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We are using a container hosting .net6 with our lambda. We use it where I think lambdas really work well, that is to process queue items off of SQS. It works well with the dead-letter queue as well. We dont notice any performance issues, but this is just a processor, so we don't need to worry about real-time responses either.

We have a product team that comes up with the text and right now we have walls of Lorem ipsum waiting to be replaced. So, this tool will scan the app find all that lorem text and put it into a json/yml file? You then work against that file? How does it work with duplicate texts? Is it just a list of texts or does it give some context where it found it?

Pick your poison. Here's the latest results from SMhasher listing various hashing options many even much faster than Blake3. Find one that works for you and has a stable library for your language/platform.

https://rurban.github.io/smhasher/doc/ryzen3.html

After spending my career working in higher level languages, I'm always impressed by what people can do with languages like C. It's not just for drivers anymore.

Per RFC (for HOTP, which is just TOTP w/o the time element)...

"The HOTP value must be at least a 6-digit value. It is also desirable that the HOTP value be 'numeric only' so that it can be easily entered on restricted devices such as phones."

6 was defaulted to in the TOTP for being 'secure enough' and easy enough for most people to remember.

The hardest part I've found with budgeting if you have a significant other is getting both parties on board. Then even if you get them on board you need to be together on the amounts and the methods. The budgeting part is easy once you get passed that. I've tried things like YNAB in the past, but without the other person on board and/or using it, it just became useless.

Right now we're playing the gambling game of sinking the cost of fixing our old, high mileage car rather than paying the inflated prices. The question of course is how long do we hold out (or will the car hold out) in the cost of fixing becoming more expensive then the inflated costs.

Is it the need to be perfect or the need to be seen as perfect that is the issue?

As more and more is shared, I've seen my kids not want to try things simply because they see people doing the same thing amazingly well. The same people doing things so amazingly well don't necessarily share all the work and failures that went into getting there which is a shame and probably a better lesson then the end result.

We're using it as part of an SQS flow. We add the item to the queue from our backend and then process it with a lambda function. Right now we're using containerized NET6. Works well enough.

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Coming up with 'fresh' ideas and creating a profitable side project is much more challenging. There is so much more competition then there used to be. The few projects I made money on in the past I would suspect I would have a real hard time even getting eyes on today.

Instead of having to download and serve a separate font for each style (bold, light, etc.) it's just one font that interpolates those attributes resulting in much smaller font sizes. Here's a list from google fonts just to see some examples... https://fonts.google.com/?vfonly=true

It's really hard not use variable fonts now (IBM Plex is not variable). They just make so much more sense and reduce the package size sometimes significantly.

For the amount of money that AWS is making it's amazing on the lack of documentation beyond the simple lambda hello world.

I've been using C# and looking up how to handle DI and have been trying to piece together things from old articles and SO posts that I have no idea hold true today or not. Why they simply can't provide up to date best practices for various scenarios is beyond frustrating. I guess they're big enough they don't need to care that much.

I know you said frontend, but we use them for both FE and BE. They work fine, but our problem comes with DB migrations. We just haven't found a good way to deal with DB changes and flags.

I've worked at small and mega enterprise. I will pick small/medium over big anyday for how to do things the 'right' way. Enterprise doesn't care about the right way so much, too many policies and politics get in the way. Similarly you can also get a very 'just get it out the door' attitude at some very small companies.

However you can also find small/medium companies that understand that they need to ship, but also understand how to properly run things. There is a much greater chance of that happening at a small/medium company than any big company.

I'm vaccinated and boostered by my own choice. My problem with mandates is where does it end? Why this mandate and not other mandates? Who gets to decide that?

In the US midatlantic - $125k is high avg for 3-5 SWE. It's gone up a little recently, but very little. Around me there are sales people and investment bankers with around the same or less experience than me and they are making much more money for about the same amount of work. If you want to make the $$$ outside of a few areas in the US, those are the things to get into.

You're not wrong. I get more stressed when I can't just think and live in the moment. Not that we should ignore the big picture, but life is the moment to moment. Trying to live like all we do is what people post on social media would just lead to a downward spiral.

The enterprise level security I've often noticed is around integration with SAML or LDAP. Both of those do take time and effort and I appreciate charging extra for it. As for RBAC, MFA, etc those should be made at a lower level like RBAC could be at a Teams level. MFA of course should be for everyone.

When you "need" to get your whole family phones, Iphones (even the SE) are too $$. We just get a new Moto G phone every other year. They're $150 each and are great for what they do. Someone breaks it or whatever, you're not out a fortune.

It is possible to find places. I work at a company were we're trying to match up charities with people wanting to donate through various means. It's a nice change of pace from the usual financial related places I worked at before.

I wonder if it would be less confusing if we simply stopped referring to these as vaccines and just as shots.

How about the multitude of ideas I start - get all excited by this great new idea, start working on landing page picking just the right colors and font, look into the coding and hosting, all the while researching and checking out the competition only to say to myself there's no way this will work, look at all those features the other players have, I can't market, don't have a following...Fail. Next idea - rinse & repeat.

Then only to see a month or whatever later a similar idea posted to HN with them saying how they have customers and inflow. Could I have done the same? Maybe. Was it just because they could market well? Maybe. Will I ever really know? No. Cause I never tried. Will I ever learn my lesson? I can only hope.

Damn, I should have been C64SysRef.

What do you consider large tech companies? I find that number for only 4-8 yrs experience to be much higher than most people see even with a total comp perspective. Just look around on the job boards or like SO - Not seeing numbers like that unless you're up there in mgmt levels.

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Same idea as https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite I presume but in rust vs go?

That would be very frustrating. I've been using B2 to store my encrypted backups (via Duplicati in my case) and that has been solid (and cheap) in both backup and restores. For those leery of their personal backup solution, maybe go that route.

I've read their business model... https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-business-model/

I just wonder how well it works in supporting them vs asking for money from their customers to support a decent/private browser stack.