The difference is, Devops isn’t a bubble that everyone is waiting for to pop. I’ve been in that field for over ten years now, and properly implemented it is a net gain for everyone who does it. The reason companies are falling over themselves trying to hire ‘Devops’ is because they still haven’t properly cottoned on to the concept but are afraid of falling behind. And yes, I can absolutely attest to the fact that Devops is a tough market to hire in at the moment, that there are a lot of places who don’t have the first clue about what Devops really is, and - similarly to Agile - think they can add some buzzwords to their toolchain and call Bob their uncle. And there are a lot of candidates who somehow acquired a Devopsy title in all that chaos, but all their CVs have are tech buzzwords, and when you interview them they’re clueless. That doesn’t change the fact that Devops is a solid concept with high benefits for those who understand it.

AI, and more specifically GenAI and LLMs - is more like crypto, in the sense that people are trying to get rich from it without having the first clue what it is. It’s this shiny new thing that everyone is rushing to get on board with, but I have yet to see someone propose a use case that actually makes sense, couldn’t be implemented better without AI, and is a net gain for those using it. Right now it’s all this nebulous bullshit, everyone just slaps their own coat of paint onto ChatGPT and calls it a day. Useful AI-adjacent concepts like Big Data and Machine Learning have been around for much longer than the tooling underpinning the current hype, and already have a lot of very valid use cases.

By the way, I work with a bunch of high aptitude Devops engineers and none of them are thinking about adding AI to our pipelines, not even to pad their CV.

So not only do they want AI to take your job - you also won’t be able to get another job if you don’t wholesale buy into this shit.

I love the future.

Sometimes words aren’t enough.

Then you stop them and tell them this isn’t what I asked for. It’s not that hard.

If they’re not trimming enough - tell them to keep going. Until they hit the length you want. The job is done when you’re happy with it, not when they think they’re done.

The worst is when they say they’ve found a solution, without adding any information or elaborating further. Makes me want to flip my desk.

I didn’t think I needed the /s, but here goes:

/s

Ah c’mon, give them credit where it’s due. They didn’t try nothing - thoughts and prayers were tried in abundance.

Would it surprise you to know that there is a unit of length that is specifically the distance between the earth and the sun?

It’s called Astronomical Unit.

If the choice is to starve or work for this company, then it’s pragmatic to work there. No, it’s not ethical. That being said, not everyone is in the fortunate position where they can let their ethics decide where they work, and there is nothing inherently wrong with that.

No shit. How have they not figured this out 15 years ago when every DVD had non-skippable anti-piracy messages?

Except it’s not a ‘flaw’. It’s full intent. They want people to die.

Please proofread your memes. Two typos in this small amount of text is quite egregious.

A bagel is a bagel. Two halves of a bagel with something on between are still a bagel. The same goes for a roll. A sandwich is two slices of bread with something in between.

Precisely this. American terminology applies in America only.

We were even going to kill Johnny Depp’s dogs at one point but settled for the “hostage video”.

That was just Barnaby Joyce grandstanding and making a big deal out of ‘we apply the rules to everyone, no matter if they’re rich or famous’. No fucking way he would have ever laid hands on those dogs. The man was and still is a fucking embarrassment to politics and Australia.

These people keep talking about Jesus, but if the Jesus they talk about and describe in their holy book ever actually had to come back, he wouldn’t last ten minutes until they’d call him radical leftie, an SJW and a ‘danger to the world’ and crucify him again.

Especially since the Paradox of Tolerance did not require ‘solving’. It wasn’t a mysterious problem waiting decades for a smart mind to find a solution.

The Paradox of Tolerance did not need dissolving. It wasn’t an unsolved mystery. It posed no obstacle to anyone who was capable of exhibiting tolerance.

And at its essence, it says exactly the same thing as this: that you do not have to be, and cannot be shown tolerance if you do not show tolerance towards others. Rephrasing it solves no problems, and changes nothing. Because the ultimate problem is that there are too many people in this society who demand full tolerance for themselves while being completely unwilling to show tolerance for others. And they won’t care whether you frame it as a moral standard or a social contract - it just gives them more ammunition for their culture wars.

So I think we can stop posting this on a daily basis now. It’s not a revolutionary new finding. It’s just another way of framing how society works. No more, no less.

As someone who has tried soldering with the wrong equipment (and thoroughly stuffed it up), it’s both. Learning with the right equipment however is a lot easier than with the wrong stuff.

And 3D printing externally can also be a bit of a trial and error process if you’re new to the whole thing.