I wish I hadn't went straight in, personally. Wasted a lot of money and time before I got my shit together and went back for an associates a few years later.
wizardbeard
joined 2 years ago
My company doesn't even allow AI use, and the amount of times I've tried to help a junior diagnose an issue with a simple script they made, only to be told that they don't actually know what their code does to even begin troubleshooting...
"Why do you have this line here? Isn't that redundant?"
"Well it was in the example I found."
"Ok, what does the example do? What is this line for?"
Crickets.
I'm not trying to call them out, I'm just hoping that I won't need to familiarize myself with their whole project and every fucking line in their script to help them, because at that point it'd be easier to just write it myself than try to guide them.
Also: assuming you know what the easy bits are before you actually have experience doing them is a recipe to end up training incorrectly.
I use plenty of tools to assist my programming work. But I learn what I'm doing and why first. Then once I have that experience if there's a piece of code I find myself having to use frequently or having to look up frequently, I make myself a template (vscode's snippet features are fucking amazing when you build your own snips well, btw).
That was/is one of my biggest complaints about CS courses: the horrendous, uncontrolled, inconsistent-across-course/instructor/TA mixture of concept and implementation skills expected of the students.
Ultimately you need to develop both to be successful in a CS/Software Dev/Programming career, but I've watched so fucking many people fail to progress in courses and learning because they're trying to learn both the concept and how it needs to be formatted in the class specific language's syntax at the same time. They hit a roadblock in one and the whole thing comes tumbling down because if your code doesn't work you can't just work around it to get the other parts done and then come back later. Being able to stub something out to do that requires skills that they're taking the class to learn in the first place!
Minor mistakes with syntax creates a situation where they can't get a working example of the concept to play around with. So then they don't have something hands on to use to cement their conceptual understanding.
Minor mistakes with the conceptual understanding lead to a complete inability to understand why the syntax works (if it even does) to create an example of the concept, leaving them high and dry when the class asks them to think outside the box and make something new or modified based off what came before.
I've worked as a Lab Assistant (TA who doesn't grade) for intro to programming courses. Due to transfer credit shaningans, combined with a "soon to retire" professor getting saddled with the bueracratic duties for their whole department, I ended up running lectures for an intermediate course I effectively had to take twice. I regularly led study sessions in college for my friends in programming classes. Even now, I'm the most experienced programmer on my team of sysadmins/engineers at work and regularly assist co-workers with scripts when I'm not coding custom automations and system integrations.
So I have experience teaching and using this shit.
In my opinion, courses should be split into two repeatedly alternating parts: concept and implementation/syntax. They are separate skill sets.
You need a certain set of skills to be able to communicate. You need a different set of skills to do so in a specific language.
Plus, classwork needs to better mimic real world situations. Even crazy motherfuckers using sed or nano to code should be using linters in this day and age, and no one should be working in an environment where they only have one chance to get it 100% right with no means of testing.
I think this is an extreme reaction to (as far as I'm aware) the first instance of a serious issue with the sdf lemmy instance.
Another poster has brought up that the admins are possibly busy with taking over another pubnix system at the moment. That's quite a big project.
Lemmy is still a niche thing, run by a small group of volunteers. It is not anywhere close to reddit or other sites in terms of resiliency against admin life events. As far as I'm aware, Lemmy is not a primary thing for the sdf group, but instead just one of many projects amd servers they run. As a sysadmin, these things tend to be cattle more than pets.
Also, I hate to say it, but a single user posting hateful shit is not a true emergency. Even if it has been 48 hours. From a purely sysadmin perspective, it would need to be heinously illegal content being posted or an actual infrastructure failure to reach emergency level in my eyes at least.
Unless I'm missing something, the sysadmins have been reached out to through their admin accounts on this lemmy instance, and the membership@ email address. There has also (according to this thread) been one single person who posted in the IRC asking for an emergency method to contact the admins, and that only happened after this thread was posted.
Has anyone tried contact through the instance mastodon account? Looks like there was activity there a few hours ago.
Has anyone checked the whois records for the webmaster email listed and tried that?
All of that said, this does highlight a major issue on this instance that needs resolution: there needs to be enough active lemmy instance admins that an issue like this cannot sit with no acknowledgement for anywhere even close to 48 hours, and it should probably be someone separate from the sysadmin(s) since they seem to have a schedule busy with other things.
There also needs to be a clear list of contacts, contact methods, and escalation chain procedures.
Until then, 48 hours is not some absurd amount of time with no response for a place as small as the sdf lemmy instance. Hell, at least in the east coast US right now there is a nasty nasty Flu variant going around that is laying some people out for well over a week. I've heard of some people still having symptoms 3 weeks in. Not covid, just the fucking flu.
I'm not trying to say that the asshole isn't a problem, just that in the context I think that calling for defederation after 48 hours with no ack is silly.
Y'all are forgetting about all the developed post-post apocalypse stuff from Fallout 1 and (moreso) 2. The capital of NCR territory, Shady Sands, is a legitimate (not-bethesda modern fallout style) city with farms, factories, schools, hospitals, scientists researching and developing shit, local government, etc. Estimated population of 35,000 around the time of NV.
None of the 3D games have come remotely close to showing that type of post-post apoc civilization.
The area covered in New Vegas is effectively the frontier of their civilization. The unification monument is in honor of the over extended NCR rangers, too far from home and their government's resources, signing a peace treaty and making a strategic alliance with the existing Arizona Rangers. This extended NCR territory into Nevada as the additional AR troops were able to give them enough local manpower and supplies to just be able to barely hold the line against Caesar's legion at the first battle of the dam.
So the NCR territory shown in game is absolutely an American Western Frontier analogue complete with ~~cattle~~ brahmin barons, and ~~natives~~ Great Khans, but it's entirely possible for them to have brand new equipment being manufactured from new material "back home" so to speak. It would just be a logistics issue of getting all the way out to the front lines of the game.
OSINT is the term you're looking for.
Edit: and this particular person was apparently talking about buying the data off signalhire.
OSINT usually consists of collecting all of the publicly available data on a "target" (person or company usually) and correlating it all together to reveal things not explicitly public (or at least not all in one spot). "Open source" intelligence. Term is used by military, intelligence agencies, and pen-testers.
Looks to me like a downspout that carries the "water" under the concrete and probably lets out somewhere else.
Little seal just vibing
Edit: Also, got an ex one of those seal pillows over a decade ago and I still miss it. Big body pillow sized one. One of the most comfy pillows I ever found.
Salad? Look at this dude and his bougie workplace. Due to budget cuts I only see coffee, tea, and depression as "fucking around accessories" at my workplace.
Might be because nearly my whole floor is tech workers though.
The examples I've seen are a year+ with no updates. Not definitive, but I highly doubt they're doing this for the cases you're talking about.