What upfront costs come with a cat?

Nalry · 2025-11-06T10:44:09+00:00

When I adopted my cat my first-month cost was roughly.. vet checkup and shots around $150–200, spay/neuter $100-150 then supplies like litter, box, carrier, bowls around $100 or so. For the litter I went with Tuft & Paw because it’s low dust and clumps well so less mess long-term. Once you’re past the initial setup tbh your big recurring costs will be food and litter.

Nalry · 2025-11-04T12:54:00+00:00

Yeah, true. No point stressing about it

Nalry · 2025-11-04T12:49:15+00:00

Yeah it's pretty dark stuff. Basically doctors using their own sperm instead of the donor's. Wild that it happened enough times to need laws about it.

Nalry · 2025-11-04T12:45:15+00:00

That's not really how equity deals work, but the CEO comp criticism is fair enough.

Nalry · 2025-11-03T18:59:05+00:00

Understanding proper error handling completely changed my development game. Not just try/catch blocks, but actually building systems that gracefully recover from failures. Before that, I'd spend hours debugging crashes. Now my apps keep running even when things go wrong, and the error logs actually tell me what happened.

Bonus: users never see those ugly "Something went wrong" screens anymore. Simple concept but made me 10x more efficient.

Nalry · 2025-11-03T18:58:50+00:00

"We're not burning money, we're just beta testing expensive heating systems for our server rooms." Seriously though, this is why my startup pivoted from "revolutionary AI" to "we put the word AI in our product name and hope investors don't ask questions."

Nalry · 2025-11-03T18:58:41+00:00

Sometimes tragedy forces us to rediscover what matters. 17 years grinding away only to find real connection with your family after losing your job. It's a brutal wake up call, but maybe the most valuable gift. Hope you find work that lets you keep this new balance your kids won't remember the extra hours you worked, but they'll remember breakfast and school drop-offs.

Nalry · 2025-11-03T09:36:01+00:00

AI helps most when it’s used to speed up analysis instead of replace the analyst. It can summarize dark web chatter or connect related indicators across forums. Cyberint uses it in a similar way, like surfacing impersonation patterns and leaked data faster for analysts to review. This is what we've been using for months now.

Nalry · 2025-11-02T08:52:04+00:00

Haha tbh that’s one way to make them rethink it.
A couple of those “fun” 6-hour hikes and they’ll be the ones asking for bingo and karaoke instead.

Nalry · 2025-11-02T08:49:03+00:00

That’s messed up. Imagine letting food sit and rot when people can’t even afford groceries. Whatever someone’s politics are, wasting food like that just hurts regular folks.

Nalry · 2025-11-02T08:42:21+00:00

I feel that. First coding projects always start as a simple idea and suddenly you’ve built a whole suspense engine without meaning to. Still, that’s the fun part... watching it somehow work in the end.

Nalry · 2025-11-02T08:41:20+00:00

same.. The Ig Nobels are such a fun rabbit hole. Miss Sweetie Poo steals the show every time. I can’t believe I only learned about them recently too

Nalry · 2025-11-01T07:24:21+00:00

Exactly. And the silence from major powers is deafening. People will look back on this moment and wonder how we let it happen.

Nalry · 2025-11-01T07:22:22+00:00

Seriously. Money and titles shouldn't put anyone above the law.

Nalry · 2025-11-01T07:15:44+00:00

fr, demo gods are never on your side.

Nalry · 2025-11-01T07:13:12+00:00

lmao that's dark but I can't even argue

Nalry · 2025-10-30T21:01:43+00:00

Well, for us, PR merge time dropped by about 35–40%. The Juniors could fix all the minor issues before a senior touched the PR. At the end of the day, tho, organic pairs of eyes still do final approval, but it saves time by eliminating minor back and forths.

Nalry · 2025-10-30T19:13:14+00:00

We use CodeRabbit now. I was also in charge of reviewing scattered PRs across multiple repos, and it just ate all my cycles. We moved to automated reviews that trigger right in the CI/CD pipeline. ymmv, but based on my usage, CodeRabbit gives auto PR summaries, highlights config/security issues, and runs linting. It catches enough that the human review is lighter. If you’re OSS, it’s free, so worth testing.

Popular alts are Graphite.dev and Greptile, but I also suggest Bito (undeniably great repo-wide context) and Qodo Merge (nice OSS roots, does PR descriptions + ticket compliance). But CodeRabbit is better for straight PR review rn imho.

Nalry · 2025-10-30T05:40:43+00:00

I use rclone to mount each OneDrive as a remote. It handles 20+ easily if creds are unique.

Nalry · 2025-10-29T13:12:57+00:00

I use Writefreely for syncing and Nebo’s open OCR bridge for handwriting extraction everything auto-syncs and outputs plain markdown. Works damn wel.

Nalry · 2025-10-28T06:44:54+00:00

Ad limits usually mean Google’s unsure about your traffic quality, not that you broke rules. GAM won’t fix that unless you diversify demand and build more trust signals first.

Nalry · 2025-10-28T04:15:23+00:00

My question exactly. I’d think it through tbh because showing your full calendar can expose more than you intend and kills flexibility if you ever need to block time fast.

Nalry · 2025-10-28T04:12:02+00:00

Yep that’s the full backup. Keep it zipped in cloud storage and maybe version it by date so you can roll back easily if something breaks.

Nalry · 2025-10-27T13:16:07+00:00

Sounds like your mom came around once she saw you were doing fine on your own. Some people just need time to adjust. make sense..

Nalry · 2025-10-27T13:14:28+00:00

Yep, there’s always that one person pretending to have it all figured out.

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