derpgon
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- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 5 days ago:
On oné hand, courses exist, but they can’t prepare you for company specific situations. Companies rely on people knowing everything because they had some course.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 5 days ago:
Well said, I do enjoy my field and my employer. I worked for quite a few different companies. One I was all on my own and had to learn myself - my seniors hardly ever had time to explain shit to me so I was left alone with documentation and asking least possible amount of questions. Then, I had a team leader who was passionate about explaining stuff and telling me what to do, how, and why.
Everyone is different, do what you like, chase what you desire, and do the job you enjoy.
On the other hand, I am now in the boots of a senior, and I am desperately trying to show more junior colleagues how exciting it is to explore the work we do - nobody seems to care, nobody seems to implement whatever co shit I try to show them, nobody wants to change their ways, and I feel like fighting windmills.
If you want to be successful, you have to either be super lucky, or be passionate and constantly improve to reach new heights.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 5 days ago:
It is not hard to hire someone, it is hard to hire someone who doesn’t give you more work than they solve. I am not against hiring juniors, but they have to show initiative that they are passionate and able to improve. I don’t want a person who will be junior for the rest of their career, because juniors usually require babysitting and that that away work and attention from competent people (the chads who actually build the core features and have to attend business meetings on why it is so good for customers to see additional offers during checking out).
It is a combination - incompetent HR, incompetent candidates, or bad hiring process. I am yet to apply to a company with a hiring process I’d call pleasant on all angles.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 5 days ago:
We do look at GH history and activity - can’t say, out of about 50 candidates in the past two months that I reviewed, have any meaningful activity on GH.
Not saying I am proving you wrong, but finding a candidate that has anything to show publicly is hard. Hell, even I, having a very well paying job, have much to show off publicly. I can, however, share my personal stuff. I’ve got tons of opened issues tho 🤣
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 5 days ago:
As an undiagnosed autistic dev, I am starting to realize there are not many good non autistic devs. I wonder what is the reason.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 5 days ago:
There I’d always free time to self educate. Being a programmer means constantly keeping up with the news, new technologies, and adapting to new standards to keep the code clean, maintainable, extendable, readable, and relatively fast.
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 5 days ago:
Not necessarily, it might mean it I’d an industry easy to get into, but hard to master. If I was short on people, and inexperienced person might actually make mistakes that require even more work to fix.
Everyone thinks they are Mr Robot after they let ChatGPT create a simple HTML page. No, they are not, and they won’t even pass as a junior. Surprise surprise, you have to know the basics.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 6 days ago:
Well, do it manually then! Without internet, you can’t send any tracking to the corporate, and without a working drive the data will be unreadable after you are done ;)
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 6 days ago:
Just update, find a script to repeatedly write a 50gb file filled with garbage, and pray it kills your drive.
- Comment on MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 1 week ago:
Management was planning implementing Google Vertex (AI search platform), but since we already have all our data in ElasticSearch and it supports vectors, I said why not try to implement it myself. With integrated GPU and a very small model, I could create a working POC and it is gonna be - not overexaggerating - 50 times cheaper.
- Comment on Plex server patching required 1 week ago:
That’s what you get for using anything that doesn’t work fully offline. Seriously people still defending Plex and not seeing that it will bite them back sooner or later are delusional.
Given that hardware doesn’t die, my Jellyfin will probably work until the heat death of the universe.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Finally got into Deathloop, it is not super long, but pretty cool concept with enough storytelling to not overwhelm but satisfying enough.
- Comment on The EU still wants to scan all your chats – and the rules could come into force by October 2025 3 weeks ago:
You don’t have to say everything on those apps, tho, just do basic stuff and for longer convos request an encrypted chat app.
- Comment on Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict 3 weeks ago:
Yep, can confirm works for my car too. If I press the gas pedal enough I can go faster than set cruise speed (for example, if I want to pass someone). If I lightly tap brakes, it turns kinda immediately.
