Jayme "Danger" Howard

@gimpy.bsky.social

Former tech lead for Reddit's Compute Platform. Now, Infrastructure Security, still at Reddit. Extremely Online. He/Him/His, actually 40 damn years old

If I had a nickel for every time I had a hard drive fail within a week of having a work trip out of town, I'd probably be able to buy a pack of gum. Which isn't much, but it's weird that it keeps happening.

Me: <high-level description of technical issue aimed at summarization> Fresh Grad: "I understood about 50% of those words." I legit want to help this kid get to 100% of them. Teaching people the deep magic is so fun.

My wife, who had never played a Resident Evil game before a couple months ago and has now binged the series, is absolutely incandescent with rage about the new movie being called an adaptation of Resident Evil 2 by the director. And it is delightful.

If you can't be bothered to write your own words to ask me a question, and have an LLM do it instead, please don't speak to me at all. If I actually respond, and you just drop an emoji rather than speaking, you are bad and you should feel bad.

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Ah yes, my time honored tradition of spending the last few hours of my last night before a work trip trying to shove music and movies onto my phone rather than doing anything interesting with the night.

Can't decide if me having 3 max level characters in the current Diablo 4 season is a sign that I'm having a good time or a bad time. The loot changes and balance this season are frustrating, and yet I'm branching out and playing different classes from normal, and seemingly having fun.

Realized earlier that I'm finally back under the weight I was at when a shitty roommate moved in with us over 10 years ago and fucked up my mental health so badly that I stopped taking care of myself. I'll take that victory.

I gotta say, while I enjoyed Alan Wake's story (and the ongoing threads through Control), I did not expect Alan Wake 2 to go so hard. I'm not that far in, but it's shocking to me how little I've heard people talking about it.