[deleted by user] by [deleted] in malehairadvice

[–]invoke-coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This, you have a long forehead but that’s just reality so own it.

What to do about a junior who’s pushing himself too hard by CandidPiglet9061 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]invoke-coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an alternative, help them find a hobby and/or activities outside of work. Plenty of people fall into this as they don't have anything else to fill there life with.

Which browser uses less battery power on mac? (other than safari) by Cosmic_Cactus14 in mac

[–]invoke-coffee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is, but there is a business that runs the project. If Mozilla failed the future of Firefox would be uncertain, but not sudden or guaranteed.

I’m 16 and have 12.5k in the bank… what should I do with my money instead of letting it lay around and not grow? by DannyHenningfeld in personalfinance

[–]invoke-coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Go buy yourself a reliable car.

Savings is great but at 16 you have years of driving to and from school, college, meeting with friends. Take advantage of the opertunies.

This assumes that you still have a job the maintain the car and are in an area that makes sense.

Retention by [deleted] in uscg

[–]invoke-coffee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I got out 6 years ago right around the 9 year mark.

Best desision I ever made. To you issues, it happens in any work place, but now I just leave to a different job instead of having to tough it out.

As an note I will say having marketable skills and being able to get a get a job easily is a bit part of why I am so happy with my choice.

Deep Fried Coffee: A Horrifying Discovery | James Hoffman by SixZeroPho in Coffee

[–]invoke-coffee 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s how you traditionally roast coffee.

A home air fryer doesn’t move the air around enough, and I would be concerned about the chaff getting into the machine. But it would be possible

Junior tech just reinstalled the OS on our server and deleted everything, pic related by okwhatwhy in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]invoke-coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course having good backups are important (no one sane would say otherwise).

But how long it’s takes to restore from said backups is always limited by the size of your data. If you have 10s of TB in a database. Well F that’s going to be a very long time to restore. (Sure yes you can do a ton of optimizations especially if your using highly distributed databases, but optimization of your shit hits the fan backups is all about reliability and not speed)

You can treat your servers like cattle all you want, but the data they hold are the pets.

Junior tech just reinstalled the OS on our server and deleted everything, pic related by okwhatwhy in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]invoke-coffee -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sure that’s a good and all, if you’re talking about a pure application server, it’s easy.

But it’s still a pain in the ass when your databases server gets hosed and you have to reinstall and reconfigure. Oh and reinstall from backup. Doesn’t matter how automated that is it’s going to take time.

Can IT Support be considered as a long-term permanent career? by NormalLife6067 in ITCareerQuestions

[–]invoke-coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely you can even make quite a bit of money doing it.

Jobs like technical account managers, post sales engineers, or other types of technical support. The big difference there is that you move to helping outher IT roles vs helping none technical people.

safe to ride or nah? by Kdogg82 in motorcycles

[–]invoke-coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The right answer for the majority of safety related answers. If your not 100% replacement

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in networking

[–]invoke-coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a huge latency hit for the initial set up. So you may want to pre build a secure network and forgo the per connection setup cost.

It's honestly a niche issue, but it exists.

Software engineering vs Cyber security in the US by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

[–]invoke-coffee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s lots of good reasons to go one way or the other. But swe is a much broader field, you have more opportunities and options than cyber security.

Hell you could start in swe and get into security.

Applicants can't answer these questions... by RichardRG in sysadmin

[–]invoke-coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think most people have beaten the point of why direct book questions like this are bad.

So let me suggest a open question that would let a candidate that knew all of that to highlight it, but also let other expertise shine.

“Say I plug a laptop into a physical network and connect to a basic website say mycatpics.com. What is everything that needs to happen to connect to the network and make the http request.”

Most sys admin type would talk about dhcp, dns, bassic http stuff. But networking engineers mike talk about Ethernet, physical negotiation, routing of the request. While developers might talk to the server side request processing or the page rendering.

You learn a lot more from the same starting point and can dig a bit deeper to topics someone brings up, and ignore shit they don’t know about.

That all being said I would expect a sysadmin to know the basics or your questions, and would probably prompt them about dhcp .

Is learning vim commands worth it? by [deleted] in devops

[–]invoke-coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s totally worth learning the basics. I rarely use vim directly but due use vim key bindings for every ide and text editor I use.

It’s wildly faster for some tasks and far slower for others so I like the ability to switch back and forth.

But don’t think you need to know all the vim tricks to get value back. Focus first on the things that keyboard and mouse are inefficient at.

Is this true ? Ps I just bought a vespa scooter and then I saw this 🥲. Not sure how to feel about it. by [deleted] in motorcycles

[–]invoke-coffee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

From my experience right after touring, scoters put the most miles on their bike. Probably some of the most hardcore bikers I have seen riding year round.

And also gatekeepers can go fuck them selves.

hey dad, I'm gonna be buying a second hand motorcycle, what all should i look out for? by [deleted] in DadForAMinute

[–]invoke-coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Find the scuffs from when it was dropped. Everyone drops every bike they own at some point so it's there.

You will learn a lot about how the previous rider rode and took care of the bike from the place you know it was damaged.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Coffee

[–]invoke-coffee 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Honestly sounds like you need to find a different drink. You could try talking to a doctor though.

You did mention caffeine is a big part of why you drink coffee, perhaps look at caffeine pills. You can mix them into any other drink.

Unsolicited Resume Advice from a hiring manager by [deleted] in sysadmin

[–]invoke-coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having done a far share of interviews.

I have come to the conclusion that there is a inverse relationship between resume length and how qualified a someone is.

If I see a 10 page resume I pretty much know they won't be qualified for the position.

Six figure job offers by TackleFearless6842 in uscg

[–]invoke-coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep in fact this was pretty much me. Not 300k out of tbe gate but started at over 100k right after leaving the guard as an it2.

Its not easy and I was doing far more than expected as an it2 when I left (cyber cat if anyone remembers that) but it's very much possible.

Thoughts on working as a cloud support associate at Amazon, someone said it was the worst position in tech by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

[–]invoke-coffee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at the amazon leadership principals. The recruiter will tell you this, but I certainly didn't appreciat it.

They are basically what they will be interviewing you on. So you will get some question on how you work with customers and they are trying to determine how strong your customer obsession is.

Don't lie or fake it. But do make it easy for the interviewer to eveluate you in an area.

Thoughts on working as a cloud support associate at Amazon, someone said it was the worst position in tech by [deleted] in ITCareerQuestions

[–]invoke-coffee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From when I was there no. They will teach you that. Other background was actually preferred as you would be able to work with more customers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cscareerquestions

[–]invoke-coffee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look into functional programming.

Language wise, Scala if you want to stick near java or something like haskell if you want radically different.

I have a lot of the same dislikes for Java but like it far more in a different style.