thelastknowngod

My partner is Turkish. She said that this is how America looks in her brain.

Funny enough, I grew up saying “quarter of eight” to mean 19:45. It took until my mid-20s to realize its probably a regional thing because, after I left Philadelphia (my home city) and moved to Chicago, everyone thought I meant 20:15.

Is there anything he can’t do? What an inspiration!

Gimme dat poo poo

For me personally it’s probably mostly just momentum or habit at this point. I got into Linux on the late 90s or early 00s. Vim was the best option at the time so I figured it out mostly out of necessity. Now I’m just so comfortable with it and I’ve tweaked it to high hell it’s like a perfectly broken in pair of shoes… Everything fits me just right. I don’t see any real benefit to switching to vs code. I’ve tried it but didn’t like it. Things like filesystem navigation were so clunky and slow compared to what I was used to.

Whatever… No judgement. There are obviously great developers out there using vs code. This just works for me.

“If I treat a man for a broken leg, that’s what they will die of.”

I assume you’re American? When you need to talk to people across borders you need something like WhatsApp. SMS doesn’t cut it.

I’d rather use Signal but whatever… I’m being practical. Everyone I know is on WhatsApp.

Ages ago I did this with some cli tool that found episode/movie metadata stored in themoviedb or somewhere and just built a shell script around it. I don’t remember the name unfortunately. Now I just let Plex manage it and I don’t bother.

This looks like it might work though:

https://github.com/andreaswilli/meta-grabber

It’s extremely common here. There it feels like every other block in Tbilisi says “Fuck Putin” or “Russia is a terrorist state” or something along those lines… “No Russian is welcome, good or bad” was the most impactful for me.

I was having drinks with my neighbors and they were toasting for all the nationalities there. “For the Georgians! For the Turks! For the Ukrainians! For the Americans!”

I said, “But not the Russians.”

He got dead serious and looked me right in the eyes… “NO! FUCK the Russians!”

The Georgians are generally very friendly. I love it here.

Looks a lot like the Citroen Ami (which I love driving).

I still get nagged constantly to add a birthday to my Google account to make sure I am older than 13 or something… To satisfy some dumb law I think. The email account is like 15 years old though. How could I be under 13 if it’s that old?

EVERY American needs an escape plan if they get sick/injured.

My mom needed dental work done. She didn’t have the cash and asked if I could help pay for it. I started googling and a few days later we ended up in Budapest. We were there for a week. The flight, Airbnb, dental work, and some touristy stuff combined was less than 1/3rd of the cost of she had just went to the guy around the corner from her house.

If it’s non-life threatening or chronic… GTFO of the States.

Yep. And if you want to really save some cash and don’t mind getting a little crazy, use an EKS node orchestrator that supports spot instances. I’m starting to do a serious dive into Harness at the moment actually.

Google recently released a white paper on cost saving in kubernetes as well.

To be fair, with a proper autoscaling scheme in place these services should scale down significantly when not in use.

That being said, a big reason for using AWS/GCP is all the additional services that are available on the platform… If the workload being run isn’t that complicated, the hyperscalers are probably overkill. Even DO or Linode would be a better option under those circumstances.

It’s literally a national security risk if they do it any other way… Unless he goes to Guantanamo…