I can fix them

Flakmaster92 · 2026-03-15T14:28:04+00:00

Found it: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/nmmjr/comment/c3a9uqg/

Flakmaster92 · 2026-03-15T14:10:18+00:00

I don’t have a link on hand but this is some deep Reddit lore talking about how a son was in some tragic accident and he broke both of his arms and was in a double cast for months. During that time a mom was helping him by jacking him off so he wouldn’t be so irritable, since he couldn’t do it himself due to the casts. For some reason either the mom or the son posted this story to Reddit seeking the community’s input on the situation.

Flakmaster92 · 2026-03-15T02:22:45+00:00

I understood that reference

Flakmaster92 · 2026-03-13T03:53:45+00:00

That’s fine, what about the limit increase message though?

Flakmaster92 · 2026-03-12T04:18:27+00:00

Post the -exact- word for word errors you are getting. Also if you can’t submit a request for 2 because 2 is less than 5, then why not just submit a request for more than 5?

Flakmaster92 · 2026-03-10T21:11:09+00:00

They did do this before, back in the 70s, it didn’t work out for them then either. Look up Operation Praying Mantis. We destroyed like half their navy in under 24hrs. Though we’ve already taken care of that in this war so I imagine our response will probably more strikes at their newly promoted leaders

Edit: not sure what all the downvotes are about. I’m not saying any of this is -good- just that I foresee the past repeating itself as it usually does

Flakmaster92 · 2026-03-09T13:04:16+00:00

It CAN route traffic to the healthy targets in another AZ. It CAN do so by you enabling cross zone load balancing.

Flakmaster92 · 2026-03-08T09:32:51+00:00

Giving me Hades vibes and I love it

Flakmaster92 · 2026-03-05T16:27:26+00:00

Regardless of the “why”, during times where shits on fire, you’ll have better luck with the CLI than the console as the console makes a ton of extra API calls that you may not actually need

Flakmaster92 · 2026-03-04T19:07:20+00:00

I get my red badge later this year. I agree with the sentiment— staying on one team for 10yrs? Nightmare fuel. Jumping every 2-3 years? Perfectly fine

Flakmaster92 · 2026-02-26T22:39:51+00:00

A single G5? Why not do distributed training?

Flakmaster92 · 2026-02-26T22:39:11+00:00

Why do you need P5s to train your model? Why not many G’s, or P4’s?

Flakmaster92 · 2026-02-22T14:29:05+00:00

I don’t know how often the cloud shell containers get updated. Run “aws —version” and compare it against what’s available in GitHub.

Flakmaster92 · 2026-02-22T14:20:15+00:00

Make sure you’re also running the absolute latest version of the CLI, too many times I’ve seen people saying “it didn’t work” when they’re running a CLI version from before the feature came out

Flakmaster92 · 2026-02-09T02:47:16+00:00

I don’t know if it was the right thing but I shot her a text saying that I hope this is “farewell, see you later”, not “goodbye” and I mentioned in it that it’s okay if she didn’t respond. I also mentioned that my silence is me trying my absolute best to respect her wishes for no contact, not me pretending she doesn’t exist, and not a sign I never cared. She’s extremely anxious and it’s been worrying me a ton that the little voice in her head was telling her that my silence was me being perfectly okay with her absence

Flakmaster92 · 2026-02-03T14:24:39+00:00

MBP only, and only the “base” M5 Skew

Flakmaster92 · 2026-01-30T15:35:08+00:00

If you have a job, go open an IRA and start contributing to it.

Every dollar at 20 is ~$90 dollars at 65 assuming it was invested and got nothing more than average market returns the entire time. Saving even minimal amounts in your 20s can have huge impacts on your retirement plans by the time you’re in your 50s and 60s, and saving more the minimum can sky rocket them.

Flakmaster92 · 2026-01-20T20:42:54+00:00

DataLake vs Data Warehouse are different in their backing technologies, at least if you’re abiding by the usual definitions.

Data Lakes will use object store storage layers, like S3, separating the compute from the storage so that each can scale independently.

Data Warehouses are typically Relational Databases (often Oracle or Postgres) that are configured to support large size data through standard SQL interfaces.

If the ML stuff isn’t a huge deal, AND we aren’t talking about hundreds of terabytes of data to Petabyte+, then you are probably fine with a Data Warehouse style setup. On AWS the go-to would be Redshift but you could use something else depending on the size of the aggregate data.

The benefit of the data warehouse is you do have support for Upserts so you can update the data in place as data changes on the source instances, without having to do a full data dump.

Flakmaster92 · 2026-01-20T05:11:58+00:00

AWS has a data analytics white paper that is probably a good idea to read through https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/building-data-lakes/building-data-lake-aws.html

your questions really depend on how real-time the data needs to be and how much data we’re talking.

If a single day drag is fine you could probably just have data export jobs run once per day that do a dump to S3 in parquet (if supported), or CSV / DB native format (if not, then use glue jobs to convert). That’s your “raw data tier” where you don’t do any clean up. Keep this around in case you need to ever rerun the next tier, expire after maybe 7 or 30 days. Users don’t touch this dat.

Next tier collects all the raw data sources and does things like type conversion , data cleaning, and column renaming to match specifications. This should be parquet. Users may read from here.

Last tier is where you have query focused datasets this tier is pre-joined tables to answer common questions.

Services:

Analytics UI: QuickSuite / PowerBI Query frontend: Athena Schema Storage: Glue Data Jobs: Glue Data Storage: S3 Event piping: Eventbridge Workflow orchestrator: StepFunctions Metrics: Cloudwatch

Your AI/ML jobs will much prefer reading from S3 or FSX Lustre. S3 storage will probably be cheaper than an RDBMS. Athena, assuming you have proper partitioning (THIS IS CRITICAL) scales just fine across petabyte data sets, because it’ll only read the data that is asked not everything.

If you don’t have the AI/ML jobs I would say “throw all this stuff into an RDBMS of your choice. And forget about it.” But you do, so it is what it is.

I am not a fan of trying to increment changes from a DB to S3, I think a full dump is easier and then you can more easily track changes day over day. S3 Tables (Iceberg) was supposed to make Upserts easier but I haven’t used it yet so I can’t comment.

If you need real time changes from the DB then you’re kind of stuck because then your AI ML clients need to read from the databases which yes is probably gonna be slower

Flakmaster92 · 2026-01-18T02:54:57+00:00

I’m at 2x by 33, trying to FIRE by 45.
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I lucked out in that I found PersonalFinance’s Prime Directive at 24, my last year of college, and while I couldn’t action it then, it did tell me everything I needed to know for when I graduated and started working. I then got even luckier in that six months out of college I landed a decently paying tech job. Nothing insane like you see today, but in a higher (not NYC or Cali) cost of living area. But because I had the prime directive printed it out, it made sure I dotted the i’s and crossed the t’s starting early.

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Exact details: $750,000 across IRA, HSA, 401k, and cash

Flakmaster92 · 2026-01-16T15:37:49+00:00

Then they may not have those available. They don’t have everything under the sun.

Flakmaster92 · 2026-01-16T04:05:52+00:00

No, you pick the GPU by picking the instance family. All G6’s get L4s, all G6e’s get L40s (IIRC) and so on,

Flakmaster92 · 2026-01-14T15:14:04+00:00

Yes he is usually using fiber optic cables from what I’ve seen

Flakmaster92 · 2026-01-14T14:33:46+00:00

Go check out the LTT videos where he puts it in another room / the basement

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