Flames5123
@Flames5123@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 1 day ago:
Not yet! I think she thinks I’m already enough to handle 😂
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 2 days ago:
Being polyam in Seattle is great. All of my coworkers know I’m poly and just accept it. All the bartenders know too. Makes it easy for them to start the tab.
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 3 days ago:
I’m an outlier because I live in a walkable neighborhood in a city. But I have 10 breweries within walking distance around my house. I know the owners by name for 2 of these breweries and the bartenders know me for 4 of them. I think they all know my dog.
I usually go with my wife and/or girlfriend about 2-4 days a week, but it’s still very much a hang out.
We’re also Friday regulars to a semi-close bar every Friday because I won a free beer/week for a year in a $25 raffle!
- Comment on #environmentalist 3 days ago:
Seattle has commercially compostable plastic straws. They feel pretty much like plastic but are kind of matte. Even the single use forks/knives/spoons from restaurants are like that. But then again we do large scale compost across the city.
- Comment on #environmentalist 3 days ago:
Seattle has commercially compostable plastic straws. They feel pretty much like plastic but are kind of matte. Even the single use forks/knives/spoons from restaurants are like that. But then again we do large scale compost across the city.
- Comment on Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On 6 days ago:
Last night from 12-4am, it was almost every region impacted so it didn’t help that much.
But we do have failovers for customers that they need to activate to just start working in another region.
But our canaries and infrastructure alarms cannot do that since they are for alerts in the region.
- Comment on Today's Massive AWS Outage That Took Down Your Favorite Sites Is Still Going On 6 days ago:
As someone that works at another Amazon AWS dependent org, it also took out us. It was awful. Nothing I could do on my end. Why the fuck didn’t it get rolled back immediately? Why did it go to a second region? Fucking idiots on the big teams side.
I got paged 140 times between 12 and 4 am PDT. Then there was another one where I had to hand it off at 7am because I needed fucking sleep. And they handled it until 1pm. I love my team, but it’s so awful that this even was able to happen. All our our fuck ups take 5-30 mins to roll back or manually intervene. This took them 2+ hours, and it was painful. Then it HAPPENED AGAIN! Like what the fuck.
- Comment on Is airtags really useful? 1 week ago:
I have one on my wallet and it helps my ADHD brain not miss the bus when I misplace my wallet. My AirPods also now have the same thing. And me or my wife can use it on our phones. It helps eliminate a lot of frantic searching.
- Comment on That one Pokémon 1 month ago:
Calms are very slimy!
- Comment on We can't all be astronauts. 1 month ago:
Take the center of mass at that point. Can’t be 0 because atoms have widths.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 1 month ago:
I’m lucky enough that when my company started enforcing 5 days a week, they don’t enforce hours. I usually wake up for my first meeting then shower/get ready after, then commute. They give me free public transit, so I take the bus every time too. Plus I can bring my dog in, and I get a free nice coffee (lattes, tea, matcha, etc). Then I’ll leave the office about 3/4pm and WFH if needed.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 1 month ago:
I’m lucky enough o be able to take the bus to work, plus they give me a free transit card.
- Comment on human geography 2 months ago:
I grew up in the center of Mississippi. I always called it “the devil is beating his wife”. Idk why it was ever called that because there was no story; it’s just how it is.
- Comment on TikTok Shop Sells Viral GPS Trackers Marketed to Stalkers 2 months ago:
You can buy nitrous ANYWHERE, so I wouldn’t blame TikTok for that.
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 2 months ago:
Oh!!! I see! I try not to listen to most of what he says, so I missed the reference. I’m watching all the new ones now!
- Comment on YSK: US Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem publically bragged about killing her puppy 2 months ago:
That “washed up irrelevant cartoon” got a contract for $1.5B. Totally washed up…
- Comment on What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner? 2 months ago:
Was about to suggest the same! I feel in love with it 4 years ago and subscribed after beating the base game. Turns out that I had a JP service account, so I had to do the whole base story again on a new NA account (since they don’t allow cross region payments).
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 3 months ago:
I can never get the parallel view to work. My eyes want to focus too quickly. :( cross view is so much easier to me. I wish they came in both all the time.
- Comment on 413524 Gang, rise up! 3 months ago:
Finally my people.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 3 months ago:
It’s the same in Amazon software development. We have like 3 different AI tools. I enjoy it for unit tests and predicting the next two lines of a simple thing, but it’s not going to refactor our codebase.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
But if people are visiting, don’t most people want massive tourist infrastructure?
How can we “visit” if there’s not even a hotel? Do tourists need to learn the native language to find a place?
- Comment on Matrix.org is Introducing Premium Accounts 4 months ago:
Exactly. I’m nowhere close to the top of the tech ladder, but I make more than that and still have to rent and will be renting for several more years. To buy an average house in this city, it would be like 7k/month without a 20% down payment. And household debt needs to be 30% of your total income so I would need to make $250k to even get approved for a loan for an average house in the city.
- Comment on devinetly organic... 4 months ago:
No, that’s Orgasmo. You’re thinking of the fruit that had the color named after it.
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 4 months ago:
using any kind of marketing tactics
So there shouldn’t be a poster on a wooden pole for a new corner store? How about fancy signs? No happy hours either?
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 4 months ago:
I also joined kbin when I started, then hopped to lemmy.world. Finally hopped to sh.itjust.works because I was tired of the world censorship like not allowing us to even browse !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft 4 months ago:
But our current systems do talk to each other, like meetings show up on Chime and in Outlook and in the meeting rooms. This is Amazon AWS I’m talking about, not some mid size company.
- Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft 4 months ago:
It’s so crazy to me that Amazon of all people are migrating to M365. Slack isn’t being deprecated yet, but Amazon Chime is gonna be replaced with teams by mid 2026. So wild that they don’t want to invest in their own platform.
- Comment on Blue Prince - Have you played it? How blown is your mind? 4 months ago:
I don’t really have time for extensive puzzle games anymore, so I watch a YouTuber named Aliensrock. He’s still playing it, and I’m so invested! It’s insane that a puzzle rougelite can work so well and be so engaging with the story and mysteries. There are multiple ways to figure out each puzzle (except one so far), which is fascinating.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 4 months ago:
But the Musk/Trump stuff isn’t about Canada. The American federal tax rebate doesn’t work like that. It only benefits the consumer, so it’s not a scam they can do here.
- Comment on What did Musk and Trump fall out over? 4 months ago:
That’s Canada. That’s not the American tax rebate.