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I used to work in PreSales. I worked with lots of people who were ex SWEs/SRE/insertTechTitleHere who transitioned into PreSales/Solution Architects (SAs). At least a few of them did this by first doing an internal transition into a PreSales role so they could get customer facing experience.

With regards to Developer Relations versus PreSales, you should ask yourself what you want to focus on. Do you want to work with customers on actual use cases (usually POCs) and show them how your company's product will address their use case? Then it's PreSales/SA. Do you want to evangelize a product more broadly? Then it's Developer Relations.

Regarding PreSales, I would really recommend you evaluate if you want to stay technical or not. Some products require PreSales and SAs to be quite technical. Other products really need a sales person who understands when to say "Oh yes, we expose our database through JDBC or a RESTful call" and maybe walk through how that is done - but nothing really all that much beyond talking. So it's important to make sure you pick a role that fits what you want.

Given that you have a strong technical background, I'd recommend you find a role that can utilize your understanding of technical matters. It's a good differentiator. Lots of PreSales/SA folks aren't that technical outside of talking the talk.
It really doesn't matter what's allowed, guys do it anyway and I'm assuming the risk that they get reported helps them get their jollies.
“Software developers, quality assurance analysts, and testers typically need a bachelor’s degree in computer and information technology or a related field. Some employers prefer to hire developers who have a master’s degree.“

Interesting that the government continues to peddle credentialism for software developers. I personally think a CS degree is still a strong positive signal but it’s hardly a requirement anymore
I disagree. If there is no physical plausibility for a claim it does not need experimental evidence to be dismissed. Homeopathy is essentially a claim of magic, if I claim I can cast spells on people on another continent to give them diseases you don't need to conduct a clinical trial, you can just say that I'm a fraud.
> On the other hand I'm not sure I like the idea of government mandating electrical connectors on devices, which could stifle innovation, or be very shortsighted in the typical government-rules-on-tech way

You seem unaware that the government regulate a LOT of things and while this has stiffed some innovation, the cost is probably worth it.

When was the last time a house burned down due to electrical issues? In the past, prior to standards this was rather common.

If you want a general understanding of what things were like prior to "regulation".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knob-and-tube_wiring

Now ask how you would plug an appliance into this mess...
If binning of CPUs were disallowed, it would result in even more e-waste because any imperfect chips would have to be tossed out instead of sold with fewer cores enabled. Bad example.
This isn't really a compelling counter because supplements are commonly criticized for not doing what they're purported to do. I would love for the FDA to enact more stringent regulation on supplements.

That said, unlike homeopathic medicine vitamins can at least be argued to contain medicinal ingredients.
> What just happened is, EU, a political organization enforcing the use of a technology on a company which operates on free market.

Where are you living that your free market isn't regulated for the benefit of the consumer?
Living in CA I have no problem with the "safely" qualifier in this change.

People in CA don't know how to cross the street. Seriously. Having lived in other cities and countries this is one thing that, at least to me, stands out here in CA. These people would last 15 seconds in NYC or other places crossing the street as they do.

One of the things I see all the time --particularly with kids-- is running to cross the street. No concept at all of the horrific situation this creates as a driver might have no time to react and less time to stop. The other one is people is people walking into the crosswalk without looking at all, often with their heads firmly in their phones. It's absolutely crazy.

In fact, I taught my kids to cross the street during a trip to Manhattan. Walk, no phone, pay attention, look at the driver, it's OK to take a pause and let cars go by, etc.

Oh, yes, and this one. Not sure how common this is elsewhere. I see people walking and jogging on the street instead of the perfectly good sidewalk. I don't understand that one at all. During some times of the day you can't see them until you are close, sometimes very close. They don't even wear light clothing or some sort of visibility aid. Not sure what that's about.
In Europe naturopathy is more common. I would say MDs en masse hold similar views to the general populace. Most MDs aren't reading research papers, they're simply repeating what they get told in school and the attitudes they observe around different treatments. I'm not trying to say this is bad necessarily but it is not a very scientific or rigorous way to do things. Most MDs think fast on their feet and have a blast knowledge of treatment for different things but they don't have a lot of experience working on nuance.
Google brings Wi-Fi 6E to its routers with the Nest WiFi Pro
It's possible, if not likely, that any given person is not very good at anything. However, you can become good at many things, even if you are not naturally talented. To overcome the talent deficit requires spending more time than a talented person to build the same level of ability.

Since the thing you can control is how much time and effort you put in, the main question you should answer is: what is the thing that you enjoy very much that has a good potential for earning an income? If you love spending time on it, the probability that you spend enough time on it that you become good at it is dramatically increased, and you avoid much misery. Once you find something, you then have to take a leap of faith and stick with it, spending as much time on it as you possibly can, until you are good at it and can make a good income (or you are forced to give up). Good luck!
Homeopathy isn't herbs, but the person the commenter was replying to dismissed herbal medicine in their post.
My analogy. You go to REI or wherever to buy some carabiners and rope for your next rock climbing trip. Intermingled amongst these are carabiners made of cheap pot metal and ropes intended for [tying down cargo] rather than climbing.

