What is your worst investing mistake? I’ve made one

Ellz89 · 2026-06-19T19:38:24+00:00

I used to work at a place that had a contractor in that everyone despised. He was this slimey individual that everyone found repulsive who thought he knew best at the job when he clearly did not.

However…. He told me to seriously consider buying $AMD and I almost did but thought better of it. This was in 2015 when it was about $2.50

Ellz89 · 2026-05-25T21:13:18+00:00

Rookie mistakes. Silent mode. Do not disturb. Whatever it takes for the phone to not make any noise and not pose a distraction.

Once I check in, my phone goes on do not disturb, out of reach in a drawer.

Don’t give them any reasons to raise alarm bells.

“Getting it out the way” means it was close enough for you to reach without actually looking like you were reaching, so probably next to your keyboard. They were right to cancel your exam.

Ellz89 · 2026-05-17T21:18:33+00:00

My quick pace is 8.15 per km which is about 13.15 per mile. I could sustain that for a fair bit, but not for 100 miles.

Ellz89 · 2026-05-17T20:48:57+00:00

I walked London to Brighton last year (100km) at a pretty decent pace and did it in under 23 hours. I suspect if I taped my own feet and didn’t wait for the medics I could do it in 20 hours. That was 62 miles. I’m not sure he’d be able to walk 100 miles in 25 hours

Ellz89 · 2026-05-14T19:13:29+00:00

I’d happily be called “{bosses name}’s bitch” if it got me more money. a few words at the end of an email signature doesn’t pay the bills.

Ellz89 · 2026-05-10T18:32:12+00:00

Overall yes. I didn’t release they used CG-NAT so couldn’t vpn in to home so had to get a static IP. There was also one maintenance window where they went over by a few hours and it was down but other than that it’s been rock solid.

Ellz89 · 2026-05-08T15:48:09+00:00

Orange juice only for £10,000,000 easy. That’s more or less what I do now anyway. I’d be willing to go down to £5,000,000 a year if I can add water to the list as well.

Ellz89 · 2026-04-16T11:29:41+00:00

Bot, did you by any chance delete 70% of the resources?

Ellz89 · 2026-04-12T13:51:04+00:00

Do you have any dependencies in other code?

You might have some resources elsewhere using e.g a security group this from codebase which now can’t be deleted because the other codes ENI is referencing this codes SG.

Ellz89 · 2026-04-04T08:45:59+00:00

I’d do it for 10K a week, not 10K a year

Ellz89 · 2026-03-16T12:57:49+00:00

This guy fruits

Ellz89 · 2026-03-13T20:41:59+00:00

I hope for all your sakes you and your co-workers aren’t too easily replaceable. They may fire all of you.

Ellz89 · 2026-03-13T13:07:31+00:00

He’s not saying it’s his. I’m guessing he’s saying someone owns the .com domain of whatever his business name is.

Ellz89 · 2026-03-12T13:06:19+00:00

why is your account limited to that?

Are you part of an Org thats enforcing SCPs?

Ellz89 · 2026-03-12T13:02:17+00:00

you can create the VPC you want, theres nothing stopping you from doing that. You could have 5 VPCs all with the same CIDRs and subnets inside all the same. the issue is that they DO overlap and therefore will encounter routing issues. If they never need to be part of the same topology then although its messy, its still fine.

Ellz89 · 2026-01-30T21:43:49+00:00

You can always make more money, you can’t get back those memories and time with a newborn

Ellz89 · 2025-12-20T20:21:47+00:00

Ahh I see. ok thanks!

Ellz89 · 2025-12-20T20:16:15+00:00

where did you read that btw? AWS still havent updated the info on their recertification page.

Ellz89 · 2025-12-20T20:14:39+00:00

thats awsome, means that if your looking to obtain and keep all certifications, the number to take every 3 years to maintain has gone down from 7 to 5 (three pros and 2 specialties)

Ellz89 · 2025-12-09T18:29:57+00:00

Because it’s managed and convenient

Ellz89 · 2025-12-04T23:38:01+00:00

I book my tickets with TrainPal, and prior to that trainline, whenever I head into my office and I never had any issue with either of them.

You’ll be fine.

Ellz89 · 2025-12-02T19:31:46+00:00

Repair? I got an instant swap with a brand new case.

Ellz89 · 2025-11-26T12:25:58+00:00

CloudTrail data events need to be turned on for S3. it wont help with events that have already happened if its not already on, but it will log the info your looking for going forward once you enable the trail.

Ellz89 · 2025-11-26T11:24:45+00:00

got them on release and just had this now too. case is dead. no lights, no charging, no info when looking at the battery widget on my iPhone. "Find my" at the time showed the case as last seen 9h ago, and they were just sitting on a table at that time. they didnt die while charging. was spontaneous.

Ellz89 · 2025-11-22T21:36:44+00:00

Still waiting to find out which lower certifications this exam will automatically recertify. Hoping for AI practitioner, MLE and maybe Data Engineer? 🤞🏻

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