So I live just down the road from Bentonville, Arkansas which is best known for Walmart. The Walton’s are still probably one of the wealthiest families in the world and you don’t have to do more than stick your head out the door around here to see something that one of them has had a hand in.

I think it’s hard for most people to comprehend what being a billionaire, nevermind a multi-billionaire, is like. It’s not just “rich.” Depending on where you live in the States, you can have $2 million and be considered rich.

Billionaire rich is being so rich that you literally need a large team of people to manage all your assets. Billionaire rich is being able to personally fund art museums, medical schools, and all kinds of other vanity projects and it not even be a drop in the bucket because you make money faster than you can spend it.

There’s a lot of American’s that like to imagine that this will be them someday. But that’s not possible because most of them don’t have rich daddies to leave them a massive inheritance.

“We’ll fix this file size limitation in the next sprint.”

User: Tries to upload entire contents of hard drive.

…maybe.

Older house, poor insulation, 19 year old heat pump/AC, and hot summers.

they generate about 3,800kWh per year. We also use about 3,800kWh of electricity each year.

Holy shit. I think we used that much last month, which is higher than average but not that high for August around here.

Bless me Father Chat GPT for I have sinned.

I run a web app that processes at least one third party JSON document that is so large it would exceed the table column limit if flattened out. It gets stored in a JSONB column. EFCore with Npgsql can query JSON documents in Postgres. Works just fine as long as you put indexes on the fields you’re going to be querying.

Letting his friend pierce his nipples was dumb. Coming to you with his concerns was smart. I wish our oldest (17) would do that more often but she usually likes to let things go until they are really out of control instead. I promise you, there are way worse things your son could be doing.

Just remind him that it’s better to consider the consequences before doing something like that.

Yeah baby! Strip those regs! Who’s ready for some more early 2000’s level fraud induced corporate bankruptcies? We’ll call it “Vibe Accounting”, which is where some idiot who can barely add uses an LLM to spit out financial statements that have no basis in reality.

/s

Put down the thought of what’s right, what’s wrong…

Yeah, I can’t do that. I refuse to celebrate his death but I don’t mourn it either. He was an evil man who died in a horrible way.

That’s as far as my thoughts go on the subject.

Follow up ticket still in the backlog with a comment tagging the PM and PO that says “This needs to be fixed ASAP or we’re gonna have a bad time.”

Created Date: Four years ago.

Reads ticket

…

“Hmmm. Why does this sound really familiar?”

Well you see, it’s ✨magical✨ data that only executives can interpret. Us lowly employees ungrateful peons just wouldn’t understand it.

“Vibe Executing” is apparently how alot of CEO’s do their jobs. They didn’t know how to gauge productivity before the pandemic and they still don’t. They just pull whatever sounds good out of their asses at any given moment.

Ah yes. The Intel Strategy.

I’d like to learn to play the organ. I have an old Allen MOS-2 in my workshop that I started doing a MIDI conversion on and just haven’t had time to finish it.

Personal Anecdote

Last week I used the AI coding assistant within JetBrains DataGrip to build a fairly complex PostgreSQL function.

It put together a very well organized, easily readable function, complete with explanatory comments, that failed to execute because it was absolutely littered with errors.

I don’t think it saved me any time but it did help remove my brain block by reorganizing my logic and forcing me to think through it from a different perspective. Then again, I could have accomplished the same thing by knocking off work for the day and going to the driving range.

“It’s just a temporary fix.”

…Five Years Later…

The painted pole is still there but the clock is gone.

In this situation it’s not necessarily that it’s the “right” or “wrong” device. The better question is, “does it meet your needs?” There are pros and cons to running each service in its own VM. One of the cons is the overhead consumed by the VM OS. Sometimes that’s a necessary sacrifice.

Some of the advantages of running a system like Proxmox are that it’s easily scalable and you’re not locked into specific hardware. If your current Beelink doesn’t prove to be enough, you can just add another one to the cluster or add a different host and Proxmox doesn’t care what it is.

TLDR: it’s adequate until it’s not. When it’s not, it’s an easy fix.

Yeah, with something that size you’re pretty much limited to containers.

Edit: Which is totally fine, OP. Self hosting is an opportunity to learn and your setup can be easily changed as your needs change over time.