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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
I haven't been to that many cities in the US. At least in the last 20 years anyway where any trip I've made has been either New York or Vegas.
Would have thought NY, Chicago, Boston, Houston, Washington, San Fran, Seattle.
But I'm sure there's loads of others that would be potentially great if only I knew more about them or had visited them. Austin sounds wonderful for example.
New York wins it all.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View PostSpeaking of which, how is my giant game of jenga looking - Mellor, Micknail ? They are just sitting on each other, no brackets yet or set in the ground but is this a better design with 60cm sitting on top of 70cm on the sides and more offset on top?
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View PostWould it be worth doing a course or 2 in Cyber security. Looks fascinating . Not thinking of money ,career etc just doing something interesting .
I would say yes, definitely do it if you're interested and have nothing else to take up your time. Note that you will need to do some coding/scripting as part of the course (pen-testing). Dunno if that would put you off though. I believe I saw your LinkedIn at some point and you have done data analytics so I'd say you're well covered for the basic skills.
Reading about cyber security stories, theories and breaches can be fascinating but the actual work is much more mundane for the most part. Routine checks and lots of compliance-related stuff. The sexy-sounding stuff around pen-testing and figuring out malware/threats is for the real uber-nerds imo.
I've had a colleague who consults now mention several times that plenty of cyber security engineers are transitioning back to other IT roles after a few years due to the on-call and roster nature of the gig. Plus some added stress of late. Purely anecdotal but Mick would be way better positioned to comment.
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Originally posted by Solksjaer! View Post
Seattle is average i wouldn't necessarily recommend it. The rest mentioned San Fran is EPIC . Washington ok . NY 1 SAN FRAN 2 in thar order. Chicago is a scary place but great. Philly was great.Boston is dead after 10pm . Going back a bit here though. Lived in Seattle a few months met the real life Rocky Racoon who did NOT like me. Savage yoke. San Antonio is nice but nothing that grest outside River Walk area.
New York wins it all.
For me San Fran is the best. However I will always have a soft spot for LA and think it is the perfect location as there are so many interesting towns within easy reach of it. Chicago is pretty cool also.No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.
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Jesus ye are far overselling my skills CC,
I basically fell into this role. Which is scary when you think about it
Security course is worth doing if you are interested, especially if you already have a basic understanding or IT background.
I mean, get a sub to pluralsight or cbtnuggets and even gawk at the chapters of a course that take your interest. (Or cousins will have a few relevant ones too that should satisfy the curiosity).﴾͡๏̯͡๏﴿
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Originally posted by pokerhand View Post
Don't know why but I never really liked NY that much... Everytime I am there I am happy to leave after 2 days .Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by pokerhand View Post
Don't know why but I never really liked NY that much... Everytime I am there I am happy to leave after 2 days .
For me San Fran is the best. However I will always have a soft spot for LA and think it is the perfect location as there are so many interesting towns within easy reach of it. Chicago is pretty cool also.
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Originally posted by coillcam View Post
Micknail is your man to ask.
I would say yes, definitely do it if you're interested and have nothing else to take up your time. Note that you will need to do some coding/scripting as part of the course (pen-testing). Dunno if that would put you off though. I believe I saw your LinkedIn at some point and you have done data analytics so I'd say you're well covered for the basic skills.
Reading about cyber security stories, theories and breaches can be fascinating but the actual work is much more mundane for the most part. Routine checks and lots of compliance-related stuff. The sexy-sounding stuff around pen-testing and figuring out malware/threats is for the real uber-nerds imo.
I've had a colleague who consults now mention several times that plenty of cyber security engineers are transitioning back to other IT roles after a few years due to the on-call and roster nature of the gig. Plus some added stress of late. Purely anecdotal but Mick would be way better positioned to comment.
But as you said, complience docs and spiceworks/powershell ad stuff is 90% of the day to day once they are donePeople say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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I was in San Francisco 2.5 years ago and it was absolutely shocking bad with homelessness and drugs. It was like they've given up trying. By all accounts it's twice as bad now between the fentanyl and the pandemic."I can’t find anyone who agrees with what I write or think these days, so I guess I must be getting closer to the truth." - Hunter S. Thompson
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Talking of Vegas, what do we think of an F1 race down the strip from next season.
My first thought was that such a massive wide boulevard would be epic for racing. But thinking about I'd say they'll only use one side of the road as I can't see them getting rid of the central reservation.
So it'll probably just be visually stunning but ultimately boring much like Monaco.Last edited by ArmaniJeans; 31-03-22, 16:03.
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Austin is a great city to visit, music, food, bats, dancing. Looking forward to getting there again, going to use it as a starting point for a road trip across the border country and back up the coast towards SanFran.
Would like to do it next year but probably better to wait until Trumpism is a repressed shameful memory.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by AndyFatBastard View PostI was in San Francisco 2.5 years ago and it was absolutely shocking bad with homelessness and drugs. It was like they've given up trying. By all accounts it's twice as bad now between the fentanyl and the pandemic.
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Originally posted by coillcam View Post
Micknail is your man to ask.
