KingSlareXIV

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WTF Happened in 1971?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately nearly every graph on that page is intentionally misleading. If you actually adjust the graphs for inflation (where it’s relevant), 1971 looks like just another year.

  Lying with statistics!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What IT jobs are there that require little to no coding?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know docker gets jammed into a lot of different equipment these days, wasn’t aware of it in network switches tho.

  What sorts of containerized workloads are typically run on network equipment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What IT jobs are there that require little to no coding?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m kind of half cloud architect and half traditional Windows server engineering, and I hate coding.

  So, these days you want to consider Cloud Architecture. You might need to learn a little bit of Terraform or similar, but it’s not really traditional scripting. Your job is to know all the offerings of your preferred cloud vendor, and be able to use them to design an environment to meet business requirements in a secure/resilient manner. You’ll need a solid understanding of networking and security concepts to do it well. But pretty minimal coding.

  You may build it out via Terraform, or maybe you send the design to a dedicated build team. Once built it goes to the app folks to do their app coding. You probably help the coders troubleshoot traffic flows a bit, because they are pretty universally terrible at security, networking, and infrastructure in general. Because they are coders, but don’t really understand how anything actually works outside of their code. You are the platform expert.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What IT jobs are there that require little to no coding?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not saying it’d hurt, but I’ve never worked anywhere that had network teams managing docker (that’d be a different team). Linux knowledge is just enough to install a vendor supplied appliance on your hypervisor of choice (managed by a different team), anything more than that would have the OS managed by a different team. And I really haven’t seen them script much of anything in any language, they have prebuilt tools to do any mass config changes or monitoring or whatever.

  They are generally way more concerned about working with horribly convoluted routing issues, misbehaving BGP, firewall policies, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are American tv shows stuck in Act 2 for their entire runtime between season 1 and final season?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose it’s the natural result of wanting to keep the show on as long as possible, when you’ve only got one good idea for the story arc. You need a lot of filler.

  I’d like to see more shows done in the style of Babylon 5, where the creator had the whole 5 years written out from day 1. There was very little in the show that felt like filler or treading water.

  Which also may explain why books are being brought to TV more frequently these days. But, TV showrunners have a bad habit of taking a good novel and totally mangling it in the translation to TV, so it’s not a guaranteed win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘City On Fire’ Canceled By Apple After One Season⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mostly decent, some interesting twists, but also plenty of dumb stuff in it too. It’s only 7 episodes, so even if you don’t end up liking it you haven’t wasted much time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’ve finally seen everything Trek.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I generally find watching in release order tends to work better that chronological order at least the first time thru. The episodes are written assuming you aware of future events depicted in previous shows, if you aren’t they tend to lose a lot of their impact.

  Congrats for getting thru TAS, I have tried and I just can’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Critical theory is radicalizing high school debate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This shit blows my mind…you try to pull that shit in a policy debate back in the day, it would pretty much be an instant loss.

  At best you could try to run something like that as a counterplan, but you better have something more practical than philosophical if you intend to actually win.

  Debate judges who judge in favor of these non-relevant arguments and disregard the principals of debate are really doing a disservice to debating in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Privacy Concerns of a Misspelling an Email Address?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, mostly a non issue, if the email didn’t contain any sensitive info.

  Your email address isn’t secret, and will be scraped up by spammers sooner or later anyway. Security by obscurity is basically no security at all.