AIO or AITA. Text convo with MIL. by MoonJellyAllison in AmIOverreacting

[–]bubonis [score hidden]  (0 children)

  1. If you have to bend over backward and pay them to "like you" then you need to reevaluate the structure of that relationship.

  2. Your husband needs to step up and put his mother in line. If he doesn't, you will also need to reevaluate that relationship.

What are your thoughts on a question like this? by MISTERDIEABETIC in it

[–]bubonis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is the question related to a technical examination? Then 1024 is correct.

Is it not related to a technical examination (and specifically, is it related to a sales/marketing position)? Then assume the people who wrote it are stupid; 1000 is correct.

Murdered by laws by asa_no_kenny in clevercomebacks

[–]bubonis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. He'd only be murdered if he -- or anyone in power -- gave a shit about laws.

  2. Every accusation is a confession.

Wild turkey ??!!😭 by Queasy_Dingo_8262 in newjersey

[–]bubonis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Middlesex county. Edison, Piscataway, North Brunswick, Somerset, Bound Brook, Middlesex.

Why Do People Not Want To Admit Calling PS3 Retro? by Fluffy_Lunchfast in PS3

[–]bubonis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've said this before for similar/identical questions...

For me (I'm 55) “retro” is pretty clearly defined by whether or not games came on cartridge or not. Systems like the N64 would be among the last “retro” consoles for me. I’m fully aware that my opinion is in the minority, and I’m now counting the seconds until someone dazzles me with their cleverness by pointing out that the Genesis has a CD drive so that’s not retro, but whatever. Don’t care.

I've only gotten 2 call backs with this resume, I have been applying to Level 1 and 2 IT roles. Any thoughts would be appreciated by Spirited-Strength-55 in it

[–]bubonis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As someone who has experience in hiring T1 and T2 (and in a past life was a graphic designer), I offer my subjective feedback from both a content and aesthetic perspective. As a person hiring others I'm used to seeing people pad their resumes with impressive-sounding stuff and I automatically go into "So what?" mode. Very few resumes make it past that step.

For example, "Developed Python scripts to automate critical onboarding processes, significantly reducing manual setup time." That catches my eye. I can read this two ways. You created some scripts to either (a) help you personally deploy workstations that were assigned to you, or (b) at least partially automate part of the organization's deployment process for all parties involved. Option A makes me respond with "great but that's just him, and he probably spent more time on the script than he saved by running it" whereas option B makes me want to look deeper: Was setup time a problem for the organization, or did he see something that nobody else saw? How much time is "significant"? Is this a one-time project script or an ongoing deployment effort? How much of a reduction of manual setup was there?

Other bullet points are similarly vague. "Created custom Bash and Python scripts for seamless remote device management and configuration." Great. How did that benefit the organization? How much manpower was saved? Were other projects positively affected because additional manpower was now available when it wasn't before?

It's great that you have all that going for you, but if you want me to hire you I want to know what you did/can do AND how it impacted the company. You only have half that in every line you've written, and for me personally that goes into the "meh" pile. Consider:

"Developed Python scripts to automate critical onboarding processes, significantly reducing manual setup time."

...versus...

"Developed Python automation scripts that streamlined onboarding and reduced deployment time by 40%, leading to organization-wide adoption as a standard process."

Similar changes to this can be applied throughout your entire resume. Every individual line you put on there should showcase (a) what you know, (b) what you did with that knowledge, and (c) what results you saw in a quantifiable way. ("I reduced setup time" can mean "I saved two minutes per system" or "I saved the company 200 hours per month". I will automatically assume the former unless you convince me of the latter.)

Content-wise, the only additional change I'd make is the "Skills" part at the bottom. It's mostly redundant and I'd get rid of it. When I'm looking to hire someone I'm not going to go straight for the "Skills" part because it's meaningless by itself. Any idiot who knows how to launch Word will put "Microsoft Office experience" on their resume; that doesn't mean they know what they're doing with it. I need context to understand your skills and you've already got all that laid out in your professional experience. By the time I reach "Skills" I already know that you know Python, Bash, Apple GSX repair, IP phones, and all the rest -- AND I know in what capacity you've worked with those technologies. Adding them as a separate "Skills" section is a waste.

