Notices by Tito Swineflu (tito_swineflu@sfba.social), page 2

@kingrat that's the vibe! Though the log cabin aspect i have is nice in a way. It's as big as three futons laid width-wise.
My parents had no illusions about it being an investment. They just had $20k to work with and this is what we could get. I distinctly remember the real estate agent hearing our price range and showing us a pile of logs that was once a cabin in between the north and south lanes of interstate 87. This was better, I guess.

There are two ancestral country estates in my family, and I find the contrast between them amusing.

My wife has a lake house in Maine. It's got a dock and boats, a pleasant yard cascading down to the lake with a view of the island where we pick blueberries.
It has nice plumbing, high-speed internet provided by the state of Maine to impoverished lake dwellers and easy access to the touristy spots and lobster rolls, etc.

My family has a log cabin in NY. It has a well, but not a toilet. (It has a composting toilet that we call the poo scrambler, but no-one ever wants to use it.) It's next to an open pit mine, and my parents bought it for $15,000 in the late 80's and it has only depreciated since then.

@kingrat @scott Dorsey? People voting for him to replace Haney was a real kick in the pants.

@kingrat @nwchapman It's not that uncommon. I've seen green day and devo at civic center, and a few others.

I have a relative who is bonkers about "chemicals". She was admiring our cool wallpaper, and she asked, "were you able to find someone who makes non-toxic wallpaper?" Is that a thing? I don't think it's a thing.

@kingrat @edgeworth Periodic stuff is one of the cases for which I appreciate the cloud. Also slow storage. I put tons of stuff on S3 or other slow edge servers that are cheap. Compute and especially fast IO speed never seems economical on cloud. I also experience a serious data deletion or major outage failure on cloud about once every 2 years, which is on par with physical stuff.

@kingrat @edgeworth I've also managed a system with 200-300 physical machines. The amount we would have had to pay to get the same data throughput on the cloud would have been crippling compared to the cost of the hardware and the three sysadmins we had.

Somehow, the world has been persuaded to put their code inside little container boxes that are then put inside virtual machines that run on cloud hardware that costs 3x as much as owning your own hardware.

@edgeworth in my experience, there still needs to be sysops / sres for both cases, and the frequency of failure, be it hardware or human error, seems the same.
I recently tried to pitch some old coworkers who run a few WordPress clients on this. They spend 30k/yr on cloud rental to get what could be supported on 10k/yr of owned and hosted hardware. I told them to pay me 10k/yr to manage it and keep the 10k/yr in savings. There's no way doing that would take more than 100hrs/yr of my time. I think those numbers are reasonable and scale to the favor of the company buying their own hardware and paying a sysadmin.

Getting rid of my old guitar.

@johnlogic My first online stuff was using talk on the Vax to chat with friends at other schools. It seemed magical!

@Lana Seems to me that once you get those glocks, a gang of teachers can roam around town holding up office depots for school supplies. The guns will pay for themselves!

@kingrat wow, mastodon is the best place for finding answers to obscure questions, thanks!
Still, it seems sort of shitty. No non-profit in the world could find the surviving rights holders for this music to pay them their 15 cents of royalties. Apple gets to squat on millions of songs behind a pay wall. I guess that's just the way it's always worked.

My wife is going through apple music, and all of a sudden Bumblescrump, 15, Crimpshrine, Jack Acid and The Gods Hate Kansas come on. It's cool that they have obscure music, but I know for a fact that they don't own the rights or have an agreement with the owner to stream some of that stuff. What's up with that?

@kingrat Beyond serialization, I usually give up on ORMs after a point because they get too hard to optimize. I wrote a tiny ORM for php that I use. It can get one table's data with where clauses and look up items by id, but nothing more.
I find that, once a bunch of joins are involved, figuring out what's slowing down an ORM is more time consuming than just manually writing the query.

Wow, sqlalchemy's serialization is SLOW.