@thanksajdotcom said in Gravatar Not Updating:

@tonyshowoff said in Gravatar Not Updating:

In the thumbnail you look black, at least on my monitor; it's just fascinating is all.

I'm wearing a dark blue shirt, and I have the beard now, so there is that...

I meant your face, as in you look like a black man, but only in the thumbnail, the larger one that's not the case. It could just be my monitor though.

@MrWright4hire said:

Hello tony aka Mr. Pretentious. Welcome! I hope you're able to connect with like minded people and some how grown beyond your comfort zone.

Thanks, me too, Mr Wright

A topic title like "So I did it!" made me think perhaps there was going to be an admission of bank robbery or perhaps grand theft auto.

@RojoLoco said in How do you get your boss to notice your work?:

Dress slutty... your boss will notice you.

Every time I try this, the police are called.

@NattNatt said in Same bugs for days now:

Go onto your user settings, second box on the left hand side - change to say "none" then save changes at the bottom

Don't tell me what to do!

@thanksaj said:

So I would love to know how it is so...

I have defied doctors for decades on the whole "you need 7-9 hours of sleep per night" thing. Ever since I can remember, I can get 3-5 hours of sleep and function perfectly fine. Now many have argued in the past that it was my age, whether that meant pre-teen, or teenager, or now early 20s. I know this isn't the case though...

The way it really works is: the older you get, the less you sleep, so this fits the typical know-it-all adults in the world who will defy logic to tell you that you're wrong. Consider how much babies sleep and how much people sleep until they get older, especially if you don't include the stereotypical teenager who sleeps all day (most parents who judge this tend to also not realise that s/he has been awake all night and didn't sleep 16 hours; also depression can make you sleep way more). A baby can sleep 16 hours but the elderly tend to sleep 4 - 5, my grandfather prior to his death tended to only sleep about 3 hours each night; now I guess he sleeps 24/7.

Me personally, when I was a child I always woke about 6am, 7 days a week, no matter what, and I never slept-in until I was about 15 and I had stayed up all night until 7am, so I went to bed and woke up at 11am. Despite this, I was never a morning person though, I always was a night person, and I had more energy at night, got more work done, but then I still had to wake up for whatever reason.

Today, I am the boss and I can do whatever I want, unless there's a reason to get up a certain time, I just stay awake as long as I want and sleep as long as I want, and I've fallen into a thing where I am awake for 18 - 20 hours and I sleep for about 5 hours. I do most of my work at night, and I get vastly much more done than when I try to do it in the day. For comparison, most people are awake 16 - 17 hours, I wanted to point this out because after years of conversations with people, most know the "ideal" 8 hours, but don't seem to ever do the math to realise they're only awake 16 hours, if you ask them, they'll tend to say it's much longer... at least in my experience.

There's a sort of stigma that exists as well against people who would rather work at night, since farming once could only be done in the light of day, we've inherited a cultural idea that if you are asleep during the day, no matter how much you worked the night before, it's because you're lazy. Anyone who isn't a complete idiot, knows this is not how reality works.

I'm sort of sensitive to light as well, so I really hate being out in the sun, I can barely see, even with sunglasses. So it was a major encouragement for starting my own company, being financially independent, mostly so I can tell people to FOAD that want me to be up in the day time. I really hate it. It's harder to live that way since I don't live in NYC anymore, but not impossible, just a lot less to do/eat at night.

I also suffer from AD(H)D, definitely no hyperactivity at all, but I've always had focusing problems (I sort of just drift off into day dreaming or thinking about nothing), I did notice years ago, as a teenager, when I drank a lot of tea, I got more programming done and could focus better. Years later I found out that while caffeine makes regular people jumpy and keeps them awake, with AD(H)D it actually doesn't work that way, it helps with focus, and rarely affects sleep directly, though too much can still be bad for your cardiovascular system.

