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GenXer

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  1. I’m skeptical of ai doing away with dev jobs. At this very moment I’m blocked from testing a downstream issue because the software application won’t let me perform an upstream function. When this happens, I chat with a dev to troubleshoot the upstream issue. Assuming devs go away, explaining this to some ai and having it explain whether it’s a data issue, configuration issue, or some previous deployment failed seems dubious.
  2. Ummm… it glowed green when response time was >= 0.5 second, and red when it was < 0.5 sec? A slower response time glowed green? If you pulled that off and convinced him things were good at green, he’s dumb as well as odd.
  3. Son got promoted to 1st Lieutenant in the Air Force in Aug. We flew up to Dayton OH for the promotion ceremony at Wright-Patterson AFB in Oct. He graduated from Tech with a bachelor’s in Economics in May 2020. Pandemic canceled the graduation ceremony. That really hurt my wife so the promotion ceremony was really important to attend. It was very modest; it held in a conference room with a Captain, Lt Colonel, several civilian co-workers, and one other service member being promoted to 1st Lieutenant. Money well spent on the trip. Nephew joined the OK National Guard when he graduated high school. He spent the fall of 2019 in GA going through basic. He began attending OU in the spring of 2020 on his bachelor’s in Economics. In Jan of 2021, he was deployed to stand guard at Biden’s inauguration to ensure the peaceful transition of power. During his stay, he slept on the floor of the library of congress. He’s a Junior and is going to be deployed internationally this spring for 17 months. He will put his education on hold during this time. He’s ridiculously smart and plans on attending law school when he graduates. He wants to get into politics after that. Both of his parents committed suicide when he was 16 so we try to make sure he has everything he needs to be successful. He is remarkably mature and responsible so it’s not a challenge. He joined the national guard of his own volition knowing that it would supplement his income. In Jan, we’re taking him to the northeast for a week to tour a couple of law schools just so he can see opportunities outside of OK. He will have one more year of school when he returns after his 17 months of service. He will be taking the LSAT and applying to law schools during that time. tldr- son and nephew make me really f’ing proud.
  4. Saw Slain Cleaves in Ft Worth at Bass Halls’s mcdavid studio last night.
  5. This is the first I’ve heard of Mastodon. When you “tweet” on Mastodon, is it called “masterdate?” If so, I’m in.
  6. I saw Smashing Pumpkins in ‘94 at lollapalooza at the starplex in dallas. They were an indistinguishable wall of noise. I was really looking forward to seeing them but was disappointed. I swore I’d never see them again but the good reviews in this thread are making me reconsider.
  7. Musk gonna be hitting the streets for adderall
  8. I’ve been using snagit to record my demos of issues since 2010. I give a brief description of the issue, actual result and expected result and attach the video to the jira ticket. Saves a lot of time on writing a thesis explaining the issue and it’s easier for the dev to understand the issue.
  9. Joe put his best line on the chick, and she says “nope. I’m with this cracker!”
  10. I saw him referred to as Enron in a tweet about the twitter fiasco. That made me chuckle.
  11. Between that DeSantis ad and this pic, there’s a wealth of material for trump to paint DeSantis as impotent. Gonna be fun to watch.
  12. Somehow I’ve never seen this before. It looks like an SNL sketch. That’s a humiliating debasement of DeSantis.
  13. You responded to my post where I said Eli Lilly is paying attention to the changes at Twitter. Your response was condescending. Stop being disingenuous. I really don’t give a shit if Musk is successful or a failure with twitter or his other endeavors. I fucking hate pharmaceutical companies for their decades-long gouging of us type 1’s for profit’s sake. My endocrinologist has patients that ration their insulin because of its cost. Any pain inflicted on Eli Lilly is pure unfiltered schadenfreude. Some sleepless nights for the Eli Lilly board are well deserved; there’s parents suffering sleepless nights trying to figure out how to buy insulin for their kids.
  14. This can’t be true. @Humble Beast assured me that Eli Lilly’s board didn’t give a shit.
  15. I got confirmation from my human wife that no shenanigans occurred whilst I was incapacitated due to bad insulin procured from walmart.
  16. I caught The White Buffalo Fri night in Dallas at Deep Ellum Art Co. Cool venue but the acoustics could be better. White Buffalo put on a damn good show. Jake Smith has gritty powerful vocals. The lyrics to Wish It Were True really resonate with me.
  17. There’s 1.45 million type 1 diabetics in the US. Doctors prescribe the modern (analog) insulin as they don’t want to run the risk of malpractice. Using my prescription as a baseline (lispro for short acting and levemir for long acting), that’s $400 per month of revenue between the manufacturer and retailer. For all type 1’s that comes to $580 million per month. Eli Lilly and its board wants to protect that revenue. Any threat is treated seriously. There are a lot of people ignorant of the insulin money grab. Twitter has nearly 400 million users. Musk has a large fanbase as well. Insulin manufacturers want to continue flying under the radar and keep getting that sweet revenue stream. Not to CR this thread but theres federal and state legislation that can threaten the revenue stream. Attention brought to that is a threat. Eli Lilly is doing damage control on twitter; they had to apologize as a result of a decision by Musk. Eli Lilly’s board is paying attention.
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