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AlecSadler

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AlecSadler ,

I agree with the first part of your comment, but laundromats are absolutely a high profit business.

source: family friend owns a bunch of them, every single one was net profitable inside of a few months and they are now basically pure profit month over month. They make more money than I ever have from a single software development job, even at my peak, and they largely just farm maintenance out and pay some labor.

AlecSadler ,

$350k TC seems low for a job of that magnitude at Google.

AlecSadler ,

Can confirm, I run enterprise at home and have yet to see some of these shenanigans I've seen posted.

But there's still enough I hate about Windows 11 that I'm slowly transitioning to Linux and then just running windows in a VM for things there aren't good alternatives for.

AlecSadler ,

Oh shit, I forgot about that movie...guess I'll have to rewatch it.

AlecSadler ,

First off, I agree with you.

But...second...I struggle with the rehabilitation bit. Some people cannot be rehabilitated. It is a hard truth I have learned, coupled with pain and regret, many times in my life. I'm just curious what you think the course of action should be at that point?

I'm not suggesting death/murder, but I do struggle with the idea that if they're miserable, and the people around them are made miserable, and the people trying to help them are made miserable...what do you do?

AlecSadler ,

Unsubstantiated guess, but based on a cursory search for flights on Delta, it seems like 90% are Boeing.

AlecSadler ,

I'll admit I don't use Macs, so maybe they are more efficient than the Linux and windows machines I work off...

...but I typically use machines with 64GB and recently upgraded my personal machine to 128GB. I still swap about 50GB to my SSD from time to time.

And I'm not doing heavy graphic design or movie editing stuff.

I cannot fathom for the life of me how 8GB would ever be feasible.

AlecSadler ,

I just said I'm not doing graphic design or movie editing. I typically have 10 different browser profiles open to separate data / bookmarks, maybe 8 email accounts in tabs and Outlook (if not on Linux), 4-8 VS code windows, a mix of jetbrains rider or visual studio instances, a smattering mix of postman/SQL server/azure data studio/thunder client, among other things like PDFs and documents. And then multiple docker containers and other local running servers.

The swap usually comes in when I'm parsing a data file or something.

AlecSadler ,

Interesting to know for sure! I guess I can't speak to what they're doing for optimizations first hand, but at the same time...my 128GB cost me like $300 on sale so, I dunno, a wash? Haha.

I've tried to become a Mac convert a few times, mostly peer pressure, but I just haven't been able to do it successfully yet.

AlecSadler ,

Hahaha, it stressed me out so I hide all the icons and changed the background to just black.

AlecSadler ,

You do you.

AlecSadler ,

Hmm, getting server stuff off sounds fun! I have a couple laptops sitting around so it might be fun to even just use those to offload some processes.

I'd love to get my own little server rack or something, not the best timing financially, but that'd be awesome.

I'll have to look into the RPi thing. Thanks for the ideas!

AlecSadler ,

I mean it's my personal machine but I am a software engineer consultant/contractor so I use it for work, too.

AlecSadler ,

Code code code

Why do we have to do the health insurance company's job for them?

Just so tired of almost every time a doctor submits stuff to insurance, we have to be the ones to make multiple phone calls to both the doctor's office and insurance to iron everything out, figure out what the issue is (it's always a different issue), and basically be the go-between for the office and insurance. What am I...

AlecSadler ,

I have to do it quarterly for some reason. Annually would be...better, but still stupid. My doctor even thinks it's dumb, so he usually just asks me all the rote questions...

...no he doesn't, he usually goes blahblahblah you've been doing this for 10+ years we know the routine. Unfortunately I still have to make an appointment, have an appointment, pay the deductible for said appointment, just to get 3mos of a medication that, thus far, I have a medical need for.

AlecSadler ,

I miss that show. It was so perfectly cheesy and fun and silly, with a great array of characters. The finale was great.

AlecSadler ,

I hate him so much.

AlecSadler ,

I tried Starlink, had high hopes, but unfortunately due to living sort of in a valley and being surrounded by numerous 100+ foot trees, service would cut out every 10-15 minutes. Wasn't viable for video conferencing or large downloads.

Cellular was OK, but the speeds could vary wildly and really only peaked at maybe 100/30.

Ultimately, I ended up paying a local provider to bury a line directly to my house for me (well into the 5 figure cost). Worth it.

AlecSadler ,

I paid $100 for my Brother printer and I've spent...maybe $100 on toner cartridges since 2010.

So, yeah, HP can fuck off.

AlecSadler ,

There's a vending machine in a co-working space I use sometimes that has a full on fridge and oven, and when you order off the touchscreen...something happens inside and sometimes a hot cooked thing comes out. I have no idea how it works and have not used it myself, because it seems possibly kinda gross.

AlecSadler ,

I've averaged ~12 job hops in the last 6 years and I wouldn't change a thing. Compensation growth has been roughly 6.05x. The previous 6 years was...maybe 3? And maybe 2x.

I owe the big corps nothing. I meet expectations and deliverables and I support my team however I can, but that's about it.

AlecSadler ,

I could see that if they were all W2. But near the tail end of my more aggressive efforts I started branching into 1099 work and they don't mind at all.

I also have a much wider breadth of technology experience now so it really opened the doors on the opportunities I qualify for.