I started taking Modafinil years ago, primarily because of focusing problems and caffeine wasn't enough. Modafinil, combined with caffeine, I crank out about 1,200 lines of code per day (compared to the 100 average they say people do, maybe if you're playing tetris at your desk all day) and some days I go beyond that. I've never been able to get my hands on Adderall, even though I've asked tons of teenagers and drug users where to get some illegally, apparently nobody knows anything, of course they don't. I have taking Ritalin, but since it was for school, and I hated school and had no interest in doing anything there, even if I was on something, it didn't seem to work... I bet today it would.

I just buy Modafinil from Sun Pharmaceuticals in India with bitcoin, not only because it's about 40 cents per pill, but because in the US it's about $45 per pill, a month of Modafinil from a pharmacy, with insurance, tends it run about $1,800.

How I got on Modafinil in the first place was: I was working at a national ISP which will remain nameless and my boss would give it to anyone who wanted it. He never forced anyone to take it, but when people fell behind, the option was there. What I like about it compared to actual AD(H)D medication is, you tend to not know you're on anything until it's gone. You feel just normal and can finally focus, but when you stop taking it, you realise how terrible at focusing you were all along. At least that's how it was with me.

And that's me and sleep and AD(H)D, I brought up AD(H)D because AJ did so if this was tl;dr, blame him.

@JaredBusch said:

@nadnerB said:

Pffffffft pansies

Not our fault you're brain is mush from hanging upside down from the planet all your life.

Just like those smug, bastard penguins. Wearing tuxedos all the time, sliding around like they own the world. God, I hate them!

I've never had a home lab and I'm better than most people I hire, or have worked for, or many I have met (but I've also met a lot of people way more knowledgeable and talented @scottalanmiller being one of them). Having said that, I do remember almost everything I do and read better than most people, so it's just genetic cheating anyway.

I think though I'd be suspicious of someone who didn't have a homelab because they had the attitude of "that's my job, I don't want to have to do that when I'm not at work," I despise this kind of thing. If you don't like it, get a different job, especially if your in tech. I have a whole story about this kind of attitude, and I won't get into it here, other than to say: if you don't love what you're doing, you suck at your job, and I mean that is universal in IT, no exceptions.

If you ever say "that's what I do at work, I don't want to do that when I am at home" or whatever, please quit your job and go work doing something else, I can tell you without a doubt you don't know what you're doing.

Plus also, they're just jerks, only pretentious dimwits act that way.

@tiagom said in Same bugs for days now:

Gotta love one line fixes.

All my fixes are one line fixes because I write all my code on a single line.

We also home school and our youngest daughter, who is 7 and should be in 1st grade, all of the material she works with is 2nd and 3rd grade. Regular school wastes so much time on just idiotic stuff. As far as socialising goes (the irony here is that if the only place your kid is socialising is school, maybe that's what's wrong, and also schools are full of weirdo, anti-social kids, so going to school won't make someone a social butterfly) our daughters' in Girl Scouts, gymnastics, and tons of other stuff. In my experience the "weird home school kids" are only weird because their parents are also weird, it's not because they're home schooled.

We tried associating with home school organisations, but they're so full of religious weirdos who do things like reject the concept of gravity (so not just evolution), yes I'm serious, gravity. and also promote bizarre political beliefs, general anti-science and anti-intellectualism, etc and have absolutely no business teaching children anything. It's no wonder some people look down on home schooling, if your only experience are people like that.

@scottalanmiller said:

If you play the south of Spain, let me know!

Free Catalonia!

I don't really have an opinion about this, but one time there was this girl and ... well it's important to me now!

@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@tonyshowoff said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

I've never had a home lab and I'm better than most people I hire, or have worked for, or many I have met (but I've also met a lot of people way more knowledgeable and talented @scottalanmiller being one of them). Having said that, I do remember almost everything I do and read better than most people, so it's just genetic cheating anyway.

Your company is your own lab, though.

