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What #8570 certificate should I get?
What #8570 certificate should I get?
For a cloud native app with 6+ AWS services how many techies/specialists to...
For a cloud native app with 6+ AWS services how many techies/specialists to support one cloud native app*? cloud native = isn't a lift/shift app that avoids using anything that...
If your secret clearance is lapsed, is there any point in applying to jobs that...
If your secret clearance is lapsed, is there any point in applying to jobs that call for a secret clearance? Are they just collecting resumes? Is this like "internal only" jobs in...
In an alternate universe I stayed in academia and am(?) doing economics &...
In an alternate universe I stayed in academia and am(?) doing economics & taking streams of data that have correlations and doing the extra math to find out what the causal model...
My old boss is hiring for Causal Inference work. "Do you have some causal...
My old boss is hiring for Causal Inference work. "Do you have some causal inference experience? Do you want a role that helps you build the science roadmap that impacts millions...
My possibly ill-informed opinion on the mainframe developer market work has so...
My possibly ill-informed opinion on the mainframe developer market work has so many barriers - Can't run it locally. Only 1 training program at IBM for terminal access. (wrong!...
Do you use any time tracking applications (screen recorders, rescue time,...
Do you use any time tracking applications (screen recorders, rescue time, wakatime)? THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE COMPANY MANDATED SPYWARE. That's bad. Not asking about that.
What's going on with tech salaries. Are salaries flat but the unemployment rate...
What's going on with tech salaries. Are salaries flat but the unemployment rate is higher? Or have salaries gone down? Are certain categories getting hammered? So many numbers,...
1st impression: looks more like Visual Basic (the designer) and Entity...
1st impression: looks more like Visual Basic (the designer) and Entity Framework (the designer) or DTS/SSIS (the designer). Off the top of my head I can't think of anyone else...
Using LLMs for job hunting: **BAD IDEAS** - Writing any text for humans, not...
Using LLMs for job hunting: **BAD IDEAS** - Writing any text for humans, not cover letters, not resumes. People recognize ChatGPT immediately and it can't help your case. **GOOD...
What I read: "This role will sit in our new headquarters and occupy 4 million...
What I read: "This role will sit in our new headquarters and occupy 4 million square feet of office space" Oh, that's too big of an office for me. What it said: "This role will...
What the, and when I say what I mean what, and when I say the I mean the, what...
What the, and when I say what I mean what, and when I say the I mean the, what the f*K Company will act as a salary reference. Either A, they're doing the credit report lookup...
Summing ordinal complexity scores (story points) to get velocity is a random...
Summing ordinal complexity scores (story points) to get velocity is a random number generator. Nothing you didn't already know, I'm just doing fanservice for the likes.
"You are given two marbles, they will break when dropped from some certain...
"You are given two marbles, they will break when dropped from some certain height . You've been asked to find the highest floor your can drop a marble from without breaking."...
Halp, if you search for the debate on social media, the commentary is in...
Halp, if you search for the debate on social media, the commentary is in Portuguese. I can't learn another language that fast.
Anyone understand in ? I'm trying to add support to so that when there isn't a...
Anyone understand in ? I'm trying to add support to so that when there isn't a web framework with a context to glom onto, that you can use the thread/thread.local/ContextVars and...
A brief trip down the rabbit hole of IBM mainframes: Oversimplifying, there are...
A brief trip down the rabbit hole of IBM mainframes: Oversimplifying, there are only 2 ecosystems left standing in computing altogether -- PC/Unix -- IBM OS/360 descendents (Z/OS)...
The toilet mechanicals are broken in half the toilets in the house. The...
The toilet mechanicals are broken in half the toilets in the house. The internet has no useful advice (for me) Plan A: Be your own plumber, it is so cheap.* Plan B: Pay...
I reviewed the bot policies for the largest mastodon instances. About none of...
I reviewed the bot policies for the largest mastodon instances. About none of them have been updated in any coherent way to react to LLMs.