This mainly comes from people who wish to post their business or other commercial page on Facebook and have, for a reason that isn't particularly clear, been prevented from doing so, and no one at Meta can give them an explanation.
I don't have it in front of me right now but there's a Python podcast episode I listened to recently where a person involved with the Pandas project was banned from having some sort of presence on a Meta property. The theory was that the content moderation algorithms had marked his account as being related to the exotic animal trade because of the words "python" and "pandas" being in so many posts. This person had extreme difficulty in getting any sort of answers from Meta.
For my home lab I started with k3s on VMs which I eventually migrated to a k3s with etcd for HA. I added Raspberry Pi nodes to force myself to deal with multi-architecture builds of my own code in Jenkins and deployments. Some of the Pi's have only wifi and some Ethernet so that got me into node affinity for deploying workloads. At some point I added some bare metal Intel machines to the mix. So now whether it's a Pi, VM, or bare metal machine all I need to do is a base OS install with ssh server, add it to my Ansible inventory and it will be up on my cluster in a few minutes.
Interesting in light of this posting’s title; I expected it to be the same thing before double checking, since this was a recent posting (that no one had much to say on):
Except in situations like a court hearing where someone is asked whether they are an expert in something and they say yes, most of the quality people I've run into would take a more modest approach and talk about the subject and let you decide whether you accept their opinion. It's also an acknowledgement that no matter how much you know about any topic there's usually even more to learn. So outright stating that you are are an expert is often posturing.
I think excessive modesty is kind of pointless. People who are looking for an expert in a thing often don't know what constitutes an expert in the thing in the first place. You should not have to recite your whole resume to be able to call yourself an expert. The point of having the word at all is to efficiently communicate an opinion about a person (even yourself). When does it become ok to call yourself an expert? 20 years? 5 books under your belt? The most authoritative book under your belt? What?
I get that there is always more to learn, but there's nothing wrong with being real with people about what you're good at. Maybe people hate experts or are quick to dismiss anyone who dares to call themselves one for any reason they can think of, to disqualify them and inflate their own egos. But I think that's all counterproductive. If you spent like 20 years doing a thing, you better be at least somewhat expert at it lol.
Often whenever someone quotes how many years/decades of experience they have, I then begin to wonder if they have become complacent and/or adverse to learning, improvements, and change.
That's a lot of negative shit to be assuming based on a cursory comment. If someone was averse to change, they probably couldn't be bothered to stick with anything because just about everything changes. I know I'd rather seek advice from an experienced specialist rather than a rando person with some limited experience.
A long time ago I started leaving a trivial compile error (I was doing C++ at the time) in the code when I left for the day as a little bookmark, so the next day I'd just kick off a compile and see right where I was working.
Same here. I leave a to-do comment but without the comment delimiter. Won't compile, and it describes why. Feels a little like I'm living in the movie Memento, but it works.
