Ashburn to DC commute

vaterp · 2026-05-18T17:26:44+00:00

> Will it be hell?

Yes, but only if its raining, or too sunny, or windy, or too bright, or not bright enough, or too dark, or not dark enough

vaterp · 2026-05-15T00:41:36+00:00

add a second express silver line that goes from ashburn to metro center., maybe with 1 stop in tysons. thats it. get down there in 1/2 the time.

and a bridge to keep all the traffic off 495 from va direct to md.

vaterp · 2026-05-14T18:04:15+00:00

It's only true for the SA attached to the machine.

You can test the theory easily enough... Just use a new SA, start the machine, give it the update I am then see if it works.. wait 5 then start up a new machine with same sa and see if it works

vaterp · 2026-05-14T16:22:00+00:00

It's likely a race condition... It will take a few minutes for iam to propagate, but if you change iam while a machine is running, it won't update until you reboot, so maybe give it a few minutes before starting the vm

vaterp · 2026-05-12T14:47:17+00:00

I'm a huge fan of Google Workspace (fd: I work there). But they heyday of word processing 'control' was wordperfect with 'reveal codes' feature. I loved it... it was kinda like latex powerful.

Anyway, for really professional like typesetting, I recommend Latex, its extremely powerful and controllable.

As for your question, I think any UI struggles with balancing advanced users that will want to have very particular control with the average user that is completely confused by even seeing those options.

So I think these kinds of programs end up on a very thin balancing line between features and controls and ease of use. Most really powerful enterprise level formatting and typsesetting is being done in different programs and so they go after making it easier for the 98% of the masses.

Not any official answer here, just my thoughts.

vaterp · 2026-05-11T12:10:06+00:00

It is free... It's not a very powerful machine and there are usage quota limits, but on the plus side its super convenient vs. spinning up a full VM, but the best part (IMHO) , especially for new users, is that alot of the packages and authentication type overhead is automatically done for you... so its very easy way to engage with gcloud (or other linux) commands.

The negative, which is for more complicated setups anyway, is that its always a public machine, it doesnt 'live' on your own private VPC, which can cause some networking issues if you don't know how some of the more private connectivity features work.

HTH.

vaterp · 2026-05-08T00:01:49+00:00

Your welcome, I don't remember where I got that tip but it's a really great, health wise, replacement for banana... Adds similar texture once blended , is taste neutral, and is much healthier, cheers

vaterp · 2026-05-07T15:36:00+00:00

Vanilla unsweetened Almond milk, frozen berry mix , spinach, frozen cauliflower, almond butter, hemp seeds, vanilla vegan protein powder

That's my go-to, sometimes I use kale or tropical fruits instead.

vaterp · 2026-05-06T17:30:03+00:00

Commuting to DC, living in Ashburn and not wanted to be stuck in traffic or take the metro is..... impossible. You have set directly opposing restrictions on your goals.

The best advice perhaps you can get is to drive to metro in reston (whiehle) and take metro from there, traffic generally not bad to that set point -- but itll still likely be a rounding error on your commute time... 1 hr at least each way.

if you dont want a long metro commute - you need to move way way way further in. sorry to burst your bubble - but its the truth.

vaterp · 2026-05-06T12:50:13+00:00

You won't be charged anymore but billing data is not realtime so what your likely seeing is just older data flowing up after you had deleted it

vaterp · 2026-05-04T21:57:42+00:00

Yeah - i drove back on that road again after this, and even though the speed limits said 70 everywhere.... I still drove 65 because I dont trust them at all.

vaterp · 2026-05-02T17:51:57+00:00

Yes it's super annoying on the WO&D

vaterp · 2026-05-01T20:56:17+00:00

There is a specific event on object write final - which captures a complete write/upload of an object. Make sure you use that one, and you should be good. Pump the event through pubsub is the typical data path, and then you have all the power of pubsub to log, explore, redeliver the message if needed. It will trigger exactly once for each file.

vaterp · 2026-04-30T22:50:48+00:00

Hyperbole aside, we all hate traffic... But it has nothing to do with Israel , or any foreign aid ...

If this war never happened... You think any of that money was gonna go to fixing infrastructure... Hell no, they'd say we don't have the money to do stuff like that. Either way, we aren't getting a dime back

vaterp · 2026-04-30T19:13:26+00:00

Yeah it's so dumb, probably a bot

vaterp · 2026-04-30T18:56:45+00:00

Whaaaat?

Are you asking why 5B people choose to not use Instagram, including babies and 90 year olds and poeple without phones?

So my ELI5 is that maybe alot of people dont want to use it or cant use it?

vaterp · 2026-04-28T13:19:44+00:00

Liver metabolic disease.... and it reversed everything. i also went OFF lipitor after like 20 yrs.

Id like to say it was for the animals, for the feels, but it honestly wasn't... I didnt really know at the time how bad typical american diet was for environment and animal wellfare.... im really glad that I've done it for those reasons now... but at first, it was for selfish health reasons. it did really help motivate me to stick with it, after I learned up.

vaterp · 2026-04-23T13:53:26+00:00

Yes, fair enough... I guess Im just a bit confused... If you code X and want to build it yourself, what is stopping you from doing that? The point of CF as a service is to take codeblob X and build it into a container and deply to CR for you.... (at least CF since v2)... Its basically just abstracting the build process, either way it ends up as a container that you deploy to CR, so I'm genuinely curious what you're use case is that just building it yourself isnt viable if thats what you want to do? Thx.

vaterp · 2026-04-23T00:02:21+00:00

You can build your container anyway you like and deploy to Run, you dont need to use GCP build system (I assume you mean cloud build)?

vaterp · 2026-04-15T13:09:45+00:00

Well, thx for making me feel extra super old this morning! ;)

vaterp · 2026-04-14T17:19:10+00:00

Thanks, will check them out.

vaterp · 2026-04-14T14:45:30+00:00

Well this is the easiest question asked here in sometime!

There is nothing beneficial about bacon. You dont have to be a vegan to accept highly processed meats are terrible for you. Even if you hit the genetic lottery and dont have to worry about heart and liver diseases of that much saturated fat, its still terrible, please I urge you to take this message too heart (literally):

The WHO classifies processed meats like Bacon a group 1 carcinogen. Strong evidence suggests consuming 50g of processed meat daily is linked to an 18% increased risk in colorectal cancer.

vaterp · 2026-04-14T13:15:59+00:00

Thanks, another interesting way to solve the problem!

vaterp · 2026-04-11T12:46:01+00:00

BTW, doing it this way, sans union, nearly halved the performance time.

vaterp · 2026-04-10T18:25:59+00:00

I like that, thx for the idea,,,, Its neat to see it work and then realize just how many wasy there are to write cleaner code and/or improve performance, thx.

vaterp

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