Last year my kids were invited to some big Easter egg hunt and they had a great time, however this year they've come to expect us to celebrate Easter, at least the candy related part of it. Some of my fellow Hebrews also celebrate Easter and a couple I know get all weird about it and make a point to crap on the fun.

However, once I realised I could create a complex, confusing, almost sadistic puzzle of finding all of the Easter eggs, I decided we're not just going to do an Easter egg hunt, we have to do an Easter egg hunt.

I realise today is Sunday, but we had to do it yesterday because the kids are doing some thing over at my wife's parents house.

Anyway, here we go:

I was already up at about 5am and my wife and I had put together about 350 of those plastic eggs from Wal-Mart with a piece of candy or tiny little rubber frog, ball, or some random thing like that, in all the whole thing cost $24, so not bad, considering I also ate a lot of that candy too. Some eggs also contained clues about where some other eggs were, however all of the clues were lies.

I made a trail of eggs from where my kids bed rooms are all the way outside, and I managed to hide eggs in places very difficult for them to get. I had to climb a couple of trees, get on the roof of the garage, make my way into their tree house which I thought I might break, and essentially every weird little place I could find around the property.

Almost all of them are fairly hard to find and I had a total number of the ones hidden outside so we could make sure they got them all.

After they woke up they were pretty surprised, they didn't even pick up the eggs down the hall, instead they ran down to my office and almost pounded the door down, and my youngest was yelling that the "Easter bunny broke into our house."

I took advantage of the situation and said that I had caught him also trying to steal our car and that I think he said something antisemitic. My eldest daughter knew it was a joke, but that's what's great about having young kids, you can lie to them and tell them insane stories and they believe it.

tl;dr: it took them almost 8 hours to find all of the eggs, and of course I had to help the with the ones I hid on the roof, in hindsight that was a bad idea.

The point is, Easter can be fun, especially if it involves keeping your kids occupied most of the day, regardless of one's faith. They loved it and asked if we're going to do it next year, so I gotta step up my game.

I also just realised that the colour of this forum is brown, fitting for a water closet.

@DustinB3403 said in Nine Out of Every 10 Silicon Valley Jobs Pays Less Than In 1997, Report Finds:

Anyone who believes in ITT Tech needs to be ignored immediately.

There's a thread, actually a couple, on SW where I criticise ITT Tech and people say things like:

So what because I went to ITT Tech I am inferior to you in some way? I have personally studied IT at 4 different Universities, not to mention what I learn while I was in the military and I can tell you personally, besides the military, ITT Tech was the only place that provided hands on training and cut out all the crap people did not need to work in this field.

I wholeheartedly agree with you that ITT Tech is super expensive, scam is a bit harsh I think but expensive, yes absolutely. Just because I spent double what others may have spent does not mean my education was not a good one.

And a whole lot of just whining that someone dare question ITT Tech's value and that because they got something out of it at two or three times the price of a community college or trade school that I must be crazy or hate my job or my life to dare question it. The level of narcissistic rage, ironic anti-intellectualism, and inferiority complexes is pretty amazing. In one of the threads someone threatened to kick my ass for questioning their "education." Claiming I'm a user and I hate IT/IT people and can't help others so I'm angry inside, yet not getting I have a high spice level because I help people.

Not to mention the Tumblr-level of "boohoo you're making generalisations about IT people!" primarily because I point out that a lot of IT people have huge, undeserved egos, so naturally the response was to say that I'm wrong, it's a generalisation and they're actually pretty awesome at IT and kick ass 24/7.

Then ITT Tech went bankrupt and a lot of people had to come to the realisation it was just a scam. You'd think the fact they spent a ton of money to get an entry level position (even ITT Tech says that latter part in their commercials) would show the education had essentially no value at all.

I said straight up ITT Tech looked bad and most people didn't take it seriously, I was straight forward, honest, and up front as someone who has hired a lot of people and purposely ignored résumés with ITT Tech... that made me "rude." Sorry I wasn't going to sugarcoat a scam. And people started projecting and bitching saying "Oh you're calling me ignorant/stupid/underskilled/etc" even though I literally never say that. I think they say it because that's how they feel, not because of what I said, no matter the fact that in all those threads I repeatedly say I didn't make judgements on them, just the "school." People know it's garbage, they just don't want to hear it, and when they do it must be because it's a personal attack, even when I'm not even speaking to them.

