u/Similar-Proof2065

Sometime I see in my feed people showing expensive homes that were poorly constructed. Things like wood that easily cracks or breaks, bathroom stuff not being sealed completely, surfaces not being leveled, door latches not lined up, missing pieces of a variety of things, etc.

I moved into a new apartment building recently and it’s pretty much the same deal.

What is happening that causes this? Property owners cheaping out? What’s going on with the construction side? Is there an inspection process to make sure everything is good after they finish building everything?

edit: Mid katarina and top pantheon, Plat 3.

Part of why this is a difficult choice for me is because I've recently learned that my laning and farm is absolute dog shit. It's why I lose almost all of my games. In gold I could easily get away with forcing a 1v1 early in the game and snowballing, which intimidated the opponent, allowing me to farm without any obstacles. Obviously that doesn't work anymore.

Yesterday I queued up with the sole intent on focusing on farming, trying to predict my opponent's intentions, wave state, and optimal recall times. And surprise, I won both games without sweating too hard. I made another post this week and someone said it sounds like my understanding of wave states is not there, which they were absolutely right about. So thank you to that person.

The next thing I'm confused on is when it's better to keep my CS up and farm and push the lane when I'm already there, versus rotating helping my team on objectives or team fights.

Some things I try:

• If my team looks like they can handle the fight to where they win or the result may come out to be an even ish trade, I push lane
• I try to ping to tell my team to not force a fight but to just keep opposing team busy so I can shove lane

Some things I notice in my losing games are that:

• I lost lane really hard and become fixated on pushing lanes and catching up my farm
• I also do this because I feel really weak during team fights and don't want to feed more than I already have
• I push a lane instead of help with obj or team fights because we have 0 towers down and its mid game
• I have no idea what I'm doing at this point or how to best contribute so pushing lane by myself feels safest

Hey all, reached plat 3 and this is probably where I'm going to be plateauing at.

I do mid (katarina) and top secondary (pantheon). I came from a couple years of aram mostly and on and off gold ranked games.

What I've noticed is my team fights are usually pretty good, at least in comparison to my laning.

My laning is absolute horse shit.

What i've noticed is, Gold players I can bully in lane quite easily and are very instinctive to predict.

I keep getting matched against low emerald and plat 1 players who absolutely stomp me in lane. It's almost as if they can tell in a few seconds by my movement that they're much better than I am so they go super aggro and I end up not being able to farm or gain XP at all.

They also dive me a ton and are successful.

Some examples:

Yasuo starts E, dashes like a crack head throughout the wave and bullies me to where I can't even really soak up much XP because of the non stop e + q/. Annie flash stuns me.

I think in gold I was getting away with being able to anticipate their moves quite easily.

But in plat, I'm the one getting read and anticipated.

Even in top lane, against people who I counter, I poke them down with my Q and go in for an extended trade confident I win it and secure a kill, only to get killed. I think this happens specifically because they anticipate my abilities and use theirs accordingly.

I can't predict people in plat during laning at all, so how do I practice? Draft and swiftplay feel like a waste of time because people do unconventional picks/strats, the skillset widely varies, and no one is trying to actually win games but instead just play for kills.

I posted this in r/threatintelligence, too, but figured this sub might have some valuable insights as well.

TLDR - I realize that my experience has little overlap with this field, so I'd like to know what kind of projects I can do to fill the gap. Or if there are alternatives to projects, I'd like to know what those are. Stuff that would go on my resume, essentially.

I have about 3.5 years in cloud tech support and a bachelor's in computer science.

The bread and butter services I support are virtual networks, web application firewalls, ddos response, dns, etc. Tons of network/dns/firewall troubleshooting, linux, writing firewall rules, log analysis, assisting customer incident responses, and so on.

I learned about this field after asking AI what jobs involve things like researching CVEs, which I did for customers and really enjoyed.

Are there any other roles I should look into? I work for a cloud provider. If it helps, I have a sandbox account at work where I can build my own infra but can't expose any endpoints to the public.

TLDR - I realize that my experience has little overlap with this field, so I'd like to know what kind of projects I can do to fill the gap. Or if there are alternatives to projects, I'd like to know what those are. Stuff that would go on my resume, essentially.

