победная поступь прогресса

Когда я учился в школе, у нас биологии не было (в девятом классе была, но это другое, это ФМШ); вместо этого были ботаника, зоология и анатомия с физиологией человека. Ну и нам ещё повезло; за несколько лет до того вообще проходили "Основы Дарвинизма", где клеймили генетику и хвалили Мичурина да Лысенко.

Ну, у нас тоже генетики ни в ботанике, ни в зоологии не было. Зато было "развитие по спирали" (под спиралью все эти марксистские идиоты подразумевали винтовую линию).

Общая картина мира была такая: вот завелись, от грязи, коацерваты (там Опарин и Лепешинская всё разъяснили); из коацерватов вывелись одноклеточные. Бактерий и вирусов почему-то тоже в курсе зоологии не было. Просто сразу бац - и инфузория туфелька. И амёба.

Они развивались (может быть, и трудились), сотрудничали - и стали многоклеточными.

Многоклеточные прогрессировали, и вот завелись хордовые, а именно - ланцетник.

Ланцетник породил рыбов, а рыбы породили кистепёрых рыбов. Те пошли осваивать целину, где до них никого не было; развились до пресмыкающихся. Пресмыкающиеся, попресмыкавшись, породили млекопитающих.

Млекопитающие же дали миру и собачек, и лошадок (Пржевальского), и, главное, обезъян. Обезьяны занялись трудом, и превратились в человеков.

Человечество же дало миру вершину прогресса - русских советских людей. Но в процессе ещё случались рецидивы, и был и хвостатый мальчик, и волосатый человек Адриан Евтихиев. Но, конечно, строительство коммунизма искоренит пережитки.

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 The day was a little bit enigmatic. I still did not have org_id and user_id to experiment, and so I was just playing with my scripts a little bit. Then we had a standup that now happens on mornings. By the end of the day, when I had shared my blockers, I was told that I should go to "people" web app, etc. But nobody answered me when I asked where I can find the URL. Ok, never mind. Janet promised to help me. A little bit after the meeting we huddled with Janet. She asked me again what I need. I said - either an org_id, or both org_id and user_id, or just a url of "people". She did not give me the url, but sent me an org_id and a user_id via slack.

I don't know what's the point in keeping these secrets, but whatever. They don't pay me for streamlining their processes, they pay me for being online. So I am.

Of course I ran curl, saw that my new endpoint works, and closed the case. Two cases actually, because there were two, dedicated to the same endpoint (about three lines of code).

Good! And I continued having fun (sex?) with the doc builder.

Then there was another meeting, something like "demo analysis", or whatever. It turned out that it was my turn to do presentation. I said: presentation? How about next week? But it turned out it's not what this company means. It means that this week it's my turn to share the screen, open two pages, one with datadog and another with grafana, and look at the same graphs that I saw every thursday for the last 6 months. The shit does not look healthy to me, but people seem to be okay. There are OOMs, once a day, but there's nothing in the logs that shows what caused it. The reason being, we don't log requests. (We don't?!)

Anyway, spent about half an hour trying to penetrate the mentality of these interesting people. Now I can reproduce the show.

The next meeting was the most mysterious. There were Janet, Bill and me. Janet showed up for a moment, then shut the camera, and there was silence. Janet expressed here sincere gratitude to me and Bill for our presence. So, it was good. The meeting lasted two hours. I had time to go swim a little bit in the pool, I had lunch, with the headset on me. Later Mike joined, and he and Bill started investigating something in the logs. For some reason even if they shared the screen, it was not with me. I was just present and was listening to their discussions. Eventually I figured that Janet is not there anymore, and hung up.

And then I spent about an hour and a half improving my scripts, making them work, and tweaking Bermi's scripts to properly report all possible failures (like, missing a file that we want to send via curl - why keeping it secret?)

Ok, I like this work. See, probably nobody knows that I'm not doing anything (in their view). I feel like I'm on a bench. Ain't it good? It feels good.