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yinkeys:
That language frightens me
Python & machine learning intermediate level user here

My brother, at this age i have a lesson i have leanrt that i can impact to you.

If you regularly keep at something, you will get throuh it
Like a stream running through a mountain
The stream kept testing and test till one day it got through an created a part
You are human, it is normal for us to avoid looking back
We are not good at look behind us or checking our past.
But if you can develop the habit to go back and try and try and try again
Success awaits beyond the dawn

Codevalley:
Many will be motivated by story.Dont give up on your dream ,keep the candle burnings!

Big thanks, much appreciated

silento:
Age is just a number unless it is JavaScript

Omo, i laugh in madarin, chai X5

airsaylongcome:
Good to read your story. And I hope more 40+ folks get motivated to start of a career in Tech. Loads of space in the industry to cater for mature entrants. And I'm glad to read you talk about stuff other than SWE. Loads of play room in stuff outside SWE. Customer/Technical support is a low resistance route for those looking to get started. Can always pivot from Helpdesk to many other roles.


1am to 4am can be brutal, especially if you have an 8-5 day job.

One thing with US remote is that it fxcks up your circadian rhythm. Big time. Worse when they shift the clocks 1 hr back in winter.

I de tell you men, the time frame really messes with me.

I am still looking at SWE (software engineering as well, but not for now. Make i finish one before i enter another one first.

Really appreciate the feedback

Hmmm

So i am known as what some people would say a jack of all trades in tech, but i have no tech certification.

I am that guy that when something is wrong on you pc or phone, you reach out to and i tell you how to solve it (most times leaving you wondering -"why didn't i think of that")

From a very young age, i have always wanted to get into tech, but new had the opportunity or time to learn.

Fast forward to December 2022, and i finally taken the decision that i would learnt something in tech this year no matter what.

So i got started in Dev ops.

Well what a journey i undertook.

I started my training with a school called My Landmark Tech.

From the onset, let just say i chewed more than i bargained for, but being a Nigerian meant, they is no way my money is going to waste at all.
So i kept at.

From learning about linux for the first time and for some reason hating it initially then loving it gradually. Before being hit with Bash shell scripting. "Omo i hear am for this one". but after a while i started writing some basic scripts and was like "na me be this".

While i was basking in my shine, the come nack me with the not so wonderful world of Git, i was initally sceptical as it was another thing way i no sabi, But God de, as i gradually began to find out that that the internet is your friend and stack overflow was there to help (sometimes).

I did the whole Git hustle for a bit, then they announced during the class, that they were heavy on java and to prepare for Maven.
At this point i was asking myself, what is the essense of all this so far, but one mind said carry on.

So for us to get into Maven, they first had to to teach us about aws and how to setup an ec2 instance and how to login or ssh into your instance. They also had to teach us about security groups and creating your pem keys.

Then they taught us how to setup maven on an ec2 instance, it was then i began to understand why i needed to learn linux and bash shell scripting.

And then things began to pickup big time, from Maven, we hit sonarqube, from sonarqube we hit nexus, from nexus we hit jenkins.
With jenkins we ran throught connecting all the previous things.

Bash scripting to git, to jenkins, jenkins running ci/cd through maven, sonarqube and nexus. (ensuring all this worked during a pipeline build was hell- a lot of late nights and free time in the office, a lot of aws ec2 instances and a lot of burnt aws accounts as ran down free tier after free tier). It took me three weeks to understand the pom.xml setup for maven and another 1month to get my ci/cd pipeline to work.

When i finally got things to work, and was celebrating my success. I was hit with terraform and docker.

It took me another month to learn terraform, and another two months to get from docker to docker file to docker compose and docker swarm.

I still have Kubernetes, Ansible, Grafana, Helm and Promethus to learn, chai.

Then i still have to learn on my own, other different Devops related softwares, platforms, cloud platforms etc. (Chai X2), all of it required before i can even begin to compete with other advance or intermediate devop engineers out these.

Am i enjoying this

Truly

Yes

I have learnt a lot i didn't know about before, i have even picked up on python and kotlin on the side, and i am enjoying each challenge all of this brings. The fun of sending time to solve a problem, hitting a brick wall and going back to the drawing board and coming back strong.

It hasn't been easy though, as my classes are between 1am and 4am twice a week and on Saturdays and to revise from each lesson i usually spend 5-6 hours.

But, i love every minute of it.