I have about 3.5 years in cloud tech support and a bachelor's in computer science.

The bread and butter services I support are virtual networks, web application firewalls, ddos response, dns, etc. Tons of network/dns/firewall troubleshooting, linux, writing firewall rules, log analysis, assisting customer incident responses, and so on.

I learned about this field after asking AI what jobs involve things like researching CVEs, which I did for customers and really enjoyed.

Are there any other roles I should look into? I work for a cloud provider. If it helps, I have a sandbox account at work where I can build my own infra but can't expose any endpoints to the public.

I’ve tried the voo/aum vocalizations and it helps but it could also be placebo.

Whether it’s YouTube channels, books, articles…throughout my 20s I forced myself to eat foods I hated for the sake of a lean bodybuilding appearance. This completely shot my ability to feel hunger and have an appetite. I only eat when I feel very fatigued and it impacts my job and day to day. I don’t experience pleasure when eating and it’s always a chore due to the absence of appetite and hunger. The thought of eating triggers an immediate throat tensing response like I’m about to gag. It’s almost as if my body is reacting to defy the forced feeding I did for 10 years.

I’m not asking for medical advice, just resources to learn more about this since my therapist and I have recently started working on it.

Is it doable with an 600rr? 2008. Or does it take a while? I moved to a nicer area recently and it’s likely that neighbors will complain if I do an oil change on the apartment lot.

Never paid attention to sports growing up until recently where I started getting into watching boxing.

I see videos where they do pad work and the guy punching seems to be barely moving their arms to hit the pad and the guy holding the pads seems like the one getting a workout in.

What’s the purpose behind this kind of exercise? Is it to build accuracy?

Before you guys all shout “go to the vet!!”, I’ve read stories online where people said vets brushed this off when vets who specialize in vision knew what it was and treated it accordingly. I moved recently so I want to hear more experiences as I research the best vet to go to.

Has anyone had experience with this on their dog? What was the timeline from before your dog had it, during, and after? Did you go to a vet that specializes in pet/dog vision? Asking because I’m afraid that general vets in the new town I moved in are going to brush it off. Is treatment a forever thing or does it go away after some time when treated?

My dog has had a slight..surprised look to his eyes ever since I got him and I always just assumed he naturally looked like that. I saw an instagram reel describing this condition and it seems similar to what my boy has.

Just got a 3rd gen 600rr, 14k miles. First time doing maintenance on a bike as I usually just rode my brothers bike. I also have hand tools for basic car maintenance I started learning last year.

Things I’ve noticed so far:

1. Jerky gear shifts (up shifts) and acceleration. I think the chain needs to be tightened. No slapping of the chain while riding from what I can tell. I’m getting a measuring tape after work to check it. I cleaned and lubed the chain though just because that was simple to do. Sprocket doesn’t look worn enough to warrant replacement.
2. The bike seldomly struggles to start. I can hear the starter spinning. I need to pay attention for if the engine/tach rolls at all.
3. Idle is not noticeably bad from what I can tell, but I do see it sometimes fluctuate like a couple hundred RPM not too long after start up.
4. Vibrates more as rpms climb. I feel it mostly through the handlebars. It’s not like a wobbling vibration, but almost feels like I’m touching the engine directly. It came with frame sliders..maybe they’re on the engine mounts and messing with those?

Currently in IT doing a niche kind of tech support making 115k a year. It’s remote and I don’t clock over more than 40 hours a week. However, During the entire workday I am basically sprinting non stop helping businesses put out technical fires and I’m I’ve been pretty sick of it.

Buuut, once in a blue moon I’ll have a slow day and I’ll remind myself this isn’t too bad and that I’d love to have this kind of day until retirement.

My only passions in life are adrenaline sports which are realistically not a way to make a living.

My brain isn’t wired for modern day society and I’m tired of pretending like my contributions to society are a net positive when it’s really just reinforcing exploitation of us regular folk

This is my first IT job which I’ve been at for about 3.5 years. I’m also burnt out. I do support engineering/tech support for my company’s cloud network and firewall services.

This might get downvoted a lot, but I don’t have much interest in IT or work in general if I’m being honest. I do like a lot of the aspects that this line of work has given me though (previously worked only min wage jobs and hated it).

