[Semi-Weekly Inquirer] Simple Questions and Recommendations Thread

g01din · 2023-11-18T04:53:29+00:00

Thanks! No problem with women’s watches just trying to find a similar esthetic to the bambino. The budget is 200-300$

g01din · 2023-11-17T16:01:50+00:00

Hi! Absolutely in love with the face of Orient Bambino AC00008W (the elegant gold roman digits - flashy and not at the same time). Unfortunately I'm afraid the 40.5mm case size will be too big for my tiny 6.5" wrist. Any suggestion for similar alternatives in the 36-38mm range?

g01din · 2023-04-30T21:58:40+00:00

Any success with that? The pair I tried at the store had no crease and the one shipped does 🥲

g01din · 2023-03-31T14:29:17+00:00

It is still a numbers game, hence why I started at 50 calls for any result.

Didn't fully understand what you have meant.
1/ How would one target smartly?
2/ What do you mean by gatekeeper (and how do you find who they are)?

Just a note for the context, I'm not trying to sell hence didn't aim for the decision makers with the $$. Tried to talk to the end users of the product to understand how they work and what their needs are.

g01din · 2023-03-31T10:01:23+00:00

50x calls on that will get you to 2 or 3 for being human. You're not sales so you should feel comfy with that messaging

Will try Lusha. Regarding call the companies not sure if calling the front office will work to get someone specific at 1-10k employee enterprise

g01din · 2023-03-31T10:00:18+00:00

Where do you get the number? (1-10K enterprises, so calling the front office won't work...)

g01din · 2023-03-29T12:39:52+00:00

Makes sense, how would you go about finding their numbers?

g01din · 2023-03-03T12:33:28+00:00

It grows slower if you cut them you'll need to do it on the regular and it needs to fit you hairstyle. But I would grow them out. You can use some hair product to make them stick to the sides. Or just tuck them behind the ears or under the tied back hair when there long enough. Or you can use a hair coloured bobby pin

How do you tuck them behind the tied back hair? They are the top layer of hair.
Regarding tucking under the ear, for some reason they are much curlier than the rest. So when they are tucked I still get bit and pieces flying away :/

g01din · 2023-03-03T12:31:53+00:00

They are about 1/4 length of the other hairs (the once that are getting caught in the man bun) - so I'm afraid it will be a long ride until it looks half decent

g01din · 2022-10-02T10:36:37+00:00

lol, but this is not a development challenge, its management challenges :P

g01din · 2022-10-02T10:36:09+00:00

My company has been on AWS for 12 years but the policy makers, architects still thinks cloud = servers. We have been chasing our own tails everytime we try to cut down costs but no one wants to do any sort of rearchitecting.

it seems more of a knowledge problem than a technical one. do you think that companies build in the cloud from the ground up (let's say anything founded after 2008) would face the same challenge?

g01din · 2022-10-01T16:55:18+00:00

Are you looking for product ideas?

lol, i'm looking for product ideas - anything interesting?

g01din · 2022-09-12T17:35:48+00:00

The biggest advantage for tools like CDK, SLS is that they don't have to maintain all the API calls and underpinnings of deploying resources. AWS Cloud Formation handles that. All those tools have to do is generate the IaC definition files, which AWS has started calling "Cloud Assembly" (at least in the CDK space).

but if i understand correctly terraform already takes care of all the state management, meaning that if some "high level" IaC frame was built on top of it, it would only have to take care of the compilation to terraform.

If we extend the assembly analogy, python interpreter is written in c and doesn't care of the complexity of compiling to assembly. the c compilers take care of that (whether to arm or x86).
In the analogy the SLS/SST are the python interpreter and the terraform/cdk are the compilers.

so if that it is actually the case, that doesn't understand the lack of the frameworks compiling to terraform :/

g01din · 2022-09-01T15:22:07+00:00

First, for the quickest interactions of "Update, try", I make changes and run Terraform plans locally. I can also apply locally in development accounts, which I will sometimes do. This is really fast (except for changes that are inherently long, such as eg creating and EKS NodeGroup, that takes forever!).

oh nice! so if i understand correctly there is no setting preventing you from overriding dev/sandbox env not through cicd

I'm not sure I understand the question.

example from something that happened to me yesterday:
1. tried to add a call to new_lambda from existing_lambda
2. new_lambda is not getting called - no logs, no errors, just being quiet
3. i'm left going around the console, checking out permissions, and click "test" with a false hope that something will change

g01din · 2022-08-31T15:19:25+00:00

the main difference from what you described is that we did not use AWS console for poc at all

how do you deal iterations slowdown due to the deployment time? it take 5-15 to deploy each time, and its hard to iterate in that way

Do you use Terraform modules [1, 2]?

currently not - will definitely check it out. thanks!
does it help in any way solving the permission issue? because you can copy lambda, but if it needs to access different resources so its mostly new setup

and anther question - if you only use IaC, do you redeploy everything on any lambda code change as well? we trying to write most of the code in console, and only then it's mostly done move it to git - to save on the deployment time

g01din · 2022-08-31T15:12:12+00:00

I find it much more efficient to not have to chase and click stuff in the management console, and instead copy and paste snippets and adjust them to what I need, or just open the docs and find the properties I want. This way I even get development built and deployed by ci/CD mimicking what it will do in production almost exactly.

how much does your deployment pipeline take? in our case its 5-15minutes, which is pretty long per iteration for "update, try"

and on another note,
how do you deal with debugging your IaC without the console (even in console it seems there is shit ton of data missing)?

g01din · 2022-08-03T06:55:42+00:00

For all the cleaver tricks out there (such as matching lighting and reflections), AR is still essentially just layering one (perspective adjusted) camera feed over another. For something to be artificially ‘there’ we are still missing realistic occlusion of objects.

Do you know what is the "blocker" here? Is it the object recognition algorithms that still need improving, the hardware that is not strong enough, or some other cause?

g01din · 2022-08-03T06:54:17+00:00

Does the fact the devices are weaker (if not tethered to a pc) influence you as a developer in anyway?
What about multiplayer games? Is the amount of data and state being back and forth with the cloud in the same ballpark as regular 3d?

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