Both products are legal, but are definitely not deserving of similar placement within the store.

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There's just more players which means more bad apples.
No comparison test? No party!
My understanding was it was mostly a satire of the often long winded and illegible legalese that is often on Supreme Court briefs. The section with random Latin phrases has me in stitches.
Yeah. I have an actual cheque from Knuth. This is just some NFT bullshit.
The person you're responding to didn't state any degree of trust in the pharmaceutical industry, only distrust in a separate and significantly less regulated industry.
Will check those, thanks.
>even analog media like VHS tapes used color encoding formats that were specific in different regions (NTSC vs PAL vs SECAM).

I think you're really stretching this one. These were dictated be the equipment of the regions. This was just as much of a pain in the ass to the studios as anyone else. If theStudios wanted to sell VHS in these markets, they HAD to make them in the format that would work in that region.

DVD/Blu-ray region was definitely something added on top of format limitations as DVDs were still PAL/NTSC, but by the time Blu-ray and HD arrived, those format limitations were less of an issue. It was all about the region locking at that point.
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Autovacuum essentially runs a regular VACUUM, which helps you prevent new table bloat. However, to avoid locking issues, it does not fully rewrite the table, so it does not remove existing table bloat.

If you want to remove existing table bloat you either need a VACUUM FULL (takes an exclusive lock, impacting your regular workload thus autovacuum doesn't do it), or use an extension that does an online version of that, i.e. pg_repack or pg_squeeze.

Edit: Also, to clarify, with table bloat in this context I mean pages in the table that are not actually needed, but were added to the table previously to store data. Existing pages couldn't be used because rows were still marked as dead, i.e. autovacuum hadn't yet gotten around to clean them up before new data came in.
To be fair, NTSC/PAL/SECAM were political decisions made by governments at the start of the television era, well before modern copyright maximalism had got its boots on.
The end of cheap money reveals global debt problem
How do you handle the storage for this? One bluray disk is about 60gb. I'm not sure if movies typically take 60gb but if you watch TV shows they do. 15 disks is 1TB. In a short while you're running a data center, especially if you collect a lot of video content.

I've heard that you can get efficient re-encodings, but that typically means torrenting it from somewhere. I'm not aware of a way to make high quality re-encodings locally without lots and lots of tweaking/testing/re-encoding and it takes a particular set of skills.
All I need from a lightning cable is for it to charge things, but USB-C doesn't even guarantee that. I bought a shower speaker last year that charges through USB-C, and for some reason the charging cable that came with my Google Pixel won't charge it, but the cable for my Nintendo Switch Pro controller does. That's been my general experience.
Homeopathy is a specific term that means “doesn’t actually have the substance in it”. I’m making no claims to the curative power of zinc but a lozenge with zinc in it is totally different from a “homeopathic zinc lozenge” which contains materials that were once mixed with zinc then diluted until no zinc remains.

I’d be pretty mad if I bought “homeopathic gasoline” where someone puts a drop of gasoline into a million gallons of water then sells it to me as gasoline.
They go through the same work as non naturopath Made in addition to their naturopathic work. Whycant you allow people who want their care to go to them? They're not misleading people, theyre offering an alternative.
This is interesting because people will buy supplements that have no scientific basis for efficacy (biotin, mega-doses of Vit-C, St John's Wort) but they will deride homeopathy, which also has no scientific basis for efficacy. I'm not bashing zinc, because I don't know the science, but I am bashing homeopathy. Openly. Show me some double-blind studies. Unless the placebo effect is what you are selling, in which case, say that.

EDIT: Thanks for the info on St John's Wort! I should have picked a better example.
Looking at people staring at mobile while nobody holding folding phone.

Or you live in some paradise where everyone around you don't stare at phone everywhere you move? I'd say it's quite representative if I look at people in restaurants, public transport, shops etc and I don't see single folding phone.
He never said they read those studies or why they believe in it
As I understand it, in the original Irish there's no apostophe and the apostrophe was added by English speakers because of a mistaken idea that it's short for "of the", as in "five o'clock". Of course, a lot of names are also spelt differently in Irish:

O'Rourke = Ó Ruairc

O'Reilly = Ó Raghallaigh

O'Donovan = Ó Donnabháin

So you could get rid of the apostrophe and at the same time really spice your name up, perhaps.
I think your problem is using a Blu-ray player. If you use what I’d suspect most people use, an Xbox or PlayStation, the experience is much, much better. Even better is just using makemkv and ripping just the movie. Also works for 4k if you have the correct drive (there’s some inexpensive drives you have flash firmware)
Power, tv, and plugs different.
> Did that help with tracking down the thief too?

