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Agree with the sentiment. However it's hard to stay curious, even harder to stay up-to-date. I liked fiddling with storage for a while, got really into it, dee

by kmarc 2y ago

Agree with the sentiment. However it's hard to stay curious, even harder to stay up-to-date. I liked fiddling with storage for a while, got really into it, deepened my knowledge about it. A couple years later I realized everything else (networking, architectures, languages) developed so much, mot of my (non-basic) knowledge was obsolete. Picking up where I left off with all technologies is incredibly hard and caused fatigue. Now I'm at a point where I have the feeling I don't know nothing about anything. It's factually not true, but my gut feeling tells this. Would I be younger, this would trigger a lot of anxiety. Thankfully I can janfle this by now.

sgarland 2y ago
That's understandable. I'm into databases (both professionally and personally), so I get to touch a wide variety of things. Following a query the whole way is pretty neat. Typed query --> client --> wire protocol --> network --> server --> DB frontend --> DB planner --> DB storage engine --> OS --> Memory / Disk. `blktrace` is super interesting to watch commands being sent to the disk.
- buran77 2y ago
  When you are deeply involved in tech both personally and professionally you are probably very passionate about this and makes sense that you'd only look closely at this field and think "people are so deeply incurious. This seems to only happen in tech". Tech is also one of the (if not the) most dynamic and fast evolving field a normal person will ever touch. Curiosity in tech can drain every single bit of free time and energy you have and you will hardly keep up with the progress, maybe barely scratch the surface. But people's available free time and energy wanes and curiosity is a collateral victim. I've painfully gone through the entire cycle of this, including the bit of resurgence later on when you have a combination of free time but less energy. What I can say is that this absolutely does not happen just in tech. If anything tech is flooded with people with more curiosity than almost any other field.
  - sgarland 2y ago
    > When you are deeply involved in tech both personally and professionally you are probably very passionate about this and makes sense that you'd only look closely at this field and think "people are so deeply incurious. This seems to only happen in tech". Good point. I commented in a sibling post to the same effect. I've certainly felt the personal strain of time sink and procrastination in my homelab. It's currently running k3os, which has been dead for about four years now, because everything I want is still running, and I never seem have the motivation on the weekend to yell at my laptop when I could be playing board games. > including the bit of resurgence later on when you have a combination of free time but less energy. I'm guessing that will happen in another decade or so, when my kids are grown.
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by kmarc 2y ago

sgarland 2y ago

That's understandable. I'm into databases (both professionally and personally), so I get to touch a wide variety of things. Following a query the whole way is pretty neat. Typed query --> client --> wire protocol --> network --> server --> DB frontend --> DB planner --> DB storage engine --> OS --> Memory / Disk. `blktrace` is super interesting to watch commands being sent to the disk.

buran77 2y ago
When you are deeply involved in tech both personally and professionally you are probably very passionate about this and makes sense that you'd only look closely at this field and think "people are so deeply incurious. This seems to only happen in tech". Tech is also one of the (if not the) most dynamic and fast evolving field a normal person will ever touch. Curiosity in tech can drain every single bit of free time and energy you have and you will hardly keep up with the progress, maybe barely scratch the surface. But people's available free time and energy wanes and curiosity is a collateral victim. I've painfully gone through the entire cycle of this, including the bit of resurgence later on when you have a combination of free time but less energy. What I can say is that this absolutely does not happen just in tech. If anything tech is flooded with people with more curiosity than almost any other field.
- sgarland 2y ago
  > When you are deeply involved in tech both personally and professionally you are probably very passionate about this and makes sense that you'd only look closely at this field and think "people are so deeply incurious. This seems to only happen in tech". Good point. I commented in a sibling post to the same effect. I've certainly felt the personal strain of time sink and procrastination in my homelab. It's currently running k3os, which has been dead for about four years now, because everything I want is still running, and I never seem have the motivation on the weekend to yell at my laptop when I could be playing board games. > including the bit of resurgence later on when you have a combination of free time but less energy. I'm guessing that will happen in another decade or so, when my kids are grown.

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