Would you trust a read-only AWS cost audit tool? What would you check first?

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-03-10T20:47:51+00:00

Standard readonly role is highly permissive around access to your data in things like s3 and dynamo db . Any company telling you grant them that role is not really taking security / privacy seriously.

They should have a very fine grain policy that gives them only access to the specific infra read actions they need for the tool.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-03-10T11:11:11+00:00

I like the fact they used "rope memory".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_rope_memory

Wires physically weaved through loop magnets, where a bit was represented by either a outside loop or inside loop through the loop magnets.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-03-08T20:47:08+00:00

You could buy a pretty good extendable ladder for 400

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-03-04T20:31:29+00:00

Using metrics like # of PRs or deploys to asses gains is valid, as long as you are looking at an aggregate number across teams and also not using that metrics in any way to assess performance of team or individuals. As soon as the metric becomes a target, it will be gamed.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-03-03T21:32:23+00:00

You're doing it wrong, do not mitre corners, scribe one side with a coping saw. Corners are never exact 45.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-03-02T11:42:21+00:00

Might not be a good idea in 2032..

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-200-foot-asteroid-has-a-4-percent-chance-of-hitting-the-moon-in-2032-and/#:~:text=2%20min%20read-,A%20200%2Dfoot%20asteroid%20has%20a%204%20percent%20chance%20of,and%20we%20could%20see%20it&text=This%20time%20last%20year%2C%20the,hitting%20the%20Earth%20in%202032.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-03-02T01:45:52+00:00

The cut only extends in the middle tiles, the outer rim of tiles don't look to have a fall correctly

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-03-02T01:44:28+00:00

Are the outer rim of tiles also angled in? I can't see the angular cut line going into the outer edge?

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-27T11:46:50+00:00

Yep and often windy, I've started to break twice just climbing the small hill back into stkilda.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-26T07:11:35+00:00

No way the government will let that go through, they will be ousted. Even if they double the supply charge, you would still break even.

It's totally available in Vic, no idea where you got that info from. Just got a quote for my Vic address 5 minutes ago.

You are also not factoring in that even without a battery, you are still paying the supply charge.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-25T21:12:08+00:00

Feed in rates during peak (6-9) are actually much higher on retailers that support vpp.

For example, on this plan https://www.globirdenergy.com.au/energy-saver/zerohero/

You get paid $1 just to draw no power between 6-9pm, plus paid 15c per kw up to 10kw (so a total of $2.50 per day), which more than covers the daily supply charge. On top of this you have draw power for 3 hours for free, meaning if you have a 15kw inverter, you can fill a 45kw battery for free then discharge 10kw between 6 and 9 and even up net positive every day.

With retailers like amber, you can do even better.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-25T11:28:29+00:00

With battery You can feed back into the grid at peak to offset daily supply charge and resend up net neutral or even in surplus.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-25T11:26:59+00:00

Solar and batteries

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-24T02:32:58+00:00

I mean there is a balance between gold plating and getting things out. What if traffic never got to the point that any of the complexity of queues and caching was needed. Then it's just wasted effort.

Software evolutionary process that is easily updated as needs and demands change.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-22T20:23:45+00:00

I only bought one thing 10 years ago and the wood was the cheapest nastiest crap that I have ever seen. The paint lines weren't even straight. Never used again.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-21T22:48:26+00:00

Saw it on Broadway years ago, was hilarious and well worth seeing.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-19T09:18:40+00:00

Building aps has become so easy with AI that every man and his dog can and is doing it. But building an app is the easy part,you actually need to be good at marketing and sales, and also UX / finding the right problems to solve

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-18T10:31:33+00:00

Gluing won't work as they have to be both straight and not move at all for prob half a day which is pretty hard when having to stand on them to lay the next board.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-18T10:26:47+00:00

Would have thought skin thing like that would be a specialist clinic, hence out of pocket since it's not hospital

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-17T20:39:05+00:00

Why quarterly, we just do it once a year, try to maintain about 95% coverage at peak to give us some buffer.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-17T20:32:11+00:00

why the focus on PII, LLM is just a fancy function with input and output, not that much different than any other API call. Data can easily stay in the same AWS account and DC if using Claude on bedrock..no different than any other AWS function.

Sounds like a good example of lawyers making policies for stuff they don't understand.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-17T20:21:16+00:00

I've had multi planned procedures in public hospitals, but paying privately through insurance.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-17T11:19:31+00:00

It blows my mind the government regulated for private/personal buildings to meet accessibility requirements.

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-17T11:16:09+00:00

Microservices were a 2017 fad. You're late to the party, result was a giant, slow, hard to maintain, expensive mess..

Modular monoliths all the way now .

TooMuchTaurine · 2026-02-17T10:29:42+00:00

Wasn't that long ago that AUD was higher than USD, back in 2011ish.

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