what's truly incredible is that this person is selling bootcamps.

the things they "didn't realize" or "didn't know" are basics. they're things you would know if you spent any time at all with terraform or AWS.

all the remediations are table stakes. things you should at least know about before using terraform. things you would learn by skimming the docs (or at least asking Claude about best practices).

even ignoring the technical aspects, a tiny amount of consideration at any point in that process would have made it clear to any competent person that they should stop and question their assumptions.

I mean, shit happens. good engineers take down prod all the time. but damn man, to miss those basics entirely while selling courses on engineering is just astounding.

the grifter mentality is probably so deeply engrained that I'm willing to bet that they never once thought "I'm totally qualified to sell courses", let alone question the thought.

null signal. totally meaningless.

I was diagnosed (finally) in 2018 (my early thirties). Hyper focus has always been my cursed superpower. There were times in my life where I could disappear into my own little world only to surface 6, 8, 12 hours later and realise I really needed to eat and go to the bathroom and damn I should probably shower sometime this week.

Apart from the parent comment's point about visual cues, the biggest thing for me is rituals. Specific enjoyable or unavoidable or easy to maintain rituals really helped break that focus. Dogs are a part of that for me, since you only ignore their needs at your peril. Taking them for a walk and putting on an audiobook or podcast so that I don't think about work makes it a lot easier to slip into something else when I get back.

I haven't done the Pomodoro thing but I could definitely see the appeal in a rigid timer that screams "hey you! it's time to get off your ass and do something else for a bit".

> Airbus is also assessing shielding the area of the fuselage closest to the engines to minimize the risk of a blade off — one or more composite blades breaking, which could dent or puncture the fuselage and, in the worst-case scenario, strike a passenger.

sightly terrifying

I'm willing to bet 90%+ of this kind of activity is bots trading on super basic NLP analysis of news headlines.

These days most market data providers offer news feeds with all that baked in and they do it cheaply enough that it's in reach of most hobbyist bot traders.

Even at small professional scales it wouldn't be terribly difficult or expensive to put together an in-house pipeline for categorization, entity extraction, and sentiment analysis. They're all pretty cheap computationally and don't require a significant amount of development time.