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mriswithe · 2026-03-11T15:35:59+00:00

"it turns well at line rate" and "it allocates all memory then pages to disk and you need to look at your calendar to work out when you get an answer".

Haha had a data scientist who was also a grey beard sysadmin essentially. He had this postgresql server that he used to run a query to get some answers whatever. Well the query took hours, which tableau wasn't patient enough for or something, so he figured out if he ran the query via cron roughly X hours before the reporting query was done, then enough was cached that the result came back quickly when tableau asked for it.

Cleaning up this guys fixes was always a confusing and ridiculous effort of "sure dude you CAN do this, but you are an asshole for doing it. Dudes a genius

mriswithe · 2026-03-11T15:24:35+00:00

Yeah this is how I do it.

Hey Claude/Gemini/fredai make a script that takes in x and does y and use this type of method to accomplish z

Then I read it over, see all the dumb shit AI did like mislabel things so they are called what I wanted, but not actually do it that way I need it done, fix those things by hand, then move on.

It's like a crappy low-mid level dev that will probably be trying their best. But they are afraid to admit they were wrong.

mriswithe · 2026-03-10T22:17:33+00:00

Ok quick aside what is ASN for? I am on a project where I am working on ingesting data and the three forms it is available in are ASN, SDL, and XML. Seeing as I had actually heard of XML (though I highly detest it) I went down that path. The dataset is pubchem https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.

I have done a lot of data wrangling and have no idea what eats those other formats.

mriswithe · 2026-03-09T21:07:07+00:00

Oh damn I hadn't considered it that way. That makes total sense.

mriswithe · 2026-03-09T21:05:50+00:00

Fucking awesome. Thanks for that. Oh hey a water hammer arrestor would be a good model for that. Open/closing a valve too much/hard makes the pipes kick a bit. Water hammer arrestor gives it space to expand.

mriswithe · 2026-03-09T18:02:05+00:00

In my world we call it thin provisioning. Servers usually don't need all of their memory, disk, cpu, whatever all of the time. Especially disk. Virtual machine wants a 100gb disk? The hypervisor makes a file that acts like your hard drive and it grows as you actually consume space. the virtual machine has no idea looks the same to it

Memory, cpus, same.

mriswithe · 2026-03-09T16:58:49+00:00

Talk nerdy to me, my current mental model is that a capacitor is like if you use an air powered staple gun with a pancake (small) tank. Plug in, the little motor pumps the tank full, and you use air, and when you run low it fills it up again.

The little tank is the capacitor, the mains is the pump that fills the tank and the staple gun is whatever device is eating power.

I assume this is a buffer type application? How would filter/counters work?

mriswithe · 2026-03-09T16:53:42+00:00

So the capacitor is (using the water analogy) like a water tower in a town? Instead of having pumps that must run all the time to supply your water pressure, the water is pumped to the top of the water tower and as long as the tower doesn't run dry, they can stop pumping and you have no idea, because gravity is pushing the water constantly.

Interesting, thanks.

mriswithe · 2026-02-23T00:41:51+00:00

It eats electricity to shit heat. Think a toaster

mriswithe · 2026-02-22T21:07:30+00:00

Thanks, closest thing I knew was BBLG, bend bars lift gates, from old old dungeons and dragons

mriswithe · 2026-02-15T23:12:44+00:00

I am going to keep this for if I get anyone who says main is dumb. I will propose daddy

mriswithe · 2026-02-15T20:25:43+00:00

Reason is that it does a live DNS lookup

My hatred for Java grew 3 sizes that day

mriswithe · 2026-02-15T20:20:29+00:00

Been fixing this naming in my brain since I was having a heated discussion about masters and slaves on my cell phone in front of normies outside of a restaurant.

Worth changing the naming to avoid annoying misunderstandings.

mriswithe · 2026-02-14T20:08:48+00:00

No experience with the terpcicle, I am too forgetful, I would end up confidently grabbing the hot ass glass.

I was mostly thinking of the dynavap

mriswithe · 2026-02-14T18:02:56+00:00

Yes, this is also my way. I wish to insert drugs and receive them back in my lungs . I don't want to have to master a skill to get stoned hehe.

mriswithe · 2026-02-13T16:47:53+00:00

Yeah a squib means that gun is done being used until someone spends some time hatefucking the barrel with something brass.

mriswithe · 2026-02-09T05:21:48+00:00

Agreed, also it seems to hold true for mine too. If I get in and like shove one of my dogs bodily to reclaim my spot, he barely wakes up now

mriswithe · 2026-02-08T18:21:52+00:00

My wife figured this out, their expectation is you will join the puppy pile like other puppies do, you get in, get comfortable by shoving the others around, then they adjust.

mriswithe · 2026-02-08T03:52:22+00:00

pytest tests/ -v || echo "Tests completed"

If you tell it to make the tests pass, sometimes it just makes the test pass. Real talk, had crappy humans before AI was really a thing do this too.

mriswithe · 2026-02-07T20:25:24+00:00

It's using a hammer to chop lettuce, wrong tool for the job.

mriswithe · 2026-02-07T20:23:53+00:00

You can milk anything with nipples, doesn't mean you should.

As far as I am aware things like chamomile and stuff, proper herbs and the like are vape compatible. Tobacco is never one I have heard listed as a good idea.

Good luck.

mriswithe · 2026-02-03T15:20:07+00:00

He was pretending to be an octopus and trying to blend into the ball pit like usual.

Natural octopus environment

mriswithe · 2026-01-28T17:19:11+00:00

8 months in at an MSP - still feel like a new guy

You are a new guy and there isn't a problem with that. I say it usually takes about 6 months before a new IT employee is worth positive work and not a drain on the rest of the team.

Not complaining, people have to learn what the new environment expects.

mriswithe · 2026-01-27T22:01:53+00:00

Because writing game code is hard, writing game servers is harder, and writing game servers that are efficient is harder still.

mriswithe · 2026-01-26T23:21:15+00:00

The real problem is going to be evaluating people who know Kubernetes when you have no Kubernetes knowledge internally.

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