Going to ITT Tech doesn't make anyone ignorant or unskilled or stupid, because sometimes people make mistakes, they go other places, they learn on the job, etc. but when they put their whole skill level into just ITT Tech and then if someone question it they see it as a personal attack, that's just being delusional and realising that maybe you are underskilled and that's why you think it's personal.

I feel like someone who went to ITT Tech then got a real job, and learned things, probably wouldn't tell anyone (publicly) they ever went to ITT Tech once they realised their entry level job they spent tens of thousands of dollars on taught them more in a week than they learned with their "hands on" ITT Tech "education". If they don't do that, then I just await the whining, complaining, delusions, and projections of their internal issues onto me for daring question their dumb ass school.

They're buying into my layer 7 DDoS as actual hits, suckers!

You sure bitch about Staples a lot, either your managers or customers, that certainly cannot be good. The fact you mention that company by name at all is reckless.

It'll be some crappy company who is totally incompetent like SAIC, now called Leidos, or isn't in the tech business in any real way but somehow, probably through knowing people on the committee(s) in charge manages to get the contract. Yes it starts with a choice of good companies, but soon enough they'll leave after having to deal with technically incompetent committee members who don't understand what a scope is and the only ones left will be companies absolutely incapable of doing the job.

I saw this happen first hand, in the state of Kansas they were redoing their DMV system, I made two predictions when this happened:

1. It would be delayed
2. When it finally launched it would be broken as hell and they'd have tons of problems with it.

Of course as is easy to predict, I was right. The reason? The company in charge of writing the DMV software and handling their computers was 3M, yes 3M, the company that makes paper stuff.

That's how government contracts work, I expect nothing less than an underdelivered, overpriced, crappy security nightmare done as half-assed as possible. And this is just something that happens when people who don't know what they're doing are in charge of deciding how things should work, so this isn't just a government problem, it happens at large companies all the time too, we just hear more about it from government.

They don't hire the best company for the job, and that's just obvious from history, nor do they hire the company with the lowest bid, they hire the company that somehow impresses committees always run by people who know literally nothing about technology, networks, or security.

So to answer your question: nobody you expect and nobody worthy of the contract.

That's if any civilians have a say. Being that it's the Pentagon, something else may happen, but there may be too much government/Congressional/civilian leadership involvement. Sure the military may be vastly more bureaucratic but project for project, they tend to do a lot better than the civilian government does, at least in regard to properly picking someone who vaguely understands the project and also getting it done, even if it costs 10x more than it should. If I had to pick between democracy and stratocracy with a project like this, give me military any day, but hide my wallet.

But flipping a coin with either, I'd still take the side of incompetence and failure.

@iroal said:

@BRRABill said:

@iroal said:

Perhaps in minor Surgery, if you have a real problem, like cancer, there will no waiting, and of course It's Free

I do not know one way or the other.

The only real person I ever heard speak about it was a co-worker who moved from the US to England. They hated the system over there for elective type stuff.

A real example.

Last night I feel bad and with Flu, using Internet I get a date with my doctor this morning, doctor told me It was just a cold, She gave me the prescription for the medicaments.

I go to the pharmacy and bought the medicaments with a 80% of discount thanks to the prescription, I spend 2 €.

Of course visit the doctor is free.

I love this system.

A decent amount of Americans would respond one of these, if not all:

• You're lying
• That's socialism, we believe in freedom
• Yes but your taxes must be crazy!
• If that's true why do people come to America for healthcare?
• That's communism, we believe in freedom.
• Healthcare is not a right, it's a privilege (I see this one not that often, but often enough to where it's disturbing)
• Hey, if you can't pay, you deserve to be sick (I guess they forget about children and disabled)
• There's no such thing as free! My taxes! My taxes! (meanwhile they pay far more in health insurance, if they have it at all, than they would've paid in taxes).

I see this stuff all the time.

