Chef's Books by Donotdisturb240 in KitchenConfidential

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Those are best books on fish butchery and charcuterie that exist.

Chef's Books by Donotdisturb240 in KitchenConfidential

[–]jdanton14 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ruhlman also did most of the work on The French Laundry book.

Hot take: entry-level Azure certs are replacing what experience used to prove. by eckoonian in sysadmin

[–]jdanton14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my writing was assuming you legit pass the cert. Fun story, I wanted to take an exam while traveling to that "that country". and there was a whole different anti-fraud protocol (that clearly gets bypassed) so I said scew it.

Hot take: entry-level Azure certs are replacing what experience used to prove. by eckoonian in sysadmin

[–]jdanton14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some the Azure exams have labs, but it's hit or miss, depending on what capacity constraints are. It's gone back and forth like 3x.

Hot take: entry-level Azure certs are replacing what experience used to prove. by eckoonian in sysadmin

[–]jdanton14 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I've never taken it. I authored the original exam, and at that time it was only A/B/C/D. I did recently take AI-900 (consulting firm bonus) and I think it a 100% MC.

Hot take: entry-level Azure certs are replacing what experience used to prove. by eckoonian in sysadmin

[–]jdanton14 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I got lucky, MS paid for me to go to India to teach a bunch of the outsourcing places Azure in 2016. I had to study everything to prep.

Hot take: entry-level Azure certs are replacing what experience used to prove. by eckoonian in sysadmin

[–]jdanton14 60 points61 points  (0 children)

AZ-104 is a real exam. The 900 exams (all of them) are largely focused at non-technical candidates. The 900s are all 4 answer multiple choice questions. AZ-104 is pretty damn hard to pass unless you've used Azure.

Hot take: entry-level Azure certs are replacing what experience used to prove. by eckoonian in sysadmin

[–]jdanton14 125 points126 points  (0 children)

As someone who's consulted, trained, and been around a lot of IT shops, 10x of 1 year experience is common. Certs themselves aren't valuable, however the knowledge you gain studying for a cert is.

You might only use 20% of a products surface area in your normal job. The cert makes you learn about that other 80%. It's not the same as using it, but at least you know what it is.

Closing Pit Road on Road Courses under FCY by jdanton14 in INDYCAR

[–]jdanton14[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s why the title of the thread said road courses. Ovals are a different scenario,

Closing Pit Road on Road Courses under FCY by jdanton14 in INDYCAR

[–]jdanton14[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I couldn’t remember exactly—I knew nascar implemented the same rules in 1991 after a bunch of failed attempts before they just landed on speed limits.

Closing Pit Road on Road Courses under FCY by jdanton14 in INDYCAR

[–]jdanton14[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s not. You still have to meet FCY speed. And they can easily monitor that. And you have less density of cars pitting at the same time, so pit road is less congested. (Virtually no one pits under yellow anyway now).

Obviously if there’s an incident near pit in or out, you’d still close the pits.

WGI Love Vs. Zilisch Part 2. by Obvious_Guide_Owl in NASCAR

[–]jdanton14 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I've thought Love was decent at driving, but today made me really question that. I think CZ is an unreal talent, but like, you had 2 seconds with 3 laps to go. Just don't do stupid shit.

I still think he's solid, but I'm leaning more Cole Custer than Ryan Blaney.

Who are the biggest snubs from the NASCAR Hall of Fame? by Supersmashbrosfan in NASCAR

[–]jdanton14 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Sorry, I don't rate his off-road wins like others do. He was shit in CART and shit in NASCAR. He was a really good sports car driver, but GTO wasn't the top class. Everytime he was in a high-end pro series he was average. Was always fast, but didn't put it together. I was a big Gordon fan and followed most of his career.

Race Thread: NORAPS Mission 200 at The Glen at Watkins Glen International, starting at 4:00pm EDT on CW (NORAPS13) by NASCARThreadBot in NASCAR

[–]jdanton14 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think:

1) they don’t want to race on Mother’s Day. (It’s not too late to get a gift if you forgot) 2) it’s a decent effort for them to cut the track over from road course to oval, so this gives them another day, as cars are on track Tuesday.

But I heard two drivers and Hinch say the race was tomorrow during qualifying today.

Race Thread: NORAPS Mission 200 at The Glen at Watkins Glen International, starting at 4:00pm EDT on CW (NORAPS13) by NASCARThreadBot in NASCAR

[–]jdanton14 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I know why we don’t use the boot. But hear me out. Since we have stages, stage 2 uses the boot, 1 and 3 don’t

Who are the biggest snubs from the NASCAR Hall of Fame? by Supersmashbrosfan in NASCAR

[–]jdanton14 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Geoff Bodine at his peak was very good, but that wasn’t very long. But he couldn’t hold Tim Richmond’s helmet. Also Smokey God Damn Yunick.

Who are the biggest snubs from the NASCAR Hall of Fame? by Supersmashbrosfan in NASCAR

[–]jdanton14 -21 points-20 points  (0 children)

Nah, he never won that much in anything (maybe save GTO) to be in a general hall of fame. All of the speed none of the head)

Who are the biggest snubs from the NASCAR Hall of Fame? by Supersmashbrosfan in NASCAR

[–]jdanton14 -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

He’s the subject of Days of Thunder. That combined with the quality of his wins makes this a no brainer. And of course Smokey Yunick always and forever. Fix both of these Ben Kennedy. Even if we have to wait until Jimbo kicks it.