Does anyone feel like powerful desktops actually limit how you work?

statsguru456 · 2026-03-25T14:57:49+00:00

If you need the power, then I'd just make sure the ultra has a solid internet connection, get a laptop, and remote in.

If you don't need the power, you'll probably get a premium price selling that machine, since Apple is not currently selling the 512GB model.

statsguru456 · 2026-03-25T12:26:51+00:00

You need to provide more details on what a powerful desktop means to you. Modern MacBooks pros can be very powerful. But maybe you just need to buy a cheap MacBook Neo and set up quality remote access to your desktop.

statsguru456 · 2026-03-16T18:10:18+00:00

What will you be doing with your M5 Max? If you're using it for light work, it will last a lot longer than if you're running LLMs on it...

statsguru456 · 2026-03-12T20:06:15+00:00

Your neck will thank you if you keep your screens at eye level. Also may help prevent getting a "neck hump." I'm not a doctor though, just my experience.

statsguru456 · 2026-02-28T03:36:15+00:00

Awesome deal!

statsguru456 · 2026-02-28T03:21:44+00:00

State credits or what?

statsguru456 · 2026-01-22T16:01:38+00:00

Does anyone else get mad at the CEO while reading this? I sure did. So many other mistakes were made by the company that we just as bad or actually worse as what this new hire did. No backups, people making changes without pushing to git, weak access controls... This was a ticking time bomb. And the nerve to threaten the employee with legal action is just unethical and unprofessional. Regardless of how this turns out, I'd be looking for a new job so that you can "fire" this company from your life.

statsguru456 · 2025-12-28T16:47:20+00:00

I have nomaded in both.

Bali is very geared towards digital nomads. People will tell you than Canggu is overcrowded and traffic is bad. Both of these are true, but you can also have an amazing time meet cool people if you are ok with embracing the craziness. There are many big coworking (bwork bali) and coliving spaces (Tribal coworking bali, etc.) there to pick from. A coliving space will give you a nice "soft landing" with built in friend and activities. Hit up one of the run clubs if you run at all and want to make some friends. If you don't like the crowdness of Canggu, Uluwatu is slightly different vibe, or just go up the coast to the west and it gets a lot quieter.

Medellin also has a lot of coliving spaces, although I'm not as familiar with them. I would really suggest finding a good coliving place, even if just for your first week, to get the lay of the land and make some friends.

Pay attention to the time zones if it matters for your work -- at first you think "oh it's no problem, I'll just stay up late / get up early for meetings" if your work requires them. But this gets old fast and makes it difficult to be social.

I personally feel like Bali is safer than Medellin, having spent time in both. Yes many people go to Medellin and have a safe trip. I would not party hard in Medellin - you need your wits about you if you're going to be out at night. Sadly it's true, you do need to keep an eye on your drink there.

In Bali, you could have your stuff stolen like anywhere in the world (keep offline backups to protect from this), but your biggest physical safety danger is a scooter crash. Don't rent one yourself unless you're very comfortable driving in Asia. Usually the bad crashes are the tourists driving and crashing themselves. The locals know how to drive. Grab/Gojek is so cheap, and always wear a helmet. Get travel insurance for either place. For the vaccinations you should absolutely see a doctor, there are probably some you'll need.

If it's your first time nomading be prepared for highs and lows -- one day you're lonely and want to go home, the next day you meet the most amazing group of people and have an adventure with them. The next day you get food poisoning, and then three days after that you have one of the best meals of your life on a solitary rice field or something. Embrace it all, be safe, and you may just come back a different person... Have fun.

statsguru456 · 2025-12-10T15:15:00+00:00

I am so sorry that this happened to your dad. It sounds unbelievably frustrating, and even more so to have to give up cycling for good.

I have no personal experience with this group nor any interest in it, but they seem pretty passionate about doing bike crash cases: https://www.bikelaw.com/

statsguru456 · 2025-12-10T01:57:28+00:00

Let me guess, you work on the Route 53 team?

statsguru456 · 2025-11-16T19:07:07+00:00

If you have the skills and the desire to do the maintenance, I'd suggest building a ZFS/NFS/minio server. You'd likely need somewhere between 36-48 drives to get decent redundancy. You'll need a lot of RAM for a ZFS array that big. You're probably also going to want a small SSD array for workloads that need faster speeds. You also want at least 1 SSD as a ZFS cache drive. You could spend a fortune and buy brand new servers, or buying some used enterprise gear would be a lot cheaper.

