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Post by cheschire »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #68
torben-friis wrote: post #27

As someone who had to drop out of school in the 2008 crisis (family trouble), I owe a good chunk of my learning to the first era of online teaching. Those courses that were basically “we’re a top university and we let someone record the class from the back” were a literal life changer. Honestly, that was all I wanted. Everything that came after has been substantially worse. Work is gamified, teachers spend more time…

Almost my entire education has been OJT (On the Job Training). I'm a high school dropout, with a G.E.D. I've spent my entire life, looking up the noses of folks that just assume they are better than me. Gets a bit grating, but the plus side is, is that I have to prove myself, over, and over. Besides that annoyance, it's been excellent. Directing my own learning has been amazing. Having to prove myself, over and over,…

I remember one night my dad drove up to a building with three letters on it. Walked up to some lady behind a desk inside the front door, and after arguing for a bit, pulled out his checkbook and wrote on it, passing the check to her. I watched as he turned and walked back to the car looking a sad mixture of dejected and pissed.

I asked “what’s I.T.T?”

He said “it stands for Blood Sucking Leeches.”

And we drove home.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITT_Technical_Institute

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Post by PunchyHamster »

dijit wrote: post #151
oceansky wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you give specific examples on lost knowledge?

“why is I/O in docker slow, and how would you improve it” is pretty esoteric knowledge now, but would have been considered basic knowledge (for other applications, not specifically just docker) only 12 years ago. I have had people working who don’t in the slightest understand how a filesystem works, so taking it a step further is impossible. When I tune things I am asked how I know, but everything is just built from…

> “why is I/O in docker slow, and how would you improve it” is pretty esoteric knowledge now, but would have been considered basic knowledge (for other applications, not specifically just docker) only 12 years ago.

you could've used docker for 12 years and never hit it if you used it on Linux, and followed sensible practices (mount the data dir from outside so it can be reattached to upgraded version of the container)

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Post by re-thc »

dijit wrote: post #151
oceansky wrote: post #148

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you give specific examples on lost knowledge?

“why is I/O in docker slow, and how would you improve it” is pretty esoteric knowledge now, but would have been considered basic knowledge (for other applications, not specifically just docker) only 12 years ago. I have had people working who don’t in the slightest understand how a filesystem works, so taking it a step further is impossible. When I tune things I am asked how I know, but everything is just built from…

> “why is I/O in docker slow, and how would you improve it” is pretty esoteric knowledge now, but would have been considered basic knowledge only 12 years ago.

Yes and no. The world has also changed all these years. Why something is slow 10+ years ago might not be today or at least for the same reason. E.g. Docker on Mac especially with Apple silicon has undergone major changes the last few years.

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Post by re-thc »

znpy wrote: post #222
TheSkyHasEyes wrote: post #163

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> Modern society totally devalues anything considered even slightly old. Mild counterpoint. Our professions(all things IT) moves bloody fast. If I were looking for info on cooking, baking, knitting sure... but IT stuff, I opine many of us seek the latest info because of the breakneck speeds this profession is known for.

> Mild counterpoint. Our professions(all things IT) moves bloody fast. Some areas do, some areas not so much. I have a colleague that's incredibly strong with databases (we use a mix of MySQL and PostgreSQL) and he's living off the learning he did 20 years ago when he was a junior Oracle consultant. I live off the learning I did in Linux now that I administer Kubernetes clusters for a living. Once you get past the "c…

> Some areas do, some areas not so much.

It still does change and you have to adapt.

E.g.

> databases (we use a mix of MySQL and PostgreSQL) and he's living off the learning he did 20 years ago when he was a junior Oracle consultant

And there's lots of changes here, e.g. vector stores, all the different query engine improvements, PostgreSQL IO improvements, etc and they all may impact your job. Your optimal query back then might not be the same. Living off the old learnings is like taking a 50% discount on the max potential.

> I live off the learning I did in Linux now that I administer Kubernetes clusters for a living.

And these have had changes consistently too e.g. io-uring and gateway api. You can only be in legacy for so long.

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Post by pxc »

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #255
rat87 wrote: post #239

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It's not about money it's about making sure things are accessible. The ADA is one of the reasons America is more accessible then Europe. Lawsuits are the enforcement mechanism

How accessible is the course now?

How is malicious compliance the fault of someone who asks for disability accomodations?

It is unfortunate that the ADA is designed so that the only mechanism of enforcement of disability rights is lawsuits. :-\

Maybe there should be some exceptions around things provided on a "best-effort" basis, if they can be very carefully crafted.

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Post by the__alchemist »

criddell wrote: post #37

What are the best online courses you’ve taken? On Coursera, I did Andrew Ng’s machine learning course and Dan Boneh’s cryptography course and both were excellent. Time well spent IMHO. The next thing I want to take is a WinDbg course. Udemy has one that looks pretty good. I should probably also find a modern assembly language course…

MitX's quantum mechanics and differential equations courses. Or their molecular bio courses.
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