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Sailing has always piqued my interest. From the outside looking in it seems like it's engaging and that could be fun. There's nothing wrong with chilling on a motorboat with a 12-pack either. I just never want to own a boat for the reasons mentioned above.
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Buying a boat to have fun boating is a fools errand. Buying a boat in order to have a boat to work on is the wave. I love boat maintenance. Buy yourself a fixer-upper and fix it up. Fear of death makes boating better. Edit: how often boat ownership is discussed is a good metric for industry health App13 fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Jul 21, 2022 |
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Sepist posted:On long island we have a few yacht clubs where you can use their boats and just pay a yearly subscription fee. I think its 5k a year. I have been thinking of it for a few years but I probably won't even get 5k of boat use per year. this is the way to do it kung fu jive posted:Sailing has always piqued my interest. From the outside looking in it seems like it's engaging and that could be fun. There's nothing wrong with chilling on a motorboat with a 12-pack either. I just never want to own a boat for the reasons mentioned above. get yourself something like a hobie 16
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This is a good read about a boat https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/04/style/matthew-rhys-boat.html
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Bonzo posted:Any boat owner will tell you best days of their lives are the day they bought the boat, and the day they sold it. If you are a person that uses their boat constantly , this isn’t true at all. If you are a personal who pays for a boat, pays for a boat slip every month, and takes it out twice a year, this saying applies to you. Not everyone live close to multiple lakes or has convenient storage for your boat (like your garage). Do I understand. I am just built differently.
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Jul 21, 2022 16:04
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Internet Explorer posted:get yourself something like a hobie 16 Looked this up and found the following pic:  My brain simultaneously: That is extremely my poo poo. That is maybe how I die.
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Jul 21, 2022 16:08
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Sailing is very fun. Being dragged by the boat because you slipped off partially on a tack not so much. In conclusion sailing is a land of contrasts
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For a long time I thought the whole idea of boats being an expensive hobby was weird. Where I grew up nearly everyone had at least a 15-foot flat-bottom with an outboard and it was trivial to pop down to the boat launch and go out on the river for an afternoon.
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Jul 21, 2022 16:35
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kung fu jive posted:Looked this up and found the following pic: It's a lot of fun for sure. You won't die, but having to flip the boat after you capsize it and it turtles is certainly an event. But for sailing where you don't want to pay "boat money," it's a great option. They're also fairly easy to find/rent to get some practice in.
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The Fool posted:For a long time I thought the whole idea of boats being an expensive hobby was weird. 100% this. Depends on where you are I suppose. Most fun I have is on a flat bottom with a 9.9 HP. I have some colleagues with massive $45k inboard monsters and they hate their lives.
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When I was in middle/high school I took sailing lessons on Sunfish which are these pretty simple 1-2 person boats. Was quite fun and pretty easy (I mean, I got proficient at it as a 15 year old dumbass kid). I grew up in an extremely WASPy community in Massachusetts and the town owned a small fleet heh. I wish I had kept with it when I got older, but once I no longer lived in a place where I could just sign one out from the community boathouse it became too much of a hassle. Good buddy with a boat is definitely the play if you can swing it. That $5k/year membership also sounds enticing depending on the specifics, given the huge cost of boat ownership.
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App13 posted:100% this. Depends on where you are I suppose. I also own a 16 1/2 flat bottom boat because I was born poor white trash and I like to hit the river. I am deep into the boat rabbit hole.
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Sickening posted:I also own a 16 1/2 flat bottom boat because I was born poor white trash and I like to hit the river. I am deep into the boat rabbit hole. My fiancé grew up on the coast, so she’s an Ocean person. I grew up on lakes, so I’m lake trash. Over the years I’ve learned to love the river, so now we’re both River Folk. God I love the water. My last job was as a hydrologist and I was the principle boat driver for the region. Only part of federal service that I miss. On topic: HR just pulled me aside to let me know they were terminating an employee this afternoon and were afraid of retaliation. I rallied the desktop support guys and they setup a war room in a computer storage closet. Everyone has their roles, and we are ready to strike. Termination meeting begins at T0, by T+2min this individuals accounts should all be terminated. The hype is real. DS is very excited. Someone ordered pizza)
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App13 posted:My fiancé grew up on the coast, so she’s an Ocean person. I grew up on lakes, so I’m lake trash. Over the years I’ve learned to love the river, so now we’re both River Folk.  I am lake trash and river person. Lake Superior and Mississippi river baby. Completing KB training because corporate America. Glad they made clear that maintaining the KB system is important because it's OUR knowledge and should be a collective process. Now do that with the entire company structure and give everyone ownership. 
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App13 posted:My fiancé grew up on the coast, so she’s an Ocean person. I grew up on lakes, so I’m lake trash. Over the years I’ve learned to love the river, so now we’re both River Folk. river water best water this is the river I grew up on  quote:On topic: HR just pulled me aside to let me know they were terminating an employee this afternoon and were afraid of retaliation. I was always frustrated by this at my last job. We had built automation that keyed off the employees termination in the HR system but there was always some reason HR couldn't update the employees status in a timely manner.
