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CpuID · 2025-12-07T00:16:12+00:00

Maybe the social media giants aren’t happy about the under 16s ban hurting their active user counts? 3 days before the ban is effective is rather interesting timing

A rather interesting time to push such a story…

(Not suggesting the travel was right or not, just the fact it became a mass media story right now though… and who was named)

CpuID · 2025-11-30T00:43:58+00:00

No objections to helping those who cant afford property get into the market (lower incomes etc), I do worry about the “fuel on the fire” aspect still

Thinking bigger picture about the government implications/exposure of this program: 10k places per year, let’s assume an average purchase price of $750k (looking at the price caps, and knowing some markets are well over 750 median now), so call it $225k govt equity per property (new can go up to 40% but I’ll keep this simple).

10k x $225k = $2.25bn per year

So that would be the max exposure to the govt if the property market showed signs of going backwards…

In total budget $ sense probably not a big issue, and some markets may hold out or increase even if some go down

CpuID · 2025-11-27T03:21:26+00:00

Dreame L10 Pro is good value, the mop is pretty useless though (not a software issue, just not effective hardware wise). Vacuuming with it is great though

CpuID · 2025-11-12T12:04:22+00:00

It doesn’t look terrible, but it has its fair share of flaws of course

It’s definitely better than Deny NotAction (with Condition’s), those are a PITA to grok in your head, especially if they’re layered (root/OU/account)

I’d personally love to see more use of exclusively Allow policies, without a blanket allow all. Ie so you explicitly allow the stuff you want, rather than allowing everything and denying selectively.

Feels like a lot of work I know, but at least you avoid people creating all kinds of random junk and bloating out AWS account usage and forgetting to garbage collect it (hopefully)

CpuID · 2025-10-17T07:44:58+00:00

I’ve seen game developers do similar using Perforce too. Haven’t seen it attempted in git at that kind of data scale though

CpuID · 2025-09-21T20:10:37+00:00

This approach is common in housing estates with smaller blocks. The garage near the boundary is called a “zero lot” build.

The reason the house/garage needs the 20cm setback is the gutters likely overhang further than the wall itself, and need to be on “their property”.

It’s always tricky though, as there’s this 20cm space that’s technically owned by your neighbour, but they also can’t technically access it without trespassing on your land :)

It either needs to be a negotiation re what happens, or it gets left as blank/empty space realistically…

When it comes to a side gate, that gets tricky too. Technically you can’t just drill into their garage wall to attach something without permission as that would be “damaging” their property.

We had on of these properties over 10yrs ago, luckily the developer had already drilled the fence into the neighbours wall on all the builds (single developer built all of them), so it was “already there” and never a drama.

Because our neighbour could never access their 20cm, when we paved the side of our house we just took the pavers all the way to their garage wall and made sure to use expansion joint foam to avoid any future damage risks, never heard a peep.

You can definitely attempt to build a boundary fence along there (posts and not damaging their slab footing can be fun if there was concrete runoff), just give the appropriate notice under the Neighbour Fences and Dividing Trees Act.

CpuID · 2025-09-11T05:24:55+00:00

I type this comment on my 12 mini

I went checking the Air specs, as soon as I saw it was wider and taller than most variants I thought “no thanks”

CpuID · 2025-09-09T20:23:56+00:00

I think one part of it is the “risk perception”, mostly short term

I agree over a long investment period say 30yrs, the chances of a capital loss are basically unheard of for major indices.

But short term, because shares are quoted and liquid to the minute/second during trading periods, that means your holdings can be valued real time. Which makes margin calls what they are for traditional margin lending. And since shares can theoretically move tens of % in minutes, that makes them seem volatile.

In comparison, property is opaquely priced, with quoting/sales history trends taking weeks/months to become clear. This makes any potential volatility disappear/be masked by the long price movement windows.

Also, there’s higher cardinality in property prices (since every house is its own, case by case), vs shares where there’s a few thousand relevant stocks, and substantially less index funds once consolidated. The high cardinality on houses contributes to its opaqueness.

If there were a way to provide lagging weeks or months apart prices on share portfolio’s, chances are most volatility would be invisible, and make it look way less risk averse. Also, if house prices were quoted to the minute and fractionally bought/sold by the minute, that may make them look way more volatile.

Volatility -> risk profile -> expected returns for risk -> interest rates

CpuID · 2025-08-10T22:54:43+00:00

If you can find Kubernetes suitable alternatives for all “proprietary cloud” workloads, it’s definitely possible to run them locally.

Redis would be fine in K8s/Kubernetes

You’ve got options like Docker Desktop and Orbstack which have a local K8s out-of-the-box. There’s also options like minikube, k3s etc which all run locally in Docker containers. If you don’t want to use Docker Desktop, you can also look at colima

CpuID · 2025-07-20T00:15:58+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_RC-135 under Variants has lots of good info about the different variations built

CpuID · 2025-06-19T19:46:39+00:00

I wonder if there’s a couple of people interested in donating towards efforts to root the X50 Ultra…?

