I feel like it's intuitive for me to think about this stuff as just a second type system rather than to think about the details of how the compiler works or how it'll function at runtime. A given value exists in a kind of superposition, and I pick the form I want it to collapse into (value, reference, mutable reference, etc) based on the tradeoffs I need at that moment. I don't know exactly why this is helpful, or if it's helpful (or even coherent) to anyone but me. It might also be damning me to some conceptual outer darkness where I'll hear the pounding of accursed drums and the wailing of hideous flutes forevermore.
Definitely with my time in the language, my head chatter takes `&` operator to literally just mean "borrow" and then you're inheriting 1x indirection operations.
The only time this gets into trouble is when you bridge the &/&mut and *const/*mut worlds. If you need the latter, try to stay within them as much as possible, if not entirely.
Location: USA, ET
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Lately Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Node.js, DevOps, SRE, observability, getting into Slurm, Nomad, MLOps, HPC, etc.
Résumé: https://ndouglas.github.io/resume/resume.pdf (a tad outdated since it doesn't reflect my goals)
Email: rare.bus1524@tenesm.us
GitHub: https://github.com/ndouglas
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nug-doug/ (I'd love to connect with people in the AI/ML space even if you don't wanna hire me)
Hi, I'm Nate. I've been a DevOps/Platform engineer for ~10 years and was a Mac/iOS app developer before that. My background is broad and strange, I'm less of a t-shaped person than a comb-shaped guy with a bunch of weird deep spikes and more than a few weird gaps.
I want to move into machine learning and AI, ideally HPC and/or scientific/research computing. My plan is to move into MLOps, then move from there into HPC, and my longterm goal (5-10 years) is to move into deep tech research and possibly get my PhD in CS or math (somewhere in the area of topology/manifolds if the latter).
I recently had a come-to-$DEITY moment and I'm taking a week off work to do a deep-dive on Slurm and as many other topics as I can cram into each day. I'm new in this space and I have a lot to learn, but I'm really ambitious and looking for a place that won't slow me down.
You might (discuss with your care provider, disclaimers, etc) try an SNRI. I'd tried SSRIs multiple times and never saw an improvement. I've also been on various dosages and formulations of stimulant medication for ADHD and did not see unambiguous positive changes. I've been on Effexor for a shade under a month, and while it started off a little eh, with nausea and some mild unpleasant mental symptoms, I feel like it's unlocked the person I was meant to be. I hope it continues to work as well as this, because I feel like it's the most powerful change I've ever experienced in my life.
ADHD is both overdiagnosed and underdiagnosed, but I suspect that neither will be helped by renaming to ADH. Perhaps we should just normalize encouraging kindergarteners experiencing difficulty to spend an extra year there, whether they're just a little young or neurodivergent or both. We're the ones who stigmatize that, and it affects more than just ADHD kids.
Blues scales, various jazz scales, scales influenced by ragas or the countless other music traditions from around the world, microtonal scales, nonstandard tunings like fifths/DADGAD/DADF#A, scales with different fingering and picking patterns to increase movement speed in different directions, scales that are adjusted to use or avoid open strings because of the effects on ornamentation/drones/other techniques, scales that include sweeping sections or are entirely composed of sweeping arpeggios, etc.
A good section to have is one on concept/process issues you encountered, which I think is a generalization of your question about panic.
For instance, you might be mistaken about the operation of a system in some way that prolongs an outage or complicates recovery. Or perhaps there are complicated commands that someone pasted in a comment in a Slack channel once upon a time and you have to engage in gymnastics with Sloogle™ to find them, while the PM and PO are requesting updates. Or you end up saving the day because of a random confluence of rabbit holes you'd traversed that week, but you couldn't expect anyone else on the team to have had the same flash of insight that you did.
That might be information that is valuable to document or add to training materials before it is forgotten. A lot of postmortems focus on the root cause, which is great and necessary, but don't look closely at the process of trying to stop the bleeding.
Hi Pierre, I see that the Platform Engineer position (which probably matches me most) says it's Hybrid. I'm very interested, but I live in Ohio. I understand sometimes things get clicked on accident, and just wanted to know if there might be an issue with this listing or if it's truly hybrid and the one you posted is remote, etc. Don't want to gum up the works :)
Location: nigh upon Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Terraform/OpenTofu/Terragrunt, Ansible, Kubernetes, Linux system administration, bad mf at debugging, various programming languages, various AWS services, test automation, telemetry/observability, pretty decent dude.
Résumé/CV: https://ndouglas.github.io/resume/resume.pdf (not very concise)
Web: https://github.com/ndouglas
Email: fair.bone5268@tenesm.us (will block this forwarder at some point to prevent spam; contact me on here or another way in or after April 2025)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nug-doug/ (I'd love to connect with more people from HN, whether or not you can hire me. I _like_ you people.)
I'm a DevOps/Platform/Site Reliability Engineer near Cleveland. I have ~10 years experience with the platform stuff, and I was a Mac/iOS developer for a few years prior to that. I have a BA in CS (there's a story as to why I didn't get a BS Eng). I currently have a public trust clearance and should be able to get higher without issue.
I thrive on anything in the SDLC – developer experience, CI/CD, test automation, you name it. I recently led a small team that modernized a major product for the Department of Veterans Affairs, completing the migration in under a year, cutting deployment time, adding integrated tests, reducing incidents, increasing observability, complying with everything we need to comply with, etc.
I love digging into complex systems, eliminating headaches, and creating environments where teams feel confident and empowered.
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