I've been trying to build a golf side hobby business making putters on antique machinery in my garage. Have grown to get some pretty steady traction on instagram, have realized I am not a businessman in all of this, so a lot of learning.
Yeah this is not the case at all lol. I actually find Azure to be far more intuitive after suffering through AWS and a little GCP. It certainly seems more stable in US regions than AWS.
One thing I will say is the Azure documentation is some of the most cumbersome to navigate I've ever experienced, there is a dearth of information in there, you just have to know how to find it.
Probably. I guess I meant a shit ton, but written in a series of confusing "choose your own adventure" style bursts of 40 new browser tabs to figure anything out.
I'd counsel you to work with LLMs daily and agree that we're no where close to LLMs that work properly consistently outside of toy use cases, where examples can be scraped from the internet. If we can agree on that we can agree that General Intelligence is not the same thing as a, sometimes, seemingly random guess at the next word...
I have found this while trying to teach my kids how to write anything software related from scratch. They've done some code.org, but it becomes boring quickly. We tried to make tic-tac-toe in js/html/css since they can do they whole thing in the browser. It held their attention slightly longer, but still became boring. It's not something they want to do.
I totally agree with you on learning for a purpose, picking up knowledge is super easy imo when you're in pursuit of a goal bigger than picking up knowledge. You don't even realize all of the things you learn in order to achieve your goal. But you have to want a goal.
I also totally agree sometimes it's fun to just do dumb problems, I found these CAD modeling youtube videos where guys will race each other modeling some part off of a print, spent a week just screwing around with those because it's fun to flex sometimes.
On the other hand if I'm honest, all this noodling around as a teen didn't give me a super robust foundation at all. I had a kind of folk understanding, or rough mental model of the things but it made me like it as a hobby and identify with it, which pushed me to take up CS in college.
It gave me some head start that I knew Python and JS when learning C, but not super much. Other students, who were smart but didn't fiddle with computers as much, generally picked these things up along the way, 4-5 years college is plenty time to develop the skills if you got the talent.
Also my understanding of networks was super shallow based on just multi player gaming and learning router settings, and I only really built a proper mental model in college with OSI model, TCP/IP details, reading the Tanenbaum book, doing socket programming etc.
So these generic tech and computer skills are in my opinion more about giving people a sense of agency, which is still quite something. That you put together your own PC, that you download your own subtitle files for the movies and figure out how to adjust the sync to match your version of the movie etc. It just gives you a feeling that you can do things. If something is wrong, you can, and therefore want to fix it. It's a different attitude compared to just accepting everything as it is.
