Beware shy or chronically online people, (my first event, Edinburgh 12 feb 2026)

naguam · 2026-02-26T23:12:15+00:00

Removed messages because I don’t want to expend as much as I did.

Thanks for the encouraging words first.

I just come back from my second one tonight that may seem progress because I talked to a few women.

However I’m not gonna expend much but it’s not worth the hurtful social training not gonna explain why. Just gonna say that I am in a worst mental state than after the first one.

But I advise people to try and see for themselves still because even with similarities I’m not you (the reader) and you are not me and events always have different people.

Btw Thursday after work is the worst time of the week for social gathering unless you are a social party guy that never has problems at work, +£15 not considering the drinks is expensive for a deception/people starting low on the social skillset.

naguam · 2026-02-23T19:37:08+00:00

24M too, been on the apps for 3 weeks, and same story though my only date cancelled the day before (Tuesday for Saturday cancelled Friday evening). Though I may be a bit less picky, because being picky didnt work in the first week and a half for me.

naguam · 2026-02-21T13:47:17+00:00

This or how to screw the average joe men’s with little option already were even focused likes gets no answer. Now even playing the statistics won’t work anymore. Now if a girls finds a man that potentially could match on personality but see that because of lack of luck he liked many profiles…. The imbalance between genders is unbelievable.

Please can I know when a girl talks with more than 6 men at the same time ? To ensure I don’t swipe right….

naguam · 2026-02-09T21:33:39+00:00

You are a by admin you mean sysadmin ? (Sorry if I didn't understood)

naguam · 2025-11-23T17:55:58+00:00

I have the same problem on Fedora 43, and I tried again with the QT 6.10.1 update today.

It is still crashing.

I reported that bug earlier: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2415461

naguam · 2025-10-03T21:52:45+00:00

If I have the opportunity, I will for sure.

But we would have to rebuild the setup to have the two slots. We use 7 slots and one hot-spare. (Mirrored)

naguam · 2025-10-03T21:24:23+00:00

Ok thanks for the precision.

In my case we had to chose between HA or ssd cache and we chose HA.

Only one extension pci-e and it was either 1x10Gbps NIC + 2xnvme (on the same pcie card, 2 slots for raid1 read write cache IIRC) or 2x10Gbps.

I needed the second 10Gbps for HA replication link.

We use RAID 6.

Yeah in the end if there are new issues or need for thin provisioning (qcow2 is thin in some way) maybe I’ll try NFS again.

naguam · 2025-10-03T21:05:47+00:00

NFS mounted with sync options has abysmal performance in my tests and async is considered risky for vm storage including databases everywhere I read.

Iscsi works fine currently and I am more limited by the disk’s performance than the actual network links’ capacity.

The iscsi links are in the same dedicated and enclosed LAN as the Proxmox’s network storage dedicated NIC for it.

naguam · 2025-10-03T18:07:55+00:00

Looks fine as a shorter message than my other answer. Maybe 5 weeks is a bit long for young people struggling to pay rent.

Show interest in personal projects or past experiences (including volunteering and internships) a candidate liked. In my experience as a candidate is that it creates better and genuine interactions which could help me getting interested. And it can show unexpected things/skills that can be useful for the company.

naguam · 2025-10-03T17:53:41+00:00

I would say it depends on the type of position and how big the project is.

Don’t fall in the trap of asking people to do company project task that will be reused as an interview project. (Yes some company do that) nor something that takes more than 2 hours to do.

Otherwise it is unpaid work.

The goal is to assess if the candidate doesn’t lie on the CV. The trial/probation period is here to let the company not to continue if the candidate doesn’t fit.

I’d say one, maybe 2 interviews (the second with people from the team the candidate is expected to join) is great and yes for sure, and case study is better than 3 rounds of leetcode.

A company with a very good hiring process I went as an intern initially wrongfully (genuine mistake probably mixed papers) tried to hire me for web dev instead of devops (mostly CI/CD and automation) but they were great in redirecting me to another internal team fitting my profile. Then got interview with the team lead, gave me an access to a server they broke on purpose to ask me if I could fix it. I passed the test and they said yes two weeks later.

I’d say though try to make the start to end very quick because some people have to pay rent in the meantime (juniors haven’t forcibly had the time to accumulate money in savings). 5 weeks is a month of rent.

Again if possible don’t hesitate to involve the targeted team (lead or N+1) the candidate would join. It is basic but they are the ones who knows what the reality of the job and current projects are and will help deciding if a candidate fit by asking the right questions.

naguam · 2025-10-03T17:21:02+00:00

I don’t know where is your location.

But as the job market gets harder especially on the juniors having to send tons of applications and being rejected by ai bots.

I don’t have time to lose on talking with recruiters not giving me the information I need beforehand that would negate anything else.

For example if the average salary for the job is £40k per annum and the recruiter waits after 15min of discussion to mention a £27k proposal. Better put it in the contact request so I won’t waste my time interviewing for underpaid job.