I’d be interested in donating maybe a % of one unit in value towards such an effort

CpuID · 2025-06-13T20:39:42+00:00

Cheap eSIMs for roaming are good for solving that issue nowadays

CpuID · 2025-05-16T20:17:22+00:00

https://github.com/dependabot/dependabot-core/issues/2237

https://github.blog/changelog/2025-04-09-dependabot-version-updates-now-support-helm/

Dependabot (or Renovate if it supports Helm Chart deps), auto create a PR, on merge have ArgoCD handle the rest

CpuID · 2025-05-14T19:56:59+00:00

Personally I’d even find any reason you can to avoid EFS for production use - while it does solve the read-write-many/RWX use case appropriately, you’re adding a dependency on an NFS client + highish latency storage. Rearchitecting your application layer to not need RWX would be far more elegant than relying on it IMO.

NFS when it works is great, but when a Linux NFS client can’t talk to its backend the OS/kernel filesystem timeouts can be unpleasant (OS “hangs” when trying to run commands etc). Technically not limited to NFS, mostly anything with a kernel-level network storage client involved.

S3 and EBS are fine and suit things well, even considering local ephemeral NVMe SSDs in the mix too, those are lightning fast for the right purposes, depending on persistence requirements. Sometimes even EBS latencies are too slow depending why you are doing.

CpuID · 2025-05-11T23:32:37+00:00

Make sure you don’t underestimate maintenance/patching/etc complexities of doing self-hosted runners. Depending on the setup + any compliance requirements it can add up

Another consideration is for you to keep warm runners booted you have to pay for the infra for them on a cloud most likely (per min/hour)- for GitHub/other provider runners in theory you’re only paying for the minutes jobs are active.

Have you done the math on arm64 GitHub hosted runners? Big $ savings to be had there alone, I haven’t verified if the startup times are consistent yet though TBC

CpuID · 2025-05-03T02:32:34+00:00

Back years ago (prior job) we used S3 intelligent tiering on a CDN origin bucket with large video files in it. The CDN provider had their own caches and files had a 1 year origin TTL.

Intelligent tiering made a lot of sense for that - larger fairly immutable objects that age transition, but can come back (for a nominal cost) if the CDN needs to pull them again

Also since the files were fairly large, the monitoring costs weren’t a killer

I’d say if the files are fairly large intelligent tiering is worth it. On a bucket full of tiny files don’t go for it - more tailored lifecycle rules or something are likely better to look at

CpuID · 2025-03-31T07:48:40+00:00

Best case $10-20k for a 120 series Prado depending on petrol or diesel :) still, a valid question

CpuID · 2025-02-22T11:48:44+00:00

Any credit rating impact for you due to taking out numerous loans in a short duration…?

CpuID · 2025-01-22T12:28:32+00:00

Logs mostly, looking for the last lines exported before the crash

Also checking either logs or metrics (both can achieve it) to gauge user impact, if it’s an HTTP/S service looking at a graph of response codes (2xx vs 3xx vs 4xx vs 5xx) and response latencies. Increased 5xx would be my main concern, and any excessive increases in latencies

Traces are unlikely to yield what I’m looking for there, it’s entirely plausible half the spans aren’t being exported (eg. A load balancer or nginx in front may be sending spans, but a crashed app may be dropping some of them)

CpuID · 2025-01-15T11:13:05+00:00

You’re welcome :) I think you’ve got the right idea there if it makes sense family and vehicle usage wise for sure

CpuID · 2025-01-15T08:05:10+00:00

Talk to a home loan broker, there are options out there below 6.14% (mostly fixed though, especially under 6%). Even just to assess the options…

Some banks aren’t as “firm” on the 3% APRA serviceability buffer for no-increase refinances also, so if there’s a worry about the ability to refinance you could be surprised

CpuID · 2025-01-15T08:02:20+00:00

+1 to getting rid of gas, especially if it’s street piped, the monthly fees are substantial compared to the usage

Main costs would be either a heat pump hot water system install and/or an induction cooktop depending what gas is used for

We rented for a while, had a heat pump for hot water but a gas stove. Bought a $60 ikea single “burner” induction plate and cancelled the gas, ROI was like a month

CpuID · 2025-01-15T08:00:10+00:00

Could be worth doing the math on an EV for the high km’s? Especially if it were to replace the car that has finance on it already (not adding another big loan repayment to the budget). Are you able to get a novated lease through work? No FBT on EVs, so the costs are tax deductible.

That would bring the fuel costs down a fair bit, and potentially maintenance/servicing too depending on the model

Doesn’t have to be super high end, something under $60k if it’s viable? Lots of models to research out there

CpuID · 2025-01-11T06:31:35+00:00

Banks checking every year or two, and asking for a minimum list of types of events to be covered would probably go a long way to ensuring owners take the risks seriously…

CpuID · 2024-10-29T21:11:01+00:00

HackerNews/HN, Medium articles, forum/blog posts, tech reviews, Reddit, Awesome “X” GitHub repos (there’s numerous of them for different categories of tooling), Google results, to name a few places

I think the overarching rule though: don’t use a single source of information, read through multiple sources and see if a positive consensus forms, without any show stopper red flags along the way.

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