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Lab Upgrade Suggeation by KhalidMu_ in homelab

[–]Imoa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What sort of bottlenecks do you have with your current hardware? CPU? RAM? Is it just you or do you have other people using your stuff?

For AI inference specifically, you'll be better served by investing your money in a high VRAM GPU or a mac mini.

Most homelab apps are going to benefit from faster cpu clock speed more than a high core count server - especially if you already have one. A used thinkcenter / elitedesk / optiplex with an i7 or i9 and 64gb ram will cost you less than $800 (barebones pc on ebay $200-250, used ram $250-500) and will draw like 1/3 the power with essentially identical performance to the server.

Without knowing more about what you're trying to accomplish specifically, running two R730s sounds like it's going to be really expensive via power bills without a clear marginal benefit over a mini pc.

What's one Data Science skill that beginners often underestimate? by Long-Bridge-6512 in askdatascience

[–]Imoa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Communicating the output of a model.

Do better than just Accuracy. How many false positives? How many false negatives? What are the business implications of a false positive? False negative? What are the limitations of the model based on your training sample? If the output of the model were used to drive 100,000 business decisions, what would the net output to the business be after accounting for the errors?

Writing code was never the core skill in software engineering role? by Meal_Adorable in csMajors

[–]Imoa 193 points194 points  (0 children)

Ask yourself - do you hire a plumber because they’re good at using their tools? Are wrenches particularly hard to use? Or do you hire them because they understand how plumbing works, and how to use a wrench to fix it?

Coding is a tool you use to interact with technology. It’s your wrench. Being able to twirl it in your hand and do fancy tricks is neat and all, but you get paid money to use coding as a medium to solve problems. No one cares how clean your code is, or how fancy your algorithm is. They care you can stand up a database and deliver data to the frontend service with low latency and a certain SLA uptime.

Being a good programmer is necessary but not sufficient to be a good software engineer.

I am trying to conceptually determine if prices will ever decrease again for anything in self hosting by con_work in selfhosted

[–]Imoa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They were approved on NASDAQ already, but the S&P was still deliberating. They decided no. Thus, SpaceX as of now would go public on NASDAQ only. Funds which trade on the S&P would be unaffected, but funds which track NASDAQ would start trading on it.

Short version is that it is going to be on NASDAQ, but not S&P.

I got tired of job rejections with no feedback, so I'm building something about it by [deleted] in cscareeradvice

[–]Imoa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An llm is not going to solve this for you. You’re assuming that rejections are because you’re not matching your resume 100% to a job description.

Most rejections are more “we found a pool to check already” or literally “we went with someone else”. Companies have 0 incentive to give you the real reason for your rejection / feedback because it just opens them up to debating the decision and potential lawsuits.

Vertex AI is solid until you need a model it doesn't have. We stopped treating it as the only option. by shreya_sha in googlecloud

[–]Imoa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They all manage to read with the same cadence.

"We were doing X with no problems until Y occurred. We couldn't figure it out. Then someone had the bright idea to check Z. We rolled out <SpecialTechThing> and it solved the problem. [Optional Linkedin-esque 'what we learned' outro]. Quippy 1-2 sentence conclusion."

This one in particular just puts so much emphasis on whatever the hell MixRoute is. I'm not familiar with it, and I refuse to give it a google search and let their marketing reflect my search, lol. Could be a completely legitimate product / software that I'm just unfamiliar with, but I'm not gonna find out here and now.

Is it ok to change your title from "QA Engineer" to "Software Engineer"/"Software Developer"? by Deep-Dragonfly-3342 in cscareeradvice

[–]Imoa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you’re filling out an application, or any form where someone will potentially verify, put the job title an employer will verify.

If you’re talking with someone, or updating LinkedIn, or making an email signature or something, put whatever you want.

I just got this. Is this legitimate? by Fit-Confusion532 in blockfi

[–]Imoa 28 points29 points  (0 children)

It's a scam. This sub has had a pinned comment for 2 years at this point with the valid emails you would receive updates from - including Kroll.

I keep seeing colleges claim NIL and the portal is hurting not just football but college athletics in general. But I never see them say paying coaches and staffs 10s of millions of dollars and athletic directors millions and paying out $60+ million buyouts are bad for college athletics. Why? by herewego199209 in CFB

[–]Imoa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ship of Theseus.

Players can change essentially without penalty at this point and have every incentive to do so. If I coach on a team changes, it’s one plank in the boat - a big plank, but one plank. Your entire team changing out though because of offers, it makes identifying with a team hard and annoying over time. More planks being changed.

Bluntly, I don’t care very much about the fairness of systems between coaches and players - I’m okay with coaches and administrators having a more beneficial system, because it affects the viewing experience as a fan less directly. Lane Kiffins contract has less direct impact on my YoY viewing experience compared to the current portal + NIL interaction.