I would say yes, definitely do it if you're interested and have nothing else to take up your time. Note that you will need to do some coding/scripting as part of the course (pen-testing). Dunno if that would put you off though. I believe I saw your LinkedIn at some point and you have done data analytics so I'd say you're well covered for the basic skills.
Reading about cyber security stories, theories and breaches can be fascinating but the actual work is much more mundane for the most part. Routine checks and lots of compliance-related stuff. The sexy-sounding stuff around pen-testing and figuring out malware/threats is for the real uber-nerds imo.
I've had a colleague who consults now mention several times that plenty of cyber security engineers are transitioning back to other IT roles after a few years due to the on-call and roster nature of the gig. Plus some added stress of late. Purely anecdotal but Mick would be way better positioned to comment.
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Its interesting the difference in views on US Cities . I hated LA .
I had 2 Zen moments over in the US . One was at 5pm on a Friday in a Greewich village Jazz Bar. Was there alone as i didnt want to go to a funeral home of a dead guy i didnt know. Some huge black guy told me ALL about Duke Ellington. I was never really a knowledgeable fan but this guy was and played track after track on the jukebox. Really enjoyed the few hours and the passionate commentary.
The 2nd time was in a small town Comfort outside San An. A through the night camp firside guitar wanker fest with some proper talent. . Loved it . 1st time i heard pamcho and leftie. I retired to bed at sunrise as they started getting thick about politics and the vibe was diluting. Im easily pleased i guess. 2 standouts for me.
Sure fire away lads on yer US zen moments .
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Just reminds me of how NYC was like a sketch, everybody in suits with airpods talking on their phones at all times, everybody shouting at the top of their lungs as their normal conversational level. Crazy shit happening everywhere, nobody even looking at insane people screaming as if they don't exist. Rich women in dog parks that clearly haven't worked a day in their lives. The poverty and wealth in any one glance being absurdly far apart. The news being about a baby being found dead in a dumpster as if a normal occurrence between all the medical and legal ads. It goes on and on.
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Originally posted by Tar.Aldarion View PostJust reminds me of how NYC was like a sketch, everybody in suits with airpods talking on their phones at all times, everybody shouting at the top of their lungs as their normal conversational level. Crazy shit happening everywhere, nobody even looking at insane people screaming as if they don't exist. Rich women in dog parks that clearly haven't worked a day in their lives. The poverty and wealth in any one glance being absurdly far apart. The news being about a baby being found dead in a dumpster as if a normal occurrence between all the medical and legal ads. It goes on and on.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostLooks like Hazel is going to lose another election, although its not certain yet. Seems to be making a fine habit of losing. Glad to have done my bit.Gone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by DeadParrot View Post
My place payed a small fortune for pen testing and the team basically ran pre packaged Kali bundles.
But as you said, complience docs and spiceworks/powershell ad stuff is 90% of the day to day once they are done
As you said a lot of the pen-testing stuff is run of the mill script/bundles that work in most settings where companies rarely have best practices implemented. The engineer gave me the link to the course he did - 1 month of study was required to achieve the certification for an instant 2x salary at that time. The test for the cert was a cool concept, 24 hours to break through a fairly standard windows domain with a few vlans and DMZ plus a few ports or surfaces that could be jabbed. The real cool stuff goes on in bigger shops, particularly with high-value targets (think finance, tech etc). Money for the guys in those roles is $$$$ but it reflects the skills.
Solksjaer! - Mick had a very good point about testing the waters. Find out the course modules or subjects and hop onto youtube to get a feel of what they contain. The training sites would have content relevant to your course. That said it would be geared more towards being hands-on/practical to achieve a professional certification vs more theory-based for a 3rd level qualification.
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Originally posted by ComradeCollie View PostAny thoughts here on Graham Linehan's recent bit? I know I stopped following him on twitter before he was banned. Just generally think he's let a pretty insignificant issue (to me anyway) take over his life.
There must come a point where you see that having a view is costing you the best 30 years of your earning potential, destroying your marriage, getting you police cautions - and decide to back away as it's surely not a hill worth dying on. But he just wasn't able to do it.
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View Post
Yeah, it just seems really sad that he's let such a nonsensical issue become an obsession.
There must come a point where you see that having a view is costing you the best 30 years of your earning potential, destroying your marriage, getting you police cautions - and decide to back away as it's surely not a hill worth dying on. But he just wasn't able to do it.
The suspension came after Linehan responded to a Women’s Institute post wishing a happy pride to all of their transgender members with: “Men aren’t women tho.”
After creating a new account under the guise of a trans man, Linehan was again suspended.
Then, last year, Linehan created a fake account on the lesbian dating app Her and publicly posted screenshots from the app of users which were non-binary and trans women to his blog, stating that they should not be allowed on the app because they “are not lesbians”.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI see the rouble has recovered nearly all its losses from the start of the war. Financial markets maybe assuming that sanctions will be temporary?"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostI see the rouble has recovered nearly all its losses from the start of the war. Financial markets maybe assuming that sanctions will be temporary?
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Was out for lunch with two likely lads today, who finished up the lunch by noting how they had both independently gone deep into buying uranium futures as soon as the war started.
