Don’t screw around with stock options on Robinhood. Also ideally don’t triple your first purchase overnight because then you’ve fooled yourself into thinking it wasn’t a fluke even when you know it was a fluke.
It was a long journey of belief into someone unknown. My whole family is worshipper of god. So for me also first it was god of some sort. Then it shifted into guru. Then the universe, existence. Then it became self, Atman. And now … Now this journey is all over.
I did not want to marry but I fell in love and married on her request. I never ever wanted to have child, but that too happened, thanks to her. After being a parent, the least I wanted was to be with my child and that too has been very difficult till now.
I wasted about a decade of my most productive age for nothing. I asked for some guidance, looked above almost all the time. Not seeing any better option, i chose the one that gave me easy job. But I denied taking help from others/family who did not respect my choice of my life course… I have been working from ground up without help from anyone. It is difficult.
I started questioning very fundamental belief that I have been taking as granted, which have been clouding my perception. Once I shrugged off those dusts, vision became clear. It took me twenty years to realize that there is no place of any grace or a guardian figure in the events of a life. Things happen. There is cause and effect relation. Or things happen randomly and there is none to look after each individual. You are on your own. I know my story is not very painful or extraordinary. But I have readjusted my standpoint after 5 years of constant observation and contemplation. Now I am ready to face any adversity. I will not be blaming anyone imaginary.
I also ask the meaning of a life and the world and I don’t find any. I feel I have no existence of myself apart from being a tool to fulfill the work of nature - to reproduce. I have been used by nature, the brutal almighty force that made me fall in love so deep. I never wanted to have my gene transferred. I don’t know from where this desire has emerged, but it has been constantly present since my childhood. Being a parent was a turning point for me. I know I cannot be a good guardian, and he, my son, will not like me much the moment he starts seeing things. I wish he would have been born in some other world, where nature and existence would not exploit an individual. If I may dare to dream…
Enough of babbling. Sorry if this is too personal and not interesting enough.
I once set an S3 lifecycle setting that accidentally affected 3 years worth of logs to Glacier. The next morning I woke up to a billing alert and an AWS bill with an extra $250k in charges (our normal run rate was $30k/month at the time). Basically I spent my entire add annual cloud budget for the year overnight.
Thankfully after an email to our account rep and a bunch of back and forth I was able to get the charges reduced to $4,300.
Depends on your needs. If you expect to grow fast and unpredictably, or have extreme burst workloads (at my company it fluctuates between requiring ~10 cpus to ~50,000, and between 0 GPUs and dozens) or if you need several complex types of services and no people at hand who can manage them, it can be way cheaper. If you just need a few servers, a tape backup and a database, actual hardware has always been cheaper.
The problem is having a competent team to manage your infrastructure. You can do a lot with a handful of people - but you need competences spanning a lot of areas, and finding that is pretty hard.
If you can get a competent team the only advantage cloud still has is the ability to quickly scale up and down - but if there might be a need for that it’d still be better to go hybrid, most on your own hardware, and just the prepared ability to quickly bring up cloud workers if needed. The cost savings of properly doing it yourself are so huge that it still might be cheaper to just have some pre-provisioned standby hardware for that, though.
If I never have to buzz into another colo and stand in the exhaust of hundreds of servers again, it’s worth every single penny. If I never have to plan for capacity weeks to years in advance again, its worth every penny.
Deleting from. We move logstores and I added an ageout policy for anything over 1 day, to “easily” empty a bucket overnight. I forgot that I had been cycling stuff to glacier after 6 months, and there were 3 years of logs in there.
I made this mistake but honestly? AWS is the most confusing clusterfuck of all time. I can’t stand it and refuse to use it for personal projects.
For me the problem came down to four conflicting sources on AWS regarding tiers and then another problem with the SDK. The SDK didn’t match the tiers at all so “archive” meant Glacier for some reason. 👎
Money wise I once ran a speed lab and lost a couple grand on it after my associate chikened out because his half brother got whacked. But it was fun.
Overall. I studied for an acounting tecnician in my teenage years. Thats what i regret the most in my life. No human being should go through that. One of the reasons i dont have a college degree is tgat after going through that i sworeupon my soul and upon the mass that i would never again go through anything similar.
Monitor the temp gauge in your car. Overheated my civic’s engine when radiator leaked :( had no warnings until it’s too late (2008 one). had to replace it, now always trying to have an eye on it
That starting the work is half the work. I wasted a lot of time procrastinating, it took me shamefully long to realize that if I could just start an activity for 5 minutes, taking it to completion is then relatively easy
Fo sho. My buddy bought one and talked it up. I tried it out as I was interested in a new chair since my work from home ability had recently increased from 25% to 50% arouns 2018. My broke ass 10+ year old chair from college was wayyy more comfortable. Invested in a ~$250 office chair after that. Have had it for 5 years, work from home 75% of the time, amazingly comfortable and it still looks like new.
I bought my Steelcase Leap V1 from a guy who did just that - bought chairs from office sales, replaced bad cushions, cleaned and greased them up, then resold them out of his garage. Bought mine early pandemic. Still feels as good as when I bought it.
I use a wooden chair from a dining room set probably, never got the hype over chairs. I’m not hard-core gaming but I’ve sat in it for maybe 8 hrs a day before doing school stuff and it never gets uncomfortable
Waaaay long time ago one of my school friends was both a videogame junkie and car guy. This was before ‘gaming chairs’ were really a thing, but his solution was to hit a scrap yard and salvage the most comfortable seat he could find from a junked car. He mounted that onto an office chair swivel base.
To date, the most comfortable “gaming” / office chair my butt has ever had the privilege to occupy.
I have no idea what a car seat would cost from a scrap yard, but if your the tinkery type and looking for a new project…
I’ve been thinking about doing this because I have a herniated lumbar disk and every seat hurts except the seat in my truck. Hopefully this it a temporary situation but it is insanely comfortable, maybe worth it.
Worse case scenario, your back still hurts but you have an insanely comfortable computer chair!
Well… not really. Actual worse case is it fucks up your back even more. I also have a herniated disc, and I can say a lot of the things that make it feel better temporarily are making it worse in the long run. Taking pressure off of it with comfy chairs or braces etc feels good, but that pressure is what keeps your back muscles toned, which are what -should- be taking pressure off the spine. So, the more you rely on short term fixes, the more you’ll become dependent on them.
I’d honestly talk to your doc about it - if you’re not already seeing a physical therapist, get a referral. They can hook you up with some exercises to keep things manageable; and that’d be the person to run any abnormal seating plans by.
This is true. Gaming chairs are a scam. They’re made in China and sold in bulk to wholesalers for $40 who mark them up and sell them for $600. I have one and hate it, it’s hard as a rock and not adjustable.
Buy a used Herman Miller. I know someone linked a gamers nexus video before, but you really really do not realize how bad most chairs are until you sit for ten hours straight in a Herman Miller, and have zero pain afterwards. And then that chair will last you several decades. There’s a reason they are constantly for sale. Those chairs literally outlast businesses.
My wife has bought several gaming chairs over the years. None of them have any breathability and she just sweats like crazy whenever she sits in one for a long period of time.
Stock market is all gambling. You just gotta choose a bunch - some indexes, like Dow/S&P, some bonds, and then a few stocks you “like”. Then hold them for decades, and check in only a couple times a year. Otherwise you’ll most likely lose money.
Don’t bomb it down a slope you don’t know (snowboarding). Someone pointed me to a “hospital” which turned out to be a private clinic and my insurance didn’t cover the ridiculously overpriced CT scan.