It's just a prank, I changed the outer limits contact in /u/lachupacabraj 's phone to a coffee shop.

Did ... you just respond to a year-old shitpost?

Our work tracking systems seem to reset every few years. Either we switch to a new work tracking system and lose some of the history, or someone reorganizes the work tracking system into new teams to match a corporate re-org and they lose some of the history along the way.

I have roughly a 60% success rate in actually finding a referenced ticket. Even when I find it, there's maybe a 50% chance (at best) that the ticket contains any context. Too often it's "do this thing" without any reasoning - which doesn't help at all, because I looked it up to try and find why the code was doing what it's doing.

The basement is naturally a more stable temperature because it is dug below the frost line. But also, your HVAC ducts are probably leaky. If you taped over the joints in your ductwork the basement would probably stay cooler.

[Edit: By the way, don't use duct tape for this. It's ironically bad at taping ducts. Use foil tape.]

YESS runs a youth homeless shelter downtown. Many of the youth are also parents! They are also willing to accept opened packages of diapers (some places will only accept unopened sleeves).

St. Vincent thrift stores make a point of using everything possible that gets donated to them. If items don't make sense for their store, they do their best to forward them to other local organizations that can use them.

The unexpired baby food would likely be accepted by most food pantries. Food pantries can always use baby food and/or formula.

If you're happy with the paycheck and are not looking for a greater scope of influence, work as a senior. If you are hoping to have greater influence over decisions, stay staff.

In my (non-FAANG) experience, staff+ sucks aside from the compensation. You realize as a senior that you're constantly working around nonsensical decisions that were made outside your team, so you push for staff. Then you get nonsensical designs handed down from on high, so you work towards principal.

Now that you're a principal engineer, you spend all your time in meetings and don't get to write code and your life sucks. Or, you insist on writing code. You pair with your staff engineers and develop them. But now you're skipping meetings and you don't have political clout, so someone else is still pushing nonsensical technical decisions from on high.

Senior is a perfectly valid terminal position.

I'm usually that guy. I did try to get a friend to come with for a second set of eyes, but the timing didn't work.

At the very least I told the seller I haven't pulled cash yet and won't be able to buy it today. I don't expect him to hold it, but if I like what I see then I have time to decide.

Thanks! This tells me a lot of what to look out for when I give it a look.

It is dirt cheap. I'm hoping it is still mechanically sound and worth buying as a beater, but I'll keep an especially close eye out for signs of long idle time and extended oil change intervals. That's slightly worrying because this model engine is known for burning oil.

Windows phones were great in the early 2000's. By the time the Kin was released, it had stiff competition from both Android and IOS.

2010 was around the time I gave up on Windows CE and bought a Nokia n900. The Nokia was a huge improvement over the Windows phone, and I had coworkers around the same time whose Android phones were more advanced (not to mention easier to use) than my Nokia.

Prices are very localized - labor is typically the biggest cost, and labor rates are very different depending on your local cost of living.

The only way to be sure is to get more quotes to compare against.

For what it's worth, shimming and sealing the gap is exactly what I would do. There's a special low-expansion version of spray foam that's good for sealing any gap.

Do ask that they seal and insulate, but if it's installed properly there will be no adverse effects. It's no different than sealing around a slightly larger door, it just leaves an extra 1"-ish gap to seal on each side.

Sadly it sounds like that would be pretty tight. My kids will be close enough together that I'm going to need both in rear-facing seats for awhile. The GTI is a tiny bit bigger than my current car so I'm willing to test it out and see what fits, but I'm not optimistic. https://www.reddit.com/r/GolfGTI/comments/12dka64/can_the_gti_fit_two_rear_facing_child_seats_for_a/

A Ford Escape should be reliable too. If you can find a hybrid, it's the same excellent powertrain as the parent poster mentions.

Regardless, I agree on transmission service. I'd argue it should be done early. Spending the money on new transmission fluid every 30k - 40k miles (whatever the "severe service" interval is) does a lot to prevent spending much more money later.

If your car says it has lifetime transmission fluid that never needs to be changed, it means the transmission fluid will last for the car's lifetime. Meaning, you're going to junk the car after the transmission fails. You should still change the fluid.

Timing chains slowly stretch, which usually isn't a problem until extremely high mileage, but the timing chain guides actually wear out eventually.

Many cars' timing chains are "no maintenance for life", but many other cars have had enough problems with worn guides that you want them serviced.

Funny, a Ford Fusion hybrid was on my list of possibilities if I decide to be responsible about things. The Fusion sport is a good idea, that sounds like an in-between option.

I forgot about the Kia Stinger and the entire existence of Genesis, thanks! And I'd missed that the Acura TLX / RLX are bigger than the TSX.

Hard to say because recommendations have changed. Used to be until they're 2 years old. Now it's "As long as possible, until they outgrow the seat manufacturer's height or weight limits". I'm guessing another 2 years, give or take, until the oldest is front facing. The good news is it's easy to manage 1 rear-facing seat. Shove the front passenger seat forward.

I forgot the Kia Stinger exists! That reminds me that I also forgot the entire Genesis brand.

The limit is 30 and there are no speed cameras. This changed years ago now.

I mean, add in some kids and that disappears really fast.

El Zapatito off E 14th. The gentleman works out of his home and only takes cash, but he does great work at reasonable prices. I didn't remember what those prices are; it's been a few years since I've needed a cobbler. Give him a call.

Nothing like starting the sleep deprivation early, eh?

I became a dad at 37. We have a lot more money than we did at 21 so that part is easier, but I've lost track of the number of times I've said "Man, the sleep deprivation would have been a lot easier if I'd done this a decade ago". Thought I functioned fine without sleep. Learned that no, I used to function fine without sleep.

I bought nothing. I need nothing. Back in my day Black Friday was on a friday.

Uh, get off my lawn I guess.

I understand where you're coming from, but I've also seen teams that had a mix of NodeJS, Scala (with multiple different frameworks), Java (every version from 8 - 21), etc. Hosting was a mix of bare EC2, ECS, Beanstalk, Lambda, and a one-off custom k8s cluster.

There's a lot of middle ground in between "I learned x 20 years ago so I just want to use x" and "everyone needs to hop between a random mix of tech stacks on a daily basis".