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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by ikt on Friday August 04, 2023 @12:40AM (#36995557)
that's me! i call myself a fake network engineer because there is simply too much info to retain, my brain just won't retain things i'm not constantly doing, so i have a complete understanding of maybe 20% of things but outside of that comparing to other configs and pattern matching are my main ways of solving problems and to be fair for my job (fixing network faults) like 90% of faults i've seen before and can fix, for 10% i can't i'm lucky that i have escalation points

at the same time i do feel like pattern matching limits my growth, if i had a complete understanding of a majority of networking principals id be much higher up in my career

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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by bdsa on Friday August 04, 2023 @04:59AM (#36997322)
If you compare yourself to colleagues at your level, particularly how _they_ would describe themselves, do you think they would be as self-aware?

As long as it isn't making you feel like a complete fraud, this level of introspection is a good thing imo.

"I know that I know nothing"

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