So to anyone looking to get into Devops, know it is not a rush job, take your time to learn and understand what you are doing.

Also i am open to help with pointers and directions to anyone who needs it.

I will update from time to time once i am done with my training.

Chai X 4

Thefarmer3:
Check the rpm at idle. It may be too low

Hmm

Running to the car right now

Geoabeeys:
I am also looking for solution to this. If you put it in neutral, vibration will stop.

Ah a fellow vibrating corrolla owner, welcome oh.

We are in this together

Hopefully our oga's can give us some feedback

So i drive the below little bad girl

And it gets me from A-z so far

I got her early 2021 and had to ring her cause she smoked a lot.

Picture this

Your speeding down Ikorodu road from Maryland to Fadeyi, no one is in front of you
Your feeling like a bad boy, with your specs on and one hand on the steering, blasting dmx,while everyone behind you chokes on your fumes

Like seriously chokes on your fumes

P.s if you are one of the people i coked back then, my apologies, as i have solved that problem(ringsand pistons).

So less i digress

Before i got her a new set of rings, i notice she would run like a dream but when i hit traffic and start with the break down and brak up routine

She would start vibrating, it gets worst when the ac is on.

So te, i hadto abandon the ac til i got her ringed.

After ringing (december last year) still noticed the vibration, but this time only while i use the ac.

Key scene 2

I tell my mechanic and he says to bring it down for some tlc(expensive TLC-chai)

Between January and Now, i have sacrified the folowing to her.

My Mechanic's voice

Mechanic: Oga nah engine mount
Me: Oya change them"
My Car: I am still vibrating when ac is on during traffic
My car: Partially when breaks are applied
Mechanic: Hmm, e be like say we go buy net for the engine
Me: Net what does that do.
Mechanic: it will help to......(can't explain well)
Me: Nope


2 months later...

Mechanic: Change coils
Me: I disagreed,
My Car: I turned off my fans and decided to over heat one fine rainy day in May and he still drove me almost to the ground and damage 3 coils
Me: ok lets change coils
Car: Still vibrating when ac is on and we are in traffic

At this point i got tired of using the ac till about 3 weeks ago

I notice that when the vibrating starts in traffic, if i put the car on park it comes down a bit, but once i return to drive it back with a vengance.

But for some reason, when i move it from drive to neutral, the vibrations stop. plus once it goes back to drive, its not as worst as when i do drive to park and back to drive.

Please has any body noticed this with theirs?

If you have experience this vibrations before, what did you do to stop it finally?

So if you are a digital marketer.

At some point in time you will be in Need of a good email list to help grow your business.

Usually you will source this list via other website owners or via shady baba's on the internet.

Other times, you would use a trusty email finder/extractor.

But what if i showed you how the email extractor works, and how you can do the extraction yourself?

Yes you can extract right now thousands of emails and to begin your email campaign without an email extractor.

And yes the process is very simple.

So what would you be using to do it.

Why google.com of ccourse.

How?

Say you are trying to extract gmail accounts for a certain location or time or person with a word in their email.

All you do is just go to google and type this

Texas "@gmail.com"

This will give you every person on google directory who has the word texas in the gmail account name.

if you wanted to find it across other other emails you can add the following

Texas "@gmail.com" OR "@yahoo.com" OR "@ymail.com" OR "@outlook.com" OR "@msn.com" OR "@hotmail.com" OR "@aol.com" OR "@mail.com" OR "@icloud.com"

If you want to include all the emails you can say

Texas "@gmail.com" AND "@yahoo.com" AND "@ymail.com" AND "@outlook.com" AND "@msn.com" AND "@hotmail.com" AND "@aol.com" AND "@mail.com" AND "@icloud.com"

Now testing this you will hit the first problem

How do you extract the emails from the rest of the text on google search.

If you are using google chrome or firefox on pc then this is easy.

Go the plugin or extension store for either chrome or firefox and look for email drop or email extractor, install them and activate.
Now go back to the google search and refresh.
Email drop will pick up all the emails on the page for you.

You may need to increase your google search results from 10 to 100 via search settings to gather more emails per each google page.

If this isn't enough for you

I am offering a paid course on advanced email extraction using google for fee ofcourse.

if you are interested you can hit me up on whatsapp via 07035803388

I have been so out of it for a while guys, so sorry

I will drop by from time to time to check up on new questions.

Please if there are any ones i missed, please drop them

Lotti:
Alright, thanks for the explanation.

