This is taught to all engineers. Hit up my log with any questions and I will be happy to help.
The most simple definition is it’s how strong a material is if you pull on it (how much can it take before it breaks/permanently deforms). If you are having trouble with Young’s modulus and elastic/inelastic strain I can help with that too.
I would never buy something like flavored CoffeeMate for myself. It’s just not something that ever occurse to me to do.
But this nice woman at the grocery store told me how awesome the Coconut Creme is and she was so happy about it that I got some too.
I’m kinda so-so about it in my coffee, but I put a little bit in my shredded wheat and holy smokes, it is awesome! Its like a bowl (a real bowl, not a serving size) of coconut happiness!
So now I’m a coffeemate convert, but not for my coffee.
FWIW, the sweet italian cream is top notch. If you like coffee with sugar - you wont need as much sugar.
This is how I feel about sugar free jello in greek yoghurt. I can’t stand the taste made by itself, but somehow the tang and creaminess of the yoghurt makes it extremely palatable
I hate busses
Confession: This is the only dude I want calling me comrade:
Enter the Kettlebell - Pavel Tsatsouline - YouTube
The ones around town suck.
I just sat for the exam and got certified in what is recognized as the 2nd hardest profession in Cloud stuff.
There will be a disclaimer and confession which will follow to state the intent of my post.
First, the prerequisites for taking the course were way beyond my paper and personal qualifications but the local provider wanted that nice govt money so they placed me in there. Fine. I don’t sleep anyway.
Second, I estimate less than 5% of my classmates who went and sat for the REAL exam that I did passed. The same fuckers who were giving me shit during a “capstone” project towards the end of the course, which was pathetic in every sense of the word.
I confess I contacted all the fuckers whom were giving me shit and asked them if they passed even though I KNEW THEY DIDN’T.
This is where the disclaimer comes in.
I am not smart. I just know how to spot questions because I was never looking at the subjects. I was looking at the business direction the cloud providor was trending towards. That already made it so I only needed to study 30% of the entire syllabus AND know what will NOT be tested. And I was, surprisingly, the only one out of a class of 40 year olds who was CONSCIOUSLY AWARE that the actual certification exam is not conducted by an INSTITUTE OF LEARNING but by a BIG FUCKING ASS MULTINATIONAL GLOBAL CORPORATION. So the questions wouldn’t be within the scope of an exam from the former even thought the latter had set the syllabus. So, I really only studied around 25% of the entire syllabus but did it WELL and FUCKING THOROUGH. I am really not doing that false modesty shit when I said I wasn’t smart as in academically inclined. I had 1/4 of shit less to study (which was pretty much a calculated risk) and 2 decades of business experience that’s all. And I am not in the least qualified, both in principle and in reality, if I were to go into the profession I’ve certified in. Irony. Love it lol.
Back to the confession. During the silly “capstone project”, I didn’t really want to give much of a fuck due to what I wrote above but some fuckheads got on my nerves when I casually said that the ones whom were taking lead were getting the “proposed solution” ass backwards. Was asked what I would do. I said I’d fucking go all out into Hadoop data migration and all the cloud native abstractions of HDFS and not the ones that were constantly being harped on again and again by the lecturer whom I do consider a mentor and have much respect for. He was doing his job. Beam is pretty damn amazing. The business objectives just didn’t warrant promoting it. But people hear Hadoop and it’s old school. Read about Twitter’s tech decisions and it’s like no one gives a shit about it anymore. Fuck. Read the STATS about actual usage by the majority of INDUSTRIES.
You see, cloud providors want enterprises to ditch on-premise stuff for the cloud. So they build stuff that are abstractions of what is used on-premise and manage the servers and stuff like resource allocation for them. So, focusing on learning their flagship services would seem logical. This is business. Business decisions are not anywhere near the decisions you make when you are looking to WORK FOR a business. You want to learn their flagship stuff so you will get employed for your knowledge of how to use them. That’s a smart move. And logical for graduates. But you fuckers are people in your 40s… and that’s not how business decisions work. They know their flagship services are fucking badass. What they want is CLIENT CONVERSION AND ADOPTION. Which means if you want to be in the profession, you need to know how to fucking get clients OFF what they are CURRENTLY USING. Not introduce something NEW AND BETTER. It does not work this way dudes. Not when your entire fucking business has invested 10s of millions and operated with the same fucking ecosphere and spent millions training employees to fucking maintain and expand their physical infrastructure.
