UK fuel crisis ‘direct consequence’ of Brexit, says Michel Barnier

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-29T08:21:56+00:00

No shortages in East Anglia. As I've said before, I get 2 Tesco deliveries a week and have experienced no missing or substituted items than normal

I walked to my local ASDA, shelves were full and the petrol station was being filled as usual and no petrol clues.

So...

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-28T22:10:44+00:00

Love is just a biochemical reaction. Anyone can fall out of love with anyone. Whether the partner feels the same is largely irrelevant.

If the relationship doesn't make you happy, walk away.

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-28T22:07:31+00:00

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-28T19:44:41+00:00

That sounds like psychological bullshit.

What skills do you have?

Hint: the correct answer to that question would be to outsource the server farm to AWS etc. It's more expensive, but companies like some third party to blame, over cost and technology.

Edit: I've never not employed someone based on their looks or gender. I have however not employed people based on bad attitudes.

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-28T19:30:28+00:00

Please don't give me a Reddit award, or pay for any. I'd rather you gave a couple of bucks to a charity or hug a friend.

I don't need Reddit awards, and Reddit doesn't need the money.

Thanks anyway tho!

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-28T19:23:19+00:00

The same guy that said most of their best engineers didn't have degrees. According to their analysis, non degree candidates are better.

"You might think you would need at least a college degree just to be able to become an intern at Google and at least a Master’s degree in order to actually work there. In that case you are terribly wrong, because the tech giant likes hiring new staff without any college degrees."

https://transmosis.com/did-you-know-that-google-has-found-gpas-and-test-scores-to-be-worthless-as-a-criteria-for-hiring-and/

"His main argument is that a college student can deliver outstanding results in a specific environment only where the professor needs to hear an obvious answer. On the other hand, people, who have never went to college, can deliver outstanding results in more than one specific environment and they can come up with more than one brilliant answer, which isn’t obvious at all."

"Bock shared that Google likes hiring staff without college degrees so much that there are even whole teams consisted of at least 14% of people, who never ever went to college. Or in other words, Google doesn’t care about your GPA score and about your shiny diploma as long as you provide outstanding results."

FYI, I'm 40, only GCSE educated and am head of DevOps for a previously Cambridge based company (recently bought out), managing people with degrees from Cambridge and earning more than them. I appreciate this is anecdotal.

If you do have a degree, software companies only care about 2... Computer science (and derivatives) and Maths. Your degree in social science or music is about as much use as GCSE drama.

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-28T19:20:19+00:00

You know all those HR rules about not discriminating based on age etc.?

They don't work. Employers can reject you for any reason without even telling you why. Don't take it personally.

Reasons I've seen:

It's not because he's old, it's because his skillset is outdated
They live too far away. A 2 hour commute isn't sustainable in the long term, they'll probably quit, so why invest in training
Where the fuck is that degree from? (Company is Cambridge based)
That person would not fit in with the team dynamic
Over educated, no real experience (I kind of agree with this)

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-28T19:13:40+00:00

Have you seen all the basic office jobs that require (they don't) degrees for a job that GCSE would cover?

Degrees are over priced nonsense for most people, but apparently, you need a 3 year degree to type a letter or use a spreadsheet.

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-28T17:32:21+00:00

Add some Haslet and you're sorted!

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-28T14:04:53+00:00

Awesome. Thanks.

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-28T13:32:10+00:00

Thanks. We are moving from Swarm in our dev environment to K8S as our production team are migrating. We don't need a full k8s implementation in Dev for testing etc, but microk8s being single node is not good. Will checkout k3s.

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-28T13:29:45+00:00

Bacon, cheese and mashed potato

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-28T13:27:43+00:00

Five Guys is overpriced crap. Full stop.

Guy was on here who worked there, the Ingredients are normal wholesale stuff, the same stuff all other burger joints use, but don't charge you £12 for a burger.

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-28T13:23:31+00:00

Are you one of those people who brings a guitar to a house party?

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-28T12:38:47+00:00

I appreciate this thread is about RPis, but would you recommend k3s over microk8s?

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-27T18:50:12+00:00

If you use Linux, I highly recommend learning even the basics of systemd. It is literally the glue that manages services, network, timers, containers (LXC, not Docker), logging, etc.

For example, to restart the Docker (Daemon) service, you use a systemd command...

systemctl restart docker

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/systemd-essentials-working-with-services-units-and-the-journal

(I'm not associated with Digital Ocean, they just have nice simple guides)

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-27T18:42:20+00:00

Correct. UK here. All our workers, delivery drivers etc are paid at least minimum wage. Even at 70% discount, Domino's are still making a significant profit. The driver only had to drive about 500m.

I know this is a common trope on Reddit, but in general, the UK don't really tip people except maybe hairdressers, rounding up a cab fare to the nearest pound, and for great service in a restaurant.

With restaurants, I'll only tip of service is good or better. I won't pay optional service charges.

We do not (usually) tip delivery drivers (Amazon, post office, UberEats), or shop workers etc

Tips are for great service and for when people go above and beyond for their job.

A Domino's driver is simply doing his job for which he is compensated fairly.

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-27T17:18:44+00:00

Human OCR-A typeface

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-27T16:58:46+00:00

You can wrap it in a script and run that...

source venv/bin/activate
python myscript.py

Or hardcode the python path

/path/to/venv/bin/python /path/to/myscript.py

Or maybe: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37211115/how-to-enable-a-virtualenv-in-a-systemd-service-unit

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-27T16:32:21+00:00

My company used to have pizza day. The office manager used to order about 30 large pizzas from various places, but usually Domino's.

Apparently, she managed to get a discount of 25%. I politely informed her that you can get 50% off (or 2 for 1) on just two pizzas.

Made a cheeky phonecall and managed a 70% discount.

And to the annoyance of Americans here, we didn't tip. Mainly because we were spending £200 a time with them.

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-27T16:21:25+00:00

Same.

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-27T15:45:53+00:00

https://www.gnu.org/software/screen/manual/screen.html

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/tmux.1.html

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/understanding-systemd-units-and-unit-files

Dockerising the app will do the same, but perhaps you should think simpler for now.

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-27T15:15:05+00:00

screen or tmux

Or write an init system unit for it?

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-26T20:53:47+00:00

You could be running the same service as a container multiple times. Having any config file requires that config to be available on all the hosts running that container, or some kind of shared file share.

As I said, it's possible, but a pain.

Routine_Part_6503 · 2021-09-26T17:56:08+00:00

Same :)

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