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  1. Traveled from PDX to IND vis MSP on 26 July. Flight from PDX was delayed and a "reasonable layover" could evolve into "might miss my connection." Claim for delay was that MSP was repairing a runway and only had 2 of the 3 available. Oh - Delta - which may or may not be relevant, as they were reeling from CrowdStrike longer than most others. In flight - WiFi and all - there are zero updates/changes to the schedule for my connecting flight. I figured everything would be delayed - with same runway issue. No updates to the departure, so I assume I have to sprint across the airport to make my connection. FAs are asking folks w/ > 40 min connections to stay put so others can exit and make their connections. About 30% of folks did the right thing. Most folks just take their time and seem flat-out confused. Anyhow, I finally deplane and hurry to the connection, only to find that it is delayed 45 mins. Well, hell. A basic piece of information - and one that computers are good at tracking and communicating - was not propagated to the Delta site or app. So we had folks hurrying across the airport only to get to their departure terminals to stand and wait - crowding the terminal area even further. PDX is a fairly well run airport, although I have seen them have a mismatch of TSA agents checking IDs vs. the number of scanners open - slowing things dramatically. I did not get to experience the full crappiness of MSP that some of you allude to. I still stand by my assertion that IND is one of the best run airports in the country. The relative ease of every step is astonishing, esp. when juxtaposed with ABIA. ABIA is just bad.
  2. Agree. Yes it was practice, but game awareness was missing. NFL tackling rules are different. Get up and make the official get it right. Take 2 steps to the endzone and then strut, flex, etc.
  3. I never vote straight ticket and never will. IMO, each of us should take that approach, regardless of how zealous we are, party-wise. It forces us to review each candidate, each issue, etc. For that matter, I never vote for someone who is running unopposed. Force that guy to show up and vote for himself I first voted in a presidential election in 1988, selecting GHWB. Was he perfect? No, but he was superior to the other options. After that, I took the “since I live in Texas, I am going to vote for the least crazy 3rd party for president” approach. In some cases, it was difficult to find, but Texas was going “R” despite my selection. I’ll spare everyone the duopoly concerns that motivated those choices, but we need choices. The Tea Party overtaking the R’s led to the likes of Abbott, Cruz, Paxton, Patrick, etc. These are a far cry from the R’s we all grew up with - “moderation” seemed gone. They ran off moderate Rs like Dewhurst, Strauss, etc. Were they perfect? No! But they had the capacity to listen and compromise. Politics today has evolved into a perceived zero-sum game of bitter rivals - worse than sports rivalries. And a cult of personality like Trump is the worst catalyst for something like this. His “drain the swamp” crap violates the basic tenets of Chesterton’s fence: know why the fence is there before you remove it. Sure, the spoils system is real, but understand the “how, what, and why” before declaring you are going to burn it to the ground. In 2020, I voted Biden. Trump is a risk to freedom. He is and will always be an autocratic megalomaniac. In 2024, I will vote Harris - Trump remains a risk to freedom. For every other position, I will assess. EDIT - that all said, I skipped over the obvious that Trump is a lying, cheating, woman-hating, white supremicist turd.
  4. Dude needs a speechwriter - and now.
  5. Those of us encouraging the trip are not waxing poetic about the cosmopolitan nature of Piscataway. Get in; get out. We are saying, "Go there for the game. Stay in NYC. Visit all of NYC. The UCLA/Rutgers game is a great excuse to see your son and catch a UCLA football game." The train trips between Boston and NYC are not that bad - for SBBriun's son.
  6. EDIT3: and bigger dumbass me hit reply to my own post - rather than edit. Time for me to step away from the keyboard.
  7. I'd do Rutgers, especially if you take a couple of days before and/or after to visit Manhattan - esp. if you/he have never been. Great place to visit, esp. in Oct. My oldest daughter did a college visit to Rutgers (she ended up going to UT). We stayed in Newark - trained to Manhattan and drove to Piscataway. I recall the trains running to Piscataway, but they were quite a bit less effective than the trains going to/from Newark. BUT - recall I drove to from Newark to Piscataway, so I might not have misremembered. If you are into jazz, Steve Smith (former Journey drummer) plays in the city a LOT and puts on a great show. He's playing on Oct 18 at Birdland. The "random" music scene there is fantastic. The normal tourist traps are also definitely worth it. EDIT: of course - I wrote all of that before I realized that you are traveling from SoCal. 5+ hour direct flight... And my recommendation was Rutgers for the ancillary entertainment - NOT the football
  8. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-harris-campaign-donations/2020/08/12/06eb1f0e-dcdb-11ea-b205-ff838e15a9a6_story.html Before he entered politics, President Trump donated $6,000 to Kamala D. Harris’s reelection campaign while she was California attorney general, campaign finance records show. Trump gave $5,000 to Harris’s campaign in September 2011 and $1,000 in February 2013. His daughter Ivanka Trump gave Harris’s campaign $2,000 in 2014, records show. Harris, now the running mate of presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, was California’s attorney general from 2011 until 2016 — when she was elected to the U.S. Senate. In 2015, the year Trump began his campaign for president, Harris said she gave Trump’s donations to charity.
