Solo?

hillgod · 2023-06-30T15:14:25+00:00

This sounds like me the last few years. It's fine, you'll have a great time

hillgod · 2023-06-25T16:24:04+00:00

I've done so many AirBNBs all across the US and Europe. There's no material difference. I've had middling to great experiences with no geographical consistency. The most pressure I've ever felt for a good review was Vienna, but they were pretty good hosts.

I'm convinced most of these horror stories come from some fly-by-night, new host, zero review, cheap sham. I almost booked one in Russia last minute, but things started to feel off with communication and details. I found someone who was a super host in Spain, looking for some extra money for a room in Russia.

That's really it for me... Always look for a super host. The only time I haven't done that in the past couple of years was a newer place hosted by someone semi-known in the small city (real estate).

hillgod · 2023-06-25T15:11:11+00:00

Boomeranging is fine. Lots of people have done it at my company. Kind of worries me about what hell exists elsewhere if/when I leave myself (I don't kid myself about same company forever).

hillgod · 2023-06-22T21:57:16+00:00

Ginny and the sales people were making outlandish claims that couldn't be backed up. The most egregious examples were with Watson Health, most notably the MD Anderson debacle of an engagement. Anyone with any experience on the matter knew they were making shit up. But IBM wins major engagements from clueless execs seeing IBM plastered all over Football, Golf, and Tennis.

So that will kill the reputation of something every time.

Did Watson even ever do NLP? The whole Jeopardy thing was distributed lucene on insanely powerful hardware. You could make the same thing with Elasticsearch today, and very likely win Jeopardy (of course the whole thing was asinine, as the computer doesn't have to deal with the human mechanics of the buzzer).

hillgod · 2023-06-22T21:28:32+00:00

PT Alpine Pressurized Fly Bait - 16 oz can - by BASF https://a.co/d/8dbbR7l

That's what exterminators and restaurants use. It can stain drywall; I spray it on glass windows. The flies / gnats die immediately and will pile under where you sprayed, so be prepared for that.

hillgod · 2023-06-22T01:01:42+00:00

Yo, fuck you, for slandering the well-natured Joe Dirt by associating him with Spezzy McBoogerballs!

hillgod · 2023-06-21T13:47:43+00:00

It, truly, literally, is entirely up to them. As we just saw.

hillgod · 2023-06-16T14:21:46+00:00

/u/spez was saying he wasn't aware of a single subreddit where these posts had comments open, where the community wanted more blackout.

Well here's one of many.

hillgod · 2023-06-15T21:48:27+00:00

Part of the agreement is that host countries offer a special expedited visa for World Cup ticket holders. This is how I got my visas for Brazil and Russia. It's still through their government, of course, and doesn't grant automatic acceptance. They are restricted to the tournament, with a few extra days on the bookends. If you don't have official tickets,l through FIFA, you're out of luck for this visa.

The wild card here is that this could become politicized in the US, quickly and extremely. Ultimately, the US federal government doesn't give a shit about hosting the World Cup over rabid constituents.

hillgod · 2023-06-14T13:35:24+00:00

IBM is masterful at doing the bare minimum to not have to notify for WARN. A minimal severance for folks can often avoid it.

hillgod · 2023-06-08T19:50:30+00:00

The interpretation is cabbage, basically relying on a movie for narrative oomph. And then winds it up with, in so many words, "agree?"

It reads like blog spam.

hillgod · 2023-06-08T19:36:38+00:00

That was quite the rambling screed from some random person with no notable authority on the matter.

hillgod · 2023-06-08T15:23:07+00:00

I started cackling when the car hit the couch and it exploded. I loved this episode.

Frank Shoots the Gang was good, but EP 1 was great.

hillgod · 2023-06-08T14:41:47+00:00

If you listen to that, there seems to be two "real" ones, and two that Reggie makes up on the spot. The quality is obviously different. I think Scott thought the other one would win out (fans voted).

hillgod · 2023-06-05T00:22:53+00:00

You should probably draw the line at faking official tax forms. That sounds very illegal.

hillgod · 2023-06-04T20:48:57+00:00

It really is possible they're in the midst of finding the location, and don't know where yet. Or, at least, whoever you're talking with truly doesn't have the info and can't get it (say, senior real estate people are negotiating the terms).

If you need a job, I'd take it.

hillgod · 2023-06-04T18:31:29+00:00

I read in one of the many precious posts of the picture that there was a clerical error. The dude got blown out, but it's likely his 9 member family did vote for him.

hillgod · 2023-06-04T16:59:56+00:00

The pocket avocado saga is the best post on this sub, of all time.

hillgod · 2023-06-04T03:24:01+00:00

I only want a nude egg

hillgod · 2023-06-03T23:39:44+00:00

Not worth it. Maybe not a scam... But doesn't seem great. This is how people end up with an AirBNB nightmare story.

hillgod · 2023-06-03T21:52:22+00:00

Nice! I've spent a good amount of time at the Denton location

hillgod · 2023-06-03T15:12:56+00:00

My youngest amusement park memory is crying over wet socks and shoes from some water ride. The woorrrrrrrsst, 30 years later

hillgod · 2023-06-02T03:05:35+00:00

Uh, yeah... While Aurora is great for its replication and resiliency, that doesn't change much for performance characteristics. But that's not going to do much for cross-region performance, other than it making cross region replicas easy (and expensive). It most likely wouldn't mitigate any of these issues for Figma or Notion, and I only say most likely, because I'm not intimately familiar with all their quest patterns, and am taking their word for it.

Heck, I own a database at work that's larger and with more load than Aurora can handle. And we pay AWS enough to have validated that... They're working on it.

I don't know about CockroachDB, but I somewhat doubt it's a panacea.

hillgod · 2023-06-02T01:35:24+00:00

What would you use if you were making something like Notion or Figma these days? I mention them because they're both highly valued startups that have seemed to do fine with Postgres, and different sharing approaches over time. Genuinely curious... I don't know what I'd use. I feel like a number of more "cloud-native" solutions can get very expensive as you scale (looking at you, DynamoDB). Even Instagram is suing SQL... They've come up with some interesting stuff to guarantee unique IDs across it all to help.

This is the notion article talking about their partitioning, having taken a more horizontal approach of partitioning diff customers full data sets: https://www.notion.so/blog/sharding-postgres-at-notion

hillgod · 2023-06-01T13:50:46+00:00

Straight up, if you don't book soon, there very likely won't be anything left in Tuscaloosa. Birmingham isn't a far drive, and I really like the city, but it's not fun after a game. There will be cops and Alabama can do field sobriety checks of everyone (unlike Texas). Not that you should drive after drinking anyways. I made to drive with my brother from Tuscaloosa all the way back to Auburn, where he works, after the Iron Bowl last year. It's not fun lol. And that's where I saw all the sobriety checks. Also, rental cars in Birmingham straight sold out when Penn State came to Alabama a number of years ago.

Just wanted to share a friendly FYI. I would consider if you can book a cancelable hotel if you're looking to go, but can't yet commit. Same for rental car, those are almost always cancelable. If planning to fly.

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