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Wait, so he's been at it for years now?

I've had his posts in my feed somewhat recently and I was kind of in awe of dude's dedication to do full time posting on topic of Linux users having no life, but had no idea he's been doing it for so long now. 🌚

I think there will be some inventions in regard of "take home projects" like certification of said tasks, secure repositories - things that let you easily check if whatever you just got is legit, or maybe in-browser environments for doing tasks, where it's all handled on employers servers. Just takes someone to formulate an idea that could be sold and rest is details.

And as of resumes, phone interviews and in-person interviews - kinda happened already, at least speaking from my engineer's perspective. Today just hiring someone without in-person interview is a bit foolish due to how easy it is to just open ChatGPT tab or whatever on another screen. And potential engineers then are invited to an in-person interview and fail it miserably after giving somewhat competent answers in online call.

What's funny is that Reddit has been heavily infested by bots and trolls even before widespread LLM usage for chatbots. And it became even more evident after certain subs became dead overnight after Reddit got banned in Russia.

And now it has come to just a cycle of AI data regurgitation and eating it back up. 🌚

Damn, I thought LinkedIn itself got hacked, but that's just "recruiter" trying to get people to install malicious npm modules. 🥱

Good heads up tho, I periodically get folks trying some bullshit with me in there like "let's talk on WhatsApp".

Now think of some folks actually being quite successful by selling courses and trainings where they just talk nonsense in bureaucratese to the audience. 💀

Europeans: out of office until October. 🚬🍺

Jokes aside tho, it's mandatory at my job to take a vacation for at least two weeks at least once a year, and managers can get in trouble if someone doesn't take a vacation in a long time.

It gets beyond threats and sometimes happens regardless. There are ton of videos of "500's" tortures (code for those refusing to fight).

Yeah, BUT... thrift stores, and also charities with donated clothes.

There was a homeless guy wandering around street where I live who was wearing Minecraft creeper cap, so I'd say there's non-zero chance of him getting Pikachu shirt at some point. 🗿

I have a functioning ancient Canon printer in my office that can do that. 🌚

Would still be using it if not for safety concerns regarding old laser printers.

If you're very new to that - I'd just recommend picking up some Arduino (at least UNO R3) starter kit plus some measurement tools - multimeter and maybe an oscilloscope (there are cheap handheld ones like DSO).

And then you just fool around with what you've got - try to read each sensors data, try to use each actuator, think of some useful projects with what you've got.

And from there you can go to stuff like ESP32 to explore wireless stuff (mostly compatible with Arduino too).

That's a big "IF" tho. I've been teaching embedded programming classes and had to teach folks some very basic stuff like how to RTFM or how to look for stuff on the internet - people don't even use search engines anymore. 🌚

Stalin when you ask him why most of known communist revolutionaries from 1910's and early 1920's have 1939 as date of death in their Wikipedia article: 🤭.