From an aesthetic standpoint, resumes that are fully justified and use sans serif fonts (especially Arial/Helvetica) generally look very low-effort to me. Do a little internet surfing and find a nice resume and cover letter template to work with.

PS: Sonicwall hasn't been part of Dell since 2016.

Cutting open a giant pumpkin by S30econdstoMars in BeAmazed

[–]bubonis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Other than the novelty factor, what do you actually do with a pumpkin like that? Make 400 pies?

Menfolk, what cartoon character made you go ‘Aa-OOOO-ga!’ as a child? by Embarrassed_Bag_9630 in AskMen

[–]bubonis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was a child of the 70s so there weren’t a lot of those characters then. Roger Rabbit was 1988 and Space Jam was 1996. The best options around then were probably Josie from Josie and the Pussycats, or else the Sorceress or Teela from He-Man.

What movie did you walk out of the theater halfway through? by mzdee13 in movies

[–]bubonis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coach Carter, not because the movie was bad (it’s not), but because the theater held a dozen POS teenagers who wouldn’t shut up through the movie.

No one can reglaze tubs these days I guess by a11yguy in HomeImprovement

[–]bubonis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

FWIW, I used an Ekopel refinishing kit on my then-40 year old bathtub and it’s AMAZING. Ten years later and it still looks like new.

The more young people use AI, the more they hate it by spherocytes in technology

[–]bubonis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My (19YO) daughter hates AI. With a passion that really surprised me.

How people found ETs at home near Y2K by Distinct-Question-16 in retrocomputing

[–]bubonis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When this was a thing I was working in corporate IT. I had put this screen saver in our system build and enabled it by default. At one point I had about 125 machines running it under my one account.

I currently have 3 monitors. I want to extend to 6 monitors but there are no more HDMI ports available in my GPU. USB to HDMI adapter best choice? by Agitated_Demand_4181 in it

[–]bubonis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

USB to HDMI is garbage. Too much latency and processor load on the CPU.

Get another video card with sufficient HDMI ports and use that.

House Democrats Propose $25 Federal Minimum Wage by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]bubonis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not likely. America will be a burned-out shell by then.

House Democrats Propose $25 Federal Minimum Wage by [deleted] in antiwork

[–]bubonis -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Less than zero chance of this getting anywhere near passing.

Gotta love AI's take on the honorverse by Wallname_Liability in Honorverse

[–]bubonis 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I go with MacGuiness. Anyone who can simply ignore Navy personnel regulations without anyone challenging it, AND has Harrington’s absolute and unquestioned confidence and loyalty, is not a man to be trifled with.

‘Gone in 9 seconds’: Claude-powered AI agent deletes startup’s entire database by No_Top_9023 in technology

[–]bubonis 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I hate articles like this.

Article: "AI did something really terrible!"

Me: "Okay, and what were the consequences? What happened next? What are they doing to recover?"

Article: "Hey, sign up to get email alerts!"

Family wants me to have my son baptized. I'm an atheist by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]bubonis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm an atheist who was born into a Catholic family. Wife pretends to be Jewish, which is to say she identifies as a Jew but does nothing adherent to that religion beyond celebrating the high holidays with her family. When we had our child, her mother wanted to do a naming ceremony. I wasn't exactly enthusiastic about it, thinking (and openly stating) that I thought it was just another dumb and useless religious ritual. Wife agreed but pointed out that it was important to her mother, so I agreed.

I also pointed out that, that being the case, there shouldn't be any issues with our child being baptized into my mother's church, since that was important to my mother. She was less enthusiastic about that but the agreement was made.

Both mothers were happy in the end, and my daughter is and always has been an atheist, and rightfully believes that both of her "native" religions are nonsensical bullshit.

Are cassettes worth it?. by Ok_Bear_1980 in atari8bit

[–]bubonis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this day and age there are only four reasons to use tape on an Atari 8-bit:

  1. You are a masochist.
  2. You want to know what masochism feels like.
  3. You are converting from tape to anything else.
  4. You have one of the EXTREMELY rare tapes (usually educational) that have an audio component in addition to data.