Of course not.

> I suspect the outcome is still the same of your catalytic converter being gone for good, even if it helped you narrow down details for a police report.

Correct.

> As such, the utility is still zero, since the desired outcome is "get my property back", unless you needed this many details for insurance purposes (they usually only ask for a police report, and police are happy to take any data since they are unlikely to find the perpetrator anyway).

That was not the desired outcome. My desired outcome was to make reporting to the police go as smoothly for me as possible which I'd preferably entirely skip if not for the fact that insurer required me to report it.

Talking to the police (or anyone really) is a stressful event for me so any help with establishing what to say was very much appreciated.

On semi-related note my car is at repair shop for 3 months already and I have no idea how much longer will it be because apparently no supplier of catalytic converters is willing to estimate when they'll have a single item for Toyota Auris.
> buying a limited license to watch a film

Buying a VHS was still a limited license. You weren't allowed to reproduce it and sell the reproductions. You weren't allowed to then operate a movie theater around your off the shelf VHS tapes. You weren't entitled to a new tape once the tape wore out.
So person who stocks and or plans shelves needs to be an expert on obscure legal theory?
Which is a good thing, if you think about it. It means that the vast majority of people who have no desire to play Blu-ray movies on their PC don't have to foot the bill for licensing.
I doubt the charging port is the most important factor in choosing a phone for most people.

Similar to how I voted for Biden even though I don't agree with 100% of his policies. It doesn't mean I don't disagree with him often - it's just that I only get one vote, so I have to prioritize. It's perfectly consistent for me to complain and make my opinion known when his administration does things I disagree with.
Not if there is actually Zinc in it. If you dilute it in water until there is no detectable amount of Zinc, then it is homeopathic.
The burden of proof is on people claiming homeopathic medicine is beneficial. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

See also:
https://youtu.be/L1ZbJRAyexM
Why did you put official in quotes?
RENT IS HALF THE PRICE!

...your pay is also half the amount.
I've heard of people using it to manage withdrawals when kicking opioid/opiate addictions. Indeed it would at least help with the diarrhea symptom when withdrawing. No idea how well it works.
Then I'm even more confused, because the pricing page clearly says write operations consume at least one WU.
SSH Probe: monitor and protect SSH sessions with eBPF
25% growth in the next ten years? Isn't that a slowdown in growth? I seem to remember the Uncle Bob video where # of devs is doubling every 5 years or so.

OTOH I feel we're at peak now, the investment money is drying up and management will force efficiencies going forward.
I think all movies are digital now ;)
Counterpoint Part 4:

Esoteric languages by-nature have smaller populations of devs. They demand higher salaries for their specialist work. This can hurt you as you scale - salaries continue to increase (secularly), and the pool of possible engineers begins to shrink within your locale.
That's not how you'd parse email. In fact, the bit before @ is encoded differently from the bit after @.

You're much more likely to iterate over elements in a string than index. You might iterate over code points, abstract characters, glyphs, grapheme clusters, etc. You might do it before or after a certain kind of normalisation. Since there are many ways to split a string (depending on what you're doing), it won't be possible to make all of them have O(1) indexing.
Do you understand that filesystem drivers are yet another example of places where software developers need to do these types of operations which you're dismissing as "very strange things?"

How do you propose that I, a person who among other things develops filesystems, implement a canonicalization table without doing these "very strange things?"

Furthermore, filesystem operations are not limited to calls into the filesystem driver. Programs often need to deal with paths outside of filesystem calls: The names of files need to be displayed on screens. They need to be indexed in databases and searched for. They need to be encapsulated within other protocols and data formats and often need to be parsed and understood.

You are essentially agreeing with me that these are normal, necessary things. Your position appears to be "someone else does that type of thing for me," which is not a very compelling argument.
Well you're remembered for having an immense impact for generations to come, not necessarily winning an award. Einstein is remembered for transforming physics, not winning the Nobel. Just like MLK is remembered for the civil rights movement not winning the Nobel peace prize.
I believe Reagan's life showed that he believed in that mission and that he didn't believe it to be wrong.

He was likely acting covertly so that he could continue informing on "Reds" unimpeded, and perhaps enjoyed playing Cloak and Dagger.
Oh good call. I was trying to figure out what to do with my two staticman apps that I have on heroku. And I wanted to try fly.io!

