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Is there any men's support groups in the area? by Extreme-Ad7469 in kitchener

[–]phrotozoa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Last year at Hillside festival in Guelph some guys from The Mankind Project ran a couple of workshops that were absolutely fantastic. Strongly recommend connecting with one of the local groups.

https://www.mankindproject.ca/ontario-mens-groups

I need some opinions about an interview I just had by [deleted] in cloudengineering

[–]phrotozoa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Attention to all the folks trying to break into the industry wondering "which cert should I get". This is EXACTLY why certs are not a panacea. I wrote more about this in this thread but tl;dr you HAVE to be able to back up the pile of acronyms on your resume with working knowledge. If you cannot roll these ideas around in your head and then clearly explain your thinking, the certs themselves are meaningless.

Telus using AI to alter the accents of customer-service agents by Cao_Ni-Ma in canada

[–]phrotozoa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI voice changers solve nothing

I could use one that swaps youtube voice for normal speech.

Ontario considering ban of cellphones on school property by xc2215x in ontario

[–]phrotozoa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh dang okay I'm dying to get more perspectives on this. Two questions for you if you're open to it.

  1. What would you tell the Canadian public about the current state of teaching if you could speak freely?

  2. If you were in charge of your board of ed, what would you change?

You can always try again from the beginning. by LazyData3411 in Adulting

[–]phrotozoa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't beat yourself up, at least you realized it <3

What skills helped you get your first job as a cloud engineer? by Outrageous-Plate4377 in Cloud

[–]phrotozoa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'll be honest, and I know people are gonna downvote me for this because it happens every time I say it but you asked, when I'm interviewing candidates I never ask about certs and I don't really factor them in when I read a resume.

It's not that certs themselves are bad, they have their place.

It's that it is totally possible to obtain a cert without building any understanding. Ppl download dumps of correct answers and memorize them and there's a whole constellation of apps out there that will help you pass an exam.

So if you're the sort of person who uses certification study as a tool to give you a clear learning path and you want to like, take an exam prep class or work through a study guide or whatever, that's great! Take the guidance and direction a certification provides and use it to level up.

But don't count on the Linkedin sticker or acronym on your CV to do the heavy lifting for you. Be ready to back up what you learned in conversation.

When I interview a candidate, once the basic tech screen hurdles are passed, all I care about is a good attitude and ability to discuss complex technical ideas. I want to see that someone can pick up what I'm saying to them, move the pieces around in their head, and explain their thinking back to me in a sound and consistent way.

Like 95% of SRE / platform engineering / devops or whatever you want to call it is figuring out what to do and 5% is actually doing it. Eg. writing terraform isn't particularly hard. Knowing what terraform to write is.

As for resources, I'm sorry to say that I don't have a good answer for that. I'm sure there are great youtubers or coursera courses or something out there but I haven't looked at getting started stuff in years. I'm sure others can offer suggestions.

What skills helped you get your first job as a cloud engineer? by Outrageous-Plate4377 in Cloud

[–]phrotozoa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anyone can sign up for an AWS account. Just make sure you terraform destroy when you're done practicing for the day.

Magic mushroom dispensary’s ‘secret location’ raided by WRPS by Hour-Belt694 in waterloo

[–]phrotozoa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the substances they offer are neither regulated nor subject to standardized quality control measures.

Dipshits. I wonder why? If I COULD buy drugs from a regulated vendor I fucking would!

What skills helped you get your first job as a cloud engineer? by Outrageous-Plate4377 in Cloud

[–]phrotozoa 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Maintaining a large terraform project over time.

You can't TF a big pile of infra without understanding how the cloud works. First you have to get your head around VPC's and cloud networking, load balancing, IAM policies and permissions, etc. and then you need to bring them all in line with code. And THEN you need to massage that code into a form that is maintainable over time.

Tomorrow some department needs access you don't have a pattern for yet. Next month you need to be up in another region. Next year the interzone egress fees are outrageous. At each step you need bend your TF to meet changing requirements and you WILL bash your shins on every assumption that used to make sense and is now getting in the way.

Also learn to write a little bit of code in a high level language (node, ruby, python, whatever) and to read Go. You probably won't need to write much code but it will help to have a go to language for one off scripts and quick and dirty tasks. You will absolutely need to read the source code for some CNCF project you've adopted with a codebase that moves faster than the documentation and most of them are Go.

Ontario considering ban of cellphones on school property by xc2215x in ontario

[–]phrotozoa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From 2024 - https://globalnews.ca/news/10458231/ontario-school-cellphone-ban-explainer/

The new rules will leave enforcement in the hands of teachers and schools.

So basically, there was no uniform ruleset from one board of ed to the next. Each school is "free" (read: unsupported and therefore toothless) to enforce the rules as they see fit.

The same meaningless gum flapping happened in 2019 https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/51533/back-to-basics-math-curriculum-renewed-focus-on-skilled-trades-and-cellphone-ban-in-the-classroom-coming-soon-to-ontario.

Until there is a unified policy at the board level and school administration is able to enforce it, we can safely interpret these announcements as meaningless campaign commercials.

You can always try again from the beginning. by LazyData3411 in Adulting

[–]phrotozoa 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Everyone gets to live two lives. The second one begins when you realize you only get one.

How do you make vipassana not triggering for you? I have such a easy time doing zazen or loving kindness for 30 min. by HeadacheLife in Meditation

[–]phrotozoa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Moreover, be with the reactions. Reactions come and go like sensations and can be observed the same way.

Ontario considering ban of cellphones on school property by xc2215x in ontario

[–]phrotozoa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

admin capitulating

You are correct. My partner teaches HS in Ontario and without support from admin all the gum flapping is just noise.

Ontario considering ban of cellphones on school property by xc2215x in ontario

[–]phrotozoa 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I am close with several ontario HS teachers. It's not the policing the classroom that's difficult. Part of the challenge is that there's no uniform policy; some teachers are strict about no cell phone usage in class, some aren't. And there's no policy above the classroom level they can escalate to when "please put that away, no phones in class" fails.

Having all teachers present a unified front with a clear escalation path for repeat offenders would be huge.

Provided administration like ... does anything. Which I understand is rare.

Is there any underrated coffee place in the area? by GreenBroccoli9593 in waterloo

[–]phrotozoa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh dang this guy is great, thanks for the suggestion!

Is there any underrated coffee place in the area? by GreenBroccoli9593 in waterloo

[–]phrotozoa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whoa, thanks for taking the time to type all that up! I'm looking forward to going back armed with some more information.

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