I've shaved something like 5-7 years off my retirement age with this short stint. Even if I just coast at a single job from here on out, I think it was worth it. You are 100% correct that salary isn't everything. I'm really hoping to grow the 1099 portfolio at this point, there's something a little freeing about it, weirdly enough.

AlecSadler ,

Sadly true. In my earlier years I watched new hires sometimes start at the same or more than I was getting after 1-2 mediocre raises.

At one of my last longer term jobs, I was miffed at the lack of compensation increases over the last 2 years, so I told them I was quitting. I even said I don't have anything lined up, but I just can't continue knowing the market is paying more. They ended up magically finding a 20% increase for me - where was that before?

AlecSadler ,

Tail end. Like the last 6 months of that entire span.

AlecSadler ,

Software Dev/Eng. Largely Angular/Vue, C#/Go, SQL Server/Postgres, and Azure/AWS/GCP full stack development.

I'm not sure how tech pay works in Canada. I know in the UK and surrounding that tech pay is significantly lower than the US.

I am in the US and tech pay here can be criminally high (or criminally low). A lot of people chase RSUs, but I chase base pay.

My friend went from a $15/hr IT Support job to a $500k+ (TC) in 4 years hopping 4 times.

It's stupid money that I assume won't last forever so doing my best to save/donate what I can now.

AlecSadler ,

Honestly, nobody has ever asked (yet).

AlecSadler ,

I graduated with a 2.8 GPA. I learned everything on the job(s). My first few years were 80 hour weeks not because I had to, but because I wanted to learn [everything I didn't learn in school].

My friend never graduated and makes way more money than I do (I believe post-tax $600k but I'm only about 90% sure). Software Engineering is a booming arena right now if you have the right buzz words on your resume and soft skills for the interview. I say booming now, but Sep-Dec last year were rough. However, the market for CS job opportunities is bouncing back.

It's a game that can be played and succeeded at, regardless of pedigree, but aptitude matters. Even my favorite bartender at my local dive bar is studying it in their free time and, frankly, they're getting pretty good at it fast. I think they'll be just fine.

AlecSadler ,

Molly.im

AlecSadler ,

Do you mean that Wyze has a self-hosted NVR option? If so, that'd be awesome for me...

AlecSadler ,

Oh damn, guess I know what I'm doing this week...

AlecSadler ,

Teams has its own one-off setting buried in its own settings menu, I had to go intentionally update it there to fix it for me. Sketchy.

AlecSadler ,

As someone who loathes Teams...you should try the new version. It was, supposedly, rebuilt from the ground up. It has a lot more pop-out features, supports multi-org, and I can even be using pop out windows from one org while actively in another.

That said...Teams is still pretty shitty to me. Even if it's leagues better than it was. The shitty keyboard shortcuts alone kill me.

AlecSadler ,

I have or have had jobs that use Slack, Teams, WebEx, Discord, RingCentral, and GChat...of all of them, Slack is superior in my opinion.

To me:

RingCental: Just...no.

WebEx: Garbage on all fronts.

Teams: Meetings sometimes bug out audio-wise for random participants and have to be restarted. I've periodically been disconnected or left a meeting and yet still get audio from it. Keyboard shortcuts are crappy. There is no Mark all as read. I can't change orgs without using a mouse.

GChat: Down there with WebEx except even shittier keyboard support and no Mark all as read. Just had a UI update and they made it worse. I hate this platform for professional use with every fiber of my being, more than Teams, about the same as WebEx. I'd rather use Lync or Skype, that's how bad it is.

Discord: Don't know why in hell any professional organization uses this, but they do. It sucks for similar reasons mentioned above in some cases. Multi-org support sucks. Alt + F4 in windows terminates it instead of doing the same thing clicking the X does and minimizing it to the tray. Notifications have issues all the time.

Slack: Multi-org support, great. Keyboard shortcuts tick ~95%, I rarely ever have to use a mouse. Huddles were pretty rough at first but at least lately I don't seem to be having any issues. Notifications periodically (maybe 2-3 incidents a year?) have issues, but are typically pretty solid.

AlecSadler ,

No argument there!

AlecSadler ,

I miss my Zune. Do you seriously still have one?

AlecSadler ,

I, briefly, participated in a journalism camp for a large state newspaper where I live and the guiding advice was to, "write targeting a 6th grade education".

That was 15 years ago, I can only imagine it's lower now.

AlecSadler ,

I'm open. I have a small, local business with 8 employees. I take a $1/yr salary and no profit distributions. Everything goes back to employees right now (including benefits being paid for). If we have a bad month, I just cover everything with my own money.

That said, it seems like the idea of being unionized would improve morale so I'm all for it. I just don't know where to start.

Per another thread, foregoing a union in lieu of an ESOP would be better - which I'm also all for. Just open to any feedback.

AlecSadler ,

My wife and I started living together after 3 months, talking marriage at 6, and formally engaged at 9 months. We've been married over 6 years now.

I don't have time for high school nonsense. I'm not going to burn 1+ years of my life on a "maybe". The older I get, the better I learn what I want and don't want.

We both had similar goals, or rather, goals that we could grow in together and not go separate ways. We had a shared sense of humor. My weaknesses were her strengths and vice versa. And we have activities we love doing together and things we love doing alone. It's fucking great.

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