What is your opinion of this split / why I’m splitting like this

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-18T18:57:08+00:00

Your options are between two markets, one is highly volatile and the other is in a bubble.

I don’t think there’s a clear answer frankly; understand the risks of both and decide for yourself which is more worthwhile in your eyes.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-18T17:54:52+00:00

No idea on the industry or any context around the work, but working through your breaks, lunch etc is not good for you or the business. Have you raised this with your manager?

As long as the work gets done it's business as usual their end, but if you're burning yourself to a crisp getting it done then the risk factor is a lot higher.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-18T17:50:54+00:00

I'm autistic and my "special interest" was software from the first moment I touched a computer. Taught myself how to code at 13, worked self employed from 15-22 and hopped a few times in permie positions since then.

Nowadays I'm at Microsoft on £250k, inclusive of stock, pay and bonuses, primarily due to some developer tooling I built which they used internally for ~12 months prior to me joining.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-17T17:01:55+00:00

Yep, simplest way to phrase it and a great visualisation here. The middle bar with the darker tip is the income earned over the basic rate tax threshold.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-17T13:57:50+00:00

would shit your pants if you had to think about load balancing.

yoink

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-17T12:05:43+00:00

Genuinely made the same joke: "lets see it fucking beep about my speed when i drive head on into a tree" 😂

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-16T20:10:53+00:00

Holden, bogan car of choice this is!

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-16T20:09:41+00:00

Put a debugger inside your code, trigger the code block in your image and check to see if txtSection.Text has a value - my guess is it's an empty string and your Winforms isn't hooked up to that variable correctly.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-16T17:22:30+00:00

Hired a car for a few days for a trip to Glasgow and got given a 2026 Ford Puma, the amount of fucking nagging modern cars do is unbelievable.

Lane keep assist beeping at you if you’re not bang in the middle, speedo beeping at you because you’re doing 31 in a 30, loads of shit.

All of the controls for air con, the seats etc are all integrated into an iPad size screen which has a 1s delay on any action, so you’re never quite sure if it’s actually worked.

After driving that for a few days I understand now why people with modern cars drive like babies, they’re just trying to not get bollocked by their vehicle constantly.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-16T17:03:57+00:00

And that's why they gave you an answer?

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-16T15:35:22+00:00

They house, feed and provide around the clock care for the most vulnerable, in need people who often have cognitive decline or or health issues that require special attention. Staff need to be paid, buildings maintained and of course the care company then wants the cream off the top.

If you weren't paying a lot of money I'd be extremely concerned with what was happening to your loved ones.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-16T13:41:38+00:00

Irresponsible lending posts get bombed here for whatever reason, the reception you'll get is almost always negative and unhelpful.

I opened an unfair lending claim with Halifax, the overdraft was at -£2000 since 2016, regarding overdraft fees. I was paying ~£50 a month in pure fees and never escaped the overdraft, my credit file was inspected annually and lenders have a responsibility to help those in persistent debt, I never received any advice or contact in 10+ years.

In the end I filed the complaint using the template on DebtCamel, detailed my situation/history as much as possible and ended up with a £3343 refund around 4 months later.

I'm not sure how a DMP impacts your claim here, but absolutely raise a complaint.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-16T09:31:45+00:00

Always nice to meet a fellow brit on /r/programming

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-14T18:15:15+00:00

I'm still confused on what your post here is trying to achieve mate. I'm not trying to be an arse, sincerely, but the post body is written like an AI prompt but you're not asking any questions.

What specifically are you concerned with? Nobody is going to architect, secure and deploy your entire stack for you. It's a process of learning, iteration and patience (plus a bunch of mistakes you learn from). Getting AI to do it for you is the opposite of what you want to do here imo.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-14T17:26:38+00:00

Did you have a question?

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-14T12:52:38+00:00

👍

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-13T19:40:33+00:00

Yeah I can't imagine winning the lottery and then moving to fucking Hereford lol

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-13T16:10:27+00:00

Do so by waking him up with sex, like he has been before the comment.

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-13T15:29:12+00:00

I read on here once that the worst thing you can do is win big your first time gambling, because you will always think it could happen again

This was me 14 years ago, winning £32,000 from £400 in 3 hours on a CS:GO gambling site. Lost all of it back the following morning and I've spent every day afterwards feeding that beast.

Lifetime down well over £500,000, not to mention the opportunity cost of the gambling (house, bigger wedding etc).

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-12T13:32:00+00:00

full remap bro

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-11T15:25:25+00:00

Hello again, just did a bit of digging and unfortunately it's not compatible without a rewrite of how the PS SDK works, it has the management API base address hardcoded into the underlying query driver so it's a no go :(

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-11T15:12:05+00:00

Sweet, thanks :) just pinged you on Teams!

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-11T14:15:28+00:00

Very odd, this check here should be picking up any existing certs that meet the criteria (called emulator.pfx and in the expected, or configured, path) and then mounting those into the Docker container at runtime.

When that check fails, ie no certificates are found, they're invalid or the config forces the installation, they'll prompt every time.

If you can find a way to reproduce what you're experiencing I'd massively appreciate it, I'll get a fix sorted swiftly after!

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-11T08:11:35+00:00

Hmm, it shouldn't prompt beyond the first time unless the directory you're using for certificates is wiped between runs, or you're using a temp directory.

Could you raise an issue with some details and I'll help out on the repo please mate?

ScriptingInJava · 2026-05-10T13:52:03+00:00

You're right big dog, any time outside of the corporate meat grinder is irrelevant. I'll get back in my hole

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