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That is a drat beautiful river. In the medium business hell I escaped before my current gig we would get tickets from HR for employees that had systems access weeks after they were terminated. We would also occasionally get tickets day of with language expressing how it was critical systems access was disabled - sometimes for employees with infrastructure access, other times it was a lab technician that had email and a phone. Absolute gong show that place was.
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I'm so relieved I'm going to be leaving this place in a month. Another one hour+ meeting where people talked about doing work and no decisions were made except to have another meeting on Monday. Nothing accomplished at all. It's a shame because there's a bunch of things I wanted to do here and my boss is a great guy, but I'm tired of the stress and my jaw hurting from grinding my teeth constantly and having to work 3 or 4 hours extra every day, because other people in the wider team can't be bothered to work, and their managers do nothing about it as it would reflect poorly on their own performance review. I never knew just talking about doing work and not actually doing it for months on end could be so draining.
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+1 ocean person here
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Was lake person, now been learning to love rivers. Ocean is where there be monsters of the deep only fools go there
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Naramyth posted:Was lake person, now been learning to love rivers. Former navy, agree on all fronts. Firing update: Operation successful. User was informed by HR and escorted out within a couple minutes. Desktop Support removed all access within 30ish seconds. I thought this was all overkill but they actually reacted violently almost immediately so I guess it wasn’t 😬
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Jul 21, 2022 20:09
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They are debating the legality and morality of working two simultaneous WFH jobs in the Doomsday Econ thread and people are getting up on their high horse about it. Sickening pls report to thread and troll the gently caress out of them with your four jobs.
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Jul 21, 2022 20:25
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Both my jobs in the secret service and the KGB are totally on the up and up.
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I just want a small pontoon boat ('party barge') to take out to the lake on weekends. I've got a place to store it and live 2 miles from a nice secluded lake, and 30 miles from the other 4 Diamond Lakes. The river that is literally right next door is for kayaking!  App13 posted:
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App13 posted:Former navy, agree on all fronts. Finding out via ticket that someone you know was about to be shitcanned sucked. One of many reasons I am happy to be on the software side of the house these days.
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True, but sometimes you could also do a little happy dance because that person was awful.
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Question: does cold booting do anything on modern machines? My coworker treats it as a panacea but I'm really doubtful it does anything vs just restarting like usual
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cold reboots can make even more of a difference since modern computers have a bunch of extra power management states
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tokin opposition posted:Question: does cold booting do anything on modern machines? My coworker treats it as a panacea but I'm really doubtful it does anything vs just restarting like usual Windows?
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I never trust that a computer is really off unless it's unplugged (laptops are even worse.) I feel like a cold boot definitely does something different than a reboot. Some of our laptops are very difficult to get into BIOS (for switching boot sources for miaging, for example) on a cold boot, but no problem on a reboot. 
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Farking Bastage posted:Interview was very cool follow up technical interview next week. The boss who denies my training and WFH asked me to clean out the storage room so I’m working out my hate on giant boxes of hdd trays for gen2 dell servers and null modem cables from 20 years ago. In the absence of specific instructions, throw away literally everything. I mean, they already treat you like you're incompetent.
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Darchangel posted:In the absence of specific instructions, throw away literally everything. I mean, they already treat you like you're incompetent. You should be raking rocks.
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App13 posted:Former navy, agree on all fronts. Why can't the HR person call them in and while they are in the meeting and under observation have the accounts all deactivated? That's the way my hedge fund did it.
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Why can't the HR person call them in and while they are in the meeting and under observation have the accounts all deactivated? That's the way my hedge fund did it. That’s exactly what happened. User got pulled into a meeting, as soon as that meeting started we yanked access. User whips out phone to send an email, sees she doesn’t have access, whips phone at the wall, is escorted out. Weird day
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App13 posted:That’s exactly what happened. User got pulled into a meeting, as soon as that meeting started we yanked access. User whips out phone to send an email, sees she doesn’t have access, whips phone at the wall, is escorted out. Weird day  was that normal behavior for this person
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App13 posted:That’s exactly what happened. User got pulled into a meeting, as soon as that meeting started we yanked access. User whips out phone to send an email, sees she doesn’t have access, whips phone at the wall, is escorted out. Weird day was it her phone or the companies?
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When I worked at worldcom as a teenager(gently caress you clamdick) I fantasized about being fired. I was planning on running through the complex with security chasing me. I never got that chance. E: the smoking section had the best view of the hallways connecting the buildings so I’d just imagine myself running like jack sparrow while security chased me. From 1 floor to the other and the smokers would cheer for me. jaegerx fucked around with this message at 01:32 on Jul 22, 2022 |
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I got let go from a position because I was completely disenchanted, checked out, and a few days away from getting an offer for my first senior engineering role. When the hammer came down they started in with all this talk about how disappointed they were with my performance and how hard they knew it must be for me to be let go. I saw the opportunity, cut them off with a “No, it’s actually fine. I’m just gonna go”. I walked over to my desk where I had a small palm tree in a large planter, ripped the palm tree out of the planter, dropped it into the trash, grabbed my backpack and planter, and loudly said “I’m out y’all, take care!”. My close colleagues knew I was leaving but I’m pretty sure everyone else thought I had completely lost my mind. The planter was mine. The company owned the tree. I wanted my planter
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