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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • I totally get that, same here.

    But ultimately you can’t just blame people. There is literally an entire industry trying to sell you cheap carbs and fat. Down to the sound a bag of chips makes when you open it (this is not a joke).

    So on one hand you have evolution, your body still being stuck in the past where food was scarce. On the other hand you have too much food and it’s highly engineered to be addicting on purpose.

    It’s no surprise most people are going to lose that challenge.







  • end of A Realm Reborn

    Google says that’s roughly 120 hours, oof.

    I’ve been playing video games for the last 27 years or so. If a game isn’t starting to be fun in the first few hours it’s usually not worth sticking with it. For example anyone saying “The game starts at max level!” totally missed the point in my opinion, if everything before that is shit, why have it at all?

    Btw. if you do slog it through ARR, what happens if you make a new character to play a different class? Do you have to go through it again?



  • Sheesh. I heard FFXIV is really good later in the game. But you first have to get over a 60 hour bump or something?

    I did try it out and barely lasted a few hours. So many boring cutscenes, so much running from NPC to NPC. And barely any combat, the quests were like “Run 3 minutes over there, kill 3 enemies, then run 3 minutes back to the NPC”. It was tough :-/










  • Just be careful with AWS, you need a PhD in it to even approximate what hosting will cost you. The company I currently work for is all-in on Azure, which has been working out great so far. It’s also much easier to see your monthly cost on there with budget alerts and so on.

    Either way, DevOps is extremely expensive. For the money you pay for a single VM in the “cloud” you could get a really nice virtual server from your favorite hosting provider. But if you just want to learn for now, stick with the free offerings (and be very careful with them! Plenty of stories of someone getting a $1000 or even $15000 bill because they messed up along the line).


  • Oh and I didn’t answer your original question: If you have to select between Ruby and JavaScript, 100% go with the JavaScript course :)

    Though DevOps and “free” or “open source” doesn’t really mix. The moment you touch DevOps you’ll either land at Amazon (AWS) or Azure (Microsoft) or Google (Google Cloud).

    Sure, in theory you could set up your own servers with your own clusters, but then you’re a system administrator and not DevOps.

    Btw. Azure might be Microsoft, but they have plenty of Linux options on there, it’s not a Windows shop at all.


  • Back in the day when the battery of my Samsung Galaxy S (The original one) went bad I bought a replacement off Amazon for 15 bucks or so. The new battery even had a higher capacity than the original one! Popped the cover off the back of the phone, old battery out, new in, cover back on, done. Phone was better than new afterwards.