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both of my last two jobs called them "lunch n learns"
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I miss the early days of covid where vendors were desperately trying to get any sales engagement at all after all spending flatlined, so they'd invite you to webinars and chuck in Deliveroo/Just Eat vouchers. Synology paid me a £25 beer gift card to learn all about hybrid file shares.
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Jul 16, 2022 19:44
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The Fool posted:both of my last two jobs called them "lunch n learns" It seems "lunch n learn" has become the de-facto term where I work as well.
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Jul 16, 2022 23:10
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just realized that my previous job used lunch n learns but my current pm uses brown bag. weird
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Jul 17, 2022 01:20
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Brown bag lunch sounds like you're downing a bottle of vodka at the office
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Jul 17, 2022 01:24
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Jeoh posted:Brown bag lunch sounds like you're downing a bottle of vodka at the office Just lol if you aren’t drinking a 40 of King Cobra out of a bag at morning standup I didn’t realize brown bag had a racial history, so thanks for the comment
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Jul 17, 2022 01:58
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Brown bag implies you are bringing your own lunch. Lunch and learn implies lunch will be provided, at least to me. I mean, lunch should always be provided for lunch meetings, but yeah. I guess maybe that's changing with remote work being the norm in our industry? I think just lunch and learn, we'll provide lunch, or lunch and learn, bring your own works. I'm not sure I 100% agree that brown bag lunch is a term that needs to go away, as brown bags are often used for lunches and I think that is probably the stronger context. But it's honestly not something I've heard discussed, so I'd rather differ to others and be on the safe side.
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Jul 17, 2022 06:07
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Internet Explorer posted:Brown bag implies you are bringing your own lunch. Lunch and learn implies lunch will be provided, at least to me. I mean, lunch should always be provided for lunch meetings, but yeah. I guess maybe that's changing with remote work being the norm in our industry? My first thought was exactly the same as yours but agrikk's post drove me to Google and apparently this was a thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Paper_Bag_Test. Which, as with most things in American history, was way more horrible than I expected. As a white dude I personally don't give one single gently caress if it's called a brown bag or a lunch and learn so if there are people actually being harmed by the brown bag term I'm cool with changing for their sake. Docjowles fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Jul 17, 2022 |
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Jul 17, 2022 06:14
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I'm very familiar with the brown bag test. But we still call them brown bags. I dunno. I'm glad to be having this discussion.
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Jul 17, 2022 06:17
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Internet Explorer posted:I'm very familiar with the brown bag test. But we still call them brown bags. I dunno. I'm glad to be having this discussion. My feeling is it costs nothing to swap to a term that has no hurtful connotations for anybody. So even if you feel like the number of people who would notice or care is low, why not. The industry is swapping from blacklist to denylist etc, this is part of that
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Jul 17, 2022 06:30
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I agree, and that's what I meant by this -quote:But it's honestly not something I've heard discussed, so I'd rather differ to others and be on the safe side.
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Jul 17, 2022 06:34
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I can't just react to a post on this old dumb forum so
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Jul 17, 2022 06:41
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Agrikk posted:At the risk of starting something unhealthy: Agree micro aggressions are a thing but it’s sure hard to see how this is one of them. I think lunch and learn is a better term simply by being less confusing if you’ve never heard the term brown bag for learning g during lunch at work. It’s really hard to see how the phrase brown bag as it applies to lunchtime learnings could have racial connotations even with the knowledge of a brown bag test apparently existing. CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 12:54 on Jul 17, 2022 |
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Jul 17, 2022 12:51
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Docjowles posted:I can't just react to a post on this old dumb forum so what an odd statement. that's the nature of a forum. a post invites posts which invite posts, ipso facto. if that doesn't work for you, start a diary
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Jul 17, 2022 13:05
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I'm in the process of learning how to set up an EKS cluster for some microservices which need to process requests from the internet. I was considering using a Fargate profile for the workload, but it would require me to set up a NAT gateway to connect the private-subnet-only Fargate pods to public subnets. My question is, is there any appreciable advantage to using Fargate pods over a node group with EC2s? My impression is that it seems to be more setup and most cost for little gain
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Jul 17, 2022 13:16
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kalel posted:what an odd statement. that's the nature of a forum. a post invites posts which invite posts, ipso facto. if that doesn't work for you, start a diary They mean that you can't just smash a "like" button
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Jul 17, 2022 16:09
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Thanks Ants posted:They mean that you can't just smash a "like" button Thanks I also didnt get it also thank god we dont have a like button. We have  accountability and a population thats mostly between 25 and 45. Buy civility and Nissan GTRs since 1999!
