that moment when you turn on your server and walk upstairs with some tea and some snacks and get all cozy and you try to SSH to it and it's not there and you nmap the entire network and it's not there and you realize you have to get back up and go downstairs from your cozy position and this upsets you so deeply that you feel the immediate need to first post to fedi about it :pensive_blob:
@gsuberland my guess is that their management is under pressure, interally or externally, to follow what I'm trying to get the internet to canonize as Datskovskiy's Law:
"Employers much prefer that workers be fungible, rather than maximally productive"
(Both their own maintainers and the external users' workers who sign huge contracts)
been thinking (for quite a while) about getting quails and putting them in my frontyard..
every time I look on second hand sites like marktplaats there appears to be someone who has some for sale, making it very tempting to immediately go for it.
I'd have to put more thorough fencing all around it though. And a little house for shelter/sleep.
.. but those are available on there too and make me want to get going with it even more because it's not even that expensive and aaa pls help fedi 😭
@gsuberland second iteration: dammit I did a board with extra wide current traces in order to parallelize multiple LDOs and a bunch of little wiggly ones for the 0.1 ohm resistor according to their data sheet, and that has a 200% cost adder
(Maybe they don't cost that much, but there's something weird with fabs making those IIRC)
@jacqueline in a word, bring everyone across the Moral Event Horizon with him
That is one of their more sinister tactics. It seems stupid until you realize the certain demographic it works very well on. It's not written for you to read
@gsuberland legit how to get your Rust project to build everything it could, before that one stupid FFI crate's build script blew up (until recent versions finally added a -k flag)
That moment when you attach a loopback to a fiber at the spine but there's still no light coming back at the rack, so you attach a loopback closer to the rack and it works, but you then go back to the spine and there's still light coming out of both fibers, even though it's still disconnected at the rack because the loopback is attached there :dragn_thinkflare:
@anthropy I knew about the loopback interface, so you're saying the fiber is more like that. Interesting
The term first made me think of the "dumb ethernet switch" case, where a "loop back" is a mistake: mirror/uplink ports flow traffic, which (often through other switches) accidentally ends up back at one of the switch ports, which is forwarded to the uplink port, which goes back to the switch...