ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
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ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
16hr ago
When I did keto for a bit after having a fairly crappy diet, the initial cravings were intense, especially sugar cravings. I felt "alert" all the time and almost uncomfortably energetic. A sort of pre-conscious craving for junk food and carbs would ebb and flow during the day, and when it was at its worst it was hard to do anything else (usually just for <10 minutes). The closest feeling I've had is feeling incredibly horny as a teenager, though even that was only maybe one-quarter the intensity, more of a distraction or nuisance than a debilitating condition. And I wasn't even that fat, my BMI was like 25.5 and I just wanted to lose 5-10 pounds. I imagine it's much worse when you're losing much more and eating much less.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
3d ago
In an ideal world where I have enough guys, I far prefer the script or custom tooling because, as you point out, it's whitebox and easy to fix and customize. But that's not usually the case, plus as a manager I have to play departmental politics. It's much better to be able to blame GCP than to have fingers pointed at scripts that we wrote (sometimes unjustly!) when we have a huge backlog and no time to fix them. I'm looking forward to changing companies, if you can't tell.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
3d ago
Re. mysqldump, that's what we did last time we had to do this, but I was hoping there was a less manual way. You can do automate anything with enough scripts and DevOps duct tape, but I try to take zero maintenance options whenever I can because I have to scale my meager team and hiring is rough now (because our budget is shit).
Re. the security team, the tech details matter less than the perception. They're more of a compliance team than a security team. Such is life outside of Silicon Valley, sadly.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
4d ago
I've pretty much given up on asking for troubleshooting help or other non-subjective feedback for this very reason. Even for scripting, it sometimes invents command switches that don't exist or that only work on certain OSes which means I need to correct it 5 times before I get a working script. And then, it often favors complex, messy, and difficult to maintain solutions over simple, elegant ones. Just about the only tech task LLMs are good for at this point is parsing stack traces or weird error messages. They're pretty handy for that.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
4d ago
Not a bad suggestion, luckily for me I don't really read much Reddit outside of niche subreddits that are devoid of politics. Reddit takes are too boring to even hate-read. I've also been able to quit 4chan this year for the same reason, it's complete braindead noise now.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
4d ago
Here's a normal X link for people who want one.
but a lot of the terminally online right-wing personalities don't look very different that the terminally online left-wing to me.
Like who? Lomez and Raw Egg Nationalist got doxxed and they look like normal dudes.
Redditors are blaming Orange Man for DOGE's cuts to NOAA and NWS which they claimed contributed to the loss of life. I'd be less skeptical if this didn't sound almost exactly like the claims that Orange Man's cuts to the CDC caused grandma to die of Covid. From what I can tell, the flood deaths were mainly due to (1) the county not having a [modern?] warning system, (2) the camp leader not erring on the side of caution to evacuate [to be fair, this was a 100 year flood], and (3) the flood happening in the middle of the night. Did I miss anything?
Also, please say a quick prayer for the families of the victims if you're the praying type.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
4d ago
In Project B, create a Private Connectivity Configuration under DMS → Private connectivity. Select the VPC from Project A that holds your source instance’s private IP
IIRC Gemini gave me this too. It's correct except this one line, where it hallucinates that it's possible to select a VPC from another project (you can't), and therefore the whole set of instructions are useless.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
4d ago
Paralleling @JarJarJedi's story, I tried to outsource some annoying research to Gemini and it just gave me the run around. [TW: Boring ops work] I was trying to find a way to copy a large-ish Cloud SQL MySQL DB from one GCP project to another. Solutions I was given:
- Just make a clone in another project (not allowed)
- Dump the data to a GCS bucket (I said I didn't want to do that in the original prompt)
- Use DMS to transfer the data to an empty Cloud SQL instance in another project (sounded promising, was my original thought... but you can't select a DMS instance in another project from the drop-down)
- Just use the public IP address of the other Cloud SQL instance as the target (and send my prod DB data over the internet? pretty sure the security team would kill me)
- Just use the private IP address of the other Cloud SQL instance (...what? it's in another VPC in another project)
- Just peer the VPCs (hmmm.... but no, Cloud SQL instance interfaces actually exist in a "private services subnet" which is part of a hidden Google-controlled VPC which gets automatically peered to the customer's VPC in the same project (A <-> B), and GCP does not support transitive VPC peering (A <-> B <-> C))
- Just peer the hidden VPCs in each project directly (they're Google-controlled so we can't create peerings)
- Peer the customer's VPC in the source project with the Cloud SQL VPC in the target project (that doesn't make sense)
- Just dump the database into a bucket (sigh)
In the end I probably could have just spent 30-45 minutes reading the docs and figured out what my real options were rather than spending severally hours trying half-baked solutions. I just use Gemini for short scripts, text editing operations, and boilerplate now.