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Jul 17, 2022 16:24
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kalel posted:I'm in the process of learning how to set up an EKS cluster for some microservices which need to process requests from the internet. I was considering using a Fargate profile for the workload, but it would require me to set up a NAT gateway to connect the private-subnet-only Fargate pods to public subnets. My question is, is there any appreciable advantage to using Fargate pods over a node group with EC2s? My impression is that it seems to be more setup and most cost for little gain
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Jul 17, 2022 16:32
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CarForumPoster posted:It’s really hard to see how the phrase brown bag as it applies to lunchtime learnings could have racial connotations even with the knowledge of a brown bag test apparently existing. It would be more of a classism thing than a racism thing, IMO. kalel posted:I'm in the process of learning how to set up an EKS cluster for some microservices which need to process requests from the internet. I was considering using a Fargate profile for the workload, but it would require me to set up a NAT gateway to connect the private-subnet-only Fargate pods to public subnets. My question is, is there any appreciable advantage to using Fargate pods over a node group with EC2s? My impression is that it seems to be more setup and most cost for little gain You're correct, if you're going to manage the networking you might as well use an ec2 nodegroup instead of a fargate profile for this use case. The gain appears later when you have more complicated needs: one thing people use k8s for is a junk drawer for web apps, but it's only one of my valid use cases, it's a container "scheduler" for a reason after all  . If you're doing fancier stuff on it than mapping tcp 443 to tcp 8000, you might find that the extra flexibility with fargate (and fargate spot) is worth the extra setup cost. Maybe. It's a case by case thing.
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Jul 17, 2022 19:19
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Thanks Ants posted:They mean that you can't just smash a "like" button oh I'm an idiot thanks y'all. compliance is a subject I want to gain more experience with, so it would behoove me to set up EC2s as a learning exercise. plus I'm intending to use the nginx ingress controller which requires a managed node group anyway
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Jul 17, 2022 19:44
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CarForumPoster posted:It’s really hard to see how the phrase brown bag as it applies to lunchtime learnings could have racial connotations even with the knowledge of a brown bag test apparently existing. I get it. Like “how big of a deal is this, anyways?” and “is this really a thing?” My belief is that it takes next to no effort to change from using ‘brown bag’ to “lunch n’ learn” and in doing so makes people aware of the micro aggression concept and maybe makes the world a tiny bit friendlier.
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Jul 17, 2022 19:53
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There's enough bad poo poo in this world and in our hellworld jobs as things keep declining in developed countries (meanwhile if you go to developing / emerging markets people are quite optimistic and have objectively solid reasons for feeling that way with their lived experiences) that the least I can do as a professional is to try to accommodate as many of my colleagues current and future as I can possibly stomach and then some. Just give a poo poo about people's feelings maybe and you'll be better than baseline for engineers IME.kalel posted:compliance is a subject I want to gain more experience with, so it would behoove me to set up EC2s as a learning exercise. But seriously, compliance is a very dry area of work that can sap one's will to even bother with technology. Take it from my former manager that got an MBA hoping to do compliance work to further his career as an engineer into more enterprisey stuff - it's theatrical performances all the way down. Just remember that auditability matters, don't use weak and crappy outdated cryptographic algos, and being able to sit in a courtroom and recount what happened in your environment with a ton of confidence in its accuracy and defensibility for those who entrust a lot of privileges in your judgment are sound and selfless.
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Jul 17, 2022 22:33
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Corey Quinn's company just posted an opening for a cloud economist. I am definitely not qualified and I'm also applying.
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Jul 19, 2022 20:09
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along those lines, I got rejected by honeycomb.io last week
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Jul 19, 2022 20:21
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Oh drat, good for you. They're probably a great place to work.
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Jul 19, 2022 22:20
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maybe re-read my post 
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Jul 19, 2022 22:21
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Hey still good for you for applying
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Jul 19, 2022 22:31
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Yeah, no, I read your post. Good for you for not rejecting yourself on their behalf. Make them do it. I have a *very* hard time believing Duckbill would hire me, let alone get me past the resume screening stage. But if they're going to say no, I'm not going to do it for them. Happiness Commando fucked around with this message at 23:53 on Jul 19, 2022 |
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Jul 19, 2022 22:33
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Ah, cool thanks honeycomb is definitely on my shortlist of places I think would be good to work for, I will likely take another shot in the future
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I feel like every few months some smart person I follow on Twitter starts working at Honeycomb. Starting, obviously, with Charity. Certainly seems like a good place to be associated with.