Your welcome

Hi again

So by now a lot of you know that you can download udemy course for free

Now you can get access to any skill share course for absolutely free.

The best part, you can do this to your google drive and watch your courses later, so you don't have to waste your precious data to download it it.

So how is it done you ask?

Ok follow the instructions below.

[b]1. Find the course or course you want to download.

2. Have a notepad or google keep to save the url to the course

3. Save the urls like so "https://www.skillshare.com/classes/Develop-a-Smooth-Bttery-Deep-Voice-that-Commands-Respect/775966471?"
note: delete anything after the numbers and the question mark?

4. Go to this link
https://colab.research.google.com/github/calvinhobbes23/Skillshare-DL/blob/master/Skillshare_DL_%5BKENWAY%5D.ipynb

5. Once it opens, you will see a list of things you will need to do.

5a. First sign in with your google account

5b. Press the play button beside the first option "Run This Cell to Mount Gdrive"

5c. It will ask you to go a link to get an autorization code, click and get it(copy it)

5d. Paste the code in the box below and press enter, wait for it to confirm and move to the next option

6 Tap the play button beside "Run This Cell to Install Skillshare-DL Requirements"
This will install a folder called skillshare-dl on your google drive
Once its done, move the next Cell

7. "Run this Cell to Download Skillshare Course" here is were you paste the skillshare course url you got.
Just paste it and press the play button.
Now wait for it to download the course
Once done go to the next cell

8."Run This Cell to Move Downloaded Courses to Gdrive" now once the previous cell is done with the download.
Click the play button here to move the download to your google drive account.[/b]

Check your google drive and you will see the course there.

Note: once you are done with your download, delete the skillshare course url and paste a new course url.

If for some reason the last cell to download the course to your google drive keeps failing.

Go to your google drive and move all folder our of Skillshare-DL folder, then come back to colabs and refresh the process.
This always saves the problem.

Another note:

You can only run one course at a time and a max of 15 course downloads per connect per account per day.

Hope this helpful for those looking to download courses on skillshare.

PS, i am not a hacker, i see am from somebody who see am from somebody.

No ask me for the impoosible

So if you are a digital marketer.

At some point in time you will be in Need of a good email list to help grow your business.

Usually you will source this list via other website owners or via shady baba's on the internet.

Other times, you would use a trusty email finder/extractor.

But what if i showed you how the email extractor works, and how you can do the extraction yourself?

Yes you can extract right now thousands of emails and to begin your email campaign without an email extractor.

And yes the process is very simple.

So what would you be using to do it.

Why google.com of ccourse.

How?

Say you are trying to extract gmail accounts for a certain location or time or person with a word in their email.

All you do is just go to google and type this

Texas "@gmail.com"

This will give you every person on google directory who has the word texas in the gmail account name.

if you wanted to find it across other other emails you can add the following

Texas "@gmail.com" OR "@yahoo.com" OR "@ymail.com" OR "@outlook.com" OR "@msn.com" OR "@hotmail.com" OR "@aol.com" OR "@mail.com" OR "@icloud.com"

If you want to include all the emails you can say

Texas "@gmail.com" AND "@yahoo.com" AND "@ymail.com" AND "@outlook.com" AND "@msn.com" AND "@hotmail.com" AND "@aol.com" AND "@mail.com" AND "@icloud.com"

Now testing this you will hit the first problem

How do you extract the emails from the rest of the text on google search.

If you are using google chrome or firefox on pc then this is easy.

Go the plugin or extension store for either chrome or firefox and look for email drop or email extractor, install them and activate.
Now go back to the google search and refresh.
Email drop will pick up all the emails on the page for you.

You may need to increase your google search results from 10 to 100 via search settings to gather more emails per each google page.

If this isn't enough for you

I am offering a paid course on advanced email extraction using google for fee ofcourse.

if you are interested you can hit me up on whatsapp via 07035803388

Lotti:
Nice post. With all my years on Nairaland, I never knew it could be done this way. Knowledge indeed is power. Nevertheless, @op, will the 'site: be included ?

Yes it is.

This way google will serve you only links from nairaland.

If you exclude the "site:" google will include other websites with the details of "nairaland.com" and the details you are looking for in the "" quote

Our dear Nairaland is truly the best place to come to for jist and other odds an bits about Nigeira and the happenings in the country.

But it has its own issues as well.

If you have ever used Nairaland search options, you will most time hold your head in frustration, as no matter what you type in, it will searcch for only the words you use and not the full keyword or phrase.

