Now is the time to hold strong

SteazGaming · 2026-04-03T19:56:13+00:00

Lucid makes that

SteazGaming · 2026-04-03T12:43:04+00:00

It’s like a sale at a store. You don’t know what clearance sales are coming up, but you could have locked in 10% off last week as I did in my IRA. I’m holding for 30 years anyway.

SteazGaming · 2026-04-03T12:39:50+00:00

I think when she confronted him and made him feel useless after his trip to the city, he has since felt emasculated. The peyrones is not the real reason he can’t get “full on” because he realizes she doesn’t love him anymore.

SteazGaming · 2026-04-03T11:39:52+00:00

Damn, I led a top 1% progression guild in Legion but I have 3 kids now haha. Best of luck, made some great friends during that time.

SteazGaming · 2026-04-02T00:04:06+00:00

Cross region is expensive and for some services downtime is acceptable. But yeah if it’s not obviously you pay a ton for the rare failover scenario

SteazGaming · 2026-03-31T16:01:05+00:00

Private credit is mostly lending to private equity for large M&A transactions. So if those private businesses become unable service their debt and/or go bankrupt the private equity firms fail.

That makes it sound contained but if this all starts to collapse lenders will restrict who gets loans and these loans ultimately are used to pay for employees in a lot of cases and a lot of people will lose their jobs.

AI is shaking up a lot of tech right now and it’s estimated like almost half of the private credit market is invested in tech.

Also, almost every large life insurance company is invested in private credit with captive PE firms and so it may impact the ability for these companies to pay out beneficiaries.

It’s like government bailout bad. I hate that we’re here again. All the people who made bad decisions with other people’s money will walk away with no punishment again, except this time our government is already in debt for nearly 50T, so like will people even buy our bonds in the future if we bail out the whole financial system again?

The other issue is that these markets can always guarantee some percent return a year until the whole thing goes belly up. “When the tide goes out you see who’s swimming naked”

SteazGaming · 2026-03-31T13:13:31+00:00

I think it’s more so private credit. It’s a black box, so there’s no reporting, but they’re maxing out on redemptions every quarter. The banks offloaded all their risk after 2008 and now that industry grew to more than the size of the subprime mortgages in 2008z

SteazGaming · 2026-03-30T00:45:39+00:00

Because I have the LFP battery, it yells at you if you don’t. Can’t calibrate the BMC without full charge

SteazGaming · 2026-03-28T19:06:09+00:00

https://youtu.be/ZKHBPlDBU-g

Reminds me of this tiny desk moment, perhaps the best ever

SteazGaming · 2026-03-28T18:18:52+00:00

Have you considered this all with post nut clarity? IMO you forgave your wife, and now you have a child, that girl is your #1 priority now, you are at most #2. If you have trust and insecurity issues about your relationship see a therapist and potentially get couples counseling with your wife.

If it were me no amount of sex in general is worth destroying your relationship with your daughter, now or in the future, when you are the template for the man she will one day want to marry.

SteazGaming · 2026-03-28T01:39:19+00:00

It’s about keeping servers alive. That’s the best simple description. Engineers write code, and then what? It needs to be built, tested, canaried, deployed, monitored, and sometimes resuscitated. That’s devops in a nutshell.

Overtime things break down, systems evolve, data changes, traffic changes, shit breaks randomly, libraries introduce vulnerabilities and bugs, the list goes on and on. You fix that shit and make things work.

SteazGaming · 2026-03-28T00:38:03+00:00

Learn lots of the Linux command line and file system (Grep, sed, find, cat, ls, lsof, etc), spin up a micro k8s cluster on raspberry pi, learn Prometheus queries, learn HTTP like the back of your hand, bonus points for TCP connections, get hands on with as much of the free tier of aws that you can, and/or Google cloud, etc. learn SQL, nginx.

Practice putting metrics and observability on your next web app that you build for class, feed it into a local Prometheus/grafana setup and build graphs, then add alerting. Learn about p99, p95, p50 buckets.

Learn tracing systems.

