@Carnival-Boy said in How I Picture Managers Taking Away Facebook for "Productivity":
That's how I picture Americans - if there's something you don't like, shoot it.
As an American I find this offensive.... Now hold still and stand in front of that tree.... 
Not sure if I have posted this before around here, just wanted to put my two cents in. I did a little over a year of fat free vegan, and I lost 80 lbs. but I started having some health issues from not watching my micro nutrients. I quit that diet. I decided after a couple years that I still wasn't where I wanted to be, so I have tried a new diet and my wife and I love it. It is The Wilfe Diet from Able James. I do well with strict rules and structure around weight loss, so it works for me. It is basically paleo with less restrictions, a focus on quality food, and intermittent fasting. I have lost another 20 lbs between this a just watching what I eat then about 6 weeks ago changing over to this diet and loosing another 10-15lbs. My new fitness addition is putting Olympic Gymnastic rings and a ceiling mounted pull up bar in my garage and giving up the gym membership to work out at home. I work out there 3 days a week doing the Reddit Bodyweight Fitness RR, then yoga 2-3 days a week on my off days, and walk 1-2 miles a day on my lunch break playing Pokemon Go! So far so good, and I am by far in the best shape of my life.
Feel free to hit me up if you are interested in trying out any of this stuff, I would love to help someone else get in shape.
I am having a blast. There were 50 people in a local park all running around talking with each other and interacting. Smaller kids were playing, parents were catching pokemon. I overheard one guy say "I have brought my daughter up here to play every night." I have never seen this on a Monday Night in my life.
@scottalanmiller said in How far will bitcoin and other cryptos fall?:
@irj said in How far will bitcoin and other cryptos fall?:
...still falling....
Panic has triggered at this point.
30 year old me would love for 15 year old me to have taken this opportunity. 15 year old me would probably be too busy working on cars and playing in a band to take time out of his day for this kinda thing. This would be a killer opertunity for some lucky kid.
I see where he is coming from. Asking a question on this forum can be intimidating. For me personally I love it, I like being proven wrong, I like going to head to head. I have never won a debate with @scottalanmiller, and I like that, I learn from it. From what I have gathered in life a vast majority of people don't like this feeling, and take it personally.
Tomorrow is my birthday, so I am celebrating Saturday. I plan on riding bikes with my wife, filling a growler with craft beer, and secretly drink it out of water bottles while riding around town. Beer + Bikes + day drinking is the best Saturday possible.
I can relate. I remember thinking @scottalanmiller was this untouchable IT rock star from the SW community. Then in 2011 when I went to my first Spiceworld, and Scott was there. I went up to him like a fan girl, and ended up hanging out and having a beer. It made me realize that the people I look up too on the online community for advice and guidance were just real people who were smart, but worked their tail off and focused on life long learning. It made me reevaluate myself and how I viewed my role in IT and start focusing on those same principals so I could be on that level. I am now triple the computer professional I was, and still learning. That being said, I still keep the old Niagara Business card as an IT collector's item.
@thanksajdotcom said in ThanksAJ Having a Tough Morning:
Another angle...
I think we can fix that...
I have been with a company for 3+ years now. Before this job I had constantly made up job titles from DB Manager, to Network Admin, to Systems Admin, when in reality I was an IT generalist with a CIS degree running a 1-2 man operation for a company with less than 500 employees. Now I am at a new job and my role is basically a Manufacturing Systems Integrator/ .Net Developer, but my job title is a made up title specific to this company ending in Technician and it doesn't reflect what I really do day to day. I have started pushing to upper management that I would like an industry standard job title, because I don't feel that my title respects the work I do. I am getting push back. I just wanted to open a discussion on if this is just ego, and title doesn't matter, or does it? Is is fair that I want to be called a developer or integrator, because it is what I do. It is hard to determine if I am being compensated fairly when my title is made up, but does that matter? What say you all?
I have built a few of these over the years, but it has been a while. The video card is important, but only if they are rendering 3d or using something like After Effects. The biggest area you want to max out on is a Nice motherboard, a good processor, then 100% Max out every bit of RAM you can put in that board. This is because when you edit video, it is in RAM. Then to render it has to process everything you want done at 4K. The Processor L2 cache, buss speed, and RAM speed and amount are always the bottleneck.
Many of the Video editing machines I built back in the 2010ish times would use the intel onboard video, a 2nd PCI cheap video card I found for free for a 2nd monitor, then spend over 1/2 my build budget on really nice RAM and a motherboard. This may have changed a little going from 1080p to 4K.
I don't want to be that guy, but you could take the time you are spending worrying about this, and just change all of your passwords and be done with it.
@JaredBusch said in Can all phones read QR codes natively?:
@Dashrender said in Can all phones read QR codes natively?:
@bnrstnr said in Can all phones read QR codes natively?:
Wow. I'm an idiot. I always thought you had to have a QR reader app to use QR codes...
I just tried pointing the regular camera app of my iPhone at it and it read it immediately. :man_facepalming:
I learned that more by mistake a few weeks/month ago.
This was only added natively in iOS 12 I think
Yup, it was 11 or 12. All modern smart phone operating systems handle them natively now, but that is a fairly modern change. You used to have to use a 3rd party app.
I really appreciate all of the feed back. I know that printer programing is serious business, we used to have a guy around here who had been doing it for years :winking_face: That being said it was a factor that helped me cross over from retail to manufacturing as both do a ton of work with label printing. I can however just bring it up in an interview if relevant, and not seem like I am trying to fill a sheet a paper. I will take your advice and rework it again in the next day or so. THANK YOU again for your time!
@EddieJennings said in Updated my Resume:
@s-hackleman said in Updated my Resume:
@EddieJennings said in Updated my Resume:
What job are you pursuing? Knowing this will help giving you a relevant critique.
As of right now, officially nothing. This is more of a I have never really needed a good professional resume, but I know I should probably have one in my back pocket that is up to date. Work has been a little rocky for a while, so I wanted to have a resume ready if I need it. Also, I suck at trying to sell myself, so I'm here for critique and advice.
There still needs to be some kind of focus. For example, the resume I have now (which I tweak as needed) is geared toward systems administration jobs. If I wanted to go back to public school teaching, I'd have to create a different base resume. What kind of job do you want to pursue?
That is where I am going to have to spend some time thinking and go back to the drawing board. I have always been a generalist and jack of all trades, which is why I'm an integrator now. I don't have certifications as there has never been a point in my career to date where I needed it. I guess I am going to have to pick a path.
@EddieJennings said in Updated my Resume:
What job are you pursuing? Knowing this will help giving you a relevant critique.
As of right now, officially nothing. This is more of a I have never really needed a good professional resume, but I know I should probably have one in my back pocket that is up to date. Work has been a little rocky for a while, so I wanted to have a resume ready if I need it. Also, I suck at trying to sell myself, so I'm here for critique and advice.
I have seen a few of these back in the day get stuck. Every time I would just get mad and walk away and let them sit overnight (12+ hours). The next morning hitting the update button would work after who knows what timed out. Good luck!
I haven't redone my resume in the over a decade, so I figured I should probably go ahead redo it. The one I had was the one I had done when I first left college. I tried doing something a little more involved than just a default template. So here a copy of it. If you have time, just read over it and give me any feedback you guys have to offer, and please tear it apart. Some information has been edited to protect the innocent. Thanks in Advance!
Checking in as well. I haven't lost a single pound. That being said I have been doing CrossFit for over a year and I have added 40lbs to almost every lift, I can comfortably run a mile unbroken, and I feel great. Take your wins where they come. Now I'm on to conquering pull ups and jump rope double unders.