@dbeato said in I just thoroughly helped someone solve their problem on Spiceworks:

@Obsolesce said in I just thoroughly helped someone solve their problem on Spiceworks:

People like to repeat replies there just for the points, like the 5 or so there in your case.

Like most of the people that replied to this post ? sound familiar

Over the years I've been asked a few times "where is the Internet?", I usually just say Branson, Missouri. A place I only knew about because of The Simpsons.

@scottalanmiller said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

@guyinpv said in Finally leaving my job, and it's just as annoying as I thought it would be:

I know a lot of responses here might be "just leave", but these things are easier said than done. I don't want their business to suffer, nor our relationship, nor my reference with them.

No, not really. They are equally easy because telling you to do it is literally as easy as you calling in and saying "Im' done, bye, don't ever call me again."

Literally, that easy. You don't want their business to suffer? Why not? You are describing how awful these people are, and you want them to stay in business? That's not right.

Why do you want a relationship with them at all? These are terrible people. You need them out of your life.

You don't want them as a reference. These aren't ethical people, you can't safely use them as a reference regardless. Walk away.

All of your reasons for staying are false ones, there is no reason to stay.

Indeed I am a bit confused as to why someone who admits to themselves before they quit that they already know it will be a disaster, and that they map out all of the ways the management is a huge pain in the ass... so what benefit is it to maintain a relationship? With people like this even if you leave 100% like they want you to or expect you to, they'll still trash you in references, it always happens.

It's not your business, and presumably not run by a family member, so who the hell cares? It's capitalism, if they can't run a business correctly then it's their fault, not yours to help prop them up.

Lots of lecturing about how she doesn't know what some vendor or another does, and IT people have "secret knowledge" that is complicated so laypersons can't understand it. She says all my notes "might make sense to an IT person, but it's not how my brain as a layperson understands it".

To top it all off, she won't read stuff that's too long. If I send emails that are too long or detailed, she refuses to even read them and then chides me. But if I write stuff that's too short, she complains it's not written for the layperson.

She sounds like she's either totally stupid or insane, or really trying to manipulate you into doing more work and demean your job, and that seems more likely based on everything. Don't bother helping this psycho, don't feel guilty, do as @JaredBusch said:

Turn over passwords and walk the fuck out tomorrow..

And @scottalanmiller basically said all that needs to be said on this, at this point I think we'd all be repeating each other and if you aren't listening to it then you need to really change that mindset or just do whatever they want since that's the mindset you clearly want to be in despite obviously knowing how terrible of an idea it is -- remember even you said that you knew beforehand that it would be a disaster, why in the holy hell would you give them such a long notice and why would you put up with any of this after they started increasing your workload and reducing benefits?

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

I was turned down for a raise. I was just informed. So I'm leaving the moment I get another job.

+1 for +1 bro hugs, not because I like that it happened

@travisdh1 said in Revisiting ZFS and FreeNAS in 2019:

@DustinB3403 said in Revisiting ZFS and FreeNAS in 2019:

@JaredBusch said in Revisiting ZFS and FreeNAS in 2019:

@DustinB3403 said in Revisiting ZFS and FreeNAS in 2019:

@tonyshowoff let's step back here, what site did you run?

You didn’t know this?

Obviously not, why would I have asked otherwise?

Yeah, we've got contacts for everything around here.

[ in vague Slavic accent ] You want girl? I get you girl. Or men, Anton does not judge. Money up front.

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@tonyshowoff said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Processed foods are bad, unless they're processed foods which are good.

Fresh caught and cut tuna, uncooked. Processing is minimal

I've never understood why processed foods were necessarily bad. I was mostly making a joke about tofu, almond/soy milk, etc some of the most processed foods there are considered healthier, and "processed foods" is still used as a bad word. Process is irrelevant, it depends on what is in it.

If I've learned anything from my kids, on your first birthday you destroy the cake, put some in your hair, and cry a lot. I think we can all do that for MangoLassi.

@RojoLoco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Ha! I just configured a new printer with an IP that had been a different printer a couple of months ago. After a power cycle, the new printer started barfing out documents that were probably sent off to print in February. That is a persistent spooler right there.

Including 400 copies of the Pizza Hut lunch menu from a persistent, frustrated person?

