LambdaComplex

> My networking course recently changed from CCNA to CompTIA network plus content.

Wow, did the school just decide that they didn't want anyone taking the networking course?

I also drive a 2016 Mazda, and I can confirm that I had the same problem with the same fix

Facebook added stories to Facebook itself, Instagram, and Whatsapp a few years back, almost certainly in an attempt to claw some users away from Snapchat.

> Not having a clue about what a candidate formerly earned means risk for the employer

It really doesn't. An employee brings their employer some amount of value. The exact amount of value is completely unrelated to that employee's salary at their previous jobs.

The _only_ "risk" here is that the employer might not be able to lowball the candidate as much as they possibly could.

> the natural tendency of humans is to be capitalistic

"Commerce" and "capitalism" are not synonyms. The former has existed for ages. The latter is comparatively recent.

"Should" means that there are scenarios where doing something is not necessary, and therefore really does not constitute a hard requirement. "Shall" means that you are inherently required to do something; it is much closer (if not identical) in meaning to "must". "Should" is the subjunctive mood; there is an implied "if" somewhere in there: You should do this if blah blah blah, I would do this if blah blah blah, etc.

There are probably some subtle connotational differences between "shall" and "must" that the average reader would not care about (and which I don't feel like figuring out)

An additional data point (read: anecdote): I applied for a job at Hashicorp in early July of this year. I have yet to receive any reply, including a "thanks but no thanks"

For reference, I also have a friend who applied there in late 2019; he apparently _did_ get a "thanks but no thanks" email about a month later.

Perhaps all of the company is short-staffed, rather than just engineering.

esr seems to have a pretty big ego, just based on his writings. (e.g. at one point he declared that he can tell if someone is smart or not just by looking at them)

> the whole idea of text templating YAML is... thoroughly ignorant in understanding what Kubernetes actually is

Could you expand on that? It sounds like an interesting position (bordering on the philosophical), but I don't know enough about Kubernetes to gauge its accuracy for myself.

> I just cannot hear...what changed after

Tap your foot along to the people clapping in the video. They're clapping on 1 and 3 at the beginning, so you should count "1 2 3 4" as you tap your foot, with their claps being on "1" and "3". At/by the one-minute mark of the video, you'll realize that the claps are now on 2 and 4.

> Forgot the first and most important commandment: always force them to open

Uh...that's literally the first one though?

> Do not — I repeat, do not — give them a number.

> What to do instead: Ask for the range they’re budgeted for the role.

> toothpaste tubes used to be metal in the 60s and you were supposed to punch a hole on the front of it with the back of the cover cap

I'm definitely too young to remember anything from the 1960s, but you can still buy tomato paste in tubes like that. Neat.

...Isn't that how Sears went bankrupt?

> In a world with ubiquitous housing, there is no need for social housing, because that which is ubiquitous (oxygen) is affordable.

> In a world with scarcity, social housing protects the poor against unaffordability. That's commendable. However, scarcity also means there is not enough for everyone.

And in a world with landlords, housing can be both ubiquitous AND scarce! (At least in the USA, the number of vacant homes greatly outnumbers the number of homeless people in the country)

And it even says as much in the sidebar on that page:

> I'm currently an engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Seattle, where I lead engineering on AWS Lambda and our other serverless products. Before that, I worked on EC2 and EBS.

Being against the exploitation of a basic human need (i.e. housing/shelter) for profit seems reasonable to me.

1. Am I the only one who gets annoyed by the abundance of software being described as "beautiful" (or some other vague, subjective term)? And, honestly, Bash is probably the least "beautiful" "programming language" I can think of.

2. If you need this level of complexity, I feel like you should be reaching for Python or Go or something else that definitely isn't Bash

Could you not have some sort of circuitry that causes the battery to be completely bypassed when AC is connected

(Obviously the AC would be going through a power supply to convert it to DC of the proper voltage, but still)

> this is so glaringly a PR move to basically gain amplified marketing

Congrats, you've stumbled upon the open secret of....literally every single for-profit corporation on the planet!

Based on my understanding of the UK's drinking culture: it wouldn't be the most surprising thing ever

Agreed.

While reading this, I was thinking "This is so important that you'll wake all these people up in the middle of the night, but you only have a single ISP? No backup ISP with automated failover?"

I'm at the level where any Bash book/guide/etc that wants my attention needs to prove that it's more useful than Greg's Wiki.

Chances are, it isn't.

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ

https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls

What was their justification for being like that?

Sometimes I read these things and end up saying to myself "Wow, that company just literally hates being productive"

To be clear, "empty interface" is the official term: ctrl+f "empty interface" on https://golang.org/ref/spec

Eh, I think it is--the creator knew enough about programming to consider (and then actually implement!) storing the functions in a hash table, but I'd say that anyone who knows enough to do that would/should know perfectly well that strlen is a terrible choice for the actual hashing function.

I suppose the downvotes may be justified due to your comment being pretty out-of-place, but, just to add some perspective: I'd like to remind everyone that PHP originally used strlen() as a hashing function: https://news-web.php.net/php.internals/70691

It is (or at least originally was) certainly not the pinnacle of good design.

And if they didn't write that paragraph? It's Facebook, so you'd be suspicious anyways (and rightfully so).

Metrics/KPIs. They're probably judged on how many people they manage to get on the phone.