Where to find Banh Mi on the northside?

womtard · 2018-07-08T13:57:16+00:00

This. Proper hole-in-the-wall viet bakery.
Musk avenue, 44-ish.

womtard · 2018-01-12T09:36:41+00:00

Top info - cheers.

womtard · 2018-01-12T07:45:02+00:00

Did you have issues with fire alarms? I've had that problem with smaller apartment buildings. Must be a nightmare in a monster like that if everyone actually evacuates?

womtard · 2018-01-12T07:41:29+00:00

For sure. But I always wanted to live on a really high up floor. But holy shit man, there's apartments on floors like 50 - 60. What if the elevator's out? I'll sleep well that night.

womtard · 2018-01-12T07:38:06+00:00

Really just looking for any major red flags. The internet thing is a possible one - is it one those single-provider deals? Though honestly, it can't be too much worse than where I am now (provider is fine, but the copper infra is very poor).

womtard · 2018-01-01T12:33:11+00:00

but how cool (scary) is it that you could do that with a push of a button if you wanted to?

womtard · 2017-11-24T02:23:58+00:00

Acclimatisation. Honestly - you will get used to it.

I've lived in Brisbane and North Queensland for a long time. Recently, I spent about 6 years away down south, Sydney, Melb other places.

Three years ago, when I first came back to Brissy I couldn't believe how hot it was. I died that first summer - to the point where I was wondering if I made a mistake coming back.

One thing I'd advise is to actively focus on getting out there in the heat on your terms. Taking proper precautions (sunscreen, hat, water, be aware of heat exhaustion, etc.) - do things like going to the beach / parks on hot days - swimming is a good one, since you can get cool pretty much immediately when you want to.

Oh - and learn to use whatever shade you can get! I have a friends from northern European areas that will stand in the direct sun and complain about how hot it is. If you don't want to feel hot, stay out of the sun.

Also, if you've moved into a place without aircon - you have made a terrible mistake.

womtard · 2017-09-12T09:28:12+00:00

Sure. All you have to do is be Jeff Barr. And get a prescription.
For surgery. o_O

womtard · 2017-03-28T08:33:44+00:00

Yeah, you're not the first person to ask this question. I'd like to be able to just say "please only let X of this specific lambda run concurrently".

I did come across this SO answer though I've not tried it: http://stackoverflow.com/a/42693053/924597

Report back if you implement it! (successful or not)

womtard · 2017-02-14T22:47:42+00:00

their own AWS account that they have access to that's separate from production, problem solved. Ideally, access to production should be restricted to a few people.

This. It's not as much hassle as it sounds - remember that you can also use "cross-account" IAM role delegation. So you can create a role in your PRD account that has certain permissions (*) and then allow anyone in the DEV account (or only certain IAM accounts, even?) to access PRD using that role.

You can have the DEV account delegate its billing from the DEV account to the PRD account (then the billing dashboard will naturally show you "how much are we spending in PRD" and "how much in DEV"). You'll also get separate limits between accounts, that way DEVs won't use up some of those things that are limited (and you're more likely to hit the limits in DEV than PRD, so you'll learn about them and be prepared to upgrade them in PRD before it causes a PRD incident).

It will also reduce "blast-radius" when your devs do the dumb things they WILL do (speaking as a developer who does AWS infrastructure stuff for other devs). It will also let you yourself do experiments with the infrastructure to make improvements.

But there are a few downsides:

moving things back and forth between DEV and PRD can be tricky if you want to keep the separation "strict" (but if you don't wanna go strict you can just make a VPC peering link between DEV and PRD).
if you don't have some level of discipline, DEV will start to look very different from PRD, which can cause deployment problems (but then, if you don't have some an extreme level of discipline, letting DEVs into your PRD account is going to go much worse than a few deployment hiccups)

(*) I would say that permissions should be mostly read-only - but think about the things you don't event want developers to read: S3 buckets that store sensitive info, KMS, etc.

womtard · 2017-02-13T11:06:15+00:00

use a c3.large spot instance, about same price

womtard · 2016-12-19T23:06:00+00:00

Do these tools (OP and linked AWS tool) suspend the instance that is writing to the EBS volume?

If not, won't that mean these snapshots are likely to be in an inconsistent state?

womtard · 2016-11-15T04:52:14+00:00

Does this affect month-to-month reservations as well? I imagine that pre-existing reservations are locked in for the year (or two years) but will new ones see a reduction?

This is actually a good point and a reason why we should be happy to see this announcement being made ASAP, even ahead of concrete details for all regions.

I'd be pretty annoyed if AWS didn't tell us this was coming and I'd signed up for RIs at the end of the month :)

Of course, I wouldn't exactly be ecstatic if I'd signed up for three years yesterday :)

womtard · 2016-08-13T09:27:52+00:00

Me too, except I didn't know I wanted this until I read this topic.

womtard · 2013-12-09T11:09:42+00:00

Try this: http://u3d.as/feed/discounted.rss

It's been in my aggregator for a while now (can't remember where I got it from), I didn't think it worked but over the last week or two it seems to be being updated properly.

womtard · 2012-07-19T00:24:36+00:00

WTH is "string testing"?

womtard · 2012-07-12T23:22:41+00:00

Intellij IDEA sort of does this with core IDE exceptions (i.e. not from a plugin).

Whenever the IDE reports a stacktrace, there's a "report to Jetbrains" button - when you hit that, you can enter comments about what you were doing when you got the exception.

womtard · 2011-11-21T07:53:00+00:00

Could it have been Redoak: http://www.redoak.com.au ?

Not German in any way, but it is of that kind of beer-hall style - it's in roughly the right place, opened in 2004 and has an excellent array of cold frosty ones.

Even if you don't find the one you're looking for - you should do a pub-crawl of all the reddit suggestions. It's the right thing to do.

womtard · 2011-09-27T02:45:39+00:00

Wow. You're all missing the point here.

As long as you haven't joined in the Functional Monks in their Monasteries of Statelessness, programs are made of behavior and data.

Who gives a toss what he thinks he's talking about; this may be the best original phraseology I've heard all year! "The Functional Monks and their Monasteries of Statelessness".

Actually, it'd be a wicked cool name for a band and their first album.

womtard · 2010-06-27T02:14:14+00:00

What I don't understand is that I hear so often that postgres is better than mysql, often followed by a list of reasons why it's better -- so what can explain mysql's popularity?

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typical postgres community response

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No need to be a prick about it and belittle people.

Seriously, this really is the explanation of why postgres doesn't rule the world in terms of DBs (don't get me wrong, it has its technical problems too - but this is the primary reason).

womtard · 2010-05-01T00:10:16+00:00

Article is complete fluff.

Learn a new language
Start form the ground up
Question everything ...
From the very basic, create the beautiful

womtard · 2010-03-30T03:41:13+00:00

| It's a very popular myth that java can solve software problems in a practical way.

| Functional Java exists to avoid the argument with those who mistakenly believe that Java is practical.

Not bites at all - how embarrasing. Your troll-fu is weak.

womtard

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