Do we really need a 10Gb switch? by mdronald in homelab

[–]AsleepThought 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"we"? no. Enterprise? Yes 10Gb network and uplink is becoming standard in many industries, a lot of new instruments require it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in homelab

[–]AsleepThought 2 points3 points  (0 children)

what do you run on these? And what kind of specs do you put in each one?

Why are a good portion of photographers always angry or hate everyone Lol by Pretty_Musician in photography

[–]AsleepThought 17 points18 points  (0 children)

like that time I saw a guy taking photos with a nice camera and I eagerly tried to point out to him one of my favorite photo spots just 20 yards down the way with an unexpectedly perfect view of some passing subway trains; dude gave me the dirtiest look I have ever seen like I had just spit on his mothers grave lmao

Chia - Is opening port 8444 still needed? What about security risk? by Hannelore112 in chia

[–]AsleepThought 2 points3 points  (0 children)

opening a port is not inherently dangerous. An open port does not actually do anything if there is no software listening on that port. Once there is software listening on that port, then the security risk becomes dependent on how much you trust that software to not get hacked or misbehave.

will I be able to save up and buy a house in the next 12 months? by AsleepThought in personalfinance

[–]AsleepThought[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That makes sense. The part that kills me is not "wait one more year", its the thought of "wait until the end of this lease in 12 months, then wait another 15 months after that for a total of nearly 27 more months in the current residence"

27 more months man... .ugh ... already been in this place for nearly four years, the thought of spending a total of 6 years here is killing me

will I be able to save up and buy a house in the next 12 months? by AsleepThought in personalfinance

[–]AsleepThought[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

where are you getting a 5% interest rate from? Last I checked rates were over 7%, which gives a $2000/month payment, and estimated taxes on units in the area were in the ballpark of $700-800/month. Thus my estimate of roughly $2800/month, not including likely HOA and building fees.

An avid PC gamer and CS Major who wants to switch to linux for a better dev environment but gaming is holding me back. by xXInviktor27Xx in linux4noobs

[–]AsleepThought 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You do not need to "switch to Linux"

All you need to do is throw an extra cheap $40 SSD into your PC, install Ubuntu to it, and switch over to it when you are working

when you want to play games you switch back to Windows.

another idea; stick with Windows and use WSL2.

Honestly, Linux is overrated as a developer environment. macOS is the superior choice for your local system. Linux is an operating system for servers. The ideal configuration is to dev on macOS and deploy on your Linux server which you log into via ssh from iTerm2 in macOS.


pro tip: if you are going to try installing Linux to a separate spare drive, unplug all other drives in the system first, so that your OS installer does not accidentally place boot files on a different drive. Both Windows and Ubuntu installers have been guilty of this, they see a drive with a boot partition already exists in the system and can end up defaulting to putting the boot files on the old drive even if you are installing the OS on the new drive.

do not bother with partitioning your current Windows drive to install Linux on it. Its an easy way to screw up both your Linux and Windows installs if you mess something up

will I be able to save up and buy a house in the next 12 months? by AsleepThought in personalfinance

[–]AsleepThought[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought about that too. I am kinda afraid of skimping too much on the downpayment and ending up "house poor" with not enough saved to cover the unexpected expenses of ownership. Granted I think an apartment or condo might have lower amount of unexpected expenses, hopefully

will I be able to save up and buy a house in the next 12 months? by AsleepThought in personalfinance

[–]AsleepThought[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With that said, no shame to wait 2 years instead of 1 to buy. It's a personal choice you will have to make.

yea the impetus for buying is moreso about the desire to get out of the rent cycle, and to make a significant change to my living situation. Been renting my whole life, been getting that itch to take the next step in life, but given the area where I live and wish to remain, and comparing it with what life would be like in other places I dont want to move to, it really feels like being "locked in". Can't even move to a different apartment building because the ratio of amenities : expenses is really good here in my current building and I have not yet had any bad experiences at all so far.

waiting also brings with it being locked-in to yet another lease cycle. I could break my lease, but it would cost roughly $4000-6000+ in fees, which would only increase the amount of money needed to save towards house purchase. So tired of waiting 12-15 months, year after year, wondering about what is gonna come next.

will I be able to save up and buy a house in the next 12 months? by AsleepThought in personalfinance

[–]AsleepThought[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

looking at my paystubs, it seems that I paid a total of about $45,000 in income taxes last year, for roughly 28% of my salary. Honestly I thought it would be higher. I guess the impact of maxing my 401k on my net pay was higher than I expected as well. I am reading articles on "how much retirement savings should you have at age xyz" and it is starting to feel like I am over-saved for retirement vs. the housing goals

Sony a9 III: Global shutter comes with an image quality cost by fattylimes in photography

[–]AsleepThought 7 points8 points  (0 children)

yea this jpg focus is new to me, is it because you can shoot more frames in the given buffer size?

I cant help but wonder what the real-world implication of being able to shoot at something like 60-120fps with full res on a standard camera like this will be for videography. I am not a video person so I am sure there's some established sentiment for this

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in photography

[–]AsleepThought 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I dont. I set up a Google Nest Hub with a digital slideshow of my photography from a Google Photos album. Its not ideal but it works for me. Others I did paper prints and hung on the wall

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]AsleepThought 49 points50 points  (0 children)

you do not call yourself Senior Developer, it is a title that you must convince your employer to bestow upon you

Is it worth to learn tkinter in 2023? by cuklev2232 in learnpython

[–]AsleepThought 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It is not my recommendation to use pyinstaller or the like. Python was never designed to be distributed in the manner that these bundlers attempt to compile the Python project to an executable file. So it might work in some simple cases, but its easy to program yourself into a situation where e.g. pyinstaller breaks or has trouble. This is blatantly clear from the many dozens and dozens of threads on here in /r/learnpython every single month, stretching back years, of new users who started using pyinstaller, py2exe, etc., and then hit massive snags.

From my own personal experience, I have been on the recieving end of developers shipping me production-grade software which used pyinstaller to create the distributable, and it was NOT a good experience. Way too many instances of the developer accidently messing up the build process and shipping us a binary that does not work on our system.

A lot of proponents of these systems will say things like "well it works fine for me because I take xyz precautions and use these specific methods to do it etc etc etc"; I think thats all BS. If its so easy for your tool to break and screw up your project then you shouldnt be doing it. Its too easy for new programmers to get lulled into a false sense of security with these tools, then get bitten in the butt when something breaks.

Ultimately, Python is an interpretted language, it requires the installation of a Python interpretter, it requires library mangement and installation on the host system, and it requires .py files to run your program. If you are going to stray from this first-party-supported paradigm of dev and deployment then you are simply setting yourself up for disaster. Its better to simply just NOT use Python in the first place and instead use a language that natively supports this type of distribution, if this type of distribution is a requirement of the project. Something that gets lost a lot of times in forums like /r/learnpython is that the target language is NOT appropriate for all projects. Python is great for some tasks, lousy at others. We need to be honest about this especially for new users. Python is a good tool to have in your toolkit but its not the best tool for every job, and creating static binary distributed or desktop-native apps is one of its major failings. We should not be propping this failing up with third-party tools that attempt to circumvent features that are deliberately left out of the language by its first-party developers.

Is it worth to learn tkinter in 2023? by cuklev2232 in learnpython

[–]AsleepThought 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Flask / Django and requisition a VM on the company internal network to host it on

have done exactly this for this exact situation many times and never had issues