Day: May 10, 2024, 4:57 PM

More Driven

Chill Regular-ass Post

This Florida city has the worst drivers in the US, report says.

Jax is bad (anywhere in Florida is), but driving the I-4 corridor is far worse than Jax. I’ve driven in Egypt. I’ve driven in Uzbekistan. I’ve driven in Panama. The I-4 corridor is the only place in the world where I’ve been actually afraid for my life while driving. And more than once, too. Pretty much every time I had to drive there.

I mentioned our former abode to a co-worker in NC and the first thing the person said was, “Oh, that’s near the I-4 corridor isn’t? That interstate is terrifying. I never want to drive there again.”

Indeed. You have not apprehended life’s beauty till you’ve felt the reaper’s cold exhalation on your neck as you barrel down I-4 outside of Tampa, not knowing if you’ll survive to see another sunrise.

She Said Destroy

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The US is actually pretty good at immigration. For the most part, we don’t admit people who want to destroy the country. Sweden, Germany, and others do, however. So that’s going to be a big problem there in 20-50 years (and a lot of the rest of the EU, due to Schengen).

Sweden is so, so fucked due to immigration. Like damn.

Guide

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Is it normal for sys admin tasks to be put on helpdesk?

It’s not that abnormal, and it’s a good way to learn (it’s how I did, I was doing high-level sysadmin tasks while technically a level 1 helpdesk tech), but it’s also dangerous. Most helpdesk folks don’t have the knowledge and experience to understand when they’re doing something harmful or insecure or both. I’ve seen a lot of helpdesk-led migrations, server decoms and network changes go really, really wrong. And that’s because having someone with a year or two of experience do sysadmin-level tasks is like asking someone who has played Call of Duty a couple of times to lead an SF raid in Somalia.

As someone points out in the comments, these sort of tasks should only be worked by helpdesk with the close guidance of those more experienced. Otherwise, disaster is not just likely but certain.

Proach

Chill Regular-ass Post

Men are discouraged from approaching women they don’t know as well as discouraged from asking out women they do know. How is a relationship supposed to start?

Yeah. Isn’t that some fucked up shit? Glad I’m not involved in any of that crap any longer. Women got the world they wished for…and turns out, no one likes it. Not even them. But they’ll have to deal, as men do. Sometimes it sucks to get what you think you want.

The truth of course is that relationships are begun by the guys who ignore the advice from women and just do things, ask a stranger out, in public, in the library. At work. That’s the reality. Don’t like it, get off my fucking blog and pick up the crack pipe again and resume your true occupation: useless oxygen-guzzler. Today I’ve got more salt than the ocean.