sussexby (u/sussexby)

sussexby commented on Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure? hadijaveed.me/2024/09/08/... · Posted by u/hjaveed

mianos · a year ago

Who is going to get a new job without k8s on their resume. :)

Seriously, I think a lot of people do things the hard way to learn large scale infrastructure. Another common reason is 'things will be much easier when we scale to a massive number of clients', or we can dynamically scale up on demand.

These are all valid to the people building this, just not as much to founders or professional CTOs.

sussexby · a year ago

Just take a look at the level of complexity in home lab subreddits!

I don’t quite get if people do it for interest, for love of the tech, or if they are technocratic and believe in levelling up their skill to get k8s on their CV like you say.

All I think is “this looks painful to manage”!

sussexby commented on Does your startup need complex cloud infrastructure? hadijaveed.me/2024/09/08/... · Posted by u/hjaveed

sussexby · a year ago

I think this goes for any technology group with any stage of company. I work in networking and genuinely of the product I sell, my customers only need a small amount of core functionality and default settings - the rest is “bells and whistles”.

But still, no matter what, the odd customer demands they need all these complexities turned on for no discernible reason.

IMO it’s a far better approach with any platform to deploy the minimum and turn things on if you need to as you develop.

Incidentally, I’ve been exposed to “traditional” cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS) through work and tried a few times to use them for personal projects in recent years and get bewildered by the number of toggles in the interface and strange (to me) paradigms. I recently tried Cloudflare Workers as a test of an idea and was surprised how simple it was.

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sussexby · a year ago

Prepare your child for the path, not the path for your child.

sussexby commented on Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently ben.balter.com/2023/08/04... · Posted by u/chmaynard

hypeit · 2 years ago

I have to admit as someone who enjoys WFH and would never work in an office again, that having co-workers like you is one of the main reasons. You should work on not relying so much on others. You may be benefiting from all that social "charging up", but you're taking that from the person on the other side of the conversation.

I work to make money, not to fill someone's social void. You'll be happier if you explore the root cause of your issue and get a little more comfortable with yourself.

sussexby · 2 years ago

The root cause of my “issue” is I’m human and I’ve evolved to work with people face-to-face, not through a computer.

I’m not yearning for social interaction because I need a friend. I’ve got friends and they’re not at my job.

I’m yearning for the variety of different communication methods I have in a physical domain with the added bonus that I can change the environment I’m in to accommodate different tasks.

sussexby commented on Remote work requires communicating more, but less frequently ben.balter.com/2023/08/04... · Posted by u/chmaynard

sussexby · 2 years ago

Currently in crisis because I simply can't handle communication in remote work. For something I do for the majority of my working day, I feel devoid of human interaction to such an extent that it's massively affecting my mental health.

I regularly find myself clock-watching until the next time I can talk to someone because everyone is always busy - there are no water coolers or coffee breaks to stitch in between.

Even if you create the virtual coffee break and have a chat with people, often we're pushed to abandon it - presumably because it's flipped from an opportunistic (oh, we're all of the phone, let's go grab a coffee) to a scheduled event which a) gets dropped and b) doesn't naturally recur.

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hn_throwaway_99 · 2 years ago

Amen. I've been having a growing sense of an existential crisis over the past few months, and while a lot of it is due to the general fear of "will AI put me out of a job in the next 5 years", more of it has to do with fact that I'm just uneasy about where tech is headed. I spent my entire career diving head first into technology, and for the first half of it I was supremely optimistic about it. Things have obviously soured over the past decade as I've seen the negative impacts the internet has on our public discourse, mental health (including my own), etc.

But now, seeing what AI has on the horizon, I'm honestly just like "I need to go for a fucking walk, upon which I will throw my phone into the river."

sussexby · 2 years ago

I feel I could have written this exact reply myself.

Perhaps this is the first time I’ve been properly challenged by a new wave of technology straight from go and perhaps a sign of age. However, I still have misgivings about some of the tech of the last decade and its lasting negative impacts.

It makes me want to step away from tech and do something closer to the physical world.

sussexby commented on The magic of traveling alone yuvalaizenman.com/the-mag... · Posted by u/aizyuval

sussexby · 2 years ago

Travelling alone for me has yielded two massive benefits:

* I see more than I am expecting as I meet more people. Solo travel is lonely and you want to speak to others, when you do you get new experiences. Theres nothing stopping you talk to people when you travel with others but the yearning for interaction isn’t as strong. Ex: meeting someone in Beijing and going for a proper local breakfast eating things I’d never imagined.

* It challenges me to overcome my comforts. I’ve experienced far more by pushing my boundaries beyond what I thought possible. Ex: cycling the US Pacific Coast and needing shelter/resources and accepting the help you can get only to find kind people, new experiences and great local recommendations.

Almost every time I share stories at least a couple of stories come out of times I have travelled solo.

sussexby commented on Honestly, It's Probably the Phones noahpinion.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/jinjin2

sussexby · 3 years ago

Humanity needs constraint.

Beautiful art is created with constraint - here's a statue I carved purely out of one of the most difficult materials, marble.

The most significant speeches of our time are delivered once, not on repeat.

Even, on topic with the post, in my opinion Twitter's early attractiveness was the challenge of posting on a subject within the character limit constraint.

Our default state as a species is to find ways to survive. Constraint flexes our brains to develop innovative ways to reach a goal. Information about other people is a significant asset in survival because we're built to learn things from others and to use that knowledge to further out survival. Simply standing in my house and saying "oh wow" will make my kids run to me to ask what it is.

The current information age is tapping on all the systems we've evolved to survive in terms of information gathering, it's just that knowing that someone is eating a delicious meal in the city is not critical to survival - but once you know the information you can't unknow it leading to information overload. We're coaxed into feeling like we should care and we should know but it's a huge tax on the brain to deal with the complexity of the world.

"Could I interest you in everything all of the time." - Bo Burnham

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sgraz · 3 years ago

This is the most "HN" post in a while. Love it.

sussexby · 3 years ago

There's a beauty in people finding and fixing these seemingly tiny gaps in their daily lives. It reeks of the serenity in someone's world where 1) this is a problem they're willing to invest time in, 2) they have the time to resolve the problem, and 3) they seem to really enjoy it.

It's in my mind akin to the master craftsperson perfecting their work over the years.

True vocation.