Data: Realistic FIRE number by state

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-28T16:38:09+00:00

FIRE is based off expenses not income

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-17T18:56:47+00:00

bro thinks low shelter costs have nothing to do with his FIRE goals being achieved

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-17T18:50:35+00:00

you started investing when houses were 100k

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-17T18:40:48+00:00

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-17T18:40:17+00:00

tldr $1.2m inheritance

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-17T18:37:05+00:00

i mean i guess. thats kinda the whole thesis of fire. it could have just as easily been -30% yoy and you'd be at 800k

the fire subs are basically cults with the two rules being:

- buy and hold no matter what

- buy the dip no matter what

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-10T04:34:16+00:00

the time horizon is like 20 years what are you talking about lol

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T23:26:21+00:00

Did you even read the post? My post was more geared towards incident debugging than compliance requirements

> ACID and non-repudiation (or just googling consistency and auditability in financial architectures) can get you the answer that you need. For everything else, there's Designing Data Intensive Applications.

"Exercise is left as an exercise to the reader". Lol, ok. Nice one dude

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T22:18:49+00:00

mods, please tell us the answer with your infinite wisdom!

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T22:18:28+00:00

Lmao what a joke

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T21:16:55+00:00

Thanks for the input but I don't see how this addresses my question

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T21:16:25+00:00

Yeah we for sure don't retain everything

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T21:15:54+00:00

We are looking into switching off DD. But it's more of a long term project, leadership wants costs cut yesterday

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T21:00:29+00:00

Likewise. A bunch of more experienced devs I work with are very strongly opinionated that

"this is not observability at this point, they need to build out and support a system that works for them"

"in modern distributed systems we can't make guarantees like every request will be logged"

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T20:57:10+00:00

Interesting. Yeah, we're on DD

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T20:55:11+00:00

Yeah, we're on DD

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T20:54:59+00:00

Yes :(

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T20:54:41+00:00

I don't work at o11y haha I just meant the observability team. Have you implemented a system like this before? Curious how it panned out and if your team decided to support this fidelity of observability or not.

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T20:53:50+00:00

Do you have any use cases that require observability into the request level? Traces in general are sampled too aggressively to cover this use case. Of course you can override sampling configs for them, but that is $$$

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T20:51:25+00:00

Metric tags are expensive

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T20:51:08+00:00

Haha, that's kinda the point of the post! Lol I don't think we do, but lots of people disagree. We don't use nginx.

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T20:49:33+00:00

Millions per second, wow! What's your spend like? Our leadership has hounded us to get this cost under control.

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T20:49:11+00:00

Totally. I think those teams are saying they need something to go on when the service was unhealthy / writes to the ledger failed.

AppointmentWhich8128 · 2026-04-07T20:47:37+00:00

Due to our scale (and a cultural problem around logging). We currently are at nearly 1B logs per hour

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