This is an old collection of QCA questions and the video that contains the answer.
Sunday, February 5, 2023, 2:07:22PM EST
Q: How can I get started on the tech scene? Q: What do you think of learning from tech books? Q: What do you think of tech training courses? Q: What is wrong with Packt Publishing? Q: What do you think of ChatGPT and Copilot? Q: Will ML take over developer jobs?
Sunday, October 30, 2022, 12:23:14PM EDT
Q: What are “stateful command trees”?
Saturday, October 29, 2022, 12:04:09PM EDT
Q: Vite, what do you think of it?
Saturday, October 29, 2022, 10:06:10AM EDT
Q: What happened to Beginner Boost? Q: How do you recommend learning C?
Friday, October 28, 2022, 9:12:56PM EDT
Q: Are you writing a book or something? Q: Any thoughts on Okteto for Kubernetes?
Friday, October 28, 2022, 6:02:16PM EDT
Q: What’s up with QCA these days? Q: Why didn’t you go to KubeCON 2023? Q: What is KEG and why are you so obsessed with it right now?
Thursday, September 29, 2022, 9:16:20PM EDT
Q: Why are files not executable but can be run with bash
Q: Hey I just stumbled across your video about helping people learn Linux and thought it was a great talk. Personally I am wanting to teach free classes to disadvantaged kids about how to use computer and learn some basic scripting skills that can help them in many kinds of employment (e.g. using Cron jobs to produce daily reports from data in various excel files - basic mundane office tasks). I think in modern times these kinds of skills can provide a lot of economic mobility for people in a vast variety of typical office jobs and you don’t need to be a full on programmer to do this kind of stuff. Just a small bit of knowledge in this domain goes a long way.
It was great to hear your perspective in hosting classes and the issues you encountered. Would you have any advice to someone like myself who wants to provide these kinds of classes for free, specifically targeting kids who come from poorer families and are less likely to be able to provide for resources like laptops? Is it feasible? Is it out of place to contact schools? Should I try to host it with a school or do it independently; like a weekly class at a local library etc.?
Q: What is the integer of the first element of an array or list? Q: How much could you learn by yourself if you had $85k per semester? Q: What is Anakin Syndrome? Q: How do you teach kids morality?
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Thursday, September 22, 2022, 9:37:44PM EDT
Q: Are you are streaming on multiple platforms? Q: Will you ever be partner?https://medium.com/@rwxrob/lists-start-at-0-38bf423587bc Q: Anyone planning to go on strike Twitch? Q: How much do you make from Twitch? Q: Do you have a blog? Q: How do you stream copyrighted music? Q: What do you think about this? (https://powerautomate.microsoft.com/en-us/) Free windows software by microsoft to automate task by creating workflow Q: What do you think of other streamers?
Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 9:39:21PM EDT
Q: Do you have any recommendations on what books to read (For wisdom/Self improvement…) ? Q: Who was Viktor Frankl? Q: What do you think about Jordon Peterson? Q: What do you think of Sam Harris? Q: What do you think of Joseph Campbell?
Other less important questions:
Q: Which headphones are you using? Q: What was making “anton” crash?
Tuesday, September 20, 2022, 9:36:08PM EDT
Q: What is the best way to help someone learn Linux?
Monday, September 19, 2022, 9:36:07PM EDT
Q: Are you familiar with Mark Russinovich? If so; did you see his tweet about Deprecating c/c++ and replacing with Rust? Q: As a polyglot, can you recommend any specific methodologies/strategies for learning human language that are also applicable to learning programmatic ones?
Friday, September 16, 2022, 10:03:38PM EDT
Q: Why is the schedule changing again? Q: What are CoffeeTalk and QCA? Q: When did you start programming? Q: Is there an agnostic package manager? Found Nixos and Conda but I’m looking a way to get my .dotfiles repo on different OS’s without manual setup if possible. I’m a Mac user (don’t hate) but could be Win or Linux too. Q: Why is Go the best compiled language for tools and utilities? Q: What is the schedule? Q: What is your best advice to control your focus when you work? I find it especially hard when the task is really hard and I’m having a bad time doing progress. Q: Do you eat the whole chips, or the broken chips first? Q: What is “bike shedding” and “yak shaving”? Q: Why is Typescript better than JavaScript? Q: What do you think of React and other web frameworks?
Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 7:00:00PM EDT
Q: Are you going to change your schedule?
Q: Are we going to use the forum channels on Discord?
Q: You recently said that dig and whois weren’t great tools. What
would you use instead?
Q: What is your favorite light beer? (Sapporo)
Q: How much does real Wasabi cost?
Q: Which beer would you recommend to a newbie?
Q: What kind of beer does your wife like?
Q: Is Anaphylactic shock a thing?
