TristanBall

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by TristanBall 4y ago
Meh, I suspect not. I've worked places where we assumed a 12 month ramp up, and even then you'd probably only be at 80-90%. Fully embedded, could mentor new staff was more like 2-3 years. That's an extreme example, but it&#
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by TristanBall 4y ago
I was only every a very very small rackspace customer, but my recollection was that what Rackspace were actually fanatical about was telling you how fanatical they were. It always rubbed me the wrong way, regardless of the quality of suppo
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by TristanBall 4y ago
Nearly 30 years seems like plenty of time? Many projects manage to accumulate plenty of tech debt in 30 months, without being a deliberate work-alike reimplementation of an existing system.. which I suspect means you're already startin
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by TristanBall 4y ago
I think there's a bit of a relationship with the age of the instance type. Whether that's supply chain, different policies around spare capacity, or even customer demand I don't know. My specific area only has need for a rela
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by TristanBall 4y ago
If your work is rote crud apps the sure, I can see that. But if your work has been the development, deployment and advocacy of your own ideas and research... thats very different to me, because the level of personal ownership is greater.
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by TristanBall 4y ago
I don't understand how you're getting <2s for that awk result. I'm testing on slightly older hardware, for example I get 4.6s and 11.9s for the optimized and simple go versions taken from the git repo. But when I also get:
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by TristanBall 4y ago
Been a long time since anything iscsi related didn't hand 9k, for boot or otherwise. But I look at it this way. You need 40gbit networking for a single pci3 nvme ( and newer drives can saturate that, or close ) And because you're
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by TristanBall 4y ago
See.. my mind boggles that you think it has anything todo with personal trust. At a guess, you've been in that scenario, and it may well have been handled badly ( and i'll grant you it often is ), but you might also have taken it
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by TristanBall 4y ago
Has SMB locking, and OP Locking become that much more reliable? Pretty much one of the classic desktop support calls for me was "my access database on the shared drive is corrupt" I'm out touch now, but one of the failure mod
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by TristanBall 4y ago
But it leaks blocks of memory right? So when we get a full segment we can free them all at the same time? Sorry, couldn't resist...
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by TristanBall 4y ago
I'm not sure it's so much "respecting the career", as the stereotype of the nerd with poor social skills is still strong enough to raise red flags for many. Not all of course, and it probably depends a lot on how you in
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by TristanBall 4y ago
If your looking at the results I am, I see a system with with 28x the CPU's being 23x faster, after 10 years of cpu development. And substantially more expensive in total costs too? Are we looking at the same thing? Did I get the math
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by TristanBall 4y ago
Aye.. I've been saying for years that shell scripting is how I meditate, and I'm only mostly joking Shell quoting though, Aieeee... I find I have to shift gears quite substantially moving from shell or powershell to anything else
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by TristanBall 4y ago
Yeah, it's all nonsense. Pretty much all of AWS Sydney data centers are within 100mi of each other,probably all Sydney data centers are, the entire city is in fact. Plenty of geographical, power and environmental diversity there tho.
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by TristanBall 4y ago
You don't think the m1 based stuff kinda raised the bar again? I'm hardly an apple fanboi, my house has been something of halfway house/shelter for abandoned corporate dell's and lenovo's for many years.. but dang e
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by TristanBall 4y ago
Hey that's great, thankyou - even if it's not 100% you've given me a leg up to start looking into it further some rainy afternoon.
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by TristanBall 4y ago
How do WFHers ruin morale? And was it really them, or managements treatment of the issues? We've got a "flexible" tues-thurs in the office, but pretty much on any given day there's maybe 50% in the office, max, unless th
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by TristanBall 4y ago
Sorry? Would you mind explaining that for a layman? How do two devices on the same frequency, pointing at each other, not interfere?
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by TristanBall 4y ago
"Try something different" "Don't follow our example" "Wrong way, go back" All seem like reasonable bits of advice from a civilisation that let itself get wiped out,pretty much regardless of the cause.
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by TristanBall 4y ago
Four weeks learning a language was one of your biggest professional mistakes? Really ? What were the repercussions of this terrible deed?
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by TristanBall 4y ago
So.. a view then? Granted most environments effectively treat views as DBA/Sysadmin owned objects, especially where end users/apps are effectively sharing one, or a small number, of user accounts. But given user=schema aspect seve
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by TristanBall 4y ago
"Job applicants to ads with ageist language are on average 2.7 years younger than the applicants to the control ads. The median age for these ads was also 2.7 years younger, and the 75th percentile was 3.1 years younger. The share of a
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by TristanBall 4y ago
In what way did it "not work"? Unless you meant OS/2? My understanding is the original intent there was very much to make everything an object,and the UI fully composable based on that ( in the sense of being able to link thi
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by TristanBall 4y ago
I think you managed too lose me about 3 times in there.. what point are you trying to make, and what do you think Linus should do?
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by TristanBall 4y ago
Do you have any references for this? I'd like to understand better
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by TristanBall 4y ago
Not all of us got (cough any) CS degrees though, and while technically the information is all out there for me to find, I wouldn't necessarily have a reason to look, or on those rare occasions where my sysadmin/DBA projects do thr
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by TristanBall 4y ago
Do you know why? Has the government policy changed? Building fewer new properties?
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by TristanBall 4y ago
Having actually done this ( taking manure collected at a dairy to a worm farm )... when collected into a pit or large enough pile, the manure re-liquifies under the top layer, so while you do acclimatize to the smell after 15-30 mins, movin
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by TristanBall 4y ago
And I know none. I don't recall ever actually meeting a Microsoft employee either, and I've been in tech a long time ( albeit in another country ) But picking Microsoft as an example or any of the faangs feels wrong, because they
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by TristanBall 4y ago
That new merge looks fantastic, much clearer about what's going on ( not that the existing one was bad, but as an occasional user, completely separate windows are easier to track than different colours in one, and I don't have to

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