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It's not. Fit trumps quantity and quality any time.

I'm not OP, but I also have quite a bouquet of certifications. Why? Mostly because I love to learn and I also love to work towards goals. Also most certifications[1] are not that hard once you've figured out how to deal with scenario based multiple choice questions. It's a low effort way to focus my learning.

When it comes to hiring - and as someone who sat at both sides of the table - any certificate outside of what is expected in your industry does more harm than good.

[1] OSCP is the exception to the rule
It's needed when you're somebody who doesn't want to spend their life in git and just want to undo a mistake.
I always get the feeling that grammarly adds to much commas. And so many of the sentence rewriting suggestions just provide glibberish.
It’s a sign of not enough people applying for EMT jobs and too many people applying for tech jobs.
It will keep you busy during work slumps but otherwise serves no purpose (at least in FAANGs)
What you're saying is that anything Linus does, for whatever purpose, should be designed to cover a wide variety of use cases and please a large number of people, even if he's just writing something for himself. I think that's an unrealistic expectation.
A "high standard" has a known meaning, so raising and lowering can be derived from there.

When you read that the engineering practices in some company are of a high standard, do you also get confused as to if the company operates well or not well? I used to get confused from the meaning too but started thinking about it like this.
With traditional stovetop cooking of white rice you leave it at very low heat for quite a while without opening the lid so it can eventually soak up all the water.

After turning off the heat, you can lift the lid a minute or two before serving and drop in a few threads of saffron then put the lid back on for a wonderful transformation.
I like the compression of the former but the contrast of that weak mono space font is terrible.
> would have received enough bi-partisan support

Huge asterisk on this. Can you point to any moment when doing what you suggest would have been politicially viable? Especially considering the fervor with which GOP are racing to pass bans that don’t include exceptions for rape and incest.

Say what you will about Roe but auto until Thursday it did strike a balance that worked for a vast majority of the country (60%). There were limits, there were restrictions. Why do you presume there were none?

Yeah, you hear consternation about the availability of late term abortions, but if you explain those happen in fewer than 1% of cases and often are medically necessary this concern often is ameliorated.

But now that’s all been blown up. Now there will be two Americas: safe haven America where women are free, and Gilead where women are forced to give birth to their rapists babies.
I don't think mentioning slavery is helpful or relevant to this discussion.

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Let's take Google as a better example of an overpowering technology. Its world-domination has been built on scraping everyone else's data, and regurgitating it to users in a very useful manner. Had it been less useful, I'm sure you'd have everyone constantly complaining about them "stealing" public information.

Either way, I wasn't making a judgment of how the world should be, merely how it's probably going to work out. Copilot in its ideal final form would be: 1) great at writing good code 2) if needed, very good at obfuscating any stolen code into something that looks brand new.

Good luck fighting this mostly-undectable, productivity-boosting technology that has no obvious victims.
What is your best work as a developer?
Anything which you rate the best!
I got the _best_ multi-adapter charger at AWS Summit London thanks to my cert.
How does this apply to problems like filters and emitters for logging as discussed in the article?
Good modern software always offers an undo option. Where is "git undo"?
ICC: Forced Pregnancy Is a War Crime
I too.

The epitome of Hacker News and one of the reasons I find myself laughing enjoyably so much here.

I picture this marathon and the first one trips out of the gate with everyone piling up behind them.
Question: do you use Linux container support on Windows? I find Linux container support in ChromeOS to be sometimes useful.
I hadn’t seen this before and I’m 100% going to steal it and use it for my next product/feature/business case pitch. At least as a start to prove value to myself.

I’m fully aware of the utility of jargon in writing a business case, it lets me skip over the difficult, the warts, and the questionable. I wonder if there’s a correlation between failed projects and how jargon heavy the initiation is?

I also really like thinking about milestones as exam points. Calling them exams for success more directly gets at the point- to check in and course correct.
Google shouldn't just hand over someone's information, but when Bungie provided evidence of abuse, Google _should_ have kicked off a robust internal abuse investigation. Knocking people off their platform for being jerks is absolutely within their ToS and purview under law.

The fact that they harbored the jerk for so long, even in the face of credible evidence and actual harm, suggests that, as another headline on the frontpage right now says, "If your [platform] is full of assholes, it's your fault."
It is a value. It means that the incentives of the user and the producer are aligned: to enjoy the time in a community, rather than have one try to extract money.

Aside from that, not everything needs to be a business, and even then, not everything needs to be profitable.
The dell XPS developer edition that comes with linux pre installed has worked great for me. What are your complaints?
MCSE really helped me.

In the late 90s, 98 I think, I worked for an internet startup that didn’t end up being huge. We were on Novell and a bit if solaris and had just launched a product that used windows nt and server side activex.