Q: Why is Epinepherine so expensive in America?
Q: What is your fortune?
Tuesday, September 13, 2022, 6:33:21PM EDT
Q: How much sleep to you get and when? Q: What is a biphasic sleep schedule? Q: What is the value of working from home? Q: Would you ever go back to college?
Monday, September 12, 2022, 6:32:17PM EDT
Q: What’s the risk of doing bug bounty on stream? Q: What is purple teaming? Q: Why did you stop pursuing OSCP/cybersecurity? Q: Why are Makefiles so horribly abused? Q: Do you have any good resources for learning about Ansible filters and using lists & dicts (something better than whats in standard docs/examples)? Q: Would it possible to include some general version numbers in homelab? Q: What do you think about Internet services being centralized? Q: How to survive toxic work environment? Q: What is an SRE?
Thursday, September 8, 2022, 6:33:14PM EDT
Q: How can I balance security and practicality? Q: How do get executive buy in? Q: What happened to Randal Schwartz? Q: Should I allow ssh remote root access to servers? Q: How do you deal with bad management? Q: What do you think of Ansible for security?
Tuesday, September 6, 2022, 6:10:07PM EDT
Q: Should I get a raise?
Q: Time to time I feel gaslighted by my team mates, I don’t speak their language, I am a foreigner in where I live, we have a bit of inclusively problem, I also feel like I wasn’t able to gain their trust till now, when I suggest something they react w/ that they don’t like their ways changed but when same thing is mentioned by someone 4xsenior from my position it becomes logical. I am not 100% sure maybe I am taking things too much to heart, should I try and spend effort to be closer w/ them consider after work hangouts as an investment or should I approach this more like work and be stricter with the limits, are there anything else you would suggest?
Q: I am in a… situation. it looks like i wont have a job when i go back to work after this weekend. I want to get into tech and i probably have 2 months to do so. I believe this is possible but i have a hill to climb. I have no resume and no documented proof that i have any tech skills even though i do. I’ve started doing the 2022 boost to fill in some gaps and plan to complete that asap. does anyone have any suggestions? should i get a part-time job to tide me over? does anyone want to study together?
Q: Do you have any advice on how to stay motivated through books or is project based learning superior? I have a hard time pushing myself through books but I can never seem to finish. In my case do you think books should be used as reference?
Q: Has anyone received a job from your Go/Kubernetes recruiter after learning the skills?
Q: If someone is trying to get a new job, are there any red flags people should pay attention to that might indicate a toxic work environment?
Monday, September 5, 2022, 6:36:44PM EDT
Q: Do you like ergo keyboards?
Q: Is VS Code open source? (https://ghuntley.com/fracture/)
Q: Is Linux going to run on Mac M1/2 chips? (https://asahilinux.org)
Q: How to balance work-life and mental health?
Q: Should I consider learning time education?
Q: My direct report is an EPM even though we do 1:1s weekly since he doesn’t check my PRs or direct output, not able to directly comment about this. Should I try to form a guru-grasshopper relationship with one of the senior engineers and force them to guide me? if yes, how to trick them?
Friday, September 2, 2022, 6:30:44PM EDT
Q: Would it be possible to include time stamps in YouTube videos? Q: What’s the best three pieces of advice you’ve ever received? Q: What is the best program language to start learn as beginner? Q: For the early years of careers, what are pros / cons of working in a startup vs a big firm / company? Q: What did have for lunch? Q: Are you a skater? Q: Can cloud computing be used to setup a botnet? Q: What made you get into programming? Q: Mastering programming language first or jump to create project directly when start new language?
Thursday, September 1, 2022, 6:27:37PM EDT
Q: How do you pick hardware for your homelab? Q: Should I just get an AWS certificate? Q: What can I do instead of a Raspberry Pi? Q: Can I practice zero-trust deployment at home? Q: How much money can I make in Kubernetes and cloud-native? Q: Who is your favorite actress? Q: What was you ride when you had a motorcycle?
Wednesday, August 31, 2022, 6:40:51PM EDT
Q: Why does Red Hat hide everything? Q: Out if curiosity do you know who Luke Smith is and if you do what do you think of him? Q: How do you keep up on current tech news? Q: Why don’t you have an actual pod cast? Q: What do you do when most of your team quits? Q: Are you going to KubeCon? Q: Are you single? Q: Is it possible to free lance in this field? Q: Should I be offended if people don’t like the tech I’ve worked on? Q: How does one open up a new terminal while a long process is running, and get all the current and relevant history?