For years, this use to annoy the heck out of me.

Particularly when you are looking for a topic or thread and you are not sure which section or area its in.

Or worst, when you saw a thread on the front page and go back to find it and its no longer in the list.

Well now you can exactily what you are looking foron Nairaland, thanks to a little trick from another search engine you use everyday.

Luckily enough google keeps an index of every thread on nairaland, and sometimes you can even find deleted cached nairaland posts on google.

So how do you do access it.

Just go to google and type the below

site:nairaland.com "what i am looking for"

thats it

just replace the -what you are looking for- within the quotes to the word, phrase or detail of what you remember from the the thread you are looking for.

ISo give it a try and thank me with a bottle of budwiser if this was helpful for you

Me and you are facing the same problem

Did you eventually solve it

Since Mtn upgraded me to Mtn Prestige Bronze Option

I usually owe them between 7000 and 12400 each month.

At the begining of the month, after i have cleared my debt, i usually see i can borrow up to 15,000. But as i borrow more and more, the amount i can borrow goes down, right now its at 5200.

I usual borrow for calls but mainly to pay for data renewal, 2-3 time a month (their buy 12gb get 12gb extra plan, i do it between 2-3 times a month)

I don't like to load often from my bank every single time credit finishes, so i would just keep borrowing till when i max out my borrow limit to 500 naira.(which is usually toward the end of the month. then i pay them.

P.S

Why i do this is because initially i spend more each time i load, way more and reload as often as well.

The borrowing forces me to reduce the amount i send to between 7000 and 12400 (as against 15000 to 22000),also, that inability to borrow more when it my borrow limit hits 500 ( as the options to borrow reduces from 5, 4, 3, 2, to the 1 (N500)) acts as a watch you usage warning for me, because as the options i can borrow reduce, i begin to reduce my time on call or manage my data usage more.

This so far has helped me reduce my spending, as i i can use that money for something else then pay them once i am running low.

brianromel:
See bros

Make we no lie to ourselves

We all de like claim to He men, Jazz men, Super men, Stud, King Pin, Oga Boss
Particularly way knack de involved.

We de like brag how we take do am like say we wan kill person

But the truth be say, As men, one time or the other, we all must fall for premature ejaculation.

Whether you be Soldier, Wrestler, Ramsin Noah, Usain bolt, Porn star or that Calabar boy we de the next compound.

There will always be times, when mini-me(or mini-you) will want something so bad, but once it gets, it just explode.

It has happened many times to me and to manymen here.

That said,

There are some ways handed down by our ancestors, from ancient text written on hidden manuscripts and cave paints that reveal how you can get over come it

Ancient my foot.

Guy seriously

You don't need to bring down the internet or pay some shady dude for a "How to" on "ejaculation prevention"

Because sometimes, Its as easy as calming down and coming small.

Thats it.

But if you need notes

Then let me provide.

Prepare Long note book

1. Be Calming Down when you see woman way you wan enter

This will really helpyou think rationallly, while making your body behave right.

You see, If you get too sexually excited, there is a 98.019% chance that your grenade will explode on impact

Why

Simple, your just to excited about the possibly that junior is about devour that lushious beautiful babelicious chick in front of you, your mind is showing ways to do it that will make you mom disown you on the spot.

Your body is pumping some much fluid and emzymes, that it all has to release some how, thus, when you put it into her, mini-you will just say "Payload released" and "Mission Complete"

What do you do.

Try and be calming down

What did i say

Try And Be Calming Down


Next



2. Come small small

This one is hard initially but easy when you get the hang of it.

When you enter heaven, come small, then small, then... (you get the idea)

Truth be told i did know about this till later later.

And its exactily as it means, come... small... smalll...

So if you couldn't calm yourself down, Then the next best this.

I will explain it in a short story

Imagine this

You and her just entered the room and shut the door (ofcourse nah, else nah movie una wan act for boys).

Your engage in some clothes exchange with the ground or bed, next una arrange, as you prepare mini-you to enter heaven.

mini-you is primed for release, as you enter

let the grenade explode, yes you heard me.

Let it explode small (as in banger [peair], not bomb blast[kaboom])

As it explodes, you mind will begin to calm down, you know what i mean.