  9. As with most anything (especially something that requires a little bit of training, knowledge, and patience), shit’s really easy if you know how to do it. An advantage to the compute evolution and revolution over the past 40 years is that has obfuscated much of the underlying details from the end user. And it has made those end users more innately trusting. The tire change analogy applies for those of us who understand the basics and are comfortable using terminal mode and moving files around (shit - tty or DOS only interfaces were not THAT long ago). For others, they do not want to further fuck up what is already fucked up. Actually, the tire change analogy may fall short. The process for changing a tire has not materially changed for 50+ years. The process to un-fuck a computer changes on each fuckery.
  10. It’s not just white, it’s Utah white. Bordering on the whitest of white (clear?). Most of these folks are likely LDS. I work with and have many LDS friends. My generation is filled with Dan, Brent, etc. Our kids’ generation (20-30) veered a little more: Mason, Tanner, Lindsay. This is yet another step. That said, there are Cutters, Kaylans, etc. at many of the private schools in suburban Texas. I am a bit offended by Qwaylon. Just name the kid Waylon, FFS.
  11. Clark. She'd pass at the right time; she'd cut to the basket; she'd actually hit a three.
  12. Baseball-reference has the info (I suspect you know that), but... https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/PIT/leaders_pitch.shtml Wilbur Cooper - 202 I am a Pirates fan, but too young to recognize that name. All-time saves? I would have guess Kent Tekulve. Nope - Roy Face, who I have never heard of Reds do not have any 200 game winners. https://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/CIN/leaders_pitch.shtml That said, if it is players who have 200 wins and also played for Reds: Seaver is one... Here are the 120 pitchers with 200+ wins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Major_League_Baseball_career_wins_leaders I did not realize that Tim Wakefield had 200 wins. Moreover, he's one of the pitchers who have struck out 4 batters in a single inning.
  13. That's what the CrowdStrike dev said.
  14. Can't tell if you are mocking me or thanking me or both. Not that it really matters
  15. In x86, Opcode+ModRM "00 00" is Add [EAX], AL. That will most certainly generate the page fault reported in the BSOD. The beauty of x86 is that screwing up a binary is fairly trivial. A kernel mode driver filled with nulls is an easy way to crash a machine.
  16. They are not. Just need the keys to get through to the command prompt. That said, you either had to save your keys from before or access them from your corp portal. The process is quite easy for those who are tech savvy. Less so for those who are not.
  17. Totally agree re: devops. As you note, some think devops is git commit -b prod git push
  18. QA is also considered a lower caste in the IT/dev world. Prod deployment QA is even lower than dev QA.
  19. As alluded to above, a couple of things could have occurred. (1) there is some interaction with another recently deployed "feature" in windows - one they do not yet model (2) they do all of their QA in VMs - and there is a hardware, timing, etc. relationship. Nevertheless, they missed it - and their name will live in infamy.
  20. True agile has that in tier 7 of the testing, which is customer-testing. Windows boot, post-deployment, will now be part of the "DOA Testing" adding 5 minutes to the CI, slowing developers.
  21. Agile for the win? Happened to me last night around 1130PM CT. Given it was not yet widespread and workarounds prepared, I followed the typical approach for this: reinstall w/ saving personal files. Well, sily me... I neglected to realize that a reinstallation of Windows would NOT reinstall the corporate image. FML. That said, even for technically savvy people, the process of fixing a corporate-image-installed will be a bit painful: request to boot into safe mode, enter the bitlocker key - that you will have to get off of your phone authenticated to your business (using mobile Edge), boot, remove a file. BTW, writing this from my Mac.
  22. I find the E & J show somewhat like the discussions at a family Thanksgiving get-together. One brother (E) works for a right-winger and is trying to convince himself (and everyone else) that he's moderate (he really is) without impacting his gravy train. This brother is a well loved "goofball" in hi friend group. The other brother (J) is a moderate-libertarian who thinks he's smarter than everyone. His smarts have resulted in a distressed family life and myriad failed relationships. (E) capitulates, realizing it's only 1x per year (or 2 hours per day) and takes the high road. Fwiw - I use their podcast as the background noise as I try to fall asleep some nights
  23. I have lived in 3 states since I was 2 years old (> 5 decades): Alabama, Indiana, Texas (alphabetically). Trifecta!
  24. Imagine if he had split his time developing his shot with developing his video game acumen. He'd have at least 1 3-pt FG at this point. Paying fans should be glad they are only being subjected to this BS in summer league. Even Reddick is not stupid enough to give Bronny real minutes. That said, let Bronny and Lebron start game 1 together. Have Jr. heave a 3 and feign a hamstring injury, allowing him to join the pro E-sports ranks.
  25. Bronny and I have the same NBA 3-pt shooting percentage. Gonna make sure I brag to my family and coworkers this week.
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