[PS. I think we can use PSC to solve the problem above]
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
7d ago
This is it right here. If you have to tell people that you're "elite human capital," you ain't elite human capital.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
10d ago
I was gonna say, if you have a kids a wife is essential (so is a husband, tbh). With more than 1-2 kids, you no longer have a "relationship," you now have a "small business" that requires more than one employee to smoothly operate.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
10d ago
I hear what you're saying, but it's still possible to have friends like this. I have a cousin with whom I've always been very close. We've both been married for a while now, but we make a conscious effort to stay in touch and check in on each other. It's a little more awkward to open up now than it was when we were both freewheeling teens, but it's possible.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
10d ago
I used to accept this opinionoid, but I've come to believe that shared experience matters much more than age. Sure, if you're 40, your 18 year old gf might be a bit boring at first, but after you've been together 5 years, experienced the ups and downs of marriage, and maybe had a kid or two, there will be plenty to talk about and bond over.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
10d ago
Luckily it's in an existing neighborhood in a residential area at the center of small town, so I don't expect to have much trouble with utilities.
I need to do more research on what I'd need for hurricanes, as I'm only planning on adding storm shutters and a generator. I assume your recommendations about the pump only apply to houses that rely exclusively on well water?
We're looking at a conventional build. I was thinking of building on a slab for insulation and because the idea of a crawlspace in the deep south horrifies me. Also termites. We're not in a flood zone (officially), but I want to double check the soil to make sure it's suitable for a slab. I should probably ask my future neighbors about this as well.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
10d ago
lol, well, we could all technically live, Gilded Age style, in a single room, but I don't want that, so I suppose I have more requirements than just minimizing enclosed space. I'd want a garage, a living room, a space for a dinner table, and ideally a porch. I'm also trying to do a 2 floor build because I want to minimize the footprint on my lot.
But point taken. After this thread I think I need to hire an architect.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
10d ago
Good to know, thanks. It sounds like I'll just need to keep an extra close eye on the GC towards the end.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
10d ago
I lived in a house that had these once when I was a kid. It was pretty cool, you just plugged a tube into the wall and could instantly vacuum. But as an adult I'm wondering how on earth you'd clean and maintain such a system. I imagine I'd have to pay the manufacturer to clean, and after 10 years they may no longer be in business. I hate the idea of "dead tech" being embedded in my house, outdated gadgets look ugly and silly. I'll have to research how it works.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
10d ago
Re. flooding, that makes sense, thanks.
Re. segmenting the house, after living in a place with poor insulation, I can definitely see the value. That house was at least designed so that you could essentially separately heat and cool different floors. They did this by adding a sliding door on the staircase landing. It sounds like I might need to work with an architect to accomplish this though.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
10d ago
Damn, this is gold. Thank you.
How does wainscoting help reduce flood damage? We're not in a flood zone, but along the Gulf Coast you can never truly be sure.
Why minimal backsplash for the kitchen sink? How does that relate to selecting the outlet and sink? We cook a lot at home, almost every day, so we're planning on shelling out for a nice kitchen.
Did you build or buy? Did any of these items add significantly to cost?
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
10d ago
Tell us more.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
10d ago
University students should all learn:
- How to write an email to dispute a claim including supporting evidence
- How to write an email summarizing action items from a meeting
- How to write readable, unambiguous instructions for performing some technical process
- How to write a well-formed request when asking for help
because even senior managers and execs all seem incapable of doing some or all of these.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
10d ago
Thanks, these tips all make a lot of sense. After living in houses both with and without, I strongly suspect two sinks in the master bath correlates strongly with lower divorce rates.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
10d ago
I was hoping you'd reply as IIRC you have three or four children too. I responded here regarding house size. What do you think? I was thinking we might also just make the rooms smaller in general so that there are the same number of rooms but less enclosed space to cool and clean.
Water flow is definitely important for us where we will live as mild flooding can happen even just with a bad afternoon squall.
This is basically the only reason I post. Well, this and alcohol.
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