That feeling when your like aaaarrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhaaaeeeeeeeeeeh, while the explosion is happening

If you ever took time to notice before, where your at aaaarrrrrrrrr, you have no control. But, as you enter hhh---hhhaaae,

You mind begins to clear and your senses return and you body begins to calm down and you notice you have come and things are going badly, you are feeling shame for coming early and you just let the rest of the eeeeeeeeeh happen.

Now pause

Notice you noticed that you have come and you noticed (again with noticing) that you just failed your mission (released)

Now next time you are in the hhh---hhhaaae zone, and you begin to notice, stop yourself from coming, if not, stop yourself from finishing coming (hauw).

Then Keep mini-you there and HODL(for the cryto boys,), no move oh, just hold am like you de hold piss
It can feel like eternity(actually its above 15secs, but at that time it feels like 2 days).

Once your calm, you will notice, mini-you going down, but not as fast as usual, more like his about to loose interest.

If you are at this point, then "start you engines"- start pumping, move your waist and keep pumping, as an added boast begin to pay attention to the ladies body parts that drew you to get started on this mission.

And just like that you back in the game and going for the win.

The downside to this option is two folds

One
You may surprise yourself and over do it, due to lack of initial sensation down there as you ride the hardness with minimal sensation.

Two
You will have a hard mini-you, but a lack of interest to continue the game (side advantage, some women may want to help you continue by giving h..d. till date i don't no,why but i kid you not, that what happens to me each time)


So those are my two tried and tested options to help you overcome quick peow peow

I these two fail for you

Don't work, i have another ultimate one i use.

but will not share yet.

P.s Other guys who have other options, please share oh

Who knows someone might actually have my "Ultimate option" already.

Sayonara guy sama

Laugh no gree me.

iBut for serious oh, that come small one de work for me.

I got an amazon. Cs giftcard for $50 do you buy them

07035803388

I have an amazon.ca $50 giftcard for sale.

Interested should contact me 07035803388

This week we will focus on a particular request that most new sales executives face.

The question comes from an industry where sales and selling are in its blood, most seasons sales people today, have either dabbled into this industry at one time or the other.

Insurance

And the big quest

"How does on sell a Premium?"

Hey Jefy

I am just seeing your reply, will come back to it sonnest

brianblogmoney:
Your welcome

Please remove you why from your girls v.

lol, but she like it in her V

edoman2016:
What you need is sales canvassers to push your chin chin to your target markets. Your target markets should be shops in busy locations like motor garage, public and private schools, offices in business districts. If you need sales canvassers, there are lot of job agencies in Ikeja computer village. Kindly contact them for their services.

Nicely said Edoman, Ify these are the best options for.

Surprsing before i got into sales, I once worked as a production supervisor at a Chinchin factory.

Exactly what Edoman said, was how we grew our sales, but back then you wouldn't see chin chin being hawked on the street, so shops, schools and markets were the target for sales canvassers.

It took a while but we went from selling less than 100 bags of chinchin(1 bag = 50 packs), to over 4500 bags of chinchin in 2 year.

That said, some of it was credit sales at first, before upfront payment to produce started coming up.

brianblogmoney:
Thanks for the resources, might i ask where you got these, did you attend their seminars or workshops.

Hello Brian, the resource material are things that I accumulated over the years,

The audios are from seminars, some I attended others I got from friends and colleagues.

While the books I got way back from a mentor.

jefy:
Nice post Op,glad to stumble on this..I'll be glad to get a few helpful tips from u.. Now here is d deal, i intend going into the o.k business in p.h,and my target are mainly females but would add male clothings later on. Now,what are the factors to consider in other nt to fail in my startup? What strategies do u think will result to bomper sales, how to I manage my sales,finances and profits since i'll definately spend from there to sort out other issue? What are the best ways to pay my self?How do i manage sales in credit? Based on the business,what do u think will give me a compitative advantage in a saturated market . Thanks again.

Wow quite a lot of questions,

Not so knowledgeable about the ok field.

But being it's clothes and your targeting women, I would ask what particular age range are your targeting?

Where is your sales location relative to where your customers are? Close or far?

For bumper sales, in a competitive market, it would mean your offering quality for a far less price.

Else you go the way of a niche.

One that targets a subset of market rather than a while.

I. E rather than women clothes, you do bra, nighties, sexy bathing suits. Kinky wear.

For the part of your using your running capital to handle other issues, I would advise you have someone do your accounting for you, as you might eat deep into the capital you need to run the business.

Or you could plan for 3 months stock and use the profit from your first months sales to handle other issues.