Edit: though I don't want to pay for staticman stuff. Are you running them for free?
I had friends running timing attacks against the Xbox 360 encryption key around that time, they never publicly disclosed their work but I saw them playing games on a hacked firmware around mid 2000s. No reason to think this wouldn't be the same for the CSS encryption key.
What did this look like in 2011?
Can Apple under these rules still ID the charger and refuse or downgrade the loading process if a 'non-genuine up-to-date model version' charger is failed to be detected?
Over fulfilled in fact - the capability of the connectors have well outstripped the need of phones.
There isn't anything left to do. It's done. Unless new customer desires come along, and they haven't for decades, there isn't innovation left to be had

Both the connector and port are too large and the tip of the cable protrudes too far. I have an assortment of 90 degree elbows for my growing USB device collection and the myriad of different features each cable has or doesn't have(Hdmi 4k120fps, Quest Link, Thunderbolt, etc) to keep my inputs flush and organized. When connecting to a laptop you're stuck with either dangling dongles or unsightly protrusions.

As someone who actually owns over a dozen or so USB-C devices they're nowhere near as interchangeable as promised and quite frankly they suck and are hardly done improving. The last time UsB ports tried to differentiate themselves was when they started painting them blue but nowadays you have no idea what a given port can and cant do(e.g PD) unless it's explicitly written somewhere.

How is that less confusing than "this is an iphone/airpods/apple keyboard cable and this is an everything else cable" to a consumer? The fact that all new improvements will have to go through some totally unbiased and impartial incorruptible committee is terrifying.
What specific about it? Planet movements? NASA missions? Black holes?
Because owning the world's biggest video distribution monopoly was worth 16+ years of losses for them. Same like owning Twitter.

They have almost no competition.
You almost certainly know this, but I feel compelled to add that Immodium does have downsides.

The most intuitive is prolonged use can stop all waste leaving your system for a while. As you can imagine, when the system finally starts going again it's initially uncomfortable, and can also be long-term damaging.
For anything controversial, getting dropped by Cloudflare is a bunch larger concern than getting dropped by your registrar. You'll be DDOSed offline immediately and there's no Cloudflare.ag alternative to turn to. Just look at what happened to the scumbags at Kiwi Farms.
Some unsolicited feedback:

1) I had no idea what Clickhouse was for the first 30 seconds looking at the homepage. I now understand it to be a database of some sort. I shouldn't have seen the words "performance" and "cloud" and "serverless" before seeing the word database, right? I'm starting off confused. There shouldn't be an assumption that I know what you all do.

2) I have no idea what a column oriented database is. I've been a developer for 29 years (mostly frontend but I do a lot of full stack too). If I need an explainer, a lot of devs will.

Aside from that, it looks like a nice offering and I wish you all the best!
At some point we have to at least gently blame the overall developer community. We've had actual decades to figure this out. Joel's The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!)[1] manifesto was written almost 20 years ago!

99% of programmers shouldn't be treating text as anything but opaque blobs of data that, when sent to a rendering function, become readable by users. Don't try to take text blobs apart and make assumptions about their binary structure. We should not be looking under the hood and trying to divine things like how many letters are in them (what's a letter?) or trying to manually transform them in some way (case, splitting, concatenation, input sanitization and so on). Use tried and true libraries for these. Same for when you need to transform it into some particular encoding. The only safe question to ask of text is "how much memory does this thing use?"

It is truly a minefield, but it's a minefield that developers are expected to understand and navigate. "Text in different encodings are scary outliers that we shouldn't support" is pee-wee league level software engineering.

1: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/10/08/the-absolute-minim...
And in the end... it is their site to be horrible with if they want.

That's the internet, that freedom includes a lot of people being free to do what they want with their site. It was that way in the "good old days" too. Just that then eCommerce and other tools were not as available.

Often in other discussions where I hear folks bemoan how "not everything has to be an app". I agree, but it's also rando company who paid for their site, their app... to be an app. They're really not interested in the rando guy's opinion on how his site should be devolved who isn't buying from him anyway.

I do what I can to shepherd people I work with away from annoying things, but in the end it is their site.
It is an interesting perspective...

FWIW, here is Alexey's perspective on the topic directly for those of you following along at home.

https://clickhouse.com/blog/introducing-click-house-inc
And ironically, if you met your partner on a dating app in a large city or metro area, your dating encounters were ostensibly under direct influence by a tech company’s algorithm, yet you were likely in a pool vastly larger than a college campus.
USB-C is not even a local maxima, of course.
If only I could convince web shops (and their web connections) that I buy every six months or so a box of batteries (for hearing aids) since a few years and that I would actually appreciate to receive a sort of periodical reminder for them, but that I do not need (hopefully) too soon another TV set and washer (that I just bought), it would be a little step in the right direction.
First not a troll

and in no way is it racist, it is a provable statement and the India government is doing nothing to stop the scammers and in some area's of the nation actively protecting them

See the recent reporting by Mark Rober and Jim Browning.

ALOT of scamming is currently originating from India, this is fact.