The first ten on today’s playlist:
Day: December 5, 2023, 11:43 PM
Sys
I applied for a sysadmin position and I’m afraid I’ve bitten off far more than I can chew.
For some reason most programmers think they can be good sysadmins because programming is “harder.” Then they try it and become disillusioned right quick. Most fail at being sysadmins because they are completely different skills and require totally different types of thinking.
However, I’ve seen absurdities on Hacker News like, “Why do we need all these networking guys? I found my IP address at the command line easily.”
And, “Why do we need DBAs? I installed Microsoft SQL Sever and it was just ‘click, click, click.'”
The depths of cluelessness there is astounding. They see being a sysadmin the same way. But in a lot of ways programmers are the physicists of the IT world. They believe their insight into programming allows them to know and understand everything in less than a second that takes mere mortals years to learn and get truly skilled at. And, as with physicists, they are completely, totally, laughably wrong.
Not all programmers are this way. But most are.
Je déteste voir
The idea that some incel Silicon Valley dipshit mook who thinks the Louvre is something you do to a car knows how I should use my computer better than I do is fucking absurd. How did we let these clowns get so much control?
Box Up
My friend, whose first language is not English, could not remember the word “speakers” briefly and came up with “song boxes.”
I think that’s a perfectly good name for them! I just hope she doesn’t do that in her role as translator and occasional interpreter. (She was very tired when that happened.)
Worse Alt
Why do the higher ups in offices like to work such long hours?
This terrible disease is more common in Boomers, who actually got something out of it. Not a lot, but something.
For many people who have no hobbies, aren’t particularly social, and are not all that smart, working long hours was and is preferable to the alternative of no social life and boredom. Many of these types also dislike their own families, so spending time in the office is for them a good alternative to their existence at home.
And some people do honestly like to work. No one knows why, but they do.
Old Is New
It’s funny that people in my field think containers and virtualization are new. Not even close. Virtualization was invented and actively used in the 1960s and containers were a thing in the 1970s.
But no one in my field knows really any history at all. And it makes the whole thing vastly worse.
RAM BAM
Modern browser memory use is in-fucking-sane:
I have 128GB of RAM in my iMac for a reason. But dang. I used to run a browser on 8MB of RAM in 1995.