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Obviously he did. I guess you wanted to say "I disagree" but phrase it more aggressively?

Alternatively, it could be viewed as the whole purpose behind the attack.

The problem is that "what it's worth" can only be determined via "what you can get". Flat fees are just operational costs + capped profit. And the next question would be, where do you place that cap and why there?

It's okay, it's totally legitimate to feel overwhelmed. You're right, no one should be shouting at you. And you're also right that you can find another job. It's also fine to go ahead and work for an enterprise if you feel it could ease the tension for you or you just feel like it. I often miss being an IC as well - it's so much simpler and the mental barriers are comforting.

Do try psychotherapy. At the very least, talking about things you're going through can bring you relief and possibly actionable insights.

I strongly recommend some kind of sport as a hobby. There's something powerful about routinely choosing to be uncomfortable (to a tolerable level) and seeing your body and mind transform as a result. Not to mention it becomes really (oddly?) fun at some point.

Thank you for posting your opinion. I, too, felt a need to let you know I'd rather you didn't.

Respectfully, I don't think your personal experience is an indication of what it would be like for someone else.

If your current situation sucks and you can step away (NOT end your life), do it. Whatever chance exists for things to get better, it's better than sticking with something you know is bad.

I find DOMS kicks in after taking a week off from my lifting routine or when I switch the routine altogether. As long as I keep a week between working the muscle group, DOMS isn't a thing.

When I do expect DOMS to kick in, I drop weights to 50% my max sets (usually dropping weight vs reps). This makes me "somewhat sore" the following day but no more than that. I also put an emphasis on sleep, "clean" nutrition and supplement with electrolytes. Works really well for me.

As for low intensity cardio, I feel it's good for me, but I have to say it can be a struggle to keep it low. The feeling of "I want to push harder" can sometimes be overwhelming.

A possible link could be that people head out to ride because of full moons. The number of accidents then scales with the number of rides.

In other news, guns don't kill people, people do.

But guns sure help.

Maybe, but Elon Musk has a big enough political footprint to compensate.

You're afraid, I get it. So am I. We'll all die someday. So will everyone and everything, at some point. It's not good or bad. It's not a matter of faith or ideology. It's scary and we don't want it and we fight it with everything we got. That's also a part of being alive.

I'm just concerned with the possibility of us "winning over death" and how it would transform everything. It's not another cure for an illness or another 100 years to live. It's no one ever going away without someone else making them. For better or worse. That's not a part of life. That's an entirely different existence.

Thank you for explaining to me what I expect and think. It's much clearer to me now.

A death cult? Seriously? The fact I think the inevitability if death a good thing doesn't make me a worshipper. You're just being offensive.

I find the notion of stopping aging, and by proxy "natural death", a bad one. I welcome our turn.

But why would I think that way? I listened to the recording, it sounds human to me. Why would I need to crunch further data?

I listened to the recording in the article, and it sounds like a human. Further, it sounds like the same human. And I found myself reading the emotional message behind the sounds. So...yeah, it's an interesting theory, but I think it's more likely a prank or someone making a point.

Something similar comes up in Buddhism. The concept that pain is inevitable, but suffering isn't. You will feel pain, because that's part of life, but suffering is you holding on to the pain or trying to prevent/stop it. I think it does "let the world in", but doesn't hold on to it as it's passing through. If that makes any sense.

Ah. Obviously.

So yeah, how is a CDN centralizing your infra? You could just have your CNAMEs point to a different provider or directly to your gateways. Or you could even go down the multi CDN path, and have someone like ns1 automatically redirect your CNAMEs to an alternate CDN on a per-geo basis to overcome local failures.

It's just another SaaS component in your system. You could self host if you're willing to take on the ownership challenge, and at certain scale it would even be more cost effective.

I can't tell if you're being cynical or actually mean it.

Care to clarify so I could take the mandatory contrarian approach?

The original discussion was around price-performance of physical servers vs cloud VMs. That being the case, it's not a clean a distinction as you describe it. It would be more along buying a few trucks and taking them to the garage when needed (which is rare in small numbers) vs renting many more vans, for higher margin, just to avoid the garage.

