1. mgarfias Jan 4, 2026 parent

   these look like they have ... other uses.
2. mgarfias Jan 4, 2026 parent

   I f'd my knees running track in HS - i suspect some kind of structural problem that alters the way my knees move. Sr year wsa awful, i was just about crawling to class in the morning. MRIs showed nothing and I learned to live with it and eventually it got better when I stopped running.

   10ish years later I had started riding my bike a lot during the dotcom explosion induced downtime, I kept it up after I was employed again. Knee pain came back. Went to the ortho again, this time was told "oh you have a torn meniscus, lets go fix it.

   So I went under and woke up to be told that my meniscus was fine, and that I had worn grooves through the cartilage and into the bone - doc told me to never run, jump, ski, ride, etc. I was to sit on the couch.

   Somehow I ended up taking karate, and the knees hurt for a bit, but the stretching we did helped loosen up my hams and quads. It didnt make the knee pain go away, but it made it tolerable in that it no longer affected my day to day.

3. mgarfias Dec 30, 2025 parent

   Hey my dad used to wipe the stuff of tomatoes before eating them right off the vine.

   I’m mostly ok, have the normal number of arms and legs. Only had one tumor, and just a few endocrine issues. Nothing major, it’s all good.

4. mgarfias Dec 22, 2025 parent

   Why yes, they do. If they didn't, they would get out and socialize. I'm not controlling them. We're basically all introverts here. Except maybe my youngest, who gets his social needs met at school, and he's free to visit them whenever he wants (within reason).
5. mgarfias Dec 8, 2025 parent

   some of us like that.

   I get 90% of my social interaction needs from my wife/kids/dogs. The rest I get from going to the gym and lifting.

   OTOH: i also live in the woods.

6. mgarfias Nov 27, 2025 parent

   Well, I didn’t produce enough T on my own anyway, so what the hell.
7. mgarfias Nov 27, 2025 parent

   My MYP has needed to go into the shop once (aside from a Portland pothole wrecking a wheel and bending a suspension arm).

   Our Benz sprinter needed an engine at 11k miles.

   I wonder what they count as defects.

8. mgarfias Nov 19, 2025 parent

   Also, most of the car people I know could easily debug software, they’re used to debugging fairly complex systems already. They just don’t know it.

   It’s the same basic way of thinking.

9. mgarfias Nov 19, 2025 parent

   This makes no sense. FoMoCo doesn’t hire mechanics to work on customer cars, franchise dealerships do.

   And no mechanic I’ve ever met makes 120k.

10. mgarfias Oct 20, 2025 parent

    Now can they fix all the other usability issues?
11. mgarfias Sep 30, 2025 parent

    Im working on (slowly) a very very niche web app to help my wife manage her dog breeding program. Maybe it'll be useful enough for other breeders to use it.
12. mgarfias Sep 23, 2025 parent

    > XTX developed TernFS for distributed storage after they outgrew their original NFS usage and other file-system alternatives.

    So... call me old and crotchety, but i'm not sure I trust someone to write a DFS like this that once thought NFS a good idea. I'm sure its fine, I just have bad memories.

13. mgarfias Aug 20, 2025 parent

    Some of us have lived through multiple bubbles and know that often, the underlying bits are useful and will gain widespread acceptance. Just play long, and don’t feed the hypemonster.
14. mgarfias Jul 30, 2025 parent

    A big part of my childhood died
15. mgarfias Jul 25, 2025 parent

    A Glock 18, huh? I’d fucking love to edc a Glock 18.
16. mgarfias Jul 4, 2025 parent

    I want to leave tech as well. Unfortunately I can't figure out how to replace my income (yet). I'm working on a VERY niche SaaS offering, that has some novel growth areas. But getting time to work on it is slow going. Maybe it will some day be enough to replace my income, and I can bail on the FTE thing.
17. mgarfias Jun 16, 2025 parent

