Posts by gadzooks

1. 2020-03-25 at 6:08 PM UTC in 40 bucks an hour for security work good?
   

   gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]

   Originally posted by Wariat you mean you just use adobe xd to design templates for how web sites and web apps will look when an actual coder creates them right?

   
   Actually I do virtually zero front end stuff these days.
   
   These templates are key-value dictionaries (can be YAML or JSON, most prefer YAML, I prefer JSON), that define the resources (i.e. file storage servers, database servers, application servers, networking and routing protocols, and a fuck ton more) that will be deployed/provisioned to cloud services (I mainly use AWS).
   
   Sometimes I translate visual mockups to a simplified representation in HTML/CSS, but I generally leave the finer points of visual design to someone who specializes in it.
2. 2020-03-25 at 6:03 PM UTC in 40 bucks an hour for security work good?
   

   gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]

   Originally posted by Wariat So how do you get so much work done while drunk all day? what are yiur roles in this company? just answer emails and take phone calls?

   
   Lol I actually don't typically day drink. My usual routine is to end a long and productive day with a night cap or twelve.
   
   Right now, though, most of my day to day work consists of making architectural decisions for relatively small scale web applications, and writing the "infrastructure as code", as they say, in template files for deployment to "the cloud."
   
   I hate how much I have to use buzz words because they sound kinda lame, but it's the language them corporate types just eat right up.
3. 2020-03-25 at 5:57 PM UTC in 40 bucks an hour for security work good?
   

   gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]

   Originally posted by Wariat What are your current ambitions?

   
   Long term?
   
   Ruler of the entire world.
   
   Medium term?
   
   CTO, or even CEO, of a 8+ figure tech startup.
   
   Shortest term?
   
   Getting to the liquor store and back without getting coughed on.
4. 2020-03-25 at 5:51 PM UTC in Don't click on this thread
   

   gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]

   Originally posted by vindicktive vinny each hour = 1

   
   Lol I got a fraction because I thought a movement of the clock's arm by 1 hour implied a ratio of "one twelfth additional clock value".
   
   I don't think my reasoning was flawed, just way over complicating it.
5. 2020-03-25 at 5:40 PM UTC in Don't click on this thread
   

   gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
   So its...
   
   4 + 4 + (3 + 1/12 * 3) * 11...
   
   8 + (3 + 1/4) * 11...
   
   8 + 3.25 * 11...
   
   (And I'm pulling out a calculator at this point...)...
   
   8 + 35.75...
   
   43.75?
   
   I so probably fucked up somewhere lol.
6. 2020-03-25 at 5:34 PM UTC in Don't click on this thread
   

   gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]

   Originally posted by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country How do you determine a classification for a polygon?

   
   Oh... Number of sides?
   
   Cuz I was gonna say... If we have to calculate the area of each of those polygons and do some trigonometry and all that shit, I'll just take the Corona.
7. 2020-03-25 at 5:30 PM UTC in Don't click on this thread
   

   gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
   So we have to calculate the clocks value as a function of its change in time from one symbol to the next...?
   
   And do some algebra on the book collections since there is a different quantity of books?
   
   (All of which I will leave to someone else because I'm kinda too hungover for that right now).
   
   But the little square inside those orange figures (which is missing from the last equation)... How do we determine a value for that little square?
8. 2020-03-25 at 8:08 AM UTC in What are you doing at the moment
   

   gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
   Yeah I'm trynna get my sleep on too but it just won't take.
   
   Anybody got some chloroform?
9. 2020-03-25 at 8:01 AM UTC in Do any of you live truly RAW? No medications, no drugs, no anything?
   

   gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
   I'm about to add another 50mg of diphenhydramine, ~100ml more of scotch, and some more melatonin.
   
   First, though, Imma take some sublingual CBD oil. I'm not much into THC/cannabis, but the pure CBD stuff might induce some sleepiness without the THC buzz (I have an aversion when it comes to THC - but that's a whole other barrel of monkeys).
   
   Then I'll have some mac n cheese and maybe jerk off once or twice, then maybe I will achieve that most coveted of vices; sleep.
10. 2020-03-25 at 7:46 AM UTC in Do any of you live truly RAW? No medications, no drugs, no anything?
    