Tuesday, August 30, 2022, 6:28:54PM EDT
Q: What is the best way to learn foreign languages? Q: Where did you learn to speak Russian and French? Q: What do you think of the Russian/Ukrainian war? Q: How did you meet Samantha Fox? Q: Is it easier to learn programming language if you are good with foreign languages? Q: When can you put a programming language on your resume? Q: Should I put a personal projects on my resume? Q: Could I ask an advice as a guy trying to start a career? I live abroad, have no network and don’t know which companies to apply or avoid. Q: How do you stop all of the random recruiters from contacting you on Linked.In instead of the actual companies you want to work with directly? I get like 30 offers a week. I feel like I have to respond to each one. It’s like getting junk mail. I don’t like recruiters anymore. Q: Do you think personal brands and presence in social media (professional profiles) are good to get attention from recruiters? Q: What’s your take on generalist vs specialist. How do you know when you’re spreading yourself too thin?
Monday, August 29, 2022, 6:22:40PM EDT
Q: Did you buy all Raspberry Pis in the world for your rig? They’re not available anymore. Q: Do you consider yourself a NERD? Q: Rob, what’s your favourite Tech art? Anything related to Go’s logo? Q: Did you make the TOML logo? Q: What is the cheapest homelab server I can buy? Q: Why do you prefer to use Linux as a subsystem within Windows? Q: Do you think non systemd distros are a big deal? Q: Why is Red Hat/OpenShift bad? Q: Why did you abandon Proxmox? Q: What is your font? Q: Should you try to run Linux on macs if Apple is actively trying to keep that from happening? Q: What is a “data lake”? Q: What do you think of “web3”? Q: Any experience running Snort (or other) as a NIPS or NIDS? Q: What is LDAP and should I still use it?
Thursday, August 25, 2022, 6:48:02PM EDT
Q: Is it Thursday? Q: What should we call the new “homelab” playlist? Q: Why not “samba” instead of FreeIPA? Q: What is LDAP? Q: What is Kerberos? Q: Is Dennis “lastmiles” back? Q: Why do Germans say “Mr” and “Mrs” at work? Q: How do you usually start a personal project?
Wednesday, August 24, 2022, 7:07:33PM EDT
Q: What changed on the calendar? Q: Should I put my homelab on the Internet? Q: What is “zero-trust” and why should I care? Q: Do you have “homelab” “on-prem” or in the cloud? Q: Hillhoo: What do you think of the old cypherpunk movement. What has since changed? How aligned are you with their views on privacy? Q: What is Cicada 2022 and who does it?
Monday, August 22, 2022, 6:06:45PM EDT
Q: What is https://excalidraw.com? Q: What is FreeIPA? Q: Do you consider yourself an extrovert? Q: What specific job titles does SKILSTAK Boost 2022? Q: Should I lie on my resume? Q: What are your thoughts on beards and tattoos in the tech workplace? Q: What is going on with “working remote”? Q: How do I weather the storm of “recession” coming up?
Friday, August 19, 2022, 7:10:57PM EDT
Q: So my skip level called me today and told me to work as intermediary between offshore team and another team. He then moves to tell me that this is for your soft skills to be improved for future. Is this kind of carrot or are they really thinking me to be a manager?
Q: What’s the difference between software engineer and software developer?
Q: Can you get a job if you only know Go (golang)? If not, what other requirements are recommended?
Q: More than half of all US companies are planning to lay off employees as they brace for an economic downturn, according to a new survey. The PwC survey — which polled 700 executives and board members across the US — found 52% of companies have already enacted hiring freezes, four out of 10 have rescinded jobs or axed signing bonuses for new hires, and roughly half have started laying people off or are preparing to cut headcount.
Q: What is Grog?
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Thursday, August 18, 2022, 7:20:46PM EDT
Q: How to stop Rob from swearing? Q: When to use Proxmox versus VMware ESXi from home lab? Q: What is Ventoy and why do I care? Q: How to handle a job rejection without giving any reason, even if the interviewer has recommended you for the position? Q: What is Proxmox? Q: What is Asahi Linux?
Wednesday, August 17, 2022, 6:17:43PM EDT
Q: Where should I buy my domain names? Q: How do you deal with being the family/neighbor IT person? Q: What is “accreditation” and why should I care? Q: What is really asked in a technical interview? Q: Should I go to college? If so, which college? Q: What do you stand on privatization of education? Q: Should I work while I’m attending college?
Tuesday, August 16, 2022, 7:24:05PM EDT
Q: What are you drinking? Q: How should I set up my own home lab and why? Q: How can I be a great manager? Q: How about Elixir? Q: What program that you have written or that you have worked hard on are you the proudest of? Q: What are your thoughts about quantum computing and should we start learning it? Q: Should I read The Imposter’s Handbook? Q: What is a quaternion? Q: What is Particle Fever? Q: How will machine learning affect the IT industry?