    When I use an LLM for (much of anything) I always feel like that scene in the first Iron Man movie where Stark is trying to build stuff with the robot and it almost, but doesn't quite, do what he wants, and then screws something all the way up
18. mgarfias Feb 23, 2025 parent

    are they still counting a pair of gang bangers shooting each other in the parking lot a school shooting?
19. mgarfias Feb 4, 2025 parent

        Location: Oregon, USA.
        Remote: Only.
        Willing to relocate: No.
        Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Git, Linux, Docker Python, etc.  All the Stuff a modern SRE should do.
        Resume: Upon Request.
        Email: mike+jobs@garfias.org

    I've been doing Sysadmin/DevOps/SRE (the names keep changing on me) since the mid 90s. I've worked for big companies and small startups (one was even acquired!). I've run ops departments and been a cog. These days I'd like to be some kind of lead, designing things, and helping my juniors implement it, and land at a place that will keep me content for the next ten years or so.
20. mgarfias Jan 3, 2025 parent

    I feel the same way - I have STFU for the most part. i miss the old internet.
21. mgarfias Jan 3, 2025 parent

    real name is attached to most old things - im an old fart and got on the internet when such things were safe. Anything created in the past 7-8 years i use something made up.

    (is there a way to change my username here?)

22. mgarfias Jan 3, 2025 parent

    SEEKING WORK | US | REMOTE

        Location: Oregon, USA.
        Remote: Only.
        Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Git, Linux, Docker Python, etc.  All the Stuff a modern SRE should do.
        Resume: Upon Request.
        Email: mike+jobs@garfias.org
    

    I've been doing Sysadmin/DevOps/SRE (the names keep changing on me) since the mid 90s. I've worked for big companies and small startups (one was even acquired!). I've run ops departments and been a cog. These days I'd like to be some kind of lead, designing things, and helping my juniors implement it. I believe in incremental improvement, not the ONE BIG CHANGE that will fix our lives.

    I'm looking for some PT AWS IaC work to help pay for the family's health insurance premiums while working for a body shop while looking for more permanent work.

23. mgarfias Jan 3, 2025 parent

        Location: Oregon, USA.
        Remote: Only.
        Willing to relocate: No.
        Technologies: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Ansible, Git, Linux, Docker Python, etc.  All the Stuff a modern SRE should do.
        Resume: Upon Request.
        Email: mike+jobs@garfias.org
    

    I've been doing Sysadmin/DevOps/SRE (the names keep changing on me) since the mid 90s. I've worked for big companies and small startups (one was even acquired!). I've run ops departments and been a cog. These days I'd like to be some kind of lead, designing things, and helping my juniors implement it. I believe in incremental improvement, not the ONE BIG CHANGE that will fix our lives.
24. mgarfias Dec 9, 2024 parent

    I just want better battery life and less unneeded bs
25. mgarfias Dec 7, 2024 parent

    This whole thread is full of dunning-kruger.
26. mgarfias Nov 17, 2024 parent

    I dont trust that it’s a pure mechanical system
27. mgarfias Nov 16, 2024 parent

    My Chevrolet truck while having an actual door latch, doesn’t open the doors if they’re locked. You have to pull twice.

    Is that an electronic counter (likely) or mechanical? If the latter, no big deal, if the former it’s even worse than the Tesla - at least my MY has a separate mechanical over ride.

28. mgarfias Nov 8, 2024 parent

    Just wait til you try an Inverter MIG w/CO2. OMG, so nice.

    Yeah, a bit more than $1000 though, I paid $4k for my setup (but it does AC/DC TIG too).

29. mgarfias Nov 8, 2024 parent

    cast iron mafia here - though I do have a nice set of copper cored all clad pots and pans.
30. mgarfias Nov 8, 2024 parent

    we had something about that tier - a dewalt. I watched my wife struggle with it, trying to hold square while building cabinets. It was so frustrating to me just watching her, that two years ago I went and bought her a nice saw stop deal. It cost me about $3k, but the fence holds square, its easy to adjust, quiet, and it just works.

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