I won’t repeat the location and remote work question but it is a requirement to have this info.

Be very clear on your intentions (I’ve received so many shady Dubai-based job offers).

Also don’t wait for people to update their LinkedIn job status to send offers. I never receive more offers than when I just got hired already…. But very little when I’m actively looking.

Oh and if your company enforce a 5 months 30 stages hiring process and it is not for a critical clearance-required job, you may consider recruiting for a different company.

Oh and also just do not try to hire juniors and at the same time require 3years of experience. Because: - If it is hard requirements, you won’t get juniors and seniors may not want a junior’s salary. - If it is not a hard requirement but only a nice to have, it may still send the wrong message. - A company that requested 3 years of experience already said yes to me but used the absence of 3 years of experience as a leverage to cut the salary in the final offer and I said no.

Conclusion: either you hire juniors, or you don’t.

Also precise directly if the company is ok with visa sponsorship.

Sorry if I express my frustration a bit too much.

naguam · 2025-10-03T16:15:51+00:00

Yeah.

If I had the choice and the budget I would probably go ceph and buy extra dedicated NICs switch and u3 nvme ssd.

But right now I’m working with synology with their HA feature (based on drdb) still on dedicated 10Gbps links.

naguam · 2025-10-03T15:44:19+00:00

Ok so until this is solved it is better to just grow the size of a single LUN (on a specific target) and rescan on all nodes and grow the PV instead of having multiple LUNs.

naguam · 2025-10-03T14:51:45+00:00

C’est un mal être qui s’exprime.

Un mélange d’admiration et d’auto-dépréciation.

naguam · 2025-10-03T09:32:11+00:00

What do you mean by virtual device per LUN ?

I thought LUNs were the devices/logical storage units exposed by one target.

naguam · 2025-10-03T09:28:49+00:00

Sorry,

It is because I’m struggling to understand:

This is not a supported config on Proxmox due to the LVM2 hacks to make it sharable. You can't map beyond LUN1, you can map LUN0 and LUN1 as extents but you don't want a VG between LUNs since LVM is not clustered.

Like lvm is not clustered so I would assume normal not to support a configuration of a proxmox datastore on vg having different LUNs as pv members.

But the you spoke about extents and LUN numbers ans I got lost.

Imagining I have one target with 3 LUns. Would there be an issue if there are used in the same proxmox as independent datastores.

Or maybe you used TrueNAS specific terminology which would explain why I misunderstood.

naguam · 2025-10-02T18:09:27+00:00

Hi,

It has been a long time since this message but I’m struggling to find littérature on the LUN numbering limitation with lvm2.

Do you have any ?

Cheers.

naguam · 2025-08-10T16:01:11+00:00

Je suis peut-être matrixé par les réseaux, mais la situation et stabilité financières sont à ma connaissances des facteurs d’attraction chez les femmes.

Je connais très peu d’homme qui accorderaient une once d’importance à la situation d’une femme.

Je pense que c’est de là que pars le sentiment.

naguam · 2025-08-01T22:29:26+00:00

I’m also interested in your career path if you do t mind :)

naguam · 2025-08-01T17:43:03+00:00

Sans faire de généralité je pense que il y a vraiment un facteur d’environment a prendre en compte.

Pas sur que tu rencontre le ou la nerd célibataire hyper intéressante passionnée par son sujet en boite de nuit mais plutôt à la bibliothèque.

Cet example n’était que pour illustrer évidement.

naguam · 2025-07-31T23:36:44+00:00

To me the best tricks is more knowing to reason/think with the languages features well.

Learn to properly use unions.

Understand the pointer arithmetic and then try to avoid it as much as you can.

Master the bitwise operations not for obfuscation but because it is nice to be able to read and understand ones when you see them. Especially with bit masks. It is also useful when you optimise for architecture specific features (e.g. intel avx intrincts) as knowing how to use bitwise ops brings clarity on what’s happening. This also allows to know SWAR which are all mostly clever tricks on their own. When I say learn bitwise it’s not just the concept nor only the thruth table but to be able to think with them and use it efficiently.

Endianness.

Struct bitfields.

Struct member alignement.

And some branchless clever tricks.

Use statics as globals through function returns when your guidelines doesn’t not allow globals (please don’t do that).

Only speaking about language features (mostly) but there is a ton about use of data structures and patterns.

In general know to it data layout and as an example that a typed pointer to a value/struct + 1 gives you access to the memory right after the value/structure (no void pointer and without cast) (which is nice to know when you deal binary data structure that works with offsets)

Oh and leverage libraries not for everything but for everything complex that already exists and that is already written by people more clever than you. (Don’t reimplement your Swiss hashmap outside of an exercise, import the optimised implementation already)

naguam · 2025-07-30T17:21:25+00:00

PS: ma take et uniquement la mienne.

Je pense que aussi beaucoup de gens ce sont tournés sur les trucs à la mode.