@scottalanmiller said in Forced HTTPS Is Now On:

So the big thing.... turning on HTTPS Forced has had a pretty big effect on traffic. A huge effect. Our request rate increased by 30x a few hours after we turned it on. Our search engine rankings must have shot way up.

We shot up as well in ranking because of this, Google's already made it pretty clear how they feel about SSL, yet even so 99% of the SEO rip off artists who still say stupid crap like "submit your site it search engines" don't seem to know about it. BTW anyone listening in who isn't hip to what I'm talking about, every single person selling you SEO is a scam artist, period. You can easily do it all yourself even if you don't have that much web knowledge.

@hobbit666 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Having a cuppa wondering why is it only 3:43 and not 5:00!!!! so I can go home and watch Marvel Films with the wife

I read "cuppa" as "corpse" twice before realising what it really said.

@IRJ said in Why Do Recruiters Never Get Involved in Forums Like This:

@tonyshowoff said in Why Do Recruiters Never Get Involved in Forums Like This:

@flaxking said in Why Do Recruiters Never Get Involved in Forums Like This:

Only the naturopath who actually qualified enough to be a real doctor would stand a chance.

A real doctor wouldn't believe in the banging-on-wood-like-cures-like-nonsense of homeopathy,

Prescription drugs are so much more profitable. A good percentage of them create side effects worse than what they are treating.

Not to mention that doctors get kick backs from drug companies like conferences that are 1 week where only a day or two is an actual conference. The rest of the week is the family staying at the resort.

It's easy to make fun of homeopathy, because we are trained to think we are so much smarter by using prescription drugs that create terrible side effects that are rarely just physical. They are many times mental as well. It just crates a never ending use another drug to treat this side effect.

I know prescription drugs help people who are very sick and offer help that natural meds can't. However, most illness isn't life threatening and can be handled other ways like diet. It's the people who run to the doctor for minor things who like get the terrible side effects.

Homeopathy isn't even natural medicine though, it's literally just water. The idea that:

1. "Like cures like" which is the indirect origin of the word homeopathy, which itself is Greek for "like-suffering", either of which concept are both ridiculous. You can't cure burns with bleach, but you can in homeopathy so long as you follow #2.
2. That the more diluted something is, the more powerful it is. That's what those 10x, 13x, etc on homeopathy labels mean, those are levels of dilution, and the process it's done by is even more close to magic than I think most people realise, because...
3. The way you dilute it is by putting your "like" chemical or typically flower or plant into water in a vial, then you bang it on a wooden plank a certain number of times, then you take a drop of that, put it into another vial, and then bang that, and you repeat the process until the dilution is so high that there's less than typically a single molecule of the original chemical/mineral/etc left.
4. The more diluted, how many Xs there are, is related to its power. So 13 times dilution is more powerful than 10 times dilution.

I'm willing to believe that there are natural cures from plants and other things, and certainly this must be true, but I can't possibly believe that the more you dilute something the more powerful it is. That's not just pseudoscience, that's stupidity, you don't make coffee or tea more caffeinated by making it 99.999% milk.... unless you bang it on wood first of course.

I don't think most followers of homeopathy are stupid themselves though because they don't know the process and if they did far less people would believe in it, but many who do still believe in it do so because they believe in "water memory" and other nonsense like "water can take the form of other chemicals and your body read them like data off a hard drive"... which makes me wonder why that's superior to the original chemical/mineral in the first place.

Our bodies are actually pretty good at healing themselves, sometimes in surprising and amazing ways that even surprise doctors, but the problem is that when people take or use homeopathic medicine they attribute just the inevitable healing done by their own bodies to homeopathy.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

noticed this in my Instagram feed.

Man @scottalanmiller is way younger than I remember

Packing to go to Japan on business.

I'm lying, I'm just going down to the store at the bottom of my building to buy soda.

@scottalanmiller said in What I found while looking for people who agree with me:

What a great find! And I refuse to use revisionist naming systems still.

I also refuse to use it anywhere and always have, and in fact it's not even an issue of refusing to use it, I'm just doing it the proper way and that automatically excludes it. I do feel sort of bad about all of the science that goes incomplete because of this issue, though.