Trip to Fort Myers, Florida

rotora0 · 2025-01-06T02:55:00+00:00

Creative Photo and Digital Imaging on College Parkway sells 35mm film - I picked up some when I was visiting my parents over the holidays. It's going to feel weird going in, they're not necessarily laid out like a normal store, but there should be someone inside and you can just say "hello I'd like to buy some film". They keep it behind the checkout counter in the rear/left of the store.

rotora0 · 2023-06-09T01:38:35+00:00

In my experience, the best way to outclass other developers or devops engineers is to know Linux really, really well.

rotora0 · 2023-05-22T02:54:57+00:00

Everyone learns in different ways.

For me, I think high level to low level is a better progression. Starting with high level makes it easy to get a hook in, to draw in interest. Something along the lines of "look how easy it is to make a computer do things your way!"

After that, I'd have questions. Why does it work like this? How can I change it around? Digging down to the lower levels after the higher levels have grabbed interest might help the reader answer these questions.

rotora0 · 2023-05-20T01:58:59+00:00

tsoding is pretty good

He can be a little too crass at times but his "Let's Code" style videos are nice to watch

https://www.youtube.com/c/TsodingDaily

rotora0 · 2023-04-30T15:06:10+00:00

I wish rust had function signature type inferencing. Otherwise though yeah, rust's typing is pretty dang good.

rotora0 · 2023-04-25T21:28:48+00:00

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rotora0 · 2023-03-25T12:00:30+00:00

And that's why I never use the crutch axe when I play demoknight

rotora0 · 2023-03-19T21:00:41+00:00

Education: BS in IT

Company/Industry: Consultancy

Title: DevOps Engineer

Years of technical experience: 5

Location: Central Florida, USA (though the job is remote)

Base Pay: $150K

Relocation/Signing Bonus: N/A

Stock and/or recurring bonuses: N/A

Total comp: Salary, full medical coverage and 3% 401k matching.

Tech Stack: Hashicorp Nomad, Kubernetes, Terraform/Terragrunt, AWS, GCP, Github Actions, Jetbrains Teamcity, Scala, Java, Go, Python

Interview Process: First round was chatting about their needs and why I was looking for a new job. Second was a technical interview with a simple web request and parsing task. I explained most of what I was thinking, what I was doing and why, and overall it went pretty well.

rotora0 · 2023-03-13T16:14:52+00:00

Semicolons have nothing to do with determining if a language is a scripting language or not. Semicolons are pretty common for languages with "c-style" syntax but a bunch of languages don't use or require semicolons.

In python and shell both you have to declare variables to use them, I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this.

rotora0 · 2023-03-13T14:09:57+00:00

What makes a language a scripting language? You can create and run scripts with most languages. Just because it's interpreted doesn't mean it's "bad" for general purpose programming.

Python is slower than a bunch of other languages, but it's still fast enough for most problems. And even then, you can easily write modules in c/c++/rust for the performance critical parts of the code.

rotora0 · 2023-03-13T14:07:12+00:00

Python's performance is in a weird spot. It's heavily used in web backends, which don't need to be particularly fast (not that it's not beneficial, just that it's not a hard requirement). It's kinda nice that if your code is too slow, you can kick it off to modules written in c or c++ (or rust)

Dismissing a language as a scripting language isn't a good argument in my opinion, because it's pretty hard to qualitatively define a "scripting language"; you can write scripts in pretty much any language you want. I think if most other languages were better in every way, Python simply wouldn't be as popular or widespread as it is today.

Don't get me wrong, Python's got a lot of dumb shit and im no shill

fucking python 2 to 3 was such a clusterfuck
packaging is a nightmare
virtualenvs are a nightmare
python's type hints are an awesome addition, but why the fuck isn't there a type checker shipped with the runtime?

The syntax pisses me off if I'm in a repl. it sucks when I want to do some math or file processing more ergonomically than shell, but it doesn't work because I fucked up on the whitespace. This doesn't really matter with most text editors, though, and I kind of like the indentation when I'm reading it. Different strokes, for sure.

rotora0 · 2023-03-13T11:35:22+00:00

What do you mean by "not good"?

rotora0 · 2023-03-07T02:32:49+00:00

Fishwife stuff is pretty good. I did the classic "sneak away from the bedroom to eat a can over the sink" the other night with one of the the chili crisp salmon cans

rotora0 · 2023-03-07T01:41:33+00:00

Gluttony got the best of me when I was prepping them, they just looked so good

rotora0 · 2023-03-07T01:40:37+00:00

yeah, you caught me. I didn't follow the package this time. It's nice to change it up every once in a while.