    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    I was planning on having a "sober" night tonight, but tossing and turning for hours, unable to achieve slumber, I ended up taking the following:
    1. Mirtrazapine (a type of antidepressant that, as a side effect, induces drowsiness).
    2. Propranolol (beta blocker: lowers blood pressure).
    3. Diphenhydramine (antihistamine: for allergies mostly, but tends induce drowsiness as a side effect; only took 50mg).
    4. Some melatonin and valerian root.
    5. Half a Xanax bar (like 1mg?).
    6. About 400ml of scotch.
    
    Still not tired, yet, tho.
    
    When I get high/drunk, I think I mostly self-medicate for insomnia.
    
    Mostly...
11. 2020-03-25 at 7:35 AM UTC in Do any of you live truly RAW? No medications, no drugs, no anything?
    

    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
12. 2020-03-25 at 7:29 AM UTC in Don't click on this thread
    

    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
13. 2020-03-25 at 7:21 AM UTC in Releasing TV episodes piecemeal (1 a week, 1 season a year) is cruel and morally wrong
    

    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    Am I rite, tho?
    
    I generally try to refrain from watching a TV show until the series finale has demarcated the conclusion of the entire narrative.
    
    But once in a while a television periodical will wrestle my attentive faculties into submission and I have naught but one remaining course of action available to me.
    
    I am currently binge watching Better Call Saul so that I may enjoy the fifth season in its entirety upon release of its season 5 finale.
    
    But I only prepare myself for further misfortune since I will be burdened with the inconvenience of an artfully crafted cliffhanger leaving me wrought with anticipation and ultimately destitute of gripping drama.
    
    Fuck.
    
    Like, wut a nigga to do?
14. 2020-03-25 at 7:08 AM UTC in So I just got banned from Grindr
    

    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    I've seen you post pix of some sexy broads before, is all.
    
    Just trynna make sense of the elusive mystery that is Grylls.
    
    Here one day, gone tomorrow.
15. 2020-03-25 at 7:07 AM UTC in So I just got banned from Grindr
    

    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    r u bi?
16. 2020-03-25 at 6:56 AM UTC in 40 bucks an hour for security work good?
    

    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    I used to be a security guard.
    
    It's really shitty, and virtually no one will respect you, but it is pretty easy for the most part.
    
    Right out of high school, I had three options:
    1. Manual labor.
    2. Customer/food/retail service.
    3. Security guard.
    
    I tried the first two, but didn't much care for them, so I went with the last (legal, at least) option.
    
    Around these parts, though, it's a minimum wage job. If it paid $40 an hour, I'd have just swallowed my pride and kept going... Maybe work my way up to some kind of security supervisor.
    
    It would suck compared to my current ambitions, but it would have at least paid the bills and not been physically exhausting.
17. 2020-03-25 at 6:47 AM UTC in Missing Users
    

    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    My 'missing user' request is TwistedFerret/AdMech...
    
    We were thick as thieves way back in the day.
    
    I've email him every couple years or so but no response this far ever since about ~2012ish. I think he was even a moderator on Zoklet by that point.
    
    If anyone can connect me with him, you have my unending gratitude.
18. 2020-03-25 at 6:35 AM UTC in Missing Users
    

    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]

    Originally posted by Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country Rabbitweed is doing well, has an Azn waifu and is making bank doing software development.

    
    Dude WUT THE FUK?
    
    You talk to him still... He was one of my best buds back in Totse days.
    
    Imma PM you...
19. 2020-03-22 at 2:33 AM UTC in Wuhan flu still spreading in China according to internet conspiracy theorists
    

    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]

    Originally posted by STER0S the final form of covid 19 is that it's airborne and can penetrate through walls

    
    Much like my dick.
20. 2020-03-22 at 1:44 AM UTC in What's worse, a rapist or a pedophile?
    

    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]

    Originally posted by WellHung Damn Zooks the world is goin' to shit and ur sippin' on Holland's finest…I like that 👍

    
    I was drinking Coronas the other night but realized that it might be a touch in bad taste.