You sell them the not-so-good shit that utilizes the fucking on-premise stuff they’ve built. How you can simply fucking do a push or pull of a data node from a HDFS cluster and spin the same jobs while saving a fuckload of money by not paying for processing power and storage at the same time.
No one but their tech leads know what parallel processing is, alright? No one making key decisions fucking cares that you can reuse the same scripts for batch and streaming pipelines. No one fucking gives a shit about what structured and unstructured data, let alone the cleaning, grouping, windowing, data warehousing, data lakes, DAGS, nodes, ML training methods, model pipelines, balls, etc.
I don’t normally gloat. But after giving me shit for 2 weeks and waiting 7 months for everyone to tell me I was right kinda gives me the fucking right to lol.
I fucking loathe golf, but it is a business networking hot street.
Fucking dumb in my opinion, but it is what it is.
I play fairly often and hate every minute of it.
I don’t mind the driving range but spending all day chasing a tiny ball around doesn’t sound much fun.
I’m very well off and can’t really complain neither about my financial condition nor the performance of my business.
However, I know that I would be A LOT richer if I’d played golf, due to that networking aspect.
There’s only one problem - the rich, dark flames of burning hatred towards that unspeakable abomination are consuming my soul. Between stepping out again on a golf course and death I would choose death.
If I ever lose my mind and decide to exact my revenge on society it won’t be something pedestrian as a bustling city square or an office complex, it’s gonna be a golf country club.
Shhhh, stop yelling. There are many of us who are earning our livelihoods on the fact that our customers cannot understand these two paragraphs, and they might hear you.
I am in the same boat, but I just think about my kids when I am golfing. Attorneys and business folks LOVE to play golf - well mostly drinking while pretending to play golf.
But, I don’t really drink either so…
Luckily I am moving it more towards trap / skeet shooting. We have a huge trap shoot next Friday that is company sponsored / fund raiser for the Palmer Home.
Top golf with friends is fun as hell.
Just smashing golf balls into oblivion isn’t a bad time.
I still prefer to be at the shooting range.
Cost seems to be about the same…
Neither are cheap haha
It just amazes me that golf was invented by the same group of people that came up with the kaber toss…
I did not know this… LOL where’s @Yogi1 ??? Look at the plague your people unleashed…
I. HATE. GOLF.
TBH I don’t like travelling and this includes vacations. But if I HAVE to travel for a vacation, my no.1 consideration is not about countries, culture, activities etc. It’s gotta be a resort that’s designed as a golf course and it’s gotta be in the mountains and there has to be a CASINO nearby. And, I think you know the place I’m referring to given that you’ve worked in my part of the world.
THE REASON that these facilities must be there is not for me to utilize them. It’s the stuff that’s available in these facilities given what they were designed for. Restaurant types, leisure stuff, room layouts and the stuff they have in these rooms, etc. I don’t play golf and I’m banned from the actual casino areas by my wife because I do stupid shit lol.
Well, feel I need to weigh in here with respect to golf. I confess that I love it. I love it so much that I became a PGA Professional and made a living folding shirts and selling range cards.
Those that hate it suck at it and don’t understand the game - they’re just losers (sarcasm).
It is a difficult game. Very athletic people, good at other sports, can look like spastics. And very unathletic people can be very good.
The game is a mind fuck for sure. If you stand ten feet away from me and I toss you a ball, if you can catch it (figure out the velocity, trajectory, and have the hand eye coordination), then you can break eighty.
If you can break eighty, you are in the top 2% of the population.
In the world.
Rosie O’Donnell said golf was not a sport. It’s fat people walking in ugly clothes.
But - I would challenge any of the most fit motherfuckers on the planet to walk 5-7 miles four days in a row up and down hills while trying to control their emotions standing over a four foot putt worth $11.5M to tell me it’s not a sport.
Just my take.