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It reminds me of my time as an undergrad in a quantum chemistry lab. I had something like 150 calculations to run (about 4h each) and therefore could only submit them to the "small" calculation queue (for jobs less than a day).

The problem was that it was essentially always used at the maximum because most people had such small jobs to run + other queues were not as efficient. Because of the inner "fighting", the HPC admin essentially blocked the possibility to have jobs pending. So first come first serve.

So basically I've set up a cron job to look prepare my jobs and look for empty slots during the night. I remember looking at results in the morning while sipping on coffee and the head of the lab congratulating me for my "dedication" as she saw I submitted jobs at 3AM!! :)

At the end of the internship, I basically had a script "assistant" that I would use to prepare the calculation jobs, unite them so I could use them on "bigger" queues, do most of the post-calculation analysis (essentially producing CSVs and graph for me).

And I am too, chasing that high to this day.

Probably. The worst for me are still the "test your password strength" websites though. So painful to explain to end users why it's NOT a good idea to use this.

In my current job they asked me to update my linkedin. I said "haha nope". Latest entry is from 2017. Never heard from it again in the past 5y.

In a previous job, they asked me to post a review on glassdoor. I said "haha nope". They came back after 6 months insisting I do so, I told them "no.". They came back at it after another 6 months, I asked what was their budget for bribing glassdoor into removing a bad review. They finally go it.

I've never had issues with not having "social" accounts. Every time it was mentioned during an interview I just jokingly said it is time that I reinvest in my own projects then usually they were (rightfully) more interested to see what I did which I would show from my laptop or my personal website (that would be up during my job search and put to rest right after). So in other terms, I'm playing the game when I want to and/or when there's something in it for me.

That said my profile is a bit of a niche one and I'm not really making public talks etc so ymmv.

Is there Azure issues?

One good resource from scientists with a "measured" opinion : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQdMHv026R0&t=637s

I've got a decent brother scanner like so https://www.ebay.com/p/13030519316, when I scan a document it ends up on a folder from my NAS.

I've built a small webapp that reads the content of this folder as untagged documents. Tagging them will move them to a proper folder and the docs will finally be visible in a treeview.

It is relatively robust and low maintenance. I might at some point work on download + OCR scripts to get and auto-tag bills and such that are already in PDF. Not sure if it is really useful to be honest at this point