mjayhn

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by mjayhn 6y ago
Green tea (maybe others) has l-theanine which takes away the jittery feeling/anxiety of caffeine. Might be why. I really like caffeine + ltheanine pills.
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I'm burning through something like 10-20 usbc cords a year. It's outrageous. I'm buying Ankers and "good" brands too. My car has ubsc to usbc and android auto and it used to be a pain (usba to usbc slowed it down) s
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I mean this is literally all stuff you could have done prior to 2020 and I guarantee you would have had a more enjoyable time doing all of this in 2019. Since you're new to CO I hope you'll also contribute to the local issues. Tod
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by mjayhn 6y ago
As someone who has dealt with depression their entire life it's really something to start to see people who have never, ever dealt with it begin to try to compartmentalize their lives from their depression and look for every other opti
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by mjayhn 6y ago
This is what an SRE actually is to me, but not to G. Google seems to think they need to create SREs out of SWEs. It took me far, far longer to learn distsys, network engineering, storage and everything else that goes into a platform than it
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I mean Google could stop being completely elitist with SREs needing to come from SWE backgrounds and hire the thousands of SRE/Sysadmin/Ops types who do know systems very well but have a lot/bit less SWE background and let th
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by mjayhn 6y ago
In my experience, Alice moves on to a cool new project to greenfield while Betsy gets stuck supporting Alices creation until they eventually get on-call burnout and quit. Alice checks in only when there's enough noise made either by an
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Yes! Thank you, I haven’t been lucky enough to try it. Always slack nowadays..
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Purely anecdotal but I think it’s from irc/aim users (a lot of millennials/genx including myself) since long form communication wasn’t really a thing on there. I see some people write paragraphs as messages on discord servers and
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by mjayhn 6y ago
You still get those questions because you’re a shitty developer interviewing at shitty development shops. That’s it. Nobody gives one fuck that you’re a boomer, you just act like one. Stick to your namesake, the “doesn’t talk” part. We don’
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Oh of course you did, my point was more that you got those questions but also a lot of your peers continued asking those stupid questions. I remember when I was hired after getting a manhole question; the genx managers (i was probably 19) u
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by mjayhn 6y ago
It’s important to the schools to generate income and whatever weird rivalry keeps people going. If you aren’t in a rural town sports players are probably a tiny, tiny percentage of your class and I think it’s better today but they weren’t e
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by mjayhn 6y ago
This is very far off from my millennial experience 1; I’m a 34yo millennial, 2; my siblings are ~40ish yo gen-xers, 3; my parents are 65yo boomers. My genx siblings all bought massive houses around 2008 when I was starting my career which i
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I'm late but can't edit, if anyones curious I just found a great article on it; https://itnext.io/getting-started-with-pulumi-sdk-22dc0b7ab8...
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Well there's a decent chance you're going to be working for millennial and gen-X'ers nowadays. We're the ones who were hiding all our online lives (still) from our parents. I'm glad my Myspace was deleted to my teen
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by mjayhn 6y ago
This is neat. I really want to make some sort of sre/distsys/ops training ground to go through a mixture of systems design and operational skills (troubleshooting, observability, firedrills) but the interfaces and integrations of
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by mjayhn 6y ago
You might really like pulumi. I'm kind of on the opposite end, ops>swe so tons of IAC and i'm using pulumi now as I'm more swe focused https://www.pulumi.com/ (ive no relation to them)
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by mjayhn 6y ago
> You people Us citizens?
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Don't forget to send often marginalized people through as well!
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I'm adhd and bp2 and while I can tell some of my symptoms apart a bunch of them seem so similar (reading texts and comprehending nothing for weeks, executive function issues, racing thoughts, emotional outbursts) I'm constantly tr
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I think there's a plugin for it but workspaces would be much more valuable to me if they weren't a file you saved. The idea, I assume, is something like "these 10 repos with these 15 plugins are how I deploy this project.&quo
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I'm in ops and this is a huge, huge headache for those of us on our end at companies where we're not given Google SRE powers to control release trajectory based on failure budgets of some sort. I've worked at too many places
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I love Graham Hancock as "ALIENS?!" smut but come on.
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Yeah I just type the zip in to each ISP I find in that area (another fun search).. it sucks. You eventually get rate limited and it will make you constantly change addresses, so just incognito mode it. Some of the ISPs will have the distrib
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I didn't know it was a big thing in MA. But thanks for letting me know, I'll check it out. I hope to go back to the NE/E in the next few years (Maine/VT/MA). I tried to move to a small town this year, one that was w
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by mjayhn 6y ago
You're not wrong, I forget the Gov calls 100Mbps broadband (thankfully up from 10Mbps). I wasn't specific enough. I personally, and I do move every few years to new States/Cities (and recently trying to move to smaller mount
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by mjayhn 6y ago
They almost never have decent internet if you're someone trying to wfh. Most of them are POTS lines only. The ones that have muni fiber would be a possible option but you're making definite trade offs elsewhere. Pubtrans, bike lan
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Oh totally in team slacks, I'm talking more about the "do this as soon as you wake up" DM you types, usually the "Hey.."'ers.
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by mjayhn 6y ago
I'm vehemently disagreeing about using email as a communications means in 2020 when omnichannels, slack, ticket-systems, etc exist. I don't want a mail client pinging me with mostly trash throughout the day between All Hand emails
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by mjayhn 6y ago
Yeah I've finally gotten enough experience to feel like I've run the gamut of management styles and the best advice I can give is that managers need to explicitly ask questions to some people and genuinely work to improve their pe

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