I’ve come to learn that the only technical stuff I can find interest in is with security. My company has an incident response analyst position for customers who get ddos’d (SOC analyst basically I think) for one of our services that I think would be interesting since I’ve worked with them several times. I also had to research a CVE for a customer and assess how well our firewall service could handle it, so doing stuff like that was pretty interesting for me. The challenge with this path is that team I mentioned for the position is pretty closed off/gatekeepy, there aren’t many of them, and we’re remote. I looked in to threat intelligence but this also seems like any extremely competitive field that is comprised of vets of the industry.

My manager brought to my attention some less technical jobs like customer solutions manager (individual contributing role) and technical program manager which is managing like internal/support projects. I asked him about less technical paths because I also learned that I like talking with customers who I get along with, but those customers are rare. I wouldn’t say I’m introverted or extroverted, but having some socially positive interactions is very energizing for me at work which I currently significantly lack.

At the end of the day though, I mostly just care about stability, WLB, and not having to stress about money.

I could use some advice on what path I should try pursuing or some other things I should look into.

EDIT: These positions are not offered to me. They’ve only been brought up in my 1:1 as avenues to look into so I know where to focus my efforts in leaving support

Just got back into riding after a several year hiatus.

I went with an 2008 cbr600rr and it vibrates like hell under my ass. A long time ago I had an r6 and I don’t remember it vibrating this much.

Is this normal and I’m just getting old? Is this expected due to the cbr’s undertail exhaust? Could an exhaust leak cause this sensation?

I’m in the US. Freeways here are usually 80mph where I’m at. My 2008 cbr600rr keeps up just fine, but it vibrates like hell and of course stays at 7.5k rpm just to cruise. When it gets just a little windy I start to feel like a sail. Expected, but I’m wondering if there’s anything I can do to make the overall highway cruising experience more enjoyable.

My helmet is quiet and I use ear plugs which helps a lot.

Edit: thanks guys. I’ve looked more into the vibrating which is really the main thing that led me to write this post. I think the vibrating increasing slightly with rpm is abnormal so I’m looking in to how to resolve it

08 cbr600rr. I accelerated really hard in 4th or 5th gear to merge on the highway, like red lined it then my bike shut off.

I rolled to the shoulder, flipped the killswitch off and removed the key thinking I needed to tow, but after a few minutes, I tried starting it again with a few failed attempts. I could hear the starter going then finally it got back up running. I went slow on the way home with no issues.

I’ve had this intermittent issue with starting where I hear the starter going but I don’t think I ever hear the engine turning when this happens. It happens more almost every time I turn the key to the on position and leave it there for a minute or two before starting the bike I’ve noticed.

I just ordered a new battery cause why not, but I have no idea what the issue is.

Anything I should check for specifically? I do basic maintenance on my car so I have the typical hand tools but I’ve never done anything electrical. I also got back into riding not too long and got this bike last month.

The bike also gets hot really fast when I idle. Like it climbs up to 210 Fahrenheit and then some pretty fast, even tonight at 75 degrees. Can’t remember if that’s normal for these 600s or not.

I just bought a non entry level helmet for the first time, a shoei rf1400. Pair this thing with ear plugs and it’s as quiet as my car. Pretty impressed.

Anyone else run different gear that’s really quiet?

They shrink more than typical of my other shirts in the dryer. The shirts are extremely thin.

Any other brand recommendations where I can buy t shirts that have a relaxed/casual fit?

I’ve seen pictures of these on 07/08 600rrs and like the look.

Question is, are any of them functional?

I know they’re mostly to keep bikes legal where mirrors are required, but if some brands happen to have reasonably functional ones I might buy

Finished better call Saul for the first time not too long ago.

I watched breaking bad when I was like 17 over 10 years ago and that was when never really paid attention to details.

What I like about better call Saul is how the premise is more..relatable and within my realm of reality (Saul and Kim as opposed to Jessie and Walter). But I’m also 32 now so adult life has contributed to that some bit.

Unrelated but I could also use recommendations for other good shows. I don’t watch shows much because I’m impatient as hell but I’ve seen sopranos and the wire which were both great.