I just finished an amazing call.

[yendolosch@23.social]

@stefano

> I told the guy that I couldn’t help him, since I'm not experienced enough with operating systems.

The only winning move is not to play.

[webhat@infosec.exchange]

@mvilain @stefano I was asked an interview question at an interview. Interviewer kept telling me I was explaining it wrong, and told me how it worked. I didn't get the job, obviously

I was a little confused, so when I got home, looked it up to make sure. And one would explain it in the way I explain it if one understands memory management, if one's never had to deal with memory management issues they explain it the way the interviewer explained it

The same when I was explaining how the threading model worked in a higher level programming language, at a different interview. They were convinced that it worked in the way the marketing materials said. Obviously the interviewer had never had to debug and step through the thread manager with a debugger. Didn't get that job either

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@mvilain @stefano

docker has a better logo? <ducks rapidly>

yeah... the world doesn't need to be able to write low level device drivers in assembly but you should at least have a conceptual understanding of the stuff you use if that's your job.

[lispi314@udongein.xyz]

@stefano Said person sure bought the party line without scrutinizing it at all.

Even the Docker documentation makes no secret about how it works.

[feralhousewife@mastodon.social]

@stefano wow. I've been out of the business for over ten years and even I know that Docker has to run *on* something. Hilarious.

[vaneshi@bitbang.social]

@stefano The good ol' "not for all the tea in china" side step.

[tforcworc@todon.nl]

@stefano this is a synptom of a much larger problem - i had an argument with some people recently who want to use "AI for 6G". I asked "so what's your platform to run the AI on? like do you have server racks in cell towers and run the AI on unikernels, or re-implement the AI on top of Cloud RAN and tolerate the latency, or do you have a non-GenAI tech in mind for your smart cellular service?". you could hear the tumbleweed rolling through their empty heads...stack free

[raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie]

@bsdtv @stefano
SSD Supersonic Spinning Disc 😆

It's amazing how they fit motors to spin it and move the head on platters into a tiny 1.5mm x 12 mm package (approx). A miracle of nanotechnology!

In a way the reality is much stranger.

I remember when some people thought the CRT was the computer and the cased PC was the "hard disk". Some thought a 3.5" floppy was a hard disk (if they had first encountered cassettes and 5.25" floppies.
.

[maysonic@twit.social]

@paul_ipv6 @mvilain @stefano As one who has written device-driving code in assembly languages, I don’t really know how Docker works, but if you’ll pay me, I’d be quite willing to research it and explain it to you at whatever level of detail you’d like…

[paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange]

@maysonic @mvilain @stefano

i have every confidence that if using docker became part of your job, you'd spend the time to learn what was going on under the hood. :)

[nickbergencomputerquest@mastodon.social]

@Yendolosch @stefano Maybe Stefano could still offer him a nice game of chess

[maysonic@twit.social]

@paul_ipv6 @mvilain @stefano Given that the main computer-related income I’ve received since #y2K has been a shareware check for a Mac INIT I wrote in the 80’s, and a few free lunches from a friend whose Windows machine I removed a few viruses from, the likelihood of my employment requiring using Docker is fairly slim. It is possible that I may want to learn it anyway, if some side project (not that these days I really have any non-side projects) seems to need it.

[rasur@mastodon.social]

Oof, cubed 🥴

[release_candidate@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@mvilain @stefano I ask sometimes what exactly is a container. If the candidate never mentions cgroups or namespaces, then I conclude that she/he doesn't really know.

Most of the times I just get answers like methaphores of sandboxing and how it's 'not a vm, but like a vm'.

[angel@triptico.com]

The voice of stupidity is always self-confident and loud.

[linkshaender@bildung.social]

@stefano WAAT? 😆🤪

[bms48@mastodon.social]

@stefano Epic Fail.

[trrektor@ieji.de]

@stefano it's worse: he needs linux on freebsd to run docker

[coreysnipes@hachyderm.io]

@stefano whew! well done.

[mardor@ruhr.social]

@stefano
The secret to eternal happiness.