I was a college dropout web dev/web master making $50k. They had a hard time hiring devs who knew nt and could design and automate server farms. I learned on the job and did an ok job running it. But they wouldn’t promote me because I was really young and didn’t have a degree.

I went to a Microsoft conference and would buy a study book each day and take the test there. I did 3 exams during the conference and took the other three when I got home and with all 6 certs got my Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (with a stamp of bill gates’ signature).

They gave me a raise to $60k (and the college grads went from 50-55). I then got $70k six months later and $80k six months after that as I was the “certified person.”

I always thought it was funny that I did the same job before and after the certs. The Networking cert was really useful and I still remember how to do subnets and dns and dhcp and stuff.
I thought mysql could do replication across a major version? If so, that's big differentiator
But you end up with one really well developed and tested head.
>The US just took away the constitutional right to bodily autonomy.

Can you point to, say, the UK's constitutional right to bodily autonomy so I can compare? I assume that there will be one as not having a strong constitution guaranteeing these rights is massive internal oppression that is very scary. Also: speaking of the UK and taking away its citizens rights... ever hear of Brexit?

>Europe is not at war. War in Ukraine is due to an external force that affects barely anybody in Europe

Ukraine is not in Europe? Also, the original commenter claimed inflation were a result of war and pandemic. So does it affect people or not?

>What a bizarre nationalistic reply this is, to be so insecure about the landmass you happen to live on.

I agree, the Europeans in this thread are bizarrely nationalistic. My sense is that there's a large contingent of political redditors in here.
Author of the piece here. One reader wondered what it was that make these aesthetics managerial. Think, perhaps, here about how Baroque artwork glorified emerging absolutist monarchy -- through aesthetically pleasing representation of both absolutist figures (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_de%27_Medici_cycle) but also through aesthetic pleasing representations of absolutist power -- for instance, consider the way that Las Meninas demonstrates the power of the almost unseen Philip IV. Even though the King is only a tiny figure in the painting, everything in in space of the painting looks towards him.

By analogy, managerial aesthetics produces aesthetically pleasing representations of the "subjects" of managerial power, who are, in this case, nonprofit figureheads, and also aestheticizes managerial power itself. Contemporary art turns everything into material for contemporary art in a similar way that managerialism turns everything into something to be managed.
When it comes to the impact and ethics of AI, I don't think technically informed people are much, if any, better than the non technically informed at understanding AI and forming judgments. They don't really understand fully how it works, either, and they most definitely are not social-systems aware enough to understand how it actually impacts and functions in use.
Daily since Google Reader shut down, via self-hosted commafeed (https://github.com/Athou/commafeed).
Again IANAL...but I'll speculate that the "sue you" risk is very context-dependent. If you're a local Big Shot, and wealthy enough to target individually, and so hands-off that a jury could be convinced that you're "kinda turning a blind eye to problems you shoulda known about and done something..." - maybe there's some risk. If you look more like a well-intentioned little guy, not savvy about legal & big-picture organizational problems, and are week-to-week involved enough to be aware of stuff like inspections or "systematic issues" - then I'd say you're at very little risk, even before the O&D insurance kicks in.

(And in general - if you aren't a savvy big shot, then you want to be fairly involved with any organization that you're a Director of. If only so that you don't look stupid, if things don't go well.)
Europe has a patchwork of abortion laws and generally are far more restrictive than the US, which in many places you can abort very late term. While I support a woman’s right to abort up to a point, the issue is now devolving to the states and ideally will result in less national strife, as it was an arbitrary litmus test for presidential candidates.

I live in Boston and groups here are flying women in and shipping pills out to abort their babies. Acting like it’s a dystopian nightmare because of the Roe overturn is hyperbolic.
I don't think they are making an argument about ethics necessarily.
The outrage is two-fold. First, this is removing a right that used to be guaranteed for 50 years and had been reaffirmed, by the Supreme Court. With the stroke of a pen, 6 judges removed a protection that more than 2/3 of citizens support.

Second, the justification is inconsistent with other decisions. E.g., the majority argues that it's up to the States to decide their own laws on the matter of abortion, but just the day before, the same majority found that New York could not decide its own laws on concealed carry. You mention that searching for "abortion" in the text of the U.S. Constitution find nothing: you'll also find nothing about concealed carry.
I think the underlying model is fantastic, but the names for operations, and how they are grouped, are somewhat ad hoc.

The idea of a directed graph of file system snapshots is pretty intuitive. Add in branches as pointers to locations in that graph. This is a fantastic model for source control.

However the operations that stage a potential update to the graph of snapshots is prettt confusing. The "index" is a terrible name that is overloaded with so many other non-git meanings, non of which really map to git usage.

