julian_sark

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by julian_sark 5y ago
They should. You are correct on that. Reality is, however and in my experience, that more and more HR departments fall for promises of AI snake oil. Virtually every employer I apply with has it's own portal, often times asking you to c
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by julian_sark 5y ago
This. And also a gazillion other things. Years ago I was recommended a book written by a Dutch psychiatrist who had developed depression himself. The tagline was sort of "here's a professional who suffers from it, this will be ins
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by julian_sark 5y ago
Somewhat paradoxically, my opinion on perl can't be (cleanly) reproduced here ;)
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by julian_sark 5y ago
You are certainly correct, thanks. I hastily typed this out, my bad.
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by julian_sark 5y ago
That's trying WAY too hard. I just reboot in single user mode. (Or, if anyone wants to get pedantic and yes, this is ruining the punchline, but alas: shutdown -h now ; then reboot from the USB stick and mount the partition ; rm file.tx
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by julian_sark 5y ago
This is, in my opinion, REALLY bad practice. Never use potentially dangerous commands (rm -f) to avoid the prospect of an error! Instead, one should practice good error handling. For some scripts and depending on the audience "set -e&q
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by julian_sark 5y ago
> that bringing this stuff to my manager is even worse ... This. While I currently have a manager that mostly understands such complaints, I have learned that even then, it amounts to nothing. Because he can't change material things
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by julian_sark 5y ago
So true! Both "This is just how the company is, it won't change" and "We survived thus far, we'll get through" are the unofficial mantras of the company I work for. Even though many in the middle management see