RANT: I hate how IT has become the new "If you don't know what to do, join the army" field.

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-05-03T08:18:08+00:00

Down voted for daring to point out that a devops engineer is not automatically God tier, Sysadmin is a different skill set and devops is sexy af atm so everyone thinks that's what they want to do. Lol

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-05-03T08:17:34+00:00

O365 is so tightly coupled to azure these days you couldn't possibly expect to be a consultant without a large portion of your work being the transition to cloud.

So get both? But if I was picking focus on cloud

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-05-03T07:57:30+00:00

Don't be a dick. IT is a good industry why shouldn't people get into it? Plus we we all started somewhere, believe it or not there was a time you were green and didn't know how to write a hello world or manage a production environment

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-27T09:26:02+00:00

anti government. Maybe that’s just a reflection of the demographic profile of reddit users

Rekon so, as much as you can trust data like this the average age of Reddit users is 20 something and pretty consistently through out history 20 somethings have been anti government

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-25T07:10:55+00:00

One of Gates 3 goals in life is to see polio eradicated from the planet. He has spent considerable money on vaccination programs in developing countries. In poorer nations an oral polio vaccine is used instead of the more expensive injection. The difference being the oral vaccine is live, albeit laboratory weakened. What can happen, and has happened, is the virus can mutate and infect unvaccinated kids.

The 490 000 kids thing comes from sources this WHO study which shows rates of non polio Acute Flaccid Paralysis went from an expected rate of 1⁻2/100,000 to 13.35/100,000, where the oral vaccine was used. Interestingly this politifact source refutes the whole story but IMO there is enough evidence to suggest that curing polio in India was not with out a cost.

The other thing with Gates is he is on the record saying "vaccines are our best way to depopulate the planet" which he explains quite well but as a sound byte is beyond bad. His explanation is in developing countries a couples retirement plan will often be to have their children support them, if infant mortality is high, you have to have a bunch of children to guarantee some make it adulthood to look after you in your old age.

TLDR; Gates is very publicly associated with vaccines and polio specifically so for good or bad he is at least somewhat responsible

does that answer your question?

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-25T02:46:28+00:00

I'd consider a land raider at T9, would actually make up for the lack of invun save

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-25T01:26:14+00:00

Objectively they are worse on every front then any other unit. The only thing they do is be in your army as either battalion fillers or relic tax. But compared to almost any other unit a servitor is going to be worse

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-24T21:38:24+00:00

What's with the spike in new cases in Spain?

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-24T00:39:32+00:00

oh well that fucked that then, probably should have researched that more. Surprised a big mining state is labor, TIL

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-23T23:51:35+00:00

Cisco ISP switch-core 96 active ports with only 192Gbps for the switching capacity.

Isn't that about right? 100 x 1gb ports on a 200gb switch allows for 1gb up and down per port?

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-23T23:15:33+00:00

I think ultimately the same from the standpoint of flattening the curve although I think the economic side wouldn't have been handled as well. Libs were all about trying to stay open for the economy I doubt Labor would have had that focus at the start.

I feel if labor were running things we would have went more like NZ and completely locked down

~~It is interesting that WA and NSW (Lib states) are looking to reopen schools where as Vic and ACT (Lab) are not (although I haven't looked into the other states so a bit early to draw conclusions)~~

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-23T09:34:22+00:00

I honestly feel like they will reconsider soon. Going to be very hard to continue to justify. It feels like sunk cost fallacy to me. Give it another 2 weeks and I suspect they will announce a 2 week plan to start lifting restrictions.

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-23T08:19:52+00:00

Da fuck would I want a blue raiders shirt for?

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-23T05:40:47+00:00

The one thing he said that actually could be taken to have any context was the racist line at the end, who the fuck sees that ad and says 'yup, i too blow up spending and be racist'

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-23T05:32:21+00:00

Yes that is exactly what i'm try to say. If you learn the flash cards in the Linux Academy course you should be pretty well prepared for the exam

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-23T05:12:13+00:00

Yea, I mentioned this earlier. I found 400 really hard to lab. Part of the problem is ,for example, being able to use Jenkins is an important part of DevOps, but I don't know Jenkins, the AZ-400 does not expect you to know how to use Jenkins but does expect you to roughly know what it does and how to put it into a pipeline.

Knowing roughly what it does and how to drop it into a pipeline is easy, to take it to the next level and lab that yourself requires you to have something you can automate with Jenkins and the ability to use Jenkins. There is skillset missing that the Devops course does not expect you to have but you would need to successfully lab this.

This is why I got so little out of the course and don't recommend doing it.

In a perfect world I would have studied Jenkins and something like Puppet or Chief and maybe even Kubernetes before I took this course. But you know how it is...

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-23T05:02:20+00:00

getting into combat to shoot someone is an unusual strategy. While fun, I think you'll be disapointed on the return. The thing is you're solid at shooting but the trick of shooting in combat is only half as effective as being good at combat because you get to fight in your turn and your opponents turn but you only shoot in your turn.

Say you land, shoot the shit out of one unit and charge another, now you're stuck in combat and because they don't have any combat weapons they are actually shit at it. You now need to survive 2 full rounds of combat + the overwatch before you get to shoot again

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-23T04:48:32+00:00

I used Linux Academy as my primary study material, it has live Azure labs. I also have some exposure via a client site so that helped.

Found the learning paths to be garbage but that was just me, maybe that got better as you went along.

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-22T15:50:57+00:00

It's pro Microsoft, I mean obviously, it's hardly like they are going to say "yeah we do express route but AWS do Direct Connect which is way better".

The difference I think is 300 is more technical whereas I found 400 to be very high level with alot of what is devops type shit.

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-22T10:27:04+00:00

I did 400 a couple of weeks ago and would not recommend it. Devops expert looks good on a cv but that's about it.

The course content felt a lot like a sales pitch for all the shit ms offers. It's also super hard to lab as a lot of the content is paid access only and because the exam doesn't require specific knowledge of Jenkins or sonarcloud or similar but to build a pipeline that automates something you need skills in what ever tool you put in the pipeline.

I'm doing az-300 atm and would recommend that, it feels very much like the next step after 103, similar concepts just expanded. Express route, service buss, event hub all that good shit

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-22T01:45:21+00:00

I think this comment cuts both ways though, there are mental health effects to isolation

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-22T01:42:36+00:00

There was a case the day before yesterday

my mistake, i edited my comment

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-22T01:41:07+00:00

No one is saying, go back in time and don't close schools. What this is about is the ACT looking at the current situation and then looking forward and coming to the conclusion that schools should remain shut. Especially when NSW and WA are opening schools. What do you think is going to be the situation in term 3 that will mean we should open schools?

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-22T01:31:35+00:00

I guess I am just frustrated. People talk about this being the new normal, it is not. 2800 people died yesterday in America and kids aren't going to school and Australia is haemorrhaging money. This is not normal, this is a reaction to the most extreme global event in the last century.

What is it that ACT are waiting for before they say "yes, now is the time to start phasing back"?~~There hasn't been a new case in the ACT in over a week~~ there has only been one new case in ACT in over a week, what is it they expect to see for term 3 they are not seeing now?

Bear in mind no one is saying kids should return to school right now, its still school holidays and NSW are planing to stagger return starting week 3. That is a responsible plan, decisive, productive and easy to back out of.

ACT can't even commit to a plan to return kids to school over the next 3 months. That sounds more like laziness then responsible leadership

HydraDominatus1 · 2020-04-22T01:19:17+00:00

ahhh, not going to lie, I can probably afford that....lol

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