Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

Cynical is a word used by the frightened to describe the realistic.

Yes it is.

Man i feel that complaining about the free snacks 100%.

Covid was so hard for some of these kids because they had to fend for themselves during the work day while working from home. Constant complaints.

You and i would get along great i bet :D

Get fucked, NSA

I work in tech now, so I’m a lazy schlub. However, I’m also a college dropout out (English major) who had a ton of actual jobs in the past. Warehouse loading delivery trucks, worked in a cabinet shop, food service, etc. i

I think college grads who go into tech should have to work a normal job for at least a year before getting their tech job and making six figures right out of college.

Otherwise you end up with these entitled shitbags who complain that their company provided duck confit at lunch doesn’t have crispy enough skin (an actual thing that actually happened when i was at a big FANG company. Fucking unbelievable)

So even though I’m a techbro shitlord, i have respect for the people who work jobs.

lol what, a graph database for spreadsheet work?

Ow my leg hair ow my back hair ow my arm hair.

Well if you want to be the one who retrofits google cloud to support it more widely, go to town. But I’m sure as hell not going to bother, I have other work to do. And also I don’t work at google.

Cloud infra engineer here.

Answer: I don’t think about it. Nothing fully supports it, so we pretend it doesn’t exist.

Nice fluffy python

I have a closet in my home office. On the floor of it is a sleeping mat and soft blanket as the base, and I have a weighted blanket on top. When I start getting overwhelmed (or just need a quick mid-day nap) I’ll go in there, close the door, and lie down for a bit. It’s isolated and quiet.

When my cat hears that door open she will rush to be included, and will cuddle with me.

Don’t say “school” and “tactical shooter” in the same sentence anymore

:3 why thank you

Zoloft and caffeine. Both are very hard, in different ways.

Rofl. My dad is WHY I do this.

Fair point. I usually just correct people when they are talking about cement concrete. I’ve never actually heard of “asphalt concrete”

I just inherited this quirk from my dad is all

Well technically the tanks do heat the water that is already hot, to maintain the temp.

But I do get your point; I myself say that sometimes by accident.

It’s concrete, not cement. (Sidewalks for example, or foundations of buildings, etc)

Cement is an ingredient in concrete.

INC-224, never forget.

I am an infra engineer at a fairly large scale (not like Amazon, but we have some BIG customers) SaaS company; despite our scale, we are only like 250 people and of them only about 90 engineers. We store a bunch of data in MySQL.

15:30:00, I get a page “MySQL table is full.” I immediately know my day is ruined, since I’ve never heard of this error before, but know it ain’t great.

15:30:10, every Pagerduty escalation policy in the entire company gets bombarded with pages.

I look at the database instance. The table size is “only” 16TiB, so it’s a bit confusing.

We are hard down for several hours as we scramble to delete data or somehow free up space. Turns out, google backs ClpudSQL MySQL instances with ext4 disks instead of zfs, and the max file size on ext4 is… you guessed it, 16TiB.

We learned a LOT of lessons from this, and are now offloading a shitload of json into either MongoDB or gcs, depending on the requirements. The largest table is down to 3TiB now :D

Stop giving these people attention, simple as.