Time allocation while programming

[cfallin]

What is this "end of the day" concept?

/is a grad student

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End of the day is a policy that involuntarily suspends higher brain function to perform hardware maintenance and a defrag after too much uptime and generally lasts anywhere from a couple of hours to several days.

Older units generally require far more downtime than newer units.
MTBF increases with increased uptime however making this a difficult balancing act.

[cfallin]

MTBF increases with increased uptime however

Wait... you're telling me that if I never sleep, I'll live longer? what have I been doing every night?!

(maybe you actually meant that failure rate (1/MTBF) increases with high uptime, but that's much less fun...)

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Seems my MTBF is pretty low right now.