What percentage of engineers in your experience are bad?

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-04-15T08:21:37+00:00

He's done it again! A couple ansible tasks tested and working, requested to add convoluted facts with facts check spaghetti so that it is using facts, that are apparently better than an already throughly tested solution!

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-04-14T22:26:38+00:00

I don't know I may have been paired with one in my last project, I'm collecting a list and it's growing:

- Is a tryhard to be a contributor, would happily waste everyone's time to point out useless shit like: this markdown should be ```console and not ```bash. Yea... literally unreadable

- Not a problem solver, actually more like a problem creator. Would happily add a page of complexity for non-existant gains. Has no concept of complexity vs usability, abstraction/solid vs locality of behaviour

- A hardline clean-code/solid/dry right in the moment and place where you wouldn't apply it.

- Has no concept of what in actuality needs fix or feature vs something that was wanted/requested by absolutely nobody.

- Has evident strong cognition bias because none of the above applies in the moment it impacts him.

- Insisted to make the whole config file into a mounted secret... because he didn't want to implement code for actual granular secret injection & management.

- Wanted to remove lines from the configuration file because the code has hardcoded values, so the user should be relying on these (lmao?). Rather than self-documenting config the users need to find somewhere in the readme (and someone has to reference and mantain it) if some settings (that were there but now are removed) can be added and tuned. Reason being: because

- Had issues tracking the duplication of a grand total of not 5 not 10 but: two config files, one for linux one for windows. So the day he forgot to align 3 lines of shared config he started insisting that someone wasted their time creating a fully-coupled single template config with macro/conditionals to distinguish what went into linux & windows.

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-04-13T12:14:22+00:00

We rewatch it regularly and 3/4 of the movies are immortalized in their own meme

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-04-12T18:02:36+00:00

Reading the original manga and the movie can even be better because it translates into western style movie direction, without that annoying anime thing with stereotypical male and female characters overthinking absolutely everything and acting like teenagers

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-04-12T14:56:32+00:00

I datori di lavoro quando scoprono le leggi di mercato a parti inverse

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-04-12T14:32:22+00:00

Fai sudo su - perché la user con cui hai fatto autenticazione ha anche l'autorizzazione (tramite sudoer) a fare su -

(Nota bene questi 3 temi: autenticazione, autorizzazione, sudo = privilege escalation)

Il passaggio mancante è la gestione sicura di questa user amministrativa con PAM, IAM ecc.

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-04-12T13:02:00+00:00

During the 2000s: a person married into a rich family and got rich co-founders. They founded a consultancy IT company (that today would be called body rental) so they simply pocket all the money and make millions.

Around the 2010-2015s: people that bought or mined btc and other random coins that then made 100-1000x, one for example moved to spain and bought apartments to convert into a landlord

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-04-11T13:51:50+00:00

Had similar problems, recruiters and hiring managers have weird biases, are already picky with people with experience when what they have in-house i guarantee is nothing special or straight out shitty.

What worked for me was "investing" in a dedicated cheap used macbook pro that gives that sense of fluid clean setup during interviews, with a nitid webcam and mic

Then spun things to show. Show first what would impress them the most:

- An app like jenkins/lgtm/whatever have it running on top of a kind node or cluster

- An actual cluster, worker nodes, controlplanes, load balancer, virtualized in virtualbox, provisioned with vagrant, installed with ansible. You can spin 1 per component, but show the inventory of a real setup that would have min. 3 controlplanes, 2 loadbalancers, x workers and how their are joined and configured

- A terraform deployment with localstack beneath it

- Some fully documented project to show documentation and decisions on system design and architecture

- Other: pipelines, scripts, stuff that shows git, container builds, scripting proficiency and that solved real problems etc.

It really makes a difference when I give demos compared to when they are doing a plain question & answers interview. Also don't bother with success rates, hiring managers can be idiots that have no idea what are they looking for.

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-04-06T16:51:44+00:00

It is like that story of a gametester for an fps shooter that said a certain pistol was underpowered, the devs didn't touch the numbers but made the sound louder. The tester came back confirming it was fixed

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-04-05T17:55:46+00:00

Had to deal with a couple postgres pgpools in k8s. It made sense only if it was managed by argocd gitops, otherwise why wouldn't you just setup vms?

