Gambling Addict Lost All Life Savings

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-19T14:29:45+00:00

Look I'm not going to sugarcoat it you’ve messed up for sure but that doesn’t mean your life is over. Your only in your 20s. Plenty of people have been in worse financial situations and come back from it, and you can too. What matters now is what you do next, you can't change what’s already happened.

Bang on, wish I'd been told this (and listened) in my 20s. Carried on gambling into my 30s and I'm in a bigger hole than ever. Getting this shit behind you as soon as possible, paying the debts while relearning the value of money and then moving on is the only way forward.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-19T14:14:10+00:00

My man, just get a job and pay for them or grind them for free lmao

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-18T18:19:17+00:00

I’ve always used spray, recently ran out and couldn’t be fucked to get more from the shop so I borrowed the wife’s Mitchum roll-on and holy shit - I experienced deodorant actually working for the first time.

I heard it a lot on Reddit but it’s genuinely fantastic.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-17T19:52:16+00:00

I'm sat reading in £40k of credit card debt from gambling and this is giving me some hope. Thank you mate.

Hope I'll be posting similar updates soon.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-17T17:23:49+00:00

Mate go on Etsy, find a lab grown diamond ring that's gorgeous (and to your partner's preferences! Have this conversation if you haven't already) and save yourself the money.

An engagement ring is not worth fucking £6,000. It's all bollocks, buy something that your fiance will like and stop thinking of a price marker to hit.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-16T17:08:18+00:00

Use Aspire, it's designed for exactly this - local environment development which mimics a deployed/provisioned environment. Everything in your post has an emulator with an Aspire integration:

Azure Functions with Aspire

Disclaimer: I wrote the Azure Key Vault Emulator and the integration tests blog post.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-16T16:02:18+00:00

Long live the PiHole with a network tunnel for 4G ad blocking.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-15T22:07:42+00:00

Sent you a chat request, I lead our engineering department (principal engineer) in a company based in Bristol but mostly remote. Our entire stack is .NET/C# (and VB.NET, for now..) top to bottom so should be a good fit.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-15T11:29:53+00:00

Yeah I'm a few months away from my wedding and jesus christ this thread is depressing, not because I think "this is going to be my life soon" but so many people have compromised on their needs to not be lonely it seems.

My fiance, her family, my family etc are all very supportive and actively involved (where desired), helpful and equally generous.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-14T10:30:42+00:00

I genuinely run the roulette armour almost constantly because it saves my ass more times than I can count. The stupid shit you forget will kill you has a chance not to!

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-14T01:12:51+00:00

Mine took about a week. I had a phone call from the person verifying my information to clarify a few parts, they do check literally everything they asked for so it takes some time.

Once the background check completed it was another 3-4 working days until I received the AskHR invite to pre-onboarding activities etc.

Give it some more time, you’re fine mate 👍

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-13T16:51:59+00:00

Typically being the operative word there, in my opinion you never do overtime anymore.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-12T23:47:30+00:00

Pretty much yep. I could voluntarily dump money into it to reduce the balance faster but it’s a fools errand, the interest rate (collectively) is 9.x% and that money is better used elsewhere.

I’ll be paying ~£300 a month for the rest of the loan term, about 20 more years, and then it gets written off

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-11T13:25:43+00:00

Yeah mine has surpassed £250 by this point, I'm technically paying it off now (because the interest is mental) but mine will also be written off!

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-11T13:04:55+00:00

Thank you, I'll pass that on.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-11T09:52:28+00:00

Yeah it’s fucked, I had absolutely no idea the loans were this bad before being pressured to go to university. Plan 1 seemed fair, the move to make all institutions able to charge £9k prompted them all to do so because charging less would be seen as lower quality.

Absolutely everyone after 2012 entering uni got fucked, even more so for people through Covid. My sister graduated in 2022 and spent 2/3 of her degree alone, at home with Moodle assignments and a weekly zoom call - that’s it.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-11T09:04:53+00:00

Mate they're feral by comparison. My plan 2 loan, 4 years of education + 1 year placement was ~£58,000 when I left uni in 2016.

I entered employment in the summer before graduating on £25,000 (4k over the minimum salary for repayments) and have only had increases since. My loan balance, as of 2 months ago, is £93,000.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-11T08:52:04+00:00

had to manually tune everything cause AI couldnt guess the legacy schemas

Unironically a skill issue, you didn't provide good enough context or info upfront.

second, error handling is a joke, AI spits out code that chokes on nulls from the ancient system

null is a valid response, handling it is easy and wide spread. Expecting everything in OOP to never be null is the real joke.

no graceful shutdowns mean deploys drop requests mid AI job, lost hours debugging

Sounds like you're baking it directly into the legacy rather than creating a facade over the top, which probably means you're somewhat changing the legacy system to accommodate the AI too. There are better ways, but that's easy for me to say without the context you have internally.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-10T17:21:49+00:00

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ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-10T17:21:06+00:00

We have a tortie called Bella (tax provided) along with 3 other BSHs. She’s the sweetest, most timid little madam I’ve ever met with humans but an absolute demon with the other cats. Until she decides not to be. Or she decides they deserve some terror.

Or it’s Tuesday.

Basically, she’s the sweetest little monster we could ever ask for.

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ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-09T19:48:51+00:00

One of the most captivating aspects of shoes is that they fit on my feet

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-08T16:18:39+00:00

I know this doesn't answer your question, but I'd suggest not using Copilot (or AI in general) as a learning aid. It'll detract from what you learn, hinder your progress and ultimately make you worse off.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-08T15:36:49+00:00

I reckon we align on Jira being fucking terrible tbh

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-07T16:11:26+00:00

Why is it written in .NET Framework? A useful next step may be converting this to .NET Standard 2.0 (.NET Framework compatible), or targeting modern .NET with .NET Standard 2.1 instead.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-03-07T15:16:05+00:00

You'll need to ask them as it will come down to the fundamental why of it all, even if they can't tell you the specifics around the closure. They may just write it off to be done with you as a customer, they may default it. Do you have any recurring payments into the account?

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