I guess that's true, but even prior to that. I've irritated some IT people just because I read tutorials, KB articles, forum posts, etc one time and then remember it forever, and even on this forum I have easily gone back to exact things people have said and called them on it. I'm not bragging though, I do realise there is a varied amount of training and knowledge people need, so I'm not like Samuel Johnson and assume everyone else who doesn't remember as well as I do is stupid and unworthy. There's a lot of talented people with even poor memories as well, since many times problem solving has less to do with memory, and more to do with... well.. problem solving. Fortunately I have skill at both, and try to pass along my garbage by participating in places like ML and SW to save others the time.

@RojoLoco said in MangoCon 2019:

Not sure I'll be able to make it this year... just spent $1200 on my car yesterday, that ate up a lot my fun money.

Sounds like you and your car had a pretty good time.

I may try to get there this year but I will try to get in without paying and cause a scene. This part isn't a joke, it's an embarrassment.

@g.jacobse Yeah, I could never get through those New York winters without Canned Heat:

Youtube Video

@thanksajdotcom said in 100 lbs and Falling:

@tonyshowoff said in 100 lbs and Falling:

Pfft show off!
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Good job

Aren't you technically the showoff? It is in your name...

Hey, don't label me by my name!

Yes I am though

@dafyre said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@tonyshowoff said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@scottalanmiller said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

@tonyshowoff said in Would You Hire Someone in IT Who Does Not Have a Home Lab:

I've never had a home lab and I'm better than most people I hire, or have worked for, or many I have met (but I've also met a lot of people way more knowledgeable and talented @scottalanmiller being one of them). Having said that, I do remember almost everything I do and read better than most people, so it's just genetic cheating anyway.

Your company is your own lab, though.

I guess that's true, but even prior to that. I've irritated some IT people just because I read tutorials, KB articles, forum posts, etc one time and then remember it forever, and even on this forum I have easily gone back to exact things people have said and called them on it. I'm not bragging though, I do realise there is a varied amount of training and knowledge people need, so I'm not like Samuel Johnson and assume everyone else who doesn't remember as well as I do is stupid and unworthy. There's a lot of talented people with even poor memories as well, since many times problem solving has less to do with memory, and more to do with... well.. problem solving. Fortunately I have skill at both, and try to pass along my garbage by participating in places like ML and SW to save others the time.

What's that old saying? "One man's garbage is another man's treasure?"

Upvote my garbage!

It'd be helpful to know what EHR it is, there may already be queries out there to do things like get the right associated data. It's not that complex. With the right information it could be fairly quick, but without any information it may require doing things like logging the queries and looking up patients to see how the information is joined and/or what different tables are queried. Even doing this near-black-box you can gain a lot of information, you don't need to necessarily just reverse engineer the entire schema if you can see how it's being used. I've done this plenty of times with MS SQL Server and EHRs and ERMs who have no APIs or documentation.

@Dashrender What EHR do you use, out of curiosity?

And jeeze, ActiveX, can we please shoot that horse already and move to real web based apps instead of dangerous things that only work on crappy browsers that came out of time machines?

You're right though, (X)HTML is how the web works, ActiveX is basically a browser plugin, I don't consider it a part of the web, just something that people who use the web, use if they're really unlucky.

Good to be on the roster. Cheers, with some Pepsi

(I had a better one in mind where George clunks his glass to Elaine's and spills her water, but can't remember the episode nor figure it out)

From time to time, I still hear the old thing when Windows-only IT people hate on Linux "you get what you pay for." That is to say, since it's FOSS therefore it's automatically terrible, and of course they ignore the vast numbers of servers, quick patches, etc. It's weird to hear it today though, they'll hate on Unix all day long but then bust out their iPhone or Android.

At any rate, I do remember this exact same conversation about 13 years ago or so when Lindows was in stores, about getting regular people using it, and that didn't really seem to work too well. I think there's still an overall intimidation factor, because even now, mentioning Linux or Unix, from time to time I still get people saying "yeah, but don't you miss GUI?" because obviously it's all CLI. That's a lot less common than it used to be, but there still seems to be a gap, though more regular people know that Linux exists, just probably not even what it is.