Not really. Vaxiin identifies a system going down via a dead man's switch, then goes out and grabs a screenshot out-of-band, runs OCR on it and matches reaction rules against the resulting text. Reactions might be ipmi commands, keystrokes, HTTP requests or a combination of the above.

It might make sense to add an Ansible type of reaction as well, though I'm unsure of the scenario.

Feel free to let then know :-)

I think abstracting ipmitool is nice but it's just a building block. The real killer is when you put it all together - recognizing a system is down, and bringing it back up automatically despite having no working OS. It might require using ipmitool. But it might also require clearing state in a provisioning system via an HTTP call. Or sending some keystrokes.

It's about moving beyond manual recovery when no OS is present.

We actually know how to solve that.

What we haven't figured out yet is who's the buyer.

OP here.

And to top it off, it seems like it's all undocumented know-how. You have to be a practitioner to pick it up.

We find that the tools are focused on all sorts of inventory (DCIM) and provisioning. Processes are homegrown based on whatever ticketing system you have in place. That's what we're looking to change.

So far it feels like the colo side aren't hyped around introducing tools to automate things. It's like their jobs are at risk. And the customer side is bent on building their own tooling from scratch.

We have found some early adopters, but they're hard to come by. Even when we can quantity savings in money and time to market. Not to mention engineering frustration.

Would love to have a conversation around this!

Yes, this is what we're looking for.

We're wondering if automating this headache to some SaaS that offers BoM templating, compatibility validation, interchangeable parts and such, could be of interest to such an org. Essentially they'd be left with approvals and the rest would be stepping through an automated workflow. WDYT?

We came across this time and time again, even when the procuring team was "an ops team". Our solution was to automate the boilerplate stuff, like the NICs, PSUs, etc. So the order would focus on the compute and IO stuff (though they often struggled with RAID controllers too). We were thinking of switching to a "how much capacity and iops do you need?" method and breaking that down to spec automatically. Or even a "give me a baseline server and a performance multiplier per capacity, read/write, etc". In case they didn't know the actual numbers.

Not sure if it would hold?

I was actually fairly pleased with Jira. Or rather the results of putting in the effort to build the flows we wanted.

Sure, building the forms and the workflow is an annoying experience. If Jira admin hasn't set up a good separation of templates, things get mixed up and cluttered (for project admin tasks). And it feels like you're working for the system instead of it working for you (again, when building your flows).

Still, once you get used to Jira's way of putting things together, building what you want becomes "not so bad". And you can have pretty much whatever process you want in place.

I think devs dislike it because it's riddled with layers upon layers of abstractions targeting enterprise deployments. Meaning if you want something quick and simple, it's probably the wrong tool.

But at the end of the day, it's about the process you build and making sure the tools serve it (mostly on the daily work level rather than admin). Jira let me refine the process and didn't get in the way of others on the team. Frankly, we liked it.

Not sure why this is all over the news?

> 3. It makes perfect sense to me that you don't feel like you're getting better in that environment. The rockstar developer is a myth, but the band is not. You get better by practicing with other talented people.

I can't stress this enough. Being part of a team you appreciate helps a lot. First and foremost, with burnout. Knowing you have teammates you can share daily stuff with, and lean on when you need to, is a lot. Feeling like they can do the same with you, makes it an even more powerful experience.

All in all, it sounds like, at this point, you should optimize for people and not tech excellence. The latter can follow when you have a supportive environment.

As others suggested, take some time off to put out the fire. Then move on to find a job in a team you think you might like.

btw, during the time off, things might get worse mentally before they get better. Simply because you won't be able to hide from your thoughts and feelings anymore. It could do you good to set simple, achievable daily goals that serve a small purpose and not aim for something big (like learning a new skill). Stuff like going to the beach every day, or meditating for 10 minutes (without the purpose of "learning meditation" or "doing it right").

Be kind to yourself, your life isn't a race to be won. Maybe more like a hike through the wilderness.

Much appreciated.

Anyone in particular you have in mind? Other than Michael Dell, I mean.