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Jul 19, 2022 23:33
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I always get really excited when Honeycomb announce job openings but they're still US/Canada only for their tech roles so I don't even get past the recruiter screen 
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Happiness Commando posted:Corey Quinn's company just posted an opening for a cloud economist. I am definitely not qualified and I'm also applying. One of the things that I entered into the application form was that Duckbill prioritizes caring about people and having no oncall requirements. And then LOL got woken up at midnight when I got paged for something that was complete BS
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Jul 20, 2022 14:50
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Punished for dreaming of a better life
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Jul 20, 2022 14:52
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Docjowles posted:My feeling is it costs nothing to swap to a term that has no hurtful connotations for anybody. So even if you feel like the number of people who would notice or care is low, why not. Should have been blocklist. Same number of syllables, more fun to say  also the last 10-20% of the AWS Partner Accreditation course made me want to  . Put sales poo poo in another goddamn course kthnx
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Jul 21, 2022 05:41
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Duckbill rejected me very directly and kindly. Then I asked for feedback and got some, again, direct and kind and well targeted. If I'm still in the workforce in 10 years, I might try again.
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Jul 23, 2022 19:37
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I have a unique issue that I am trying to come up with a solution for. Unbeknownst to me (until fairly recently), the previous engineers made the very wise decision to treat S3 like a filesystem and install S3FS on production FTP servers. This has caused insanely annoying issues, and conveniently those who implemented this are now retired. I have firsthand witnessed horrors such as compiling and installing S3FS from source (and not updating it for months (years?)), zipping/unzipping directly on S3, etc. I wish to move away from this piece of poo poo asap. I am thinking of S3 File Gateway as a starting point. Does this sound appropriate?
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Jul 25, 2022 21:13
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S3 File Gateway would work, if you just need to copy files out of S3 and to a volume then rclone will also do the job.
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The siren song of s3fs is loving irresistible to people working with AWS early on. Especially ops people. It’s like the first stop on the “No seriously the cloud is not the place to just rebuild all your lovely patterns from the data center” journey. I’ve had to push back on that a lot as a component of a design. If you’re looking for a quick replacement would AWS Transfer Families work for you? It’s basically a managed service with SFTP on the front end and S3 on the backend. It’s kind of expensive but you also aren’t supporting an abandoned rube goldberg machine anymore which has value. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transfer/latest/userguide/create-server-sftp.html
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I work on IoT devices, and we have a system developed a few years ago where we upload recordings to AWS, process the recordings on upload, and store the recording characteristics. Right now, this processing happens in an AWS Lambda running Python. This part of the system has been growing and growing, and occasionally, very rarely, run to the point where we just don't have the Lambda resources to handle some process. But, the main issue right now is that we use SciPy, and at the time we did our development AWS had a default lambda layer with SciPy. It looks like they've stopped updating that, so we're stuck with an old version of SciPy running on Python 3.7. It seems like we should just make our own Lambda container image for this running whatever Python and SciPy/other libraries we want, as discussed here. is that a good solution? It seems like a bit off the beaten path for Lambdas so I'm worried support won't be great. I could run it on Fargate, but it seems like that might end up being a larger architectural change for the system, especially since our lambdas are not involved that often. I could try building or buying our own SciPy lambda layer, but given how we use this I worry that layer size will become an issue some time soon.
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StumblyWumbly posted:I work on IoT devices, and we have a system developed a few years ago where we upload recordings to AWS, process the recordings on upload, and store the recording characteristics. Right now, this processing happens in an AWS Lambda running Python. This part of the system has been growing and growing, and occasionally, very rarely, run to the point where we just don't have the Lambda resources to handle some process. But, the main issue right now is that we use SciPy, and at the time we did our development AWS had a default lambda layer with SciPy. It looks like they've stopped updating that, so we're stuck with an old version of SciPy running on Python 3.7. You can deploy a docker container up to 10GB extremely easily using the SAM CLI. Very fast to set up. If you've got some existing configuration stuff for example extra secure gateways or EFS mounts, those will go in the template.yaml. You might need to do some googling to understand how to implement some current config stuff, but it's pretty easy. This was a huge issue in 2018 that has basically been completely solved. FYI you can have more than 512MB in the /tmp directory now too and more memory (which also grants you more vCPU cores). For example I have a ~5GB container that processes video with ffmpeg as well as runs selenium and chrome for webscraping. It has 3GB of memory and routinely writes files that might be a few hundred MBs. Got another that has a full fastai install (pandas, scipy, pytorch and scikit-learn IIRC...multiple GB of dependencies.) CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 22:45 on Jul 26, 2022 |
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