That, and all the rest of the names are pretty hard to understand. Particularly reset, whose documentation is inscrutable without translation from git-speak into technical language, or at least a dictionary of what all those words that are used actually mean. And since reset is such a useful tool and has about eleventy different functions, it all becomes impossible to learn from the docs on your own.
If you are using a typesetting engine, you will likely get the best results by following whatever practice it recommends.
I have been on 40+ courses/training over the span of about 15 years but ever did any exams or certifications. I feel that I DID NOT LOSE ANYTHING not having them. If you like to take exams then you may do it - but if you are about to pay for them from your money then I am not so sure its worth it.

My profile is generally BSD/UNIX/Linux sysadmin with some addons needed in between like storage/virtualization or high availability clusters.

If I got asked why I get to the trainings but did not get certifications I reply that I went for these trainings for learning and knowledge (and eventually things I needed to ask a teacher directly about them) and that was my main interest in them - I do not need a 'proof' that I 'got it and understood it' at the classroom.

Maybe certification is more needed in other areas ...

Regards.
IANAL but I think they might be able to pursue a case of "vexatious litigancy" against the person. That essentially strips them of some ability to use the legal system because they've rampantly abused it in the past.

It's a high bar to pass, but literal thousands of fake claims might indeed pass it.
Except when something goes wrong, you can typically focus all your attention on the unsafe blocks, which should be a very small portion of your codebase, if it exists at all. (Contrary to popular belief, unsafe Rust code is neither mandatory nor widespread.)

By contrast and comparing apples to apples, your entire C or C++ codebase is the equivalent of one giant unsafe block. You can bring in 3rd party tools to perform some of the static analysis the Rust compiler does for you, but call it for what it is.

By default, Rust is safe while C & C++ are not.
I think he mentions it in the beginning - "It falls apart when you try to do more: ... Type-check or schema validate", but I don't feel the falling apart in cases when I used JsonSchema.
“Just move” seems to imply they made a choice to live there in the first place. Often that isn’t true. What is a 17 year born in Oklahoma to do? Telling them to “just move” when they probably have very little money of their own and probably no family support doesn’t seem very empathetic.
I'm not sure what you're trying to say, but the title of the OP is clearly confusing here and could be made less ambiguous to people who have not started thinking about it like you think about it.
Study the history of obscure German counties to become certifiably in Sayn!
>Evolution doesn't have opinions

I'm sure any reasonably intelligent and good faith person would parse "Evolution is concerned" as a metaphor, just like they parse "The computer looks up the ip address in the DNS server" or "The atom shares some of its outer electrons".

>not all pro-social behaviors are directly reproductive

How is this relevant ?
I don’t think it’s a Linux problem. It’s a trying to run Linux on arbitrary hardware problem.

On one hand that’s kind of the whole point of open-source. Because it can be extended to support almost anything it usually is extended over time by someone else that has already had the same problems you do getting a thing to work. That’s not the same as just assuming everything already works without checking though.

There are some very suitable laptops that would have had support out of the box.
They are usually not led by single individuals so that's a different subject.
I never account for schedules for public Transport in my city, the serving frequency is short enough that I just show up at the station whenever I please. Unless there is some sort of technical or logistical problem, I almost never have to wait for more than 3-5 minutes.
>"Refusing to deploy" might not be a sensible option if your enemy is willing to deploy.

In the AI ethics arena, this is really one of the best arguments I've heard for the military to pursue and have automated systems in place. US leadership may agree and see all the issues with using killer robots but other countries are developing the same technology and may have less ethical concern and considerations then you do. They may be willing to let these systems fail and kill innocent bystanders or even their own soldiers. They may even look at these and consider it a necessary loss to move forward and succeed in their goals. As such, if you're not willing to make such compromises as well, unless your approach ultimately achieves the goal or you have other techniques to mitigate these corner cutting strategies, you too must cave.

If China decides to engage in conflict and releases killer robots and we don't have killer robots, can we contend? If we can't, we might have to engage in the race to the bottom that is competition unless we have an alternative mitigation strategy that doesn't require us to compromise our ethics.

I imagine this is the dilemma scientists faced during WWII when developing nuclear weapons. Part of the argument that lead to nuclear weapons was that Germany was already working on the process. This resulted in other countries engaging and ultimately building successful weapons where Germany failed. Ultimately, we now live in a world where lots of people have nuclear weapons... and overall it's been the proverbial Mexican standoff with nuclear deterrence strategies.