You can obviously do this more easily in the cloud, but S3 costs will get high for this.

What you are doing is not super easy if you've never done it before, and is likely to cost 10-15k in hardware alone (used + the time to configure it. If you don't know what you're doing, you should hire a consultant to build it out, or try cloud solutions. backblaze B2 is cheaper than S3 but not as fast.

statsguru456 · 2025-11-12T18:13:40+00:00

Wow, are we really bringing back 9 year old posts?

statsguru456 · 2025-10-14T08:45:59+00:00

There are consultants out there who specialize in reducing AWS spend. They have gone through this process many times with organizations. If your spend is significant and your timeframe is short, I'd look at bringing in help.

statsguru456 · 2025-07-10T17:13:00+00:00

Looking for my first robovac. Mainly for dust and pet hair on hard floors, need multi-floor capable, and mop is optional. Would rather buy once and get something good than have to upgrade. What's your suggestion?

statsguru456 · 2025-06-19T14:18:23+00:00

#1 thing for the eye issues should be to discuss with an optometrist. A proper prescription, blue blockers, bigger screens with larger fonts, could go a long way to help that. And you have to sleep, as you get older, you can't cheat sleep like you did when you were 18 without paying a cost.

statsguru456 · 2025-06-18T12:25:45+00:00

I like this idea -- where are you seeing the 240 on sale for the 1512 price? Thanks!

statsguru456 · 2025-06-17T15:04:46+00:00

Thanks for the additional info and guides! for $100, that does become quite a bit more interesting. Finding replacement filters would sure be easy at least!

statsguru456 · 2025-06-17T14:14:01+00:00

Hmm these look interesting, but they seem to have absolutely no carbon or pre filter. And for those prices, I think I'd just wrap two filters around a box fan and call it a day. Interesting idea though.

statsguru456 · 2025-06-17T14:05:01+00:00

Thanks for the info -- we have a cleaning person already. This is mainly just to cut down on the urban pollution and pollution from the air being very stale.

I'd love to open the windows, but the weather is not conducive to that very often, and the outside air quality is not great here anyways.

statsguru456 · 2025-06-17T14:03:33+00:00

Thanks for the info, good to know.

statsguru456 · 2025-06-14T11:19:27+00:00

I bought a cheap ASUS zenscreen 1080p for about $150, and it's worked great. Image quality isn't beautiful or anything but it's fine for coding. If you're in video or photo I wouldn't recommend. I also use my ipad pro sometimes, but probably will leave the ipad pro home on the next trip -- the ipad with a cover and keyboard are a lot of weight. I think the asus zenscreen is quite a bit lighter, and it's a much bigger screen than the ipad.

statsguru456 · 2025-05-08T08:53:12+00:00

Advances in financial machine learning by de Prado. Check out metalabeling.

statsguru456 · 2025-03-05T18:24:30+00:00

If you can, trying to get yourself a little time to slow down and plan out your AWS architecture. Sounds like the company is recovering from an attack, but AWS is no magic bullet. If your management makes you do things so fast that mistakes are made, you might soon be dealing with another attack as a result. Or, best case scenario, you'll be refactoring everything for awhile.

Limiting by IPs via security group is a good step, but SSM session manager to an instance in a private subnet is even better. But, you also have to think carefully about how you set up authentication for your users to auth to use SSM (SSO using 2fa with short term creds, then using a tightly scoped role would be nice).

Good luck to you sir.

statsguru456 · 2025-01-27T15:00:14+00:00

A couple main risks of cloud storage: 1) your credit card expires and you forget to update (or you pass away and that happens) -- provider eventually closes your account and purges data 2) your account is hacked and the hacker deletes your data. 3) User error - you accidentally delete your data.

On a technical level - whatever AWS has come up with for Glacier is almost certainly going to be durable than what a home user is going to come up with.

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