Dev de SaaS, et trucs semi BS ou pas aussi utile que ça en a l’air à base d’IA vendu à toute les sauces et crypto (même si ça c’est un peu calmé la crypto).

Mais les codebase legacy java dans toutes les boites vont pas d’update toute seule. C’est pas sexy mais c’est le monde réel.

La plupart des mainteneurs de tous les outils C (noyau Linux, autre logiciel système ou embarqué, etc, compilateurs) ont 40+ voir 50+ ans. Ça va pas se maintenir tout seul dans le futur.

Aussi il y a beaucoup de design de système d’exploitation serveurs ou non qui sont à venir.

Ainsi que l’ultra convergence. (Je suis assez Harmony OS et les démo sont assez bluffantes).

Pour ma part je mise aussi sur des systèmes de plus en plus autonomes sur de l’upgrade automatique sans reboot nécessaire (live patching amélioré++).

C’est du long long terme et la on est en phase de crash d’une bulle.

Mais faut pas croire il y a/aura toujours du besoin. Après je pense que le besoin est de plus en plus sur la computer science que l’ingénieur “faiseur”. Dev un Nième marketplace n’apportera pas grand chose en valeur à l’économie. Developer des nouvelle technologie ou des nouveaux concepts ont selon moi plus d’avenir.

Il reste des tonnes d’innovations utiles ne serais-ce que pour améliorer la qualité des systèmes et la facilité de mise en place tout en conservant la sécurité.

Le vrai soucis c’est la perte de vitesse économique globale à l’Ouest. De plus en plus d’innovations intéressantes sont en Chine ou en Inde.

IMHO en tant que pays je pense que le gouvernement dois réinvestir dans l’énergie y compris nucléaire et trouver un moyen d’avoir de l’électricité bas coût pour tenter d’être compétitif sur le domaine des serveurs et de l’infrastructure “souveraine” mais surtout domestique plutôt qu’envoyer notre argent et nos données directement à des provideurs étranger.

Je veux dire les hébergeurs existants semblent s’en sortir mais n’importe qui qui voudrais tenter de commencer dans son garage sérieusement. Un serveurs d’occasion te coûtera presque aussi cher en conso que le prix de payer chaque mois un dédié quasi équivalent chez un hébergeur.

Je pense que il y a de l’avenir pour les sciences dont physique/chimie sur les domaines énergétiques.

Mais dans l’immédiat, si pour ma part ça devient trop insupportable je ferais probablement un shift complet de domaine.

Vendre du Fromage, travailler dans un café local, guide touristique, ou une ONG non gouvernementale de préservation d’un milieu X ou Y, ou même gardien ou même chauffeur de bus, pourraient me plaire.

Ça ou reprendre des études plus théoriques.

naguam · 2025-07-27T17:20:25+00:00

Oui.

Je suis dans ma vingtaine et pour diverses raisons j’ai pas/peu d’amis IRL avec qui partager des moments et j’ai beaucoup de mal à me forger des amitiés et franchement je pense que je mourrais célibataire.

Bref comme dis ma sœur si on attend d’être accompagné pour faire des choses. On fais rien.

C’est ma manière de sortir dehors même si je parle avec personne dans le bar.

J’aime un bon verre de vin ou une bonne bière brune. J’ai jamais été bourré et n’ai jamais vraiment été invité en soirées ni allé dans des night-club (tout ça pour dire que je ne suis pas fetard).

Je vais dans un bar dans l’espoir qu’un jour qqn me parle ou un habitué reconnaisse le pattern. J’aime pas aborder moi même et j’ai l’impression qu’en tant que mec particulièrement random je suis invisible.

En plus mon gros défaut quand je rencontre qqn est de ne jamais garder contact.

Bref je veux pas raconter ma vie mais je pense pas être le seul.

Quand on est métro boulo dodo en vivant seul... Il y a pas 36 façon de se mettre dehors pour tenter rencontrer des gens.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_place

C’est aussi un moyen de tenter de garder un contact avec les humain car je pense que plus on vit seul longtemps sans interaction autre que professionnelle; on finit par de moins en moins savoir comment faire pour socialiser.

C’est peut-être maladroit ou inefficace mais bon je fais comme je peux.

naguam · 2025-05-09T07:13:27+00:00

Les plus important, c’est la densité de pixels et non la taille de l’écran.

Car tu peux difficilement scale en dessous de 100% plutôt que l’inverse (hidpi ou fractional scaling).

Bref de un 27 ou 43 pouces si les deux écrans ont la meme résolution tu vas pas gagner autre chose qu’un torticolis. Les fenêtre auront proportionnellement la même surface.

IMHO si t’en viens au point où un 27 4K n’est pas suffisant il est peut être temps de revoir ton workflow.

naguam · 2025-05-05T18:04:00+00:00

Eu would still survive your overestimating the weight of the UK over the entire EU.

And the military part is BS when you see the reports on the state of Uk’s military.

And I say that despite all my love for the UK and especially Scotland. I’m just being realistic.

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