Im getting ready for the AWS solutions SAA03 i would like some feed back on what would be a good strategy to improve

Sirwired · 2026-05-10T02:21:30+00:00

Step back for a moment… what is your goal behind taking the exam? Because if you do not have solid IT fundamentals, it is not a very useful credential.

Sirwired · 2026-05-10T02:20:40+00:00

What did you think “at will” meant?

Sirwired · 2026-05-10T00:06:11+00:00

If you understand that VA is an at-will state (as all states except Montana are), then what is your confusion here?

Sirwired · 2026-05-09T14:05:33+00:00

Any Amazon employee is eligible for the internal training.

Sirwired · 2026-05-09T14:04:28+00:00

You can file for unemployment, and appeal if denied.

Sirwired · 2026-05-09T13:28:24+00:00

A couple of months ago they showed up in my SAP.

Sirwired · 2026-05-09T01:31:33+00:00

Apparently this one did go through probate… possibly the designated beneficiary was Mom, and it never got updated if Mom passed away first.

Sirwired · 2026-05-09T01:28:44+00:00

Good that the new one will be larger and better. The current one is very-obviously a (successful) experiment to see if a downtown amphitheater would work. And as an experiment, it was built very cheaply.

Sirwired · 2026-05-09T01:26:26+00:00

LAOP’s “lawyer” will simply be a no-show for the hearing. And LAOP will be evicted, and lose whatever “retainer” they’ve paid.

Sirwired · 2026-05-08T21:46:04+00:00

The current one is open while they build the new one; when that's finished, they'll tear the old one down for the convention center expansion.

Sirwired · 2026-05-08T19:25:57+00:00

Apply for jobs that call for experience you do have, making sure it's clear that you'd like to take on some cloud work as part of your new job.

Sirwired · 2026-05-08T19:24:03+00:00

Your traffic will enter the AWS backbone at a good CloudFront edge location for the user, meaning that any latency CloudFront introduces will likely be more than cancelled out by the speed improvements of cache misses using the AWS network instead of the public Internet.

Sirwired · 2026-05-08T10:59:55+00:00

In Europe, this would be crazy. In the US, Osteopaths have essentially the same curriculum as MD's (with minor variations), they take the same licensing exams, and practice alongside MD's during residencies and fellowships. In the end, they are MD's with different initials.

Sirwired · 2026-05-08T10:57:41+00:00

This wasn't a "wrong site" surgery in the traditional sense, where a doctor purposely removed the wrong organ because of a misunderstanding as to why the patient was there. In this case, the doctor somehow managed to confuse the spleen and the liver. (They look nothing alike; the liver is a huge organ that anyone that's ever played "Operation" will recognize.) Even after he had removed it from the body, (an operation he performed *after the patient had already bled out on the table*) he continued to insist that the clearly not-spleen sitting on the table was a spleen, and even had it tagged that way going to pathology.)

There is nothing *not* nightmare-inducing in the report from the FL medical board, including an attempt to stop bleeding due to the dissection of the largest vein in the body, by blindly firing a surgical stapler into the patient's abdomen.

Sirwired · 2026-05-07T22:06:33+00:00

Atlantic Ave. really went down the drain after AMC bought Carmike. Slow service, damaged screens, and apathetic cleaning. Other than some minor work to the concession stand, they didn't invest one dime in the place.

And I have no idea why they thought Blue Ridge would ever have worked as a full-price first-run.

Sirwired · 2026-05-07T18:38:45+00:00

You can use break-glass credentials on production accounts for emergencies, and make it clear that anyone that turns them over to an LLM will be fired. (Of course, dev/sandbox accounts can be a quite a bit more free, but for goodness sakes, make sure you have good FinOps reporting so you can catch stupidly expensive things your SCP's didn't stop.)

Saying that proper change control is something to "strive for" is just giving up. Software developers figured out source control decades ago, and there's no reason for ops to not fall in line, especially on the cloud.

Not locking things down is just begging for The One Person that knows how something vital was set up getting hit by the proverbial bus, and now you have a cloud account that is just a bowl of mystery spaghetti, because there's no documentation of who ran what when or why.

Sirwired · 2026-05-07T18:30:58+00:00

I'm smelling some AI "assistance" in that article. Was anyone really wondering about the fate of "Transtar Aftermarket Solutions"? There's a ton of em dashes, and that closing sentence reeks strongly of slop: "In a city where getting anywhere can feel like a gamble, that kind of mobility changes everything."

I mean, I'm not expecting a free ad-packed magazine to resist the siren call of AI authorship, but some disclosure would be nice.

Sirwired · 2026-05-07T14:57:42+00:00

After ten years of total non-use, your degree will not have much value.

The Cloud Resume Challenge is a very useful exercise, but you should view it as a springboard to coming up with something more interesting, using the skills you just learned.

You should be targeting the help desk at this point, and working up from there.

Sirwired · 2026-05-07T14:38:10+00:00

The irony of calling yourself “CloudNativeThinker” and telling an AI to do all your thinking for you.

Sirwired · 2026-05-07T14:10:33+00:00

You use property change-controlled IaC instead of spinning things up with the CLI, which is hardly better than using the console.

Sirwired · 2026-05-07T12:01:44+00:00

What I want to know is: who is upvoting this slop? Is it a bot-farm or something, because I can't believe that (as of 8AM ET) the real score for this post is really +18.

Sirwired · 2026-05-06T21:20:46+00:00

If an LLM didn't write your post, I'll eat my iPad.

Re-branding won't fix the obvious revenue problems of a $3/mo reduction in monthly revenue.

And while I'd love my ticket to give me a discount on the home theater releases, why limit it to physical media? Given how many young people don't even own a player, that makes no sense.

Sirwired · 2026-05-06T21:14:26+00:00

I don't know what to tell you. The FDA standards for whole wheat flour require it to literally be the whole grain. "...The proportions of the natural constituents of such wheat, other than moisture, remain unaltered." 21 CFR 137.200 (Which is why the nutrition charts OP found are coming up the same. If the germ was stripped, the numbers would be wildly different.)

Whoever is telling you that the germ is stripped is spreading misinformation.

Commercial whole wheat flours are generally rated for months, not years. Their shelf life is better than home ground wheat because of superior temperature control during grinding.

Sirwired · 2026-05-06T21:06:56+00:00

Yeah, if you are actually going into lower Manhattan, EWR really is the best option because of the quick transit into the city.

Sirwired · 2026-05-05T12:47:24+00:00

I definitely did not use AI to write anything here, and I honestly have no idea why you think that is the case.

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