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I learned the expensive wya that Aurora Serverless v2 does not, in fact, scale down to 0 when I created three instances for a few days when I was testing out configuration changes. It ended up costing us $300.

Terraform, because the tooling around it is just much better for things like drift detection, showing planned changes, pipelines, etc.

Aaron Swartz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

[2019]

You can use an open-source tool like this one: https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io

Life hack for me is to have a fan on and pointed in the direction of my head. The white noise helps and they also don't seem to fly much in the wake of the fan.

Sounds useful!

We're using service control policies to enforce tagging on certain resource types, and retroactively for the rest.

Considering to use a "shift-left" tool as well, but it would need to support Terraform, CDK, Serverless and Cloudformation.

I'm getting a "PAGE NOT FOUND."

> I don't know what y'all are talking about.

"You" can refer to either one person or multiple people.

Are you sure it was about this ticket? This ticket only starts on 1 May.

In Germany, most public transport is “barrier-free” and cash tickets are still available.

I work with TODO-lists. I break every task into mini TODO-steps and tick them off as I go along. If new ideas pop into my head, I add them to the list.

Today my TODOs included items like “research how to stop writes to a postgres database” and “make a list of all the places where we use x database.”

Github flow [1] for me - which is basically what others have mentioned about branching feature branches directly from main and merging as soon as the pull request is approved.

[1]: https://githubflow.github.io/

It’s actually still the same at other universities. The CS courses OP mentioned are just some of the courses they’ll do during their degree. The rest are also mathematics and other elective science or engineering courses.

Github and Gitlab, but both has layoffs recently.

It's estimated to have been around 20% [1], but there isn't an official number. The participation rate was lower because non-white people were limited in terms of where they were allowed to go, live and work.

[1] https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w13167/w131...

"Afrikaans Paramilitary groups" was basically what Apartheid was, only state sanctioned.

> Hiv infection rates rose from 3% to 18% of the adult population.

It's like saying COVID rates grew XXX% in 2020 due to some new government. Yes, SA's HIV rate is absolutely awful, but HIV hardly existed before the end of Apartheid.

No, there were hectic sanctions against South Africa. We wouldn't have been able to do business outside of SA, travel to many countries, take part in the Olympics, etc. Probably would've ended up like Cuba.

Yes, even if AI-generated code becomes more ubiquitous, software engineers would still be needed to keep it running, improve it, tweak it, etc.

I switch to “lower intensity” tasks that could still be useful, like tweaking our Datadog dashboards and monitors, writing or editing some documentation, going through old company announcements, Googling some things, etc.

Or I go take a walk, make coffee or do household chores when I’m working from home.

If you’re able to get a few hours of productive work done in a day (let’s say 3 to 4 hours) and spend the rest of your time recovering from that and recouping your energy, I think it’s okay.

However, if any work is completely draining you, it might be a good idea to take some time off.

> I literally want the _opposite_ of that.

That's fine, but not everyone does. I think both are useful and would prefer a browser that can support both profiles and "containers.

You can have tabs open in different containers all within the same window.

When I worked for an agency, I used this feature ALL the time. It had to be easy for me to switch between, for example, Trello boards of different clients or different Datadog accounts.

Even now, working at a single company, I use multi-account containers to keep tabs open for our different AWS and Datadog accounts.

I really liked checkout.com. Their documentation is top notch, their support was helpful (albeit a bit slow) and their error codes are useful. We were also a UK-based company fyi.

It’s hard to move between payment service providers (PSPs) if you don’t want you’re users to have to enter their cvv again and go through SCA again. PSPs are reluctant to help you export your users’ cards to another PSP (obviously because they’ll be losing out on your payments then). However, most of them should have some kind of export process if you manage to get to the right support person.

You could use a card proxy service like PCI Proxy if you know you’ll be using many different PSPs or move between them a lot, but they charge a fee for each proxy call AFAIK.

I’ve heard that https://www.paddle.com/ is useful for handling tax across multiple different countries.

What resources, for example? Genuinely curious. Social health, like access to psychologists or what?

What are these so-called male-bashing cartoons, films, etc.? Are any of the Marvel or DC series male-bashing, for example? Avatar? James Bond? Video games like Fortnite?

Why are you sitting indoors?

> Same thing regarding a growing number of women too but men don't have the same support structure as women do.

I’m a woman and I honestly have no idea what you’re talking about here.

Regardless, I’ve struggled with intense social anxiety and loneliness since about 13.

The only long-term ”solutions” I’ve found that help have been: having a partner, good relationships with my family and joining a club (in my case, a football club) that has recurring sessions weekly.

Obviously, the latter is something that’s more easy to “engineer” than the first two.

So my only advice is to find or start a club or interest group that regularly meets. I’ve found that groups on Meetup often don’t have the same group if people attending. So rather search for local sports groups or community groups where you’ll meet some of the same people week after week and be able to build relationships with them over time.

Datadog or Grafana