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mjayhn commented on Sleep duration is associated with brain structure and cognitive performance onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d... · Posted by u/mcguire

mikkom · 5 years ago

Try Meditation. It really helps sleep quality.

Another thing is not drinking caffeine AT ALL. My sleep quality got much better after I stopped drinking coffee. Strangely I can drink as much tea as I want but coffee makes me sleep badly.

mjayhn · 5 years 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.

mjayhn commented on I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions · Posted by u/MarkusWandel

TonyTrapp · 5 years ago

> Then I accidentally yanked a cable

USB-C is so outrageously bad in this regard. I have a smartphone on my desk, connected via USB3 for debugging. At some point it started reconnecting if I just slightly touch the phone or cable, which is extra fun if it happens mid-deployment.

mjayhn · 5 years 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) so I'm diligent about fast/good cables.

I have no working usbc-usbc cables right now. It's wild how quickly mine go bad and most of the time they're just plugged into a phone once a day (driving), if that.

I just have a drawer full of dead cables with some sort of usbc end..

mjayhn commented on Poll: Have you experienced depressive symptoms over the past two weeks? · Posted by u/miduil

fasteddie31003 · 5 years ago

I hate to be that guy but 2020 has been one of the best years of my life. My girlfriend and I moved out of our 600 sq/ft apt Oakland apartment for Colorado. We now have a good sized house with a large garage for wood working and my new found love of tig welding. It's honestly more walkable/bikable here than Oakland. My car is unlocked with things people could steal in it right now and I don't have anxiety about it.

mjayhn · 5 years 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. Today we're helping unhoused Coloradans have water to drink at Benedict Fountain Park. We do this every Sunday.

https://twitter.com/believeEan/status/1327988637468827649

mjayhn commented on Poll: Have you experienced depressive symptoms over the past two weeks? · Posted by u/miduil

mjayhn · 5 years 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 option before declaring it depression. Like it's some horrible disease you'd never want to catch, like any of us have the option.

I really hate that it took this but I've had my feelings/depression talked down so much by people who don't understand depression, don't believe it's a real thing, etc.

I've had so many conversations with friends this year that go like this; "I've lost my entire personality, I can't motivate myself to get out of bed.. whats wrong with me, is this depression?"

Yes, yes it is. Maybe it's temporary, maybe it's acute or chronic, but that is depression. You never know how long it will last, what it will take from you or how quickly you can overcome it.

Be kind to people.

edit: Reading this again I can't shake that some of you are just so far removed from actually understanding your own feelings and emotions that you can't even recognize that you're depressed. It's absolutely fascinating. "What are depressive symptoms?"

I'll say that one positive of this struggle throughout my life is that I've learned which emotions and feelings I can trust or let guide me. I often don't get it right and focus on the negative but I'm very glad I'm cognizant and it's a bright burning fire of "Yeah I'm depressed this week oh boy let's work on this, I need to make some changes."

mjayhn commented on SRE Teams: Hash sreteams.substack.com/p/h... · Posted by u/andriosr

BossingAround · 5 years ago

My anecdotal experience is "SRE" means a sysadmin who has learned Python for some automation (of course using some automated management tools, such as Ansible or Terraform). Is this the case for most "non-FAANG" and "non-startup" companies?

mjayhn · 5 years 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 did for me to learn to write grpc endpoints in golang.

I've been in ops for 10+ years building platforms. I'd love to be able to spend 6 hours a day coding but when I'm jugging 10-20 different products that have 1-10+ different languages involved (go, python, nodejs, javascript, ruby, ansible, terraform, puppet, chef) you really have a hard time getting super good at one thing. So most of us have to get good at one language just to pass the code tests, then it languishes because when launching a product I then spend 1-3 months writing something completely different out of biz necessity.

The most important skill to me for an SRE/Ops is curiosity and pattern recognition, and #1 humility/empathy.

mjayhn commented on SRE Teams: Hash sreteams.substack.com/p/h... · Posted by u/andriosr

dilyevsky · 5 years ago

You just stumbled upon same issue google had - sre-swe is really tough to hire for. The concept is good but you need software engineers w/ systems background and they’re relatively rare and most good ones are already at faang

mjayhn · 5 years 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 their SWEs contribute to mentoring them on SWE stuff.

Pipe dream of mine, for sure.

There's been at least 3 G SREs that have posted in here about what they do day to day and it's literally no different from any other non-FAANG SRE/Ops role any of us do at various scales except for the gatekeeping.

mjayhn commented on SRE Teams: Hash sreteams.substack.com/p/h... · Posted by u/andriosr

saalweachter · 5 years ago

Is it, uhh, common knowledge that the important thing isn't how the team is organized or how they exactly do their job but that there are engineers paid and incentivized and empowered to keep the status quo running flawlessly (or as close there to as possible) rather than being paid and incentivized and empowered to launch cool new features or make the money graphs go up?

The problem at most companies is that if you have two engineers, Alice and Betsy, and Alice launches a change that generated marketing buzz that gets spun into sales, and Betsy launches a change that prevented the site from going down over the seasonal rush, Alice gets promoted and Betsy gets told to work on more impactful projects.

Which isn't to say that Alice's work isn't important or promotion worthy, but you need an incentive structure that rewards both.

mjayhn · 5 years 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 angry customers, cto or angry SREs.

That's my 10yrs+ ops experience, at least, and this is hugely exacerbated if Alice is put on such a high pedestal that they don't even have to be on-call with Betty at any point of the lifecycle.