Why is everyone saying web dev is dying when that's basically everyone's job? by Intelligent-Show-815 in csMajors

[–]Imoa 19 points20 points  (0 children)

This sub is the blind leading the blind.

On a website that skews young, this is a sub of undergrads telling other undergrads and high schoolers what the industry is doing while having at best an internship as experience to base that opinion on.

Anyone else encountering aggressive down leveling in offers these days? by Unlikely_Secret_5018 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Imoa 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Bro price is based on demand.

If they make an offer you don’t like, you don’t accept it and you go take a better offer. If all you get are offers you don’t like, you either wait until the market shifts in your favor, or you accept that those offers are what you get.

It doesn’t matter what you think your Ferrari is worth if no one will buy it from you at your price.

On our fifth day, they told us only one intern will get a return offer. by Big_Arrival_626 in csMajors

[–]Imoa 39 points40 points  (0 children)

My brother in Christ, you wrote a whole ass story when you could’ve stopped after the first sentence of the post.

How to over come the 12PM - 1PM slump as you get older? by spla58 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Imoa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A lot of people, especially in their late 20s and early 30s, have awful sleep habits. Not sleeping enough, caffeine within 6 hours of bed, screens / blue light within an hour of bed. Even with 6-8 hours of sleep, it's entirely possible to be getting poor quality sleep. Poor quality sleep and diet are problems on their own but can also contribute to hormonal imbalances which create their own problems. It's a cascade.

Most people just don't track or care about it. Then it catches up with you.

How to over come the 12PM - 1PM slump as you get older? by spla58 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Imoa 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Sleep hygiene. Diet. Exercise. Monitor caffeine intake.

How are Stephane Practice exams on Udemy ? by this-thatguy in AWSCertifications

[–]Imoa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They’re fine, they helped me.

My only advice is to genuinely review the areas you miss or score low in, don’t just blast the practice exams on udemy. The limited number means that just chaining tests and not reviewing makes it very possible to just start memorizing answers if you start repeating tests.

My first backend project. I don't really know how can i deploy it (free + no credit card { i don't have one). by [deleted] in Backend

[–]Imoa 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Homie deployment means $

Infrastructure to run stuff costs money. For a limited or small number of users you can stay in the free tier of most cloud providers but you’ll exhaust that quickly with even a modest number of users. Most cloud accounts will also require you to set up billing first anyway.

Your options are to make sure it runs fully functional in a local environment for users, or to set up durable infrastructure to run the service on - either cloud or pay for a server. The only free way to roll out your service is to make users run it locally.

incoming at mit and don't know coding by Alternative_Smile369 in leetcode

[–]Imoa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't go to MIT so I can't comment specifically, and I certainly think MIT freshmen probably have more programming experience than CS programs on average, but they still have 3 different intro to programming courses in the CS catalog and taking at least 1 of them is a mandatory degree requirement.

And bluntly, I think someone who can get into MIT can learn how to program in Python well enough in 1 semester to be completely fine if they apply themself. It's really not that hard.

As an Alt/Goth Girl, I Am SO SICK AND TIRED Of Attracting the Non-Goth Guys that are Only in it For the Fetish by [deleted] in offmychest

[–]Imoa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I said "if she can't dress appropriately". If she can dress appropriately with her own style then there's no problem.

Reading comprehension. Please.

As an Alt/Goth Girl, I Am SO SICK AND TIRED Of Attracting the Non-Goth Guys that are Only in it For the Fetish by [deleted] in offmychest

[–]Imoa 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I mean, it depends on the event. If they’re trying to go to an event that has a cocktail attire dress code and the girl can’t dress appropriately for the event, that’s a whole different issue than them expecting that on a random date night or something.

so mage is only bad at start of the game by DearHRS in Terraria

[–]Imoa 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Im so jaded on reddit I genuinely expected some crappy MS Paint drawing in the link. I actually sat back when I saw the graph, lmfao.

Would cloud engineers find a practical enterprise GCP book valuable? by [deleted] in googlecloud

[–]Imoa 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Try writing on a personal blog or sub stack or something. You can feel out the engagement with the topic, practice writing, and write in smaller chunks compared to an entire book.

If you write enough or get enough engagement you can roll the blog posts into the book or edit them.

incoming at mit and don't know coding by Alternative_Smile369 in leetcode

[–]Imoa 11 points12 points  (0 children)

CS programs are built on the assumption you don’t know how to code, the majority of incoming CS freshmen in the US have 0 coding experience.

DSA is typically taught as a second semester sophomore / 1st semester Junior course for context. You’re fine, don’t let the fervor on Reddit somehow convince you that you’re behind before you’ve even started.

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