• @xoggy
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    528 months ago

    It’s about the journey not the destination.

    • @Corbin
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      148 months ago

      Nailed it. I think about this a lot: a sysadmin is basically a manager of dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of computers. But management is a poor way of orchestrating human labor; small teams usually operate better without management. So, is there a better way to administer computer systems as well?

      • @[email protected]
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        88 months ago

        That’s a really interesting question, I don’t know what that might look like.

        As a biochemist, my brain naturally goes to the different hierarchical levels of increasing complexity in life. Like how eukaryotic amoebas are freed from some of the challenges that constrain bacteria (mitochondria really are awesome), and how similarly, the complexity ceiling is much higher for multicellular life than unicellular life.

        I just think a systems view of stuff is neat, and it’s cool to see how modularisation, coupling and specialisation work together

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        Since computers, unlike humans, lack intuition, I doubt that computers could organise themselves. So there probably always has to be a sysadmin, even if the sysadmin is a computer themself.

  • @[email protected]
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    288 months ago

    Honestly it’s like video game credits. You built a complex system and it worked… bask in your achievements!

  • Drew Belloc
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    118 months ago

    I miss my server full of garbage scripts that i lost hours writing to use once and forget about it

  • @[email protected]
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    98 months ago

    This is the best part when you finish setting up your server. I was so happy when I can access my backup files and my media server I want to setup Home Assistant one day for a local, private smart home

  • smashboy
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    88 months ago

    This is me, watching my model train and watching the loss go down at every epoch.

    • ReCursing
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      208 months ago

      Oh, train is a verb not a noun here! I thought you meant a toy train set, and was very confused for a moment

    • @[email protected]
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      08 months ago

      I have the suspicion that many LGBTQ-people are more inclined to colorfulness than non-LGBTQ-people.

  • @[email protected]
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    48 months ago

    I’ve even made little scripts to beautify and parse the output into metrics it’s so fun haha

  • @[email protected]
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    38 months ago

    When I had a ceph cluster setup with a star network of routed gigabit connections between servers I was giddy with excitement watching the throughput, and even more excited when I spotted one of the cables was bad and only able to pass traffic in one direction but the routing protocol still used the available bandwidth and work around the bad link in the opposite direction.