shivajikobardan

I want to get started hands on with Jenkins. Read this book but cannot seem to learn anything. The order is all over the place. Is this not a good book from Manning? Amazon reviews are all over the place claiming this to be the best thing in the world.

I am learning Jenkins. As I am based in Nepal where we do legacy support work only.

I am in a spectacular situation.

I graduated from CSE degree a bit late. I was 24 by the time I graduated. Then I worked in private firm for 2+ years.

Then I quitted my job to prepare for Government IT jobs because they were stable, gave a Officer Level role for someone who is a BTech graduate.

It has been 9 months since I started studying.

Although I have little bit of savings, I was living with my parents.

The household situation got really toxic with my father and I moved to my uncle's house(based on my mother's suggestion and coordination with uncle).

I have been staying at my uncle's house for 4+ months.

All I have been doing is studying for government job in this free time.

The problem is whenever they see me playing in my free time, the aunt feels "Oh look he is wasting time". I do not think they are wrong to feel so. In no other countries of the world would anyone feed someone for free for 4+ months.

Now I am done with syllabus. And the expectations from my parents and uncle(specially the aunt wants to get me a job quickly so that I move out from their home) is for me to get a job.

What I feel?

- I can now crack any government IT/engineering exams that appear in front of me. I understand that it is also a matter of luck and chance. And I cannot say I will not work and wait for the government job at the age of 27.

- getting a private firm job will mostly be a waste of time. Here is why I believe so. There will be some learning required. Most of my time has gone into studying computer science/engineering subjects for government IT/CPE jobs. I used to work with linux and servers. It has been 9 months since I have touched the Linux CLI.

If I am to re-enter private sector, I think I should do some RHCSA/RHCE type of certifications, build up my level and apply. But I find that waste of time and resources because I do not see my future in private IT sector.

Plus the private sector roles(at least the title) are way below my academic qualifications. Although the salary is not. And people have that perception that "I am doing assistant level work as an engineer".

I feel I should enter teaching field for Bachelors in IT. But getting such a chance is rare as I do not already have a Masters degree.

I talked with my mother(who used to be a teacher for elementary school in those days) regarding teaching High School kids and she interfered telling "You will have to study what is not relevant for government jobs and probably dedicate lots of work hours to high school".

She believes getting an IT job will help build skills as well.

I agree on that specially if both school teaching and IT jobs are full time.

If I had a chance, I would love to do some non-IT jobs as well. For example: Content writing etc. Or any other jobs that do not require huge skillset and learning curve.

I have to learn it. I do not work at google or hadoop company. So how will I learn it? I will appreciate proper guidance.

There are research papers on this topic but research paper reading will be vast tbh.

Is there a proper ai for research papers?

EDI used to be a standard method of transferring commercial information between customers. But with the advent of Internet, is EDI still being used? Obviously the EDI infrastructure is now useless with how secure the internet is now. But even just the EDI message format stuffs? Is it being used still?

Leaky bucket and token bucket algorithm are congestion control algorithms.

Congestion control means to stop overwhelming the network.

I understand the leaky bucket algorithm to some extent.

In leaky bucket:

- there is a small hole in the bottom.

- so the output rate is always constant, irrespective of what the input rate is.

- Bursty traffic is thus converted into a uniform traffic by the leaky bucket.

But what is token bucket?

I get that the purpose of token bucket is to allow some bursty output traffic. But I do not get how.

Here are the steps of token bucket algorithm:

- in regular intervals, token are thrown in the bucket.

- the bucket has a maximum capacity.

- if there is a ready pakcet, a token is removed from the bucket, and the packet is sent.

- if there is no token in the bucket, the packet cannot be sent.

I do not see traffic enforcement scenario in this definition. How does token bucket differ from leaky bucket exactly?

My question is will the AI bubble get worse? And the RAM and SSD price keep on increasing? I am thinking about waiting for 3-6 months for a laptop. All I could afford at present is i5 12th generation laptop with 16GB RAM at best. That too from Acer brand(Nepal it's the affordable).

Or should I buy immediately? People working on AI domain, could you help me take the decision?

I left my job that I got straight out of college few months ago. Why? The main reason was I had conflict with teammate in standup meeting. Used foul words. I later apologized in front of my entire teammates and settled it down. But still I resigned later on because I felt being let go. For example: My department was changed and later I was deemed unfit for that department as I could not learn “what they wanted” in two weeks. So my manager (first department) would tell me “Since you are unfit for this role, how do we take you back?” He did take us back but promoted juniors and kept me in the first level support.

To be honest I did not like that job due to the following reasons (since the start)

The work was menial.

The pay was horrible.

The blame was most because we were the lowest hanging fruits in entire company.

I wanted to prepare for government computer engineer job.

I could not see myself in that role for long.

But the reality was I could not get crack any other private sector jobs in those two plus years. I landed couple of interviews but could not get through interviews. That was when I decided government would be a better fit for my nature.

If I keep the gap visible in my resume, I will receive many questions(I might not be screened at all to be honest).

Why could not you seek a different job instead while having your existing job?

Why could not you seek a different department in your previous company itself?

I was preparing for government job since I left my job.

So I am looking for ideas to cover that gap.

I am trying to visualize cylinder, head, sector addressing and logical block addressing.

https://imgur.com/a/NkJwy2I

I will be interviewing for a private IT job tommorrow.

I left my technical support job which I got right after college of more than two years. The company did not force me to leave. But I left mostly because I had once conflict with a senior teammate in a standup meeting. I crossed the line when I choosed to speak foul words. I had apologized for that incident in front of the entire team. But I felt very bad. Also I felt I was being quietly disposed due to decreased responsibilities, annoyed manager, continuous complaints on my work without evidence.

