> My sleepy time music was Classic music. Pretty much everything.
I never had luck with that to be honest.
I’ve tried all classical playlists including all “Classical for Sleep”. It’s just too emotional with a lot of peaks and crescendos. A lot of treble. Demands a lot of attention to itself.
“Sleepy” jazz on the other hand is often comforting, muted and warm.
We’ve moved a small-scale business to Kubernetes and it made our lives much easier.
Anywhere I’ve worked business always prioritizes high availability and close to zero downtime. No one sees a random delivered feature. But if a node fails at night - everybody knows it. Clients first of all.
We’ve achieved it all almost out of the box with EKS. Setup with Fargate nodes was literally a one-liner of eksctl.
Multiple environments are separated with namespaces. Leader elections between replicas are also easy. Lens is a very simple to use k8s IDE.
If you know what you’re doing with Kubernetes (don’t use EC2 for nodes, they fail randomly), it’s a breeze.
We don't have an issue with that last point, lots of EC2 EKS nodes and they don't fail randomly. Were you using resources and limits correctly? EKS nodes can fall over randomly if you don't reserve resources on the nodes for system processes, and your workloads eat up all the resources. That's probably not well documented either.
EC2 instances are inherently unreliable and that's not a knock on them, that's exactly the contract that you get using them and you're supposed to plan your architecture around the fact that at any moment an EC2 instance could die. We lose about 2-3 EC2 nodes per day (not like our app stops, like Amazon's own instance health goes red) and we couldn't care less.
Setting limits is important, but it always has been. Kubernetes nodes typically don't have a swap so without setting container limits, some critical process can OOM. With swap enabled, memory grows > pathological swapping ensures => caches get dropped making disk performance suck, and all the while your system is shuffling pages between memory and disk. So of course load hits 50+ and the machine turns into a 'black hole'. I've even seen a single VM do that, and cause so much disk IO that it took out the whole hypervisor (which had a single RAID volume)
Comments mention Pocketbook. How good is it? I’m tempted by 10.3” screen since I read technical pdf’s (think O’Reilly or Packt) a lot and no Kindle is good for that.
While its not the same product, my 10" e-ink reader (an Onyx Boox Note 2) is the single best note-taking, annotation and technical document reader I've ever used. Its genuinely fantastic for those purposes.
I read all my Kindle books on it, it's entirely replaced my paper notebooks for note taking, and all my technical books, manuals and so on have been excellent on it.
Your intuition that this form factor is better for technical PDFs is correct, I think.
I have an 8" Pocketbook Inkpad 3 which is already decent size for reading PDFs.
They now also have a 10" version which should be perfect for it.
Although if you are also annotating a lot, I would not recommend it, as it can be slow. (but i guess this is true for any E-Ink Reader)
I’m currently interviewing for jobs in Israel and their “straight talk” habit is honestly number one problem for me.
People never schedule meetings, they just ask for your phone number and call whether it’s appropriate for them. They interrupt you in the meetings, tell your solution is bad.
It may sound refreshing on paper, but honestly you feel treated like a low-skilled worker in a laundry or a kitchen. I’m not a Westerner, but I do come from a background of working with an English company and the difference in respect to boundaries and time is night and day.
Radical honesty is something that I would appreciate and find quite refreshing.
Offensiveness just for the sake of being offensive and trying to make other people feel powerless around you, that kind of thing I would not appreciate.
Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between these two.
Now, scheduling, I'm not quite as bad as the Germans, but I do require that stuff get put on the calendar, and you make a really strong effort to hold to that schedule.
If you think you can just call me whenever you want, then you can just fuck off. Not even my wife can just call me whenever she wants. Fortunately, she knows this.
I've worked in hi tech in Israel for 20 years and now have a completely international clientele that I work with, and I don't think Israelis in general are like that.
My general impression is that “corporate” structures may have some veneer of a professional workplace culture in Israel, but with startups all bets are off.
I felt like being at a bazaar where a stranger talks to you like a person they know all their life. Which probably sounds appealing for people tired of Western sugarcoating and is probably great at a party when drinks flow freely. But at workspace it just feels unprofessional and disrespectful.
Local friends explained to me that this is cultural. Workplace in Israel is catered to locals and they rarely hire outsiders or expats. People have very short distance, they serve in army together, go to parties together, hide from bombings together. So hierarchy and workspace mannerisms make little sense in that context.
Being Dutch might influence my take, but I love the no BS communication in Israel. What you describe as troublesome cuts both ways BTW. You are allowed to be as direct. Got no time? Say so. Got other priorities? Say so. Just be clear and to the point and do not waste the callers time with an elaborate story.
The explanation I got was that no one has time to beat around the bush since every single day might be your last.
That was 30 years ago when things where a lot less safe than it is now.
