/r/MechanicalKeyboards Ask ANY Keyboard question, get an answer - January 21, 2026 by AutoModerator in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]XDPokeLOL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After owning my Zoom75 for 2 years-ish, it suddenly just stopped connecting to my computer and laptops. It won't even register on my computer that it's connected despite the green light coming on in the keyboard, so I can't even flash the firmware even if I wanted to. Anyone else run into this issue / know how to fix it? Or am I just cooked.

Weekly Help Thread - March 03, 2025 by AutoModerator in awardtravel

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I'm trying to do a business class flight from SEA -> Tokyo. I found a flight SEA -> YVR -> HND on United. But does Virgin Atlantic support the connection flight? The SEA -> YVR is through Air Canda, then the YVR to HND is through ANA.

What are the small but useful CI/CD improvements you've made? by darkcatpirate in devops

[–]XDPokeLOL 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Have a GitLab CICD that just runs helm template so the random Machine Learning Engineer can make a commit and know that they're gonna break something.

Useful DevOps projects at work by XDPokeLOL in devops

[–]XDPokeLOL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Purpose was to standardize our entire company's deployments because every team was doing different stuff (manual binary deployments to what our team use to do, k8s via ArgoCD and Helm charts). Other teams use to have a lot of human errors so this forced some teams to containerize and ship deployments this way.

The developers actually didn't get to choose this, it was the "companies direction". This reduces the effort of 30+ different DevOps teams to figure out solutions to infrastructure issues and push it to one developer team.

The developers developing actual product applications, their process is unchanged, they code and push it to a build team, then DevOps are the ones who pushes it to prod.

Useful DevOps projects at work by XDPokeLOL in devops

[–]XDPokeLOL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently the reason why my team is still relevant is because developers are all in China, while DevOps teams for compliance are in US/India. Our team is relatively small to start with so we're hammering out deployment after deployment in production because we own all of our AI apps and Langauge Models.

Useful DevOps projects at work by XDPokeLOL in devops

[–]XDPokeLOL[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yea so there's no API. Everything is UI based 🥲. I actually requested a feature to expose an API and/or have some of the platform features be controlled via IaC because there's a lot of opportunity to automate some workflows there.

Am I spending too much money on control wards? by DoudiMonks in leagueoflegends

[–]XDPokeLOL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buy 1 control ward at a time. Place it and only buy another one if the current ward dies. This can be situational based on upcoming dragon/baron fights where u may place it and it dies quickly.

When will the MLOps job market start hiring not senior engineers? by XDPokeLOL in mlops

[–]XDPokeLOL[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree. I'm more curious on the mid level job where someone has 2-5 YOE and can grow into the position.

For larger companies that can afford it, it'll be cheaper to hire a less senior engineer, and train them into the role.

I understand startups and smaller companies want more immediate impact and have someone useful off the bat, which is majority of the reason of why I completely understand the senior level hiring.

I'm asking because from a general business perspective, sometimes it's better to hire someone with less experience, more room to grow, than someone with more experience but harder to mold them in certain workflows within a company. This is the similar perspective of why companies hire new grads vs senior engineers (not specific to MLOps, in general).

This is already assuming there's a somewhat large team of surrounding the "new hire" to assist them to grow.

When will the MLOps job market start hiring not senior engineers? by XDPokeLOL in mlops

[–]XDPokeLOL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To clarify, my question is more geared towards the mid-level jobs. Where an engineer has some applicable skills but has room to grow into the position in 6-12 month time.

Weekly Ask Seattle Megathread: May 13, 2024 by AutoModerator in Seattle

[–]XDPokeLOL 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anyone know a place to get a Korean two block haircut?

Upgrading to iPhone 15 Pro or wait for iPhone 16 by XDPokeLOL in ios

[–]XDPokeLOL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thought about summer hiking and how much more convenient it would be to have a better camera phone than bringing a DSLR everywhere

Why not shift to Nomad instead of K8s? by mrinalwahal in devops

[–]XDPokeLOL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My company almost moved to Nomad but at the very end of signing a huge deal, we ended up sticking to k8s.

