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by warner25 5y ago
With balance bikes, the kids seem to learn so quickly that they're too young to have any memory (like you do) of learning to ride. I remember almost nothing from age 3, but that's when my second daughter made the transition from h
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by warner25 5y ago
I was a fairly serious baseball player as a kid, and later got into golf, and what you describe is pervasive in those activities too. Coaches for generations have repeated things like "keep your elbow up" or "push off the rub
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by warner25 5y ago
Yes, I'm not sure that CLRS "Introduction to Algorithms" is approachable for everyone without prior exposure to formal CS concepts, notation, etc. My undergrad CS curriculum used "Algorithms in Java" by Sedgewick du
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by warner25 5y ago
At E-7, E-8, E-9 there is no technical role. They will still have a career field like IT, maintenance, artillery, etc. and work in those types of units, but they will do purely HR/administrative functions.
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by warner25 5y ago
Warrant officers in technical fields are able to remain more technically focused, but they are largely pushed into management too. At CW3 the Army says that they are field-grade officers who are basically interchangeable with an O-4. The ot
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by warner25 5y ago
I agree with most of what you wrote, but I will say that "I'm just a dumb grunt" is better than senior leaders who just spew buzzwords like "Big Data, AI, Cloud, 5G, Zero Trust, etc." as if they know what they are t
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by warner25 5y ago
The Army has moved in the last three years to a market-based assignment system like you describe. It might be addressing some organizational problems, but not really this one. I think the fundamental problem is that the Army doesn't va
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by warner25 5y ago
This is definitely the institutional culture within the US Army. Technical work is seen as being beneath an officer. I'm an officer in a specialized IT career field (BA and MS in CS, starting a PhD program next year) and we constantly
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by warner25 5y ago
In the US military, among both uniformed service members and federal civilians, it's still more about seniority, institutional knowledge, and security clearances than certifications (with actual skills being even less important). The p
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by warner25 5y ago
There's a big difference between the legitimate practice tests that come with an exam guide and a "test dump." Practice tests are examples to give people a feel for the style and scope of the test, and which areas they might
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by warner25 5y ago
Good question. These certification exams all include a non-disclosure or confidentiality agreement. In any case, I don't think this could be the result of test-takers recalling questions from memory. We're talking about seeing 100
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by warner25 5y ago
I will say that CCNA (taken in 2019) was the most legitimate of these exams. There were a handful of "simulator" questions that involved actually typing some commands into a Cisco IOS switch or router to change the configuration a
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by warner25 5y ago
I'm a US military officer working in an IT career field, and we're all required to maintain some of these certifications. As in we literally can't have a privileged account to touch our own LAN unless a third-party entity lik
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by warner25 5y ago
As a (recent) former military pilot, I think your intuition is generally correct for the modern era. Our planned routes and maneuvers and flight conditions were all annotated on a formal risk assessment which had to be briefed and approved
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by warner25 5y ago
I've used Windows and Linux interchangeably since 2005, but for the past year I was very happy with Windows 10 and the new Chromium-based Edge. I was able to turn off or remove all the distracting elements, and it was clean and fast. T
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by warner25 5y ago
I do like to think that the effort put into software development with each iteration is actually making software better: optimizing performance, fixing bugs, closing security vulnerabilities, etc. So I've been happy with Arch-based dis
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by warner25 5y ago
Where I work (US Department of Defense), we depend on PowerPoint more than anything. We recently got O365 which includes the PowerPoint web application, but the web application is still very weak compared to the desktop application. Anythin
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by warner25 5y ago
Maybe I'm weird, but the 2x scaling on my Framework looks fine to me; not cartoonish. Xfce requires a few manual settings to get it right (which did frustrate me for the first week), while GNOME and Cinnamon appear to handle it well by
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by warner25 5y ago
I believe that the Framework DIY Edition is bringing more new users to the Linux desktop than anything in recent memory. People all over the Framework forum are talking about trying Linux for the first time on their new DIY Edition machines
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by warner25 5y ago
Things have changed. We received a "Department of Defense ID Number" at some point to use wherever SSNs were previously used on paperwork, computer systems, etc. Even ID tags ("dog tags") now have your DoD ID Number prin
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by warner25 5y ago
After reading HN daily for years, I finally registered to answer this question. I'm a military officer. I spent the first half of my career flying helicopters and doing general management stuff, but now I work on IT (not software devel