The “having a life”-aspect isn’t applicable to me, as I worked night shift while I was offshore. This inirially meant midnight->noon. But since this was isolated from the rest of the world, the only real difference was that midnight snack served as breakfast, breakfast as lunch, and lunch was dinner. Afterwards the rest of the shift and I would usually watch a movie.

After a while I started doing a special shift from 1800 to 0600 (nicknamed Vampire Shift), so that I could cover for the chief tech during his off hours. I loved it: It was quieter, cooler temperature (I’m an Arctic guy, and we were operating in a tropical climate), generally a lot more relaxed.

As for circadian rhythm, it didn’t matter, as it was five weeks straight. And I was normally severely jetlagged after traveling to/from work anyway.

You nailed it. Each server has 36 hard drives forming three RAIDs. These 18 RAIDs form a disaster-tolerant beegfs volume of 1.6PB.

On top of that, there’s a bunch of highly specialized geophysical software, an oracle database, and misc mundane services.

These production clusters I have at work are a nightmare to (re)boot. They run in a rather hostile environment, so sometimes we need to take it all down due to external factors. The rule of thumb is that it takes and hour to shut down and two hours to start.

There are 6 servers, and they have to start (and stop) in the correct order. Each takes around 10 minutes to boot, so if all is to be done correctly, it’s roughly 40 minutes. The rest of the startup procedure is checking internal stuff as well as interfacing with various robotics and misc.

It’s possible to gamble a bit, though: start 1, wait a bit and then start the next one, hoping that they come online in the correct order. But sometimes it doesn’t and this gamble results in having to shut down everything and start over.

…If you follow procedure, that is. I know the system well enough that I can start all machines at the same time and just interrogate and sort out any misbehaving components, thus cutting down the startup time a lot.

So yeah, while the system takes a lot of time to start, it’s mostly due to procedural reasons. In theory it could all be booted and ready in~15 minutes if we make the startup sequence more forgiving.

All of Lemmy knows. Never stop. Your account is basically a cultural heritage site at this point.

It’s norwegian shorthand/slang for “No you” (nei du), in the context of for example “Oh no you don’t!”. A friend of mine had (for unknown reasons) that as his MSN-status for years before his accidental death, and it kind of stuck in the back of my mind. It popped up when I was registering a lemmy account.

This is my 3rd account:
I forgot the password of neidu. Plus it was on .ml before I learned the implications of .ml so no real loss.
neidu2 was on a good instance. The only downside was that people kept assuming I was dutch. Not too bad, as I’ve been called worse things, but it is more useful for me to mod from sh.itjust.works instead.

For the record: only the accounts mentioned here are mine. Any other variations that may or may not fit my schema are to be treated as someone else. The ones I interact with regularly know this and have other methods for verifying my identity, so don’t bother trying to become a mod through setting up neidu4+.

You (presumably) use linux, you get a pass from me.

Thank you, you said it better than I ever could.

“You know what, I’m gonna throw a heil Hitler on stage, teehee”
…yeah, probably not.

Stillbirth is the exception. I was about to comment “until you’ve had a pulse while breathing air”.

I hereby define the Bren Gun as a type of media. Traditionally very anti-nazi.

He definitely did a Hitler salute, but I don’t think he meant it as one. Also, I think old-school nazis would’ve berated him for it being a shitty one.

Looking at the clip, and hearing what he said, I think he meant it as “my heart goes out to you” - his exact words when he did it. But it’s quite telling that he instinctively used that gesture and saw nothing wrong about it.

He’s still a fascist white supremacist, though, we all knew that before this happened.

Is this an actual visa type? I was a digital nomad feom 2009 to 2011, and since it was all in the schengen area I just considered myself a tourist when it came to immigration.

Fun fact: In Czech Republic I had to register with the police since I was staying so long. No fingerprinting or anything, I guess they just needed a record of me being there in case someone from the old country filed me as missing.