thelastknowngod @ thelastknowngod @lemm.ee

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Do I win?

Those days gave me a career so I can't really complain.

Back in the dark, old days of Linux I spent 5-6 hours digging through dbus events and X11 configs to get my mouse working. It was unplugged.

In my defense, in those days, Linux was such an insane asylum that diving into dbus and X11 as a first step was usually the logical approach.

Woops!

I actually really like The Night Before. That Joe Seth Rogan movie. It's the only one I've been rewatching over the last few years.

I'm living in Tbilisi, Georgia. There are TONS of older foreign cars here with damage that would clearly fail an inspection in places like America.. Lots and lots of cars driving around with crumple zones that have been destroyed but the engine works fine. Apparently it's cheaper to import one of these than it is to buy a car here.

It's not just American and European cat's either. There are significant numbers of Japanese imports as well which have the steering wheel on the wrong side. Sometimes you'll get picked up in a taxi and the whole radio/infotainment screen is all Japanese.

Higher'd'n AC.

As a counter balance to that though, interviewers need to understand what they are hiring for and tailor the questions asked to those requirements.

For example, there is genuinely very little coding required of an SRE these days but EVERY job interview wants you to do some leetcode style algorithm design.. Since containers took over, the times I have used anything beyond relatively unremarkable bash scripts is exceptionally small. It's extremely unlikely that I will be responsible for a task that is so dependent on performance that I need to design a perfect O(1) algorithm. On terraform though, I'm a fucking surgeon.

SRE specifically should HEAVILY focus on system design and almost all other things should have much much less priority.. I've failed plenty of skill assessments just because of the code though.

Containerization (even for small things) makes modern infrastructure a LOT easier.

No we're not.

No. Just change the location.

Meetup.com is how you get to know people in Tokyo. I lived there for a few years and this was extremely popular.

Have you looked into getting a psych evaluation?

Trains when possible.

I've been riding motorcycles on and off for years. For the last 8ish months I've been riding one of those like city share electric moped/scooter things. It's a cheap Chinese NIU brand. For the size and state of infrastructure in my current city (Tbilisi) it's honestly the best way to get around.

I lived in Tokyo for years though. I would take a train network like that any day of the week.

Because it could be half that without a union.

Yeah I am deep in the kube world as well. Since this industry-wide shift started happening, I feel like I write essentially no code anymore outside of bash scripts to glue things together. It's essential but it's not a replacement.

This cartoon seemed to me to be suggesting that you could implement the behavior of kube with bash. That's obviously absurd.

This is dumb.

You could do all that stuff with bash scripts but it would be a management nightmare. You'd also be completely reinventing the wheel.

If anyone seriously thinks this is a good idea, please post your LinkedIn so I know to never hire you.

Or maybe OP is just making shit up.

What software are you using that is keeping you on windows?

FWIW, the last version of windows I've run was WinME circa 2001ish.. I've been on Linux since '99 or so. You can certainly get by for day to day stuff. The only thing holding you back is going to be pretty niche.

I think Mashable needs to talk to their own InfoSec team for an education.. Stealing data and ransomware are not the same thing.