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- Comment on How have you related pseudonymous online work/activity when applying for jobs? 1 year ago:
I hear you, and that’s great if it’s something the applicant wants to share. But none of the development work they’ve done at previous companies is work that they’ll be able to share. We take their word on that work. Not taking their word in the same way on other projects seems like a bit of a double standard to me.
- Comment on How have you related pseudonymous online work/activity when applying for jobs? 1 year ago:
Let’s say you are applying for an engineering position and you want to mention that you contribute to an open source project. Mention the software stack used, maybe the number of downloads, and your focus on the project. Explain it in general terms. If it gets asked about in the interview, just answer questions without providing the name of the project.
- Comment on Small Unraid PC with 2 HDDs. Silverstone SG13 case with Asrock N100DC-ITX, the SATA power cable was too short so I had to improvise. 1 year ago:
I like the choice of SIlverstone for the case. I got one of those for my proxmox server. It was compact, but not so compact that I left a lot of skin and blood behind after mounting components. I will say that other manufacturers (like Fractal Design just seem to understand how to design an interior a lot better, though.
- Comment on is there a useful way for tech workers to express interest in a union? 1 year ago:
It’s so amazing to see a comment like this. For years and years, the tech industry workers were heavily anti-union. I’m glad to see the sentiment turning around.
- Comment on So Much for ‘Learn to Code’ - In the age of AI, computer science is no longer the safe major. 1 year ago:
I’ve just spent a few weeks continually enhancing a script in a language I’m not all that familiar with, exclusively using ChatGPT 4. The experience leaves a LOT to be desired.
The first few prompts are nothing short of amazing. You go from blank page to something that mostly works in a few seconds. Inevitably, though, something needs to change. That’s where things start to go awry.
You’ll get a few changes in, and things will be going well. Then you’ll ask for another change, and the resulting code will eliminate one of your earlier changes. For example, I asked ChatGPT to write a quick python script that does fuzzy matching. I wanted to feed it a list of filenames from a file and have it find the closest match on my hard drive. I asked for a progress bar, which it added. By the time I was done having it generate code, the progress bar had been removed a couple of times, and changed out for a different progress bar at least three times. (On the bright side, I now know of multiple progress bar solutions in Python!)
If you continue on long enough, the “memory” of ChatGPT isn’t sufficient to remember everything you’ve been doing. You get to a point where you need to feed it your script very frequently to give it the context it needs to answer a question or implement a change.
And on top of all that, it doesn’t often implement the best change. In one instance, I wanted it to write a function that would parse a CSV, count up duplicate values in a particular field, and add that value to each row of the CSV. I could tell right away that the first solution was not an efficient way to accomplish the task. I had to question ChatGPT in another prompt about whether it was efficient. (I was soundly impressed that it recognized the problem after I brought it up and gave me something that ended up being quite fast and efficient.)
Moral of the story: you can’t do this effectively without an understanding of computer science.
- Comment on Correction to Star Trek: Picard Season 3 Blu-ray in the Works 1 year ago:
Thanks for posting this! I was going to buy this on blu ray very soon after launch, but now I think I’ll give it some time. The only thing I worry about is that the incorrect version will be sold to retailers, who will just sell me that when I go to buy it next year.
- Comment on Apple TV's tvOS 17 brings VPN support, which Tailscale now supports. 1 year ago:
Have we figured out if this solves the Netflix password sharing limitation yet?
- Comment on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 2 Arrives on DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K UHD December 5 1 year ago:
Season 1 has a couple fun extras on the disc. One in particular shows how they use the LED walls to create rich set environments.
- Comment on How do you currently handle Covid infections? 1 year ago:
If I think I’m sick, regardless of what I’m sick with, I try to isolate and mask as much as possible. Nobody wants to get sick from me. For the flu and Covid, I go and get tests to allow me to take the antiviral medications. If I have Covid, I mask for a couple of weeks just to prevent spreading it.
- Comment on Voyager and Paramount Plus 1 year ago:
Voyager episodes 1-4 all display in 4:3 on Paramount Plus for me on PC and iPhone.
