeting about our contract renewal. I told them no, just send the fucking contract over and I'll sign it. They refused and said it was very complicated and we had to have a meeting. I then sat through 40 minutes of a complete idiot saying the same shit over and over about how they are AI this and AI that. His slideshow had 3 different colored themes, with slides saying the same shit. He had no idea on any question I asked him. I then spent the next 20 minutes listening to a sales douche tell me that "you guys can't continue to be a customer unless you sign a $20k a month minimum. I've talked to finance and they will not let you guys continue on month to month". Finally I asked him would they rather have $200k in revenue or $0. He hemmed and hawed and then said his guy in finance won't allow him to do anything less than $20k minimum. I asked for the finance guys name so I could talk to him. He refused. I told him I guess we're done here, we'll find an alternative, please go tell your finance guy you lost a $200k in revenue and you both can high five each other about sticking it to us as you pack up your shit from your desk when you get fired. The next day I got an email from their VP in charge of small business who asked if we could talk. A few days later we met and I went off about how the sales guy was a complete douche, our loads vary so any minimum per month completely fucks us, we had not opened a support ticket in two years so we were pure profit for them, we don't want to meet with them ever yet every sales douche we've had has annoyed the fuck out of us about meetings we don't want to have and we just want to be left alone and we'll spend another $200k next year with them. He was actually pretty cool and apologized for the douche and let us keep our $1k a month minimum deal and promised to leave us alone. Every quarter I put retire databricks as my number 1 priority in the quarterly plan, one of these quarters we will actually do it. We did retire one product that was 50% of our bill so we are at lease heading in the right direction. We did roll our own server with https://github.com/lakehq/sail and have run some of our code on it with success, we'll probably move everything over in the next year and finally tell them to fuck off for good. So to answer your question, they really don't bring a lot to the table. AWS has a competing product, and if a dumbshit like me can roll my own sail server in a couple of hours and save $200k a year I really don't think they are going to be heading in the right direction. Every person I have dealt with there other than the VP of small biz/startups has been a complete douche who acted as though they were doing us a favor by letting us be a customer. Their software is way way overpriced as they charge on a cpu/time usage basis so we end up paying them more than any other vendor besides AWS which causes my bosses to always ask if we can get rid of them. -
I've played a ton of bigo and plo with San
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I'm not sure how I found it but I really enjoy https://medium.com/ I checked some boxes on what interested me and I get a daily email with 5-10 articles linked. Some days I read them all, other days I read 2. As I've clicked on articles they get better and better at curating them to ones that interest you. It does trend toward tech and most of my interests are around programming and technology, but there are great articles on other topics. It's $50 a year but I find it worth it.
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I did not. But I really really wanted to. They were a bunch of huck a bucks from somewhere out in the boonies near Denton. Completely fucking crazy bunch of idiots. My dad and the mom were divorced a few months later. My dad and her never argued about a thing and both seemed happy. One day she just told my dad to get the fuck out and they got divorced. Dad never saw it coming and her sons tried to talk some sense into her but she was done. Never gave my dad or her sons a reason.
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I went skiing with my dad, stepmom, stepbrothers and their kids ranging in age from 18-4. Me and the kids were good skiers while everyone else wasn't so good so I skied with the kids for most of the trip. One day I'm on the lift with a 10 year old and a 12 year old was on the chair in front of us. He's going nuts banging his poles against the chair like a drummer. I yell out "did you not take your Ritalin today?" The 10 year old busts out laughing. Instead of turning left to ski like we agreed to the 12 year old gets off the lift and heads right towards our condos. I don't think too much of it and ski with the other kids for a few hours and head back to the condo about 5. I walk in and my stepbrother puts a finger in my chest and says "I need to talk to you" and I follow him into a bedroom. He starts off with "I don't know what you joke about in your family but in this family we don't joke about Ritalin." Apparently he headed back to the condo after my joke and cried the rest of the afternoon. He then goes on to tell me the story of the 12 year old, having taken it since first grade and because they lived in a shit ass small town with terrible teachers most of the teachers would announce to the whole class when kids had to take their ritalin and make them take it in front of everyone and give them shit for being weak and needing drugs to behave right. He asks me to apologize to his son and not make any more jokes about it. I go out and apologize to the 12 year old, he admits he needs to stop being so sensitive and knows I had no way of knowing his back story so it was fine. The rest of the week any time some sensitive/family/embarrassing situation or subject came up one of my stepbrothers would turn to me and say "Bob you want to go ahead and make a joke about this and make one of the other kids cry?"
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If you haven't seen it Culinary Class Wars is a great Korean cooking show.
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