Is there an AI deterrence strategy? Nuclear worked because it lead to the case of a global collapse in terms of what nuclear war would bring. Killer robots that aren't sentient don't seem to have quite the same threat and seem like militaries could utilize them as they fall in an ethical grey area globally and have far less risk of ending humanity on a global scale unless we start talking about sentient terminator killer robot level uprising which is not even remotely where AI is currently or in the foreseeable future.
Yes - and as an American I support withdrawing all aid so the Europeans can defend themselves and pay for all of its costs.
Many times CPE can count toward multiple certificates. For example the same activity that give hours for PMP also count toward CSM.
Any chance you have enough experience to suggest a good option? This is something I guess I'm going to have to deal with soon
I liked how the Japanese translation of the page retains the two versions, but the language difference made the variants pretty much pointless, because there are hardly any "profane" words in Japanese that are offensive enough to warrant censoring by their utterance alone. (There do exist a group of offensive-enough words that relate to class/race discrimination, but no equivalent of a censor-worthy 'shit' nor 'fuck'.) The 2 Japanese translations are merely written as one mildly colloquial version vs another very-slightly-less-colloquial version.
My issue was indeed the mishmash of versions, as the restore succeeded with the mentioned steps (installing old version, restoring, upgrading).

nonetheless, interesting way to validate a backup, though it would probably take too long on most dumps
This is also my experience. However, I would say something like Amazon's certifications may be useful if your company has gone all-in on AWS. Amazon (and GCP and Azure) have such a huge variety of offerings, and it's something that Amazon is asserting this person is at least familiar with what these things are and how they fit together, and the trade-offs. On-the-job study is, in general, not going to be good enough to get a comprehensive understanding like that, and a cert course makes a lot of sense.

I suppose if there was a reasonably trusted organization that could give the same cert for "front-end javascript", that would be good too, since there would be great value in surveying at least the major features of the current js landscape. (Probably not practical given the breadth and depth and dynamism of the space, plus the ambiguity of selection. And also, not sure what org would or could do this!)
Lots of good advice already (except there are better sources for writing style advice than Strunk & White). Here's one I and my linguist wife like:

Write on paper first.

Paper is more immediate and has fewer distractions, fewer ways to go back and edit at once, and leaves a bit more time to think. It doesn't require looking at a screen, which you probably do enough of already.

Sure, typing it up is an extra step, but it can be a good editing step. Having edited (to the best of my ability) some of my wife's writings, I have been able to correctly guess when she wrote directly into the computer simply by the writing being less coherent.
Yes. For all the frustrations with Stack Overflow, they actually do a pretty great job on the reader side.

The site isn’t spammed by people posting the same stuff repeatedly. And you can find solutions of varying difficulty levels and quality.

The problem for them is that makes it harder to contribute.

Which may actually be an intrinsic part of resolving the excess of low quality items problem.
Sounds like Texas technology on CC (Comission Capture) is "the best available". Is there an open data feed on this? Where is the grafana dashboard showing graft?

If one could summon @dang, the story link should be replaced with the reuters article.
You can see with the Steam Deck. Valve is slowly releasing drivers over time but in early stages Windows was inefficient, sound didn't work or didn't work well, sleep wasn't snappy, the list goes on.

It had all the problems your average Linux install will encounter without the enthusiast-written drivers to work around manufacturers' lack of support.

That said, the Steam Deck seems to be the first non-enthusiast device where the manufacturer actually cares. Even laptops that get sold with Ubuntu preinstalled from the factory don't seem to receive that much support over the years.
They absolutely do not. Or didn't 3 months ago.
How Thailand went from war on drugs to cannabis curries [video]
I did a bunch of the Microsoft tracks about 10 years ago, mostly in the hope they’d help me stand out in a crowded field rather than actually get me a job.

It’s impossible for me to know if they ever worked in that regard, but I imagine they probably did at a few different times (subconsciously at least) in terms of getting my resume onto the shortlist, which was the goal.
> Why do you think cert collecting is fun?

My work requires me to take certifications and keep them renewed.

What I appreciate from certifications is actually taking a well-made test. (Instead of a carelessly made normal school or university test.)

For well made certification tests, the question writing process is interesting and a whole specialization by itself. Each question is beta tested. And metrics are collected as to how a question is correlated or predicts that someone will pass the test. Tests should avoid mixing question pairs that hint the answer of another question. And writing multiple choice answers in which the answer is not possible to guess. Also writing questions so they are well written and easily understood. So that the question measures knowing or not knowing the topic, rather than affecting the test taker due to unclear wording.
> You think you can just walk into a job paying $500k without some kind of rigorous interview process?

The point is, "that rigorous interview process" are just arbitrary hoops to jump through to see if you're obedient. That's their main purpose. Not to mention that, in Europe, anything above $200k is extremely rare. Many people would gladly go through borderline humiliating interviewing process for $500k, but won't do it for just $150k.