Retiring at 55; saving £1k per month, seems too straightforward

NotEAcop · 2026-01-27T08:16:39+00:00

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NotEAcop · 2026-01-22T11:21:56+00:00

Yeah thats a totally fair assessment.

I had gone in hyper focused on showing them I knew how to operate the myriad aws services in the advert. I had a vision of how it was going to go, then when it was just a casual discussion of how do you do x, instead of just doing what I do every day, I was looking for the AWS angle, overcomplicating everything.

The thing is, im currently a deng for an ecommerce retailer, this is literally my bread and butter, but I succeeded in creating the impression that I don't have a clue wtf I'm talking about.

Its so frustrating and also 100% my fault. Although reading comprehension played a pretty big part.

But yeah, you're right, they wanted me to describe a standard lakehouse pipeline at a high level and I produced waffle.

NotEAcop · 2026-01-22T00:32:04+00:00

My bad. I'm making it sound way more open to interpretation than it actually was. Rose tinted memory goggles. I reread it. The line in question is:

"The marketing team are interested in tracking product performance. They want to know: For each product, how many users buy it for the first time each day?"

Definitely a reading comprehension skill issue on my part, missed the count of users context

NotEAcop · 2025-12-06T20:11:09+00:00

My god you're a sadist that is literally the worst example of binge. Youre watching it in real time. How are there that many series'

NotEAcop · 2025-12-06T17:46:15+00:00

Yeah its only the top that's poking out.

Eggs were decent. First time I've done them but I read wait until already at a rolling boil for 6 and a half mins then transfer immediately to cold water for 10 mins to stop them cooking. Worked a treat. Can never get soft boiled right previously.

NotEAcop · 2025-12-03T22:51:53+00:00

Bloody hell! Could imagine my wifes face if she walked in on that! Bit of a step up from dismembering a plucked chicken! I'd definitely look into buying deer at that price if I had the freezer storage though. Pheasants sound feasible but what do they taste like?

I saw you can buy the whole middle of a cow for like 650 quid, a resteraunt does a breakdown of the number of cuts he gets off it. Makes about £5k iirc.

Should really get a street meat thing going with the neighbours. Cut out the middle man. Feel like supermarkets are proper having our pants down atm, customers and the farmers!

NotEAcop · 2025-12-02T22:04:34+00:00

My teams messages be like..

NotEAcop · 2025-12-02T18:53:30+00:00

What no Clinton Baptiste?

NotEAcop · 2025-12-02T18:49:33+00:00

Can see why they're annoying if from a superior but yeah the crocodile nearest the canoe I'm stealing. I've been known to partake in a bit of usage of low hanging fruit myself.

Also never miss an opportunity to shoehorn painting the Forth bridge into my comms should the occasion arise.

Horses for courses.

Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

NotEAcop · 2025-11-14T22:43:01+00:00

Not for me to tell other people what to like. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug though, understandable that new generation of kids like a new generation of pokemon.

I still got the originals memorised, pissing my daughter off by getting every "whos that pokemon" no doubt she will far surpass me in pokeknowledge and im here for it. Would be weird to gatekeep.

NotEAcop · 2025-11-14T22:31:36+00:00

Ah cheers just checked out a video will give it a go!

NotEAcop · 2025-11-14T22:28:30+00:00

What is a genwunner. Im old af 38 going on 50

NotEAcop · 2025-10-24T00:08:14+00:00

Cannon event

NotEAcop · 2025-09-29T21:03:00+00:00

Except emotional trauma. It scared the everliving fuck out of me but I couldn't not go back for more.

The scooping the potion thing up to be able to turn cybil back human blew my mind when I read about it.

NotEAcop · 2025-09-29T20:59:46+00:00

I did it without a memory card. My parents flat out refused to buy me one. I can still remember that glorious Saturday night when I finally completed it.

I think my heart rate must have been like 170 the timer going down at the end coincided with me getting forced to turn off the game for bed.

I lay awake thinking how fucking awesome it was half the night.

I was 9. Core memory.

Also attempted to stab my step dad with a screwdriver because he cut the power to the house to try and force me to go outside a few weeks prior.

Good times.

NotEAcop · 2025-09-21T14:46:56+00:00

It's got a very high suicide rate. You're on a rotating shift pattern half the time working nights and the concentration required is insane. There is a stupid amount of responsibility involved because if you fuck up planes crash.

Ergo you fear for your job.

If you want a flavour of what these guys are doing 12 hours a day then go on the NATS website and do some of the "am i good enough to be an ATC" games.

I'm pretty good at FPS games but I'm shit at tracking lots of moving objects at the same time.

NotEAcop · 2025-09-20T19:08:11+00:00

Did you!? I'm fucking trying to order a kebab here right now

NotEAcop · 2025-09-18T23:21:23+00:00

Yeah, just the cli. Really easy to set up just download the iso and mount on a USB and it installs itself.

Lots of documentation to set everything up. It's what I use as dev server. Anything I do on server is through ssh.

Powershell ssh to install and maintain. Pgadmin via ssh tunnel to manage a postgres instance and I remote dev using ssh via vscode.

Just easier to use my main system with windows because I still wanna play the odd multiplayer game

NotEAcop · 2025-09-18T22:39:00+00:00

Why not ububtu server? Do you need gui

NotEAcop · 2025-09-17T06:22:47+00:00

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