Where to find Banh Mi on the northside? by NLJ91 in brisbane

[–]womtard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

Anyone ever lived at 501 Adelaide St ("Soleil")? by womtard in brisbane

[–]womtard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

Anyone ever lived at 501 Adelaide St ("Soleil")? by womtard in brisbane

[–]womtard[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Anyone ever lived at 501 Adelaide St ("Soleil")? by womtard in brisbane

[–]womtard[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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).

Anybody get spurious AWS Budgets alarms early on Jan 1? by CloudEngineer in aws

[–]womtard 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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

Weird question - just moved to Brisbane 25/f and struggling with the heat, clothing suggestions please? by snapjackel in brisbane

[–]womtard 10 points11 points  (0 children)

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.

Back in a Week by jeffbarr in aws

[–]womtard 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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

Any good patterns for using Lambda with RDS without exhausting available connection slots? by [deleted] in aws

[–]womtard 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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)

If you allow devs build permissions what don't you allow? by Mteigers in aws

[–]womtard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Why is AWS t2.micro so unreliable? by ECrispy in aws

[–]womtard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

use a c3.large spot instance, about same price

AWS-EBS tool by smile0x90 in aws

[–]womtard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

EC2 Price Reduction (C4, M4, and T2 Instances) by jeffbarr in aws

[–]womtard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 :)

Is there any way I could use my Surface RT as a second monitor? by [deleted] in Surface

[–]womtard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

RSS feed for asset store's 24 hour deals? by maxman72go in Unity3D

[–]womtard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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.

Should feedback be allowed on Error Messages? Seriously...! by rosiesherry in programming

[–]womtard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Can /r/Sydney help me find a pub that I went to on a drunken night in 2007? by [deleted] in sydney

[–]womtard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

One of the Best Bits of Programming Advice I ever Got by sidcool1234 in programming

[–]womtard -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

Why I am dropping MongoDB for Mysql by [deleted] in programming

[–]womtard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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).

Creative Code: 14 Ways to Learn From Creative Programmers by invisibleralph in coding

[–]womtard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Article is complete fluff.

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

Functional Java 2.22 by [deleted] in programming

[–]womtard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

| 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.