I will have to answer the existing five-six months gap(as of now) in my resume. During that time I have been rigorously been preparing for government IT job. I am asking this in context of a private IT job interview..

The question "Why did you leave your previous job without finding a new job?" is like a compulsory question.

Way-1, about what I will answer.

I will answer them "To prepare for government IT jobs".

Now there will be two possible follow-up questions(based on my experience interviewing a couple of Nepalese IT Companies after my resignation from my tech support job):

- They will now ask why are you coming back for private jobs back again?

- What did you feel missing in your ex private IT job that made you to prepare for government IT job?

For the first question; I will answer, I have now finished preparing/studying for the competitive exam which the government takes to recruit IT officers.

Now this leads me to a new dilemma. They will think, why should we hire you and invest in you when we know you will leave in six months or one year to government jobs? I have faced such situation in the last company that I interviewed for last week.

I tried to convince them saying it will be 1.5 years before I enter a government job. But obviously he was not convinced. ( I said 1.5 years because exams, interviews, deployment on office etc takes time in government and it is true).

For the second question, it is easy: financial security and predictable career growth mostly. Noone will have hard time believing it.

I do not see anything better than this. Of course I could say health reasons. But it will be difficult to prove.

Or I could say "The environment in my department was not helpful for my career and financial growth and I want to prepare myself for better jobs". But this leads me to another difficult phase. I have been solely focused on preparing for government IT jobs. I have been re-studying various subjects that are present in IT officer syllabus of government services.

What I wanted to say from the paragraph above is that I have not been doing certifications like RHCSA, Certified Kubernetes Administrator type or even learning to build a homelab in the last five months. I have nothing to show for that case. (Note that I am applying for IT support, devops, system engineer titled jobs)

Some AI bots gave this answer for the first question asked above.

"Over the period of time(5-6 months), I realized my core values were continuous growth(learning, financially, career etc)->thus I seek for private IT jobs now."

It sounds so fake. I would appreciate a more humanly response to this situation.

https://imgur.com/a/ENjOgBG

Assume window size=3.

Assume ACK#3(i.e. for the packet#2) is lost.

Now how many outstanding packets can transmitter send?

I mean, can it send pkt#3,pkt#4,pkt#5? What determines it?

Draw the use case diagram.

Ministry of Health and Population is willing to computerize its system. This new system will be able to tell the population of the country, zone, and district and even ward of the specific place. The system will update its data in monthly basis so that the birth rate and death rate can be easily seen. The home page is displayed when a person enters to the system. Administrators can enter to the system by logging in with an ID and a password. he/She has privileges to enter and modify the data into the database. On the other hand, normal users can vview the data but not modify them. They can also visualize the data in graphical form, maps as well as tabular form. Besides they can also view the forecasted data.

How I thought through this:

There is a user:

For an admin user, there is authorization required.

For a normal user, no authorization is required.

A normal user can:

- view population data and that too in various forms of visualization like graphical, tabular, maps etc.

- view forecasted data

An admin user can:

- once logged in

- do all the activities that a normal user can

- and also be able to update+modify the data.

https://imgur.com/a/naKwUYp

The imgur link contains my use case diagram made with mermaid live and claudu

Please recommend the books. Craig larman is not my level. Grady booch is decent but I have course slides of that book so not want to purchase it.

GoF is nice once you are over UML. It is on my plan.

I am at a place where I need to learn stuffs like UML. Books on SAD(System Analysis and Design) seems to cover this but I am unsure about which one should I invest into.

Whatever I do and learn no progress is going to happen in my country(nepal).

There is no benefit of having merit in Nepal. Private jobs are already low paying. Remote jobs do not come generally to Nepal.I see remote jobs love India and south east asia. I do not get the point of remote job if they are hiring from specific country. The only thing I can do in nepal is public service commission (civil services) and crack computer engineer. But the pay is meagre there as well, unless I am lucky enough to enter central bank of Nepal(NRB).

Honestly, it feels like I am pushing not just a wall but universe itself in Nepal. Because nothing is going to happen irrespective of my abilities. I am currently preparing for PSC and I do not believe I will be happy as a PSC engineer even if I end up at NRB(central bank).

Something feels missing inside me. I have took countless therapies and what not. They helped me a lot to be where I am at now. I feel scared to try opportunities out of my comfort zone (kathmandu is my comfort zone).

As an adult, nobody pushes you, you have to push yourself. I am in a serious deadlock internally. I can decrease the effect using yoga and meditation but that does not troubleshoot the cause. Personally, I want to pursue something academic away from nepal. I believe that would provide me the much needed confidence in my life.

Race condition, producer consumer, and cool stuffs like that? I do java

# Conflicting operations

Two operations I and J in a schedule are said to be conflict if they are operations which:

- are done by different transactions

AND

- are on the same data item

AND

- at least one of these instructions is write operation.

# Conflict equivalent

Two schedules are conflict equivalent if they can be transformed into each other by a sequence of swaps of non-conflicting, adjacent actions.

# Conflict serializable

A schedule S is conflict serializable if it is conflict equivalent to a serial schedule.

# Question

Check whether the schedule is conflict serializable.

read(t1,balx),read(t2,balx),write(t1,balx),write(t2,balx),commit(t1),commit(t2)

Here First t1 reads balx, then t2. Then t1 writes then t2.

This cannot be conflict equivalent to a serial schedule is what I believe. Because of w-w conflict probably.