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by mech422 3y ago
Awesome :-) Hope I get that far :-D Congrats!
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by mech422 3y ago
yeah - its hard to remember how many people out there haven't seen a 'down' market before. 2008 was literally 16 years ago... Anyway, I'll take today's economy over the dot com bust, the early 2000 off-shoring craze
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by mech422 3y ago
Ugggh - that sucks...I feel for ya :-/ That sounds less like 'deployment' and more like 'mandatory overtime' at that point!
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by mech422 3y ago
I always figured 3-5 years to become a 'senior' (generally 5 but I've had some really sharp juniors too)
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by mech422 3y ago
I guess... I can see everyone thinks they're company is special and needs 'rock stars' and '10x's but generally 1 senior for every 5-10 juniors is fine for most places. The salary thing is annoying - for a while it
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by mech422 3y ago
Heh - most are younger then me as well ... I had an interviewer about 15 years younger then me ask "what was the most important thing I learned about DevOps"... my reply was "dont deploy on Friday" :-) I got the job (an
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by mech422 3y ago
Yeah - I have 40+ yoe, and I could see a lot of places don't need a 'senior'.. they just need a couple more junior coders. Also, you tend to get a bit jaded - I basically ignore companies that are going 'to change the wo
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by mech422 3y ago
I just got a job this month at 56 (I have 40+ yoe) ... grey/lack of hair was not a problem :-) I believe programmers make their money at the 'ends' - leading/bleeding edge or old legacy tech no-one remembers anymore. So
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by mech422 3y ago
I'll second (third?) the "I'm not worried about being replaced by AI" camp... In fact, I actually think unless your getting into foundational work in AI, "AI" is probably a riskier career then "traditional
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by mech422 3y ago
>>When I look at resumes, a cover letter is a plus. It shows that the applicant is putting in some effort, and not just spamming every position available. Matches my system. If I send you a cover letter, I _WANT_ the job. If there&#x2
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by mech422 3y ago
Oh nice! - I'll have to take a look Thanks!
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by mech422 3y ago
Oh hey - that post was pretty cool :-) Amazing how much a kind gesture sticks with you! Glad to see stuff like that these days :-D
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by mech422 3y ago
One of us...One of us :-) I really hope more people hear of the H2/H3 stuff...I'd love for Odroid to keep making/improving them! :-D
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by mech422 3y ago
Heh - maybe in the H4 ?? :-) Though you can prolly stick a 10GB nic in the PCIE slot ?? Edit: Oh shit...just checked, it does NOT have a PCIE slot..I was sure it did :-(
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by mech422 3y ago
The Dell chassis has a 2500w powersupply for 6 blades. The HP chassis has a 3000w PS for 8 blades.. I actually ran 3-4 extra circuits to the computer room to run it all...
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by mech422 3y ago
Yeah - I skipped rPi because back when I started replacing stuff ARM still had some gotcha's with stuff that hadn't been ported. I do use the rPi's for the 3d printers though. I've found the TP Link stuff to be good for
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by mech422 3y ago
I love the Odroid H series [0]. cheap, quiet and only like 4w idle draw 0) https://ameridroid.com/products/odroid-h3
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by mech422 3y ago
Very Nice :-) I don't really need that much horsepower (My stuff is like 90% idle - git server, etc.) but I _really_ appreciate the lower noise and power usage compared to my old Xeon blades
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by mech422 3y ago
I sound like a shill - I have no affiliation, just a customer but I _LOVE_ the H series :-) plenty of power for my needs, silent, low power ... and CHEAP! I especially love the large RAM capacity as it lets me run a lot of docker/vm&#x
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by mech422 3y ago
yeah - I don't have a need for a lot of drives, but its hard to come by...but the odroids have a PCIE expansion slot, so you might be able to add a add-on controller... Given how huge drives are now, 1 nvme and 1 sata/spinning rus
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by mech422 3y ago
If you go the Ebay route, the price isn't bad... But people can literally hear my servers on the phone (1 adjacent wall) if I fire all of them up. Also, power draw was crazy - each blade chassis pulls 2500w-3000w ! SBC based stuff is p
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by mech422 3y ago
Yeah - Old EBay server equipment can be had for like $200/node and will burn at least that much in electricity every year :-/ Also, the noise is hellacious! Old laptops / desktops can be better - especially since you can get
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by mech422 3y ago
THIS! My Dell and HP blade chassis/server EAT power (10+ Xeon blades). I actually shut them down and started moving to SBC based stuff like odriod H2/H3's. Basically silent and just sips power. All much less heat (I live
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by mech422 3y ago
Personally, I thought the NUC style boxes were really expensive. I like odroid H2/H3 SBCs[0] - they have much less compute power, but support large memory (DDR4 up to 64G), SSD/NVME, dual on-board nics (up to 2.5Gbps), X86 based a
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by mech422 3y ago
The down side to the old enterprise servers is the power draw. I had 2 Dell blade server chassis and 1 HP blade server chassis that used Xeon based blades. The electric bill was UNREAL with 10+ blades running at once. I do use Dell PowerC
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by mech422 3y ago
When I started using SBC's for my home setup, I skipped rPi's. At the time, being ARM based was a bit limiting (IIRC, at the time some stuff still hadn't been ported to ARM). So I went with odroid h2/h3 [0]. X86 based,
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by mech422 3y ago
Personally, I really like odroid H2/H3 units (0). Much cheaper then Nuc's, DDR4 SO-DIMMs up to 64G, very low power draw, and X86 based so no compatibility issues. No where near as powerful as desktops but more then enough for run
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by mech422 3y ago
Byte was pretty good..but oddly seemed much less 'techy' then DDJ... But Chaos Manor/Jerry Pournelle was always fun.
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by mech422 3y ago
Yes! I was waiting for someone to mention this :-) Weird that such a 'techy' mag was created by a dentist...
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by mech422 3y ago
Do like ChatGPT - Hallucinate :-P

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