- Comment on is this any good 1 year ago:
Why are you upgrading? Is it to take advantage of the 10g network speeds?
- Check out this new Starfield-flavored FPS, built with the engine from The Elder Scrolls Morrowindwww.pcgamesn.com ↗Submitted 1 year ago to boomer_shooter@lemmy.ninja | 0 comments
- Comment on Announcement: Startrek.website will be read-only for a while, and down for a few hours while we migrate hosts (Sept 4th) 1 year ago:
Oh yeah, I bet it’s the latter. It would make sense to lock the database before a migration, too!
- Comment on Announcement: Startrek.website will be read-only for a while, and down for a few hours while we migrate hosts (Sept 4th) 1 year ago:
I’m curious how you actually turn a Lemmy site read-only!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I would like downvoted comments and posts that are below a certain threshold to be collapsed.
- Comment on How are people not hating (and even liking) Star Trek Enterprise? 1 year ago:
I’m making my way through the special features and commentaries in the Blu Ray edition. It amazes me that so much of the bonus content is apologizing for/explaining the bad quality of the show. I’ve never seen anything like it, really.
I have watched this series several times. There was one way to watch it that makes it pretty good: follow the skippables list. It tells you which episodes to omit and which to watch to get the full story. It’s pretty incredible what it does to the experience of binging the show. Suddenly it feels Voyager-like.
- Comment on Rank your favorite Star Trek movies! Be ready to defend your positions! 1 year ago:
Nemesis above Undiscovered Country? That’s a shock!
- Comment on What is the difference between roasting and baking, since they are both referring to cooking something in an oven? 1 year ago:
Roasting means to cook over a flame. Baking means to cook in an oven.
- Turbo Overkill: Doom Eternal meets Cyberpunk in gorgeous new boomer shooter going wild on Steamwww.pcgamesn.com ↗Submitted 1 year ago to boomer_shooter@lemmy.ninja | 1 comment
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- Comment on Recommended Domain & DDNS Providers? 1 year ago:
I prefer porkbun for my domain provider. They’re kind of the darling of the self-hosting community, it seems. But I picked them because they were pretty inexpensive.
- Comment on Paramount+ Plans Global Rollout for International Original Series (Exclusive) 1 year ago:
“Mortimer, we really have to do something. We’re almost out of Star Trek episodes and the writers are still on strike! All of them! Quick, look around and see what we can get to keep those subscriber numbers up!”
Those shows might be great, but I have no doubts in my mind that they are coming because Paramount executives are digging in for the long haul and trying to break the strike.
- Comment on Community Spotlight: Data Hoarder 1 year ago:
It’s hard to help when I don’t know which app you are using, but see if this link works: Data Hoarder
If you continue to have problems, you can follow the instructions on our pinned post that explains how to subscribe to communities. I know a lot of apps are very new and may not have community subscription capabilities yet. You may have to log in via the web on your home instance and subscribe to it that way.
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- Comment on How do I reference another community on my or another instance? 1 year ago:
That is not true. It will fail with a cryptic error message on all instances that have never searched for fediverse@lemmy.world, and it will fail for Mastodon users. Those are just the ones we’ve discovered so far.
- Comment on How do I reference another community on my or another instance? 1 year ago:
There are several ways to link to a community. If your instance has had someone previously search for the community, then they will all work. If this hasn’t happened (usually because your instance is small or new) then there can be problems with the “shorthand” method that begins with an !. I’ve written a full explanation in this article at the Community Search Tips community. It lists the drawbacks and advantages of each approach that I’m aware of.
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- Comment on I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course) 1 year ago:
Isn’t Drew a conservative?
- Comment on Selfhosted virtualisation learning kit 1 year ago:
I can do better than that: here are a couple of videos from LearnLinuxTV’s Proxmox Course.
You should be able to watch them and get the overview you’re looking for. But really, this whole course is excellent from start to finish. I watched it before I ever touched Proxmox, and I’m glad I did. It was instrumental in helping me choose Proxmox as my hypervisor and gave me a great idea of what hardware I wanted to use and how I wanted to use it.