- Comment on Atlassian terminates 150 staff with pre-recorded video, AI customer contact solutions rolled out 3 weeks ago:
I hate Jira, I hate how bloated and slow it is, and I fucking despise all the AI shoving up my face. Now they added a unclosable sidebar with all their apps nobody uses, but you can’t get rid of it.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 3 weeks ago:
RISC-V’s time to shine! (IIRC it is open source instruction set).
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 3 weeks ago:
I can vouch for Forgejo, it is pretty easy.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t say it is particularly easy to setup, not easier than using a Docker image at least.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 3 weeks ago:
They probably meant purely self hosted. You can self hosted Gitea, Forgejo, GitLab, and probably many others.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 4 weeks ago:
How is WG vulnerable to replay attacks? They already address that in their documentation.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 4 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t it be detected via initial connection only? WG does not send packets while connected, does it?
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 4 weeks ago:
I mean anyone can rent a server in Europe and install OpenVPN themselves. Hell, it doesn’t even need to open OpenVPN, Wireguard works just as well and is basically undetectable.
Eat shit, UK government, for real. Idiots think that by speaking the same language as US fascists they can have similarly dumb ideas.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 4 weeks ago:
I also love squeaky clean, ad-less internet. In this timeline, I get to enjoy both.
Blessed uBlock.
- Comment on "We approached payment processors because Steam did not respond" - Australian pressure group Collective Shout claims responsibility for Steam and Itch.io NSFW game removal 4 weeks ago:
Stable coins on the rise, buy while they are cheap!
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 4 weeks ago:
I’ve setup Hauk for my dad to broadcast his location while delivering. It is only activated when he activates it, but it also works if you want to share location with a specific group of people. It has an app and a website, and can be password protected. It also records history and speed, but history can be turned off.
It is not very robust or particularly well coded, but it is a nice little FOSS app that works.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 4 weeks ago:
My whole home automation is using Zigbee devices, they don’t even know what internet is, and it doesnt matter which brand it is as longs it is supported by Zigbee2MQTT. Matter is great, so is Thread.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 5 weeks ago:
It is always “Look, we are actually trying to help the climate” types of government. Helping to build sustainable shit? Put money towards developing open, essy to implement, and easy to service standards? Nah, we will pay a billion dollars towards some bullshit that will be forgotten in a year and 80% (if not more) of the cash will be pocketed by billionaires (to use towards lobbying either against shit that will lose em money or shit that will make em money) because the contract was overpriced.
Fuck humanity, seriously. I just wish we will get a revolution before we burn to a crisp.
- Comment on What should I get my online friend for their birthday? 5 weeks ago:
Daaamn, you are right, I was half-asleep, I have mistaken it with Void Crew.
Raft suggestion still stands tho!
- Comment on What should I get my online friend for their birthday? 5 weeks ago:
Instead of Void Crew (which uses Epic launcher and is not quite done yet) I recommend Raft. Quite replayable, fun, has a nice story.
- Comment on What else should I self-host? 1 month ago:
There a million ways, and you will probably find tons of tutorials each different - Docker, Docker Compose, native install, VMWare, Kubernetes, Portainer, etc. I recommend starting with a clean machine - preferably with an attached monitor - and installing your favorite Linux distro (Ubuntu is among the easiest), getting Docker and Docker Compose running, and familiarizing yourself with these technologies.
Then you can start with a simple app like Paperless (document digitization), Vikunja (TODOs), BookStack (wiki), or PrivateBin (pastebin), getting it running and persist state over a period of time, then setting up a reverse proxy so you don’t have to use IPs all the time (with just editing your hosts file to point a URL to IP of your machine), and then it is a free world.
Of course, having the whole setup secure, independent, and easily manageable is partially eyperience and partially understanding your needs.
You will probably even find whole ready-to-deploy git repositories that are easily configurable, so you can go with that too.