1. metal13 Jun 22, 2023 parent

   Picked a good day to wear my Opeth hoodie...
2. metal13 Mar 21, 2022 parent

   These folks don't have the money to pay their electricity bills. What makes you think they have the money to move?
3. metal13 Mar 1, 2021 parent

   Honestly, package a container and run it Serverless. AWS Fargate, GCP Cloud Run, and similar are better fits.

   There will come a time when cost of paying the overhead for a devops person (and eventually) team is worth it. At that point, k8s can be a great fit.

   In my experience, that tends to be when you're at scale enough to care about costs a lot. Total spend and/or reducing COGS make it worth while. But when you look at it from the time an engineer costs, it's easier to see.

   Are you gonna save 200k/year (minimum) in costs moving to k8s? Then do it. If you don't have line of sight to that, pay AWS/GCP to manage that for you, and focus on your business.

   Also note, there's stages even with running k8s. Don't go all in running it all.

   Start with a container, run it serverless. When k8s becomes a better fit (to reduce costs, or with other small exceptions), use EKS or GKE. Don't run your own control plane.

   If you really have a need for a lot of custom stuff, then start to run your own control plane. But by this team, you probably have a team managing all this. If that cost (remembering how expensive engineers are) is shocking, you should be running a different solution.

4. metal13 Feb 28, 2021 parent

   I do this for a living (help companies migrate to k8s).

   The advice I give everyone is: Stay off k8s until you care about binpacking. That is, making sure you're fully utilizing the instances you pay for. When the cost of your architecture is taking up some brain cycles, start digging in.

   If that's low down on your priority list, it's not worth the investment. If you're reasonable considered "a startup", invest your time/money elsewhere. PMF and getting to default alive is far more important.

5. metal13 Nov 12, 2020 parent

   There are tons of companies that do that, with varying levels of automation and responses.
6. metal13 Oct 23, 2020 parent

   Have this same problem on Android. Not an MS exclusive. Maybe Apple is better?
7. metal13 Aug 20, 2020 parent

   It's not editorialized. "Those 5 stocks are up 37% on average while the S&P 500 is up 2%, and the remaining 495 stocks are down 5%."

   5/500 = 1%.

8. metal13 May 23, 2020 parent

   I just bought some GrillGrates that supposedly help with that. Good reviews, but I haven't yet tried them out.

   https://www.grillgrate.com/

9. metal13 May 6, 2020 parent

   I mean, good for you to have that ability.

   > "Zero excuse for this IMO."

   So, zero excuse, as long you have the money to pay someone to do all the thinking/planning for you. And as long as you have the money (and live in the right locations) to have someone do all the actual work of cooking for you.

   I also suggest you go read the commenting guidelines, especially the "assume good faith" piece: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

10. metal13 May 6, 2020 parent

    OP said bulking or cutting. Bulking is easier from an energy standpoint (compared to cutting), but it's not trivial. Your body is still tired. Your capacity for problem solving is still limited. And eating (and buying, and prepping) the amount of food needed for bulking is time consuming.

    And cutting is even worse. You feel drained. And you sleep more when cutting then you did when bulking.

    Both are hard enough that it makes me wonder if you've done either for a decent period of time. If you had, it'd be pretty easy to see OP's point without a flippant answer that ignores what they're saying.

11. metal13 May 1, 2020 parent

    But it's not fixed because....?
12. metal13 Apr 28, 2020 parent

    I can't read the story, but I'm living this. And I don't blame folks for finding it too tough.

    It's crazy that so many commenters here seem to think that everyone is well equipped to be a teacher with zero training or experience. It's hard.

    It's even more crazy that no one seems to realize that most parents are acting as teachers, while trying to maintain full time jobs.

    This isn't just "teachers not adapting", or "we need VR". This is fundamental to the fact that most households need two working parents just to survive.

13. 2 points Mar 16, 2020

    Quick ideas/links to use when you're trying to WFH with your kids

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14. metal13 Mar 16, 2020 parent

    Underrated comment. Those things are great, but when your minds' entertainment comes from outside, you never rebuild the creative muscle.
15. metal13 Oct 28, 2019 parent

    It's...complicated: https://www.dataprotectionreport.com/2018/12/edpb-clarifies-...

    "The Guidelines note that the processing of personal data of EU citizens that takes place outside the EU will not trigger the GDPR so long as the processing is not a specific offer directed at individuals in the EU or to monitor their behavior in the EU."

    So it may be safe for google...but given it would apply to a user profile in general, including EU, maybe not?

16. metal13 Jun 20, 2019 parent

    You pretty much described me. There's a ton of software glitches, but I have a tablet that I can code on (running Linux), answer emails, run every Android app I need, and weighs far less then a laptop.

    Though I got back into NES games, not DOS (yet!)

17. metal13 Jun 3, 2019 parent

    SEEKING FREELANCER | TypeScript/Node | REMOTE (US Timezones) Looking for someone with significant Typescript experience (or at least a lot of NodeJS). Ideally with TS/Node on the backend, front end is good too.

    This is a paid, part time position. Side hustle ok, though this company is ramping up and the position will like turn full time.

    Remote is fine, but need to work US timezones.

    Email me at jobs@backstop.it for more information!

18. metal13 Mar 22, 2019 parent

    Zoom works more reliably than hangouts does. I use hangouts every day for some business calls, but I pay for Zoom. If you're looking for something that will work so you can close a sale, Zoom wins. Potential customers struggling to hear you on a hangout isn't a winner.

    Scheduling, calendars, easy phone dial ins, and way better mobile performance make it clutch. I'm a GSuite customer, but it's still better to pay Zoom.

    Zoom is also focused on one thing. Hangouts/chats/meet/whatever Google wants call it /do with it is an afterthought. If Google wanted to make a real run at the market, they should buy Zoom immediately.

19. metal13 Feb 25, 2019 parent

    That means nothing when it comes to ability. It's also pretty standard these days. You don't move up, you move out.
20. metal13 Dec 7, 2018 parent

    I do this. Highly worthwhile, and my email requires very little effort.
21. metal13 May 26, 2018 parent

    FYI, the author is a woman. And her twitter account is very much worth a follow:

    https://twitter.com/intent/follow?original_referer=https%3A%...

22. metal13 Jun 26, 2015 parent

    It's doable (I have a 2.5 year old and a 2 month old). But it's really all about your partner. If they're in it like you are, you can make do.

    Couldn't imagine doing this with an unsupportive partner.

23. metal13 Dec 11, 2014 parent

    I thought he sold it because he wanted money and art.

    "Mr Watson told the Financial Times he had become an “unperson” after he “was outed as believing in IQ” in 2007 and said he would like to use money from the sale to buy a David Hockney painting."

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11261872/James-Watso...

24. metal13 Jun 11, 2013 parent

    Great post! Not the usual programming talk, with a bit of humour.

    This cracked me up.

    "I look up and at this moment realize that the entire time this was happening, I never started running."

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