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This. Just hit some random shit on Meetup.com that looks interesting which bridges the gap to the real world.

Online social is a complete shit show. You’re spending time with peoples outward persona not real people.

Crappy email support - I mean really bad. Don’t invert layers properly. No electrical test. Drill accuracy problems.

Nope. JLC every time here. Never a problem.

This is one that gets me every time. ”oh we’ll just roll out our shit in middle-of-nowhere-west-1c if it all goes to crap”. First time someone does that DR drill they find out there’s a core service missing they have built their entire empire on.

Also there’s contention whenever that happens. Last AWS outage we experienced, entire availability zones had no capacity available. If they did it took forever to spin anything up and migrate volume snapshots over as well as everyone else was doing the same thing at the same time.

4TB is a huge amount of data. And it’s costly to keep data spinning. 4TB storage an in apple device is going to set you back a lot of money for example. Not everyone has a NAS or the ability to run one and even more importantly to back it up effectively. It becomes a large monkey on your back and a cost and not an advantage.

Looking at my device storage, I have 91Gb online for 5 people. That’s everything we have ever done. Because we care enough to look after it and curate it.

It should be but isn’t. Most of the abstractions are trying to add an immutability layer over something that isn’t immutable and is very definitely knee deep in locks, state and other difficult to resolve problems which compromise it entirely. Ergo you now have two layers of problems to deal with. If you buy too far in you’re living a lie.

Oh yes we will indeed just redeploy that container. Oh well no we can’t because the PV is stuck.

Oh yes we’ll just redeploy all the SQS queues. Oh no wait they have data in them.

My main “personal” computer is a 9th gen ipad these days but for dev stuff I use a bottom end M1 mac mini with 8GB of RAM. This runs VScode absolutely fine but seeing as I mostly write Go on it, I don’t really need the full weight of visual studio code running.

You’re reading something wrong. Mine is idling at 500Mb here with one YAML file open.

That depends if your RAM is soldered in or not.

I’ve used it for 22 years at this point. I still don’t know how to use more than the basics. I think you settle into a comfortable zone where you know enough and stop looking for progression. In my case that was fairly early on.

What makes me happy to use vim is the odd few hours here and there in visual studio with a large project loaded.

Yeah Eight-hundred Megs And Continuously Swapping these days :)

I’ve tried all of them so far. The standard gen 2 AirPods are the best by far. The new 3rd gen ones won’t stay in my ears. Pros are uncomfortable and lack bass. 2nd gen are perfect.

I listen to everything from classical to metal to hard dance.

As I call it in our process extreme waterfall. We do the bad bits of both sides of the fence and forget the good bits.

Same age as you approximately.

The killer problem is velocity is the only metric that matters these days to the whipmasters.

We sacrifice quality for this and that’s what’s really hurting us now. No one is seeing this because we’ve forgotten that the status quo of continuous toil is not normal.

20 years ago I’d be shot for doing things that are normal now.

Syscall overheads, NTFS and the network stack are so fucking abysmal that any gains are eaten anyway.

They are perfectly stable machines for running batch jobs. I have had one running a bunch of build automation as a jenkins slave for about 9 months now. Never skipped a beat. It just works and the thing is damn fast.

If it’s doing it offline it’s probably cheaper to buy one and chuck it in your office than borrow one from a cloud provider. The ass end ones are really really really cheap. Much cheaper than just the CPU in an equivalent server machine. If they blow up, just mill down to the apple store and buy another one.

Disclaimers of course: (1) it doesn’t have ECC RAM (2) it doesn’t have redundant power. We ignore (1) and solve (2) by running a prometheus node exporter on it and seeing if it disappears.

It is until someone leaves you 4TB of them to deal with. Where do you even start?

I am a big proponent of not leaving my kids a pile of trash to sift through. See my other comment on this matter for background.

That’s quite possible. I have around 150 historical photos i.e. over 100 years old which depict family life in Switzerland in the 1800s. I will look into that. Thanks for the suggestion.

It’s mostly the ability to be able to locate it afterwards i.e. to improve the signal to noise ratio. I track hikes I do with a GPS and keep the GPX files afterwards but generally don’t refer to them unless uploading curated copies to OS Maps here in the UK for other people to use. So after a few years I nuke them. As for health data, it’s quite large. My apple health data is around 100 Meg compressed now and a lot larger, in the order of 1Gb, decompressed.

I am not a hoarder as a counterpoint. I am always looking at ways to reduce what I have and remain focused. I lived with a hoarder in a house full of trash and don’t want to be that person to someone else. He also had 4TB of photos and videos that needed to be dealt with.

I think at the end of the day my life can probably be compressed to a few images and a few paragraphs…

I think this is a resolution argument. Data should be curated carefully and reduced in resolution as it gets older. If you’re never going to look at it, it’s probably not worth keeping.

As per photos you don’t need 11 pictures of those muffins you baked in 2003. One will probably suffice, if you even care about them 18 years later that is.

The same goes for health data. But overall trends over 20 years are really useful as you get older. Expected decline is inevitable but unexpected decline may be indicated earlier and result in some preventative action to improve your quality of life. There are a lot of long term metrics appearing in Apple health like walking stability on that front.

On photos, I’m not sure what I’d do with 200,000 photos. I have 7,623 which span 4 generations and 125 years at the moment. I spend a lot of time curating these photos, adding metadata, editing and pruning garbage. They are all managed with Apple’s native Photos app which is good enough for the job (non destructive, sqlite DB underneath it, easy to back up)

Yeah 10 episodes down a hole of anime season and you find the last ones don’t have English dubs resulting in an impending shit show to deal with because no one bothered to release it or there are no seeds for single episodes. Then there’s the subs written by someone who doesn’t know any languages apparently. Then there’s the shitty transcodes originally. Then the logistics of managing which one of the 5 members of my family wanted it and getting it to the device of their choice.

Then you find something is only available in x265 so you have to transcode it yourself so it’ll play on the kids 5 year old Samsung TV. Oh and that only supports certain very fussy audio streams.

Just no. I’m on the mark. I’ve been doing this shit for a decade and I’m tired and fed up with it. I pay ~£35 a month for all my services and that’s a bargain. It’s literally fuck all money to make the problems go away.

Definitely not.

I’d rather they didn’t bother at all and stuck to their core competency.

I think it’s an external QA issue as we have to fix all the broken shit upstream.

90% of the stuff out there is garbage.

I’d rather the dead space the bumps take up didn’t exist and the items were smaller.

Ah yes. Broken ass helm charts is 90% of my day. I maintain internal forks of about 40 different public charts. Good money but a world of pain.

My daughter is amazingly apt at not paying for content. You’d be surprised.

I would spend more than the 2 hours a month all the streaming services cost me in salary pissing around, transcoding and finding the damn things.

That’s why I don’t pirate stuff. I don’t want to hoard it and keep it. I just want to use it once and be done with it.

The only exception is content I create.

With a couple of minor exceptions that works well for me.

Historically i hoarded content and ended up with 2TB of crap I was never going to watch again. So I deleted it and now don’t have to herd hard discs.

Only because all the asshat ones went in a skip about three decades ago.

Having replaced the HV transformer on a tek 465 I would suggest buying another one that already works and using your current one as a parts mule. It’s fairly difficult to get the thing out as you have to go as far as removing the entire CRT. Also probably costs less!