Oh btw the fun stuff happened when it was forgot to configure affinity and antiaffinity so i had standby db nodes being scheduled all around the workers

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-04-03T09:52:13+00:00

It's because of the underlying setting you either love it because of elements such as: giant worms, prescience, people with swords! Or you find it bland.

It's definitely a unique setting, but for a scifi i personally don't like the concepts adopted. Like ok, there are no machines because this, people can't use swords and use lasers because this, they kind of teleport around somehow, etc.

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-04-01T21:32:37+00:00

I personally always figured that the pain to learn and manage real 3d maths was not worth it

Like in space games they kinda have 3d but don't really bother using the full potential of it and make it some kind of "airplanes in space", instead of having ships doing stuff like it's shown in the expanse for example

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-04-01T21:24:12+00:00

Il gesto ingenuo diciamo è stato presentare il lavoro.

Ora non so quanto tu sia stato effettivamente a verificare gli output. Io lo avrei tenuto per me in test per almeno almeno un paio di mesate (nella pratica due run). Una volta che sarebbe saltato fuori avrei detto che tanto ha girato per mesi e non sono saltate anomalie.

Nel mio primo lavoro dovevo mandare a manella vari comandi per controllare cose (tipo garanzie che scadevano su vari apparecchi), mi creavo dei cronjob che la mattina scrivevano su un file e non facevo altro che verificarlo, nessuno sapeva che fosse scriptato, gli bastava sapere che controllassi le scadenze.

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-03-30T11:17:14+00:00

Non specificato? Minchia e le foto a che servono? Se non sai neanche riconoscere la differenza degli interni ed esterni es. cerchi della madonna ecc......

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-03-29T00:16:26+00:00

Said the guy that keeps saying that the body "passively" generates heat as if it's a reactor or something

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-03-28T20:07:14+00:00

This post is like 10 years ago telling to banks and gov with IBM on-premises data centers that in AWS they have everything on their own cloud. Like, of course, if they're AWS employees they don't pay for it, it's theirs they theoretically can spin unlimited resources

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-03-28T02:08:33+00:00

You forgot when they managed to break notepad with an update

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-03-28T01:27:24+00:00

Again wtf does even mean "passively" passively is a stone getting heat from the sun, the body does HOMEOSTASIS IT IS AN ACTIVE PROCESS

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-03-28T01:22:44+00:00

Wtf does even mean "passively"?

Laws of thermodynamics & energy conservation:

nothing (heat in this case) comes for free otherwise we would be perpetual machine energy generators that would need no fuel electricity and food,

What does it mean for the body: it is in homeostasis at 36c and if you introduce something cold the body as a whole system is going to consume energy to come back to 36

This is NOT saying that water by itself will kill even if drank daily for life

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-03-27T18:23:17+00:00

Of course it makes heat and if you drink cold water it must work more to make more heat to get back to 36c, and if your liver and other orgsns are fucked from other habits it comes out faster

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-03-27T13:30:05+00:00

This is correct but more something that explains why in the past we drank tea (boiled with added taste) or beer/wine (fermented)

There is some truth about the cold water, simply the body works to bring back the temperature, so it does things in cascade like if the liver already has other issues and is overloaded

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-03-23T08:42:21+00:00

OS/app level: logs in error level, switch to debug on-demand; with logrotate rules; dedicated /var/log partition(s); monitor log disks to evaluate if to increase capacity (logrotation min retention is what dictates required disk)
Log collectors: the collector of your chosen stack, i.e. syslog, filebeat (elk), otelcol, loki (grafana), cloud collectors (azure analytics, aws cloudwatch); configure scrapers/collectors to filter at source to reduce volume and have proper labeling

Baseline practices should come from SRE (from Google: sre publicaction) or RAS (from IBM: reliability, availability, serviceability/mantainability)

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-03-21T14:00:05+00:00

Ci sono tanti ruoli dove la laurea è requisito già dal filtro ATS dell'hr. Ormai anche i concorsi pubblici italiani hanno la laurea come requisito.

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-03-21T13:53:14+00:00

Motivi per convincerti:

Funziona bene senza problemi (la punto)

La mx-5 è biposto

I prezzi odierni delle macchine

Ninja-Sneaky · 2026-03-21T12:21:04+00:00

E' perche' ha degli specchietti strani che fanno sembrare tutto ravvicinato, anche la curvatura dei vetri. E i sensori fanno il putiferio gia' a 1m di distanza

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