Nov 1, 2021
Handed in my notice at the electricity factory. Signed my new contract with the operating system factory.
Europe mutuals I am coming for you at a nebulous time in the future. Whenever the border situation is resolved.
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Handed in my notice at the electricity factory. Signed my new contract with the operating system factory.
Europe mutuals I am coming for you at a nebulous time in the future. Whenever the border situation is resolved.
oh god I mixed up kerberos and kubernetes on the questionnaire on that job application ohhhhh that's embarrassing. I hope they realize what I meant aaaah.
I am good at Linux. I am good at solving problems in Linux. I say on the job application I just submitted. I try to check out the company headquarters on google maps and it crashes my computer. It does this every time. It does this in firefox and chromium. I am good at Linux. I am good at solving problems in Linux.
decided to do the LinkedIn C++ skills quiz on a lark and the mad lads actually gave it to me. I've written maybe half a minor project in C++ in my life and it was not good. They just give these things to anyone.
Looking at some job opportunities in the UK and it's like hey, do you want to work in Hinxton? Yeah, it's between Stump Cross and Ickleton, it's just south of Pampisford, and only a short drive from Wendens Ambo you literally cannot make a parody of the English.
had a pre-interview call with a hiring manger to check that I spoke English, and it's amazing how bad the "what if I accidentally took a gun on the plane" reflex is. It is my only language!
Applying to a bunch of sysadmin jobs at biotech research entities in part because I want to be biotech/biochem adjacent and in part because it seems like there's some kind of prion disease that makes bioscientists want to build and run their own clusters and fortunately they also have the money to pay for that.
The head of the CS department at my old university bought four top-of-the-line Compute GPU's out of her own pocket to build her own protein simulation cluster. That's like. A moderately fancy car worth of GPU's. At least USD 40k in hardware.
very annoyingly all the jobs I have applied for have applications open until the end of the month so unlike last time where I applied, interviewed, and was accepted in like, a week, I have to wait.