And all our time on here delighting in the rouble falling, and none of the time wondering if it was time to buy it.
We clearly devoted too much space at the beginning of the war thinking about the war, and not enough to thinking about the profit opportunities.Last edited by Hitchhiker's Guide To...; 31-03-22, 19:09."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by dobby View Post
Would Putin announcing that Russian oil/gas must be paid for in Roubles have anything to do with it? Would expect some uplift after that surely
It seems there was a bit of an over-reaction at the beginning."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by dobby View Post
Would Putin announcing that Russian oil/gas must be paid for in Roubles have anything to do with it? Would expect some uplift after that surely
The Europeans are paying in the same currency (EUR, USD) they've always paid in and Gazprom Bank are then converting to roubles. Thus enabling the bullshit."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by ArmaniJeans View Post
Yeah, it just seems really sad that he's let such a nonsensical issue become an obsession.
There must come a point where you see that having a view is costing you the best 30 years of your earning potential, destroying your marriage, getting you police cautions - and decide to back away as it's surely not a hill worth dying on. But he just wasn't able to do it.
Some mad conspiracy stuff"We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
What was the 'view'?
Some mad conspiracy stuff
Like CC, I blocked him ages ago, as it was too painful to watch.
You never want to see someone go full jbrav"We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Ah, that's just playing to the cameras and the idiots back home.
The Europeans are paying in the same currency (EUR, USD) they've always paid in and Gazprom Bank are then converting to roubles. Thus enabling the bullshit."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWas out for lunch with two likely lads today, who finished up the lunch by noting how they had both independently gone deep into buying uranium futures as soon as the war started.
And all our time on here delighting in the rouble falling, and none of the time wondering if it was time to buy it.
We clearly devoted too much space at the beginning of the war thinking about the war, and not enough to thinking about the profit opportunities.airport, lol
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
Yeah, I didn't really get that. Surely it can't make any difference either way, as fundamentally the foreign currency is supporting the domestic currency in both circumstances. In one, through buying roubles directly (the current proposal), and in the other through giving foreign currency that can then be used by Russia to spend buying their domestic currency (the standard approach)."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
He seems to have argued himself into some odd corner, that transpeople switching from male to female, are largely paedophiles looking to abuse girls in toilets.
Like CC, I blocked him ages ago, as it was too painful to watch.
You never want to see someone go full jbravGone full 'Glinner' since June 2022.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostWas out for lunch with two likely lads today, who finished up the lunch by noting how they had both independently gone deep into buying uranium futures as soon as the war started.
And all our time on here delighting in the rouble falling, and none of the time wondering if it was time to buy it.
We clearly devoted too much space at the beginning of the war thinking about the war, and not enough to thinking about the profit opportunities.This too shall pass.
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Originally posted by eamonhonda View Post
Nevermind that war shite, what did ya have?
Stomach hasn't been the same ever since, but wowsers it was amazing."We're not f*cking Burundi" - Big Phil
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
A madly spicy braised beef dish from this very-dodgy-from-the-exterior fine establishment: http://mlchineserestaurant.com/
Stomach hasn't been the same ever since, but wowsers it was amazing.airport, lol
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
A madly spicy braised beef dish from this very-dodgy-from-the-exterior fine establishment: http://mlchineserestaurant.com/
Stomach hasn't been the same ever since, but wowsers it was amazing."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
I think it was really from the propping up the RUB side (Denny can explain better), i.e. create some artificial demand on the buy side
It hasn't been possible to buy the RUB on a lot of brokers since the war.
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
That's one of the places my Chinese colleague (President Xi) likes to take us to. The other one is on Capel St and has no outward signs to indicate it is in fact a restaurant spread over several floors.
There's also supposed to be class Asian food(unsure of where in Asia) in the back of a shop passed where the original boojum was on millennium lane or whatever they call that. Keep meaning to try but I think it's one of these where us white plebs won't get the good stuff as we don't know what to orderairport, lol
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View Post
A madly spicy braised beef dish from this very-dodgy-from-the-exterior fine establishment: http://mlchineserestaurant.com/
Stomach hasn't been the same ever since, but wowsers it was amazing.
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Originally posted by eamonhonda View Post
Rough location of the capel st spot?
There's also supposed to be class Asian food(unsure of where in Asia) in the back of a shop passed where the original boojum was on millennium lane or whatever they call that. Keep meaning to try but I think it's one of these where us white plebs won't get the good stuff as we don't know what to order
We were the only non-Chinese there for sure."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Definitely the far end of the street, away from the river. Pretty sure we had to walk through a shop, go through one building and into another although there was drink taken.
We were the only non-Chinese there for sure.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostSome good ones here in this thread on best nicknames
https://www.reddit.com/r/northernire...dyr/nicknames/
70157182.jpgLast edited by Strewelpeter; 31-03-22, 21:44.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Raoul Duke III View Post
Definitely the far end of the street, away from the river. Pretty sure we had to walk through a shop, go through one building and into another although there was drink taken.
We were the only non-Chinese there for sure.airport, lol
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