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Saturday, August 13, 2022, :30:00PM EDT
Q: Why aren’t you at DefCon? Q: What do you think of attending conferences? Q: What do think of so-n-so? Do you like them? Q: Can you be friends with people from work? Q: What is the MVL? Q: Is your dog dead? Q: What do you do if you seriously disagree with people? Q: What keyboard do you have? Q: Do you have cowsay? Q: What do you think of “strong opinions, weakly held?”
Q: How do you document an agreement on tools/used used on a project, between different teams? I’m trying to make that easier within my company. atm it’s just a Word document with a wall of text.
Q: Kinda need a advice, i have this girl that i like and i speak to her every day but i dont know if she likes me back. what should i do?
Q: How to work with co-workers that are stingy on information they gather, or not direct with their sentences (giving half or lacking information)?
Q: Is that gnome in the background what you based your github picture on?
Thursday, August 11, 2022, 6:13:46PM EDT
Q: I’m 9 years exp finance guy, today received offer from a telecom company for software eng role (C++ mainly) I want to take the step and start from 0 in this path I want. What would you suggest to me to keep up with my peers, colleagues, to an ideal point to speed up learning?
Q: What is your opinion about Carbon, will it be a real successor to C++? Q: Do you prefer making one big k8s cluster or one for each service/system? Q: What is the outlook of K8S jobs in the coming years? Q: What’s the difference between VMware and virtual box? Q: What has been the best meal that your wife has cooked for you? Q: What type of budget will I need to get started building my IRL rig? Q: Is it normal for a junior software engineer not finding fulfilment on job ? Q: How many times does Doris swear a day?
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Wednesday, August 10, 2022, 6:41:20PM EDT
Q: Is this a good place for life advice? Q: Will you tell us a story? Q: Would you sign an employee agreement that included an “Intellectual Property” clause? Q: What does it mean to be “tainted” and how can I avoid it? Q: What was SKILSTAK skilbot?
Tuesday, August 9, 2022, 6:15:07PM EDT
đź“ş https://youtu.be/ntugjnvqE4A
Q: k3shrinky: why would someone use ZSH over BASH? Q: 10x_programmer: why is gpg so user unfriendly? Q: drZool: ever feel like you should stop using “the cloud”. Q: for frontend development, would you still use vim or switch to jetbrains?
Monday, August 8, 2022, 6:44:25PM UTC
đź“ş https://youtu.be/CQvkgjoPKSc
Q: Mokokoppium: so i spend a chunk of my time on neovim, from vimscript to lua, but in the end i had to drop it because it just wanst efficient compared to vscode, and i see that you use regular vim without any plugins, so im wondering what your opinion is
Q: What’s a UNIX filter and why should care?
Q: ali123492: the problem with writing these shell one liners is always the escaping - sed and awk are particularly bad for that
Q: ali123492: if you add a new item in the middle of the list, how do you renumber the list?
Q: HypnoSlimyToady: A quick question about vi commands. When I go to the end of the line, the cursor never goes beyond the last letter. So when I push i to input text, I have to type between that last letter and delete it later. Any solutions to this?
Wednesday, August 5, 2022, 6:30:00PM EDT
đź“ş https://youtu.be/-xugcRhz01Y
Q: How can I learn to learn best?
Q: How do our brains solve problems and how to we help them?
Q: What are some techniques for memorization?
Wednesday, August 4, 2022, 6:30:00PM EDT
đź“ş https://youtu.be/VNJVlclAVPk
Q: What do you do when you get tired?
Q: How much sleep do I really need?
Q: What about naps, coffee, caffeine, cocaine, Adderall, and other drugs?
Q: What’s so good about Linux?
Q: How do I deal with dogmatic tech bigots?
Q: Why “starting with conclusions” always ends badly.
Wednesday, August 3, 2022, 6:30:00PM EDT
đź“ş https://youtu.be/UBhNt6Rki_E
Q: How much money do I really need?
Q: Should I disclose my salary to others?
Q: Should I approach my employer about money?
Q: How would approach the money question with your employer?
Tuesday, August 2, 2022, 6:30:00PM EDT
đź“ş https://youtu.be/UW-CgUAbTLg
Q: What are we doing and when?
Q: Hey rob, question for you: I’m a JS/react dev, and i’d really like to make a shift into more functional/backend/tooling type of stuff. Do i just tell my employer and hope they let me start to shift over, or do you think its possible to just start looking for a new job with zero actual experience in that realm (I have very little free time for projects lately, but I do intend on making some fun things)?
Q: Should I ask/trust my employer to let me do what I want in the future?
Q: How do I make time to prepare for what I want to do in the future?
Q: How much experience do I need before I apply for a new job?
Q: How to improve courage as an IT employee?