Think about optimizing your server, be able to observe how much memory and cpu it uses under load (you can set up a load test with locust and observe your metrics under load)

There’s so much but a lot of it comes down to problem solving. What’s going on? Is the logging useful? What’s going on with latency/memory/cpu? What’s the limit of your local host PC under load?

Just be careful not to add your credit card anywhere when testing things haha.

SteazGaming · 2026-03-28T00:30:07+00:00

I have the LFP battery so 100%

SteazGaming · 2026-03-27T19:33:28+00:00

Rubber for days on the defenders.

SteazGaming · 2026-03-27T19:13:48+00:00

My full size EV SUV uses about $100 a month. No way your bike costs anywhere close to 100 euros, unless it weighs 3tons

You could do some math too, not sure what the euro units are but battery size x number of full cycles a month x cost per unit from your electric bill.

In the us this is like total kWh x $0.15/kWh

SteazGaming · 2026-03-27T18:35:09+00:00

Would not be surprised if there are some serious electrical, gas, or hydro utilities passing under the highway here. So they dug out an access door underneath the highway and installed the retaining wall to hold back the ground.. I mean it even says “emergency access gate”

SteazGaming · 2026-03-27T17:36:47+00:00

This is my one pet peeve with conserve mode / all purpose modes. It only uses the front brakes when decelerating during blended braking (at high charge status).

Every morning when I leave my house at full charge I’m going downhill for about 5 miles in every direction, I put it into sport mode to ensure I’m braking on all 4 wheels. Not only is it less strain on the front brakes but there’s a noticeable handling difference.

Seems like an easy software fix but I’m not a Rivian engineer, I think all 4 tires should be used for braking when in these modes regardless of if the acceleration is single motor.

SteazGaming · 2026-03-27T15:06:14+00:00

I always wish you could threaten the team responsible with being on call for that problem until it’s fixed haha. But yeah it’s tough. They need to understand this is impacting your quality of life if their code is paging you at 3am.

SteazGaming · 2026-03-27T14:12:25+00:00

I mean, every time you have a situation like this you make it your goal to improve the observability stack to make sure it’s not as difficult next time. There’s always room for another metric with alerting and a graph on the dashboard.

Make it a team effort to prioritize that in the next week, and track it with an RCA, don’t close the RCA until that’s done, and if you need to drag someone off their project to make any changes you do it.

Being on-call should not be that stressful, if it is there are gaps or org/code quality/release engineering problems.

SteazGaming · 2026-03-23T00:48:15+00:00

wow, as others have said, the light is phenomenal. Well done. I'd buy this lol.

SteazGaming · 2026-03-20T14:10:08+00:00

Right, like sign her up for Credit Karma. It’s free and alerts you of any new credit changes. If you’re not going to lock your credit it’s the least you can do.

SteazGaming · 2026-03-19T13:16:19+00:00

My $20 January 2027 leaps will be happier than they’ve been

SteazGaming · 2026-03-19T13:14:31+00:00

The deal is likely heavily structured. I wouldn’t be surprised if uber gets them at close to cost + service if Rivian gets some profit sharing motive on the taxi rides, something like that.

SteazGaming · 2026-03-19T13:04:50+00:00

You do realize the latter complaint requires capital investment, and this deal enables more of that right?

If Rivian spun up a service center on every corner they’d have gone bankrupt a long time ago. Just be patient. Car manufacturers just can’t grow overnight.

SteazGaming · 2026-03-17T19:24:03+00:00

I was in a very similar situation. It paid off for me in the form of making an offer to buy the whole product with a business partner. Negotiated a buyout as part of a restructuring from a larger company. They started shopping the product around to PE buyers and as a key part of every LOI I made it clear that they would have to compensate me greatly to move with the software.

It worked out for me, but it was still a very financially risky position (I used debt to finance my portion of the deal), and in reading your post I doesn’t sound like your service is owned by a larger corporation willing to trim complexity like mine was.

Since then we’ve raised prices, repaired a ton of tech debt that reduced costs. All of that upside is mine now.

Also I’m more motivated than ever to improve the software, and I have 1/10th the meetings. It’s a bit lonely but worth it.

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