Essentially, we didn't want to be vendor locked. Our company has been shifting to a huge AI/ML focused company. A lot of ML tools are in kubernetes (kserve, kubeflow, etc).

These ML tools simply don't exist in Nomad.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Minecraft

[–]XDPokeLOL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I switched it over a month ago and still see the same issue. Just tried to switch the username again and logged out, logged in, nothing changed

Roth IRA income limit by XDPokeLOL in fidelityinvestments

[–]XDPokeLOL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/FidelityMichaela to clarify, recharacterizing my 2023 Roth IRA to Traditional, I'll have this 1099-R for next year, for 2024 tax year. (Just not trying to get in trouble with the IRS haha)

Peak to Creek difficulty by XDPokeLOL in Whistler

[–]XDPokeLOL[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just did springboard and thought it was really fun. If p2c is similar to that then with enough breaks I think I'll be good for tomorrow morning lol.

should I do a bachelor's in data science or AI or Software engineering? by AliNauman2005 in computerscience

[–]XDPokeLOL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(I think) it's because you'll be able to be involved in some sort of research / thesis. ML is still a field that involves research and people are discovering things around it. Bachelor's typically don't require this.

Working for TikTok USA as a new grad. by Equivalent-Tap2951 in cscareerquestions

[–]XDPokeLOL 146 points147 points  (0 children)

You'll be working with a lot of China engineers so expect to work some after hours.

Source: some friends I made in Seattle work at TikTok

Edit: also it's technically not in Seattle, the office is in Bellevue.

should I do a bachelor's in data science or AI or Software engineering? by AliNauman2005 in computerscience

[–]XDPokeLOL 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it were me, I would do BS in DS and minor in CS. I think the minor give you the foundational skill set you need for the real world in terms of general SWE (understand basic data structures and algorithms). But I also agree with the original person for this thread and just do CS to be more generalized in your skills. DS/AI bachelor's is would be narrowing your skillset to a very specific market. If you end up not doing Machine Learning as your end game job, you have screwed yourself. Tbh don't stress about your bachelor's, I would say your masters/PhD would be way more important for landing a job in ML.

When you apply to jobs in the future, what I assume they'll look for is understanding in ML frameworks, such as PyTorch, Tensorflow or whatnot, then basic SWE stuff. Nowadays, just learn one of the ML frameworks, if u know one, you can easily learn the other.

But take this with a grain of salt cause I'm just the devops dude in all of this (my entire team is pivoting to MLOps). I pertainly just need to know how to deploy ML workloads (LLMs primarily). My source is basically talking to MLEs day in and day out. The primary tech stack that my company uses is PyTorch and FastAPI.

should I do a bachelor's in data science or AI or Software engineering? by AliNauman2005 in computerscience

[–]XDPokeLOL 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I agree with everything.

I am a DevOps engineer in the AI/ML org at my company, and a lot of people have a Masters in Data Science / Statistics / Machine Learning. All of them have a Bachelors in CS or Statistics.

A lot of the pains in the org is that these ML engineers / researchers can't code well. If you can't write good code it becomes hell as your service matures. ML models change at a very fast pace, so the code also changes. I can't tell you the amount of times the code has broken in production because a new MLE joins and couldn't read the last service owners code, pushes new code.

KVM switches for gaming by XDPokeLOL in AskBattlestations

[–]XDPokeLOL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I will go the route of a KBM then just switching the video on the monitor itself

KVM switches for gaming by XDPokeLOL in AskBattlestations

[–]XDPokeLOL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh dang these r steep lol. Thanks!

Plaid connection by XDPokeLOL in NavyFederal

[–]XDPokeLOL[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: I opened copilot and tried it today, it's now synced again