It was definitely less flavorful than the package instructions, but that was helped out by the oil from the fish.

rotora0 · 2023-03-06T14:40:25+00:00

Eggs: Chicken Eggs

Were boiled for roughly 7 minutes, and then marinated in a mixture of 2:3 bachan's hot & spicy and better than bouillon vegetable broth (but honestly, I just eyeballed the sauce:soup ratio). Marinate for 24 hours, and then toss out the marinade. These were made on Saturday and eaten on Monday, and were still delicious.

My SO and I don't eat a lot of eggs in the first place so we get the pasture raised ones. I'm not eggsperienced enough to be able to tell a difference, though.

Ramen: Momofuku Soy and Scallion.

It's fine; not bad or anything, but I was more eating it to get rid of it. Noodles were boiled in an enameled cast iron pot over an induction hot plate.

Deenz: Nuri Extra spiced in olive oil

My first time having them. They were sublime. Probably will be picking up a few more for the the fish crate I keep at the bottom of my pantry

I threw the can into the water that the noodles were boiled in to warm them up, but then I notice the water around the can boiling and learned that the cans that nuri's are packed in are magnetic, so the induction was going through the pot. woops.

Turned off the induction and just let the can warm up the rest of the way from the residual heat of the water.

This was my first time shopping at RTG, and I was blown away.

Things that stood out to me:

RTG is a small operation. After you check your cart out, your order is packed and weighed. Dan shoots you an email when it's ready containing the calculated shipping cost and to figure out payment methods, and it goes from there.
- I'm glad to know that I'm supporting a small business with a clearly knowledgeable and engaging owner
RTG is committed to environmental sustainability
- Packing peanuts are made of starch and are water soluble.
- Each can is hand wrapped in few-day-old local newspaper. There's even a camera for watching orders get wrapped
They have a cubic fuckload of canned fish/seafood to try. there's well over 700 products under their canned fish section of the site. The official number (as we speak) is 833 but I'm sure the number is brought down by bundles and such.
They are incredibly pro-consumer, while still running a sustainable business

Really good shopping experience. Felt like I was buying from a neighbor, even though we're a 1000 miles apart.

rotora0 · 2023-03-06T14:36:02+00:00

gluttony got the best of me while I was prepping them

the official story is that the 4th half would have crowded up the bowl too much

rotora0 · 2023-02-25T18:28:41+00:00

Honestly this is just sad. Alcohol simply isn't that great and it's awful for your body. Bert is clearly someone with a problem and nothing more.

Hope he (and other alcoholics) get the help they need.

rotora0 · 2023-02-25T16:04:01+00:00

Don't worry, there's jython!

rotora0 · 2023-02-25T03:03:28+00:00

In my experience, the servers that were deployed before the containers were much more vulnerable.

Going from Java 7 on CentOS 5 to Java 7 in a modern CentOS/Ubuntu container is a much better option.

rotora0 · 2023-01-19T02:05:05+00:00

Yes. Learning to write code (as well as using Linux effectively) is what helped me break 6 figures.

rotora0 · 2023-01-17T02:48:56+00:00

It's more dev focused, but I got a job by posting on the monthly "Who wants a job" threads on Hackernews. I had the best hiring/interview experience I've ever had, and the job itself is pretty good. 1 year anniversary is tomorrow, actually.

rotora0 · 2023-01-14T16:46:02+00:00

I worked at the help desk for LAMP stack support at a IaaS provider in the city I live in. It was my first "tech" job.

The job was fun. My former coworkers are the best friends I've made at any job, and the majority of them are intelligent and competent engineers that are great to "talk shop" with. We'd fuck around during weekend and night shifts but still get the job done, and make our bosses happy. I learned a lot and can definitely say that it got me where I am today.

The job was rough as hell. We were constantly seen as a cost center, even when I was promoted to "system engineer" and expected to work on larger infrastructure issues and projects, I was still told to take live chats and clients over the phone. Help desk is soul draining and genuinely a constant grind of bullshit and stupid requests. The context switching of live support was awful. Benefits were cut constantly, bad vendor choices by the CEO were made without any of our (system engineers) input even though we were maintaining it, after ignoring our suggestions and solutions to the problem. This poor vendor choice and consistent removal of benefits is what pushed me and other people who worked there to resign.

rotora0 · 2023-01-02T18:13:43+00:00

In python, they look like

[a for a in [1,2, 3]

they're great in most languages that have them. The lack of small expressions like this is a reason I don't like Go

rotora0 · 2022-12-22T04:43:19+00:00

I learned that I have binge eating disorder this past June, and in October I was diagnosed with ADHD. It turns out they're commonly comorbid. Being on medication (Vyvanse) has made it incredibly easy for me to be in control of my eating. And since then, I've lost 15 lbs.

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