Allow? I understood tiny VM's to be something (at least AWS) added to try to squeeze more utilization out of idle hardware.

I understand the appeal from AWS's perspective. Customer A pays for a 32 vCPU VM, which they run on 32-core hardware. Then they can also squeeze in customer B's 1 vCPU instance running a blog, and no one notices. Free money!

But I don't want to be either of those customers. It means the whole system has an extra layer of abstraction, so they can juggle VMs around. It's why you need slow EBS instead of just getting a flash drive in the same case as the CPU, with 0.01x the latency.

Don't let me deprive you of a laugh, god knows we could all use one. But software developers are stuck on the benefits of source control and the workflows it provides. I'll take a pull request and a code review over "normal people" emailing each other attachments called "Q3 Presentation v7.final.final2.reallyfinalthistime.ppt" any day.

Your story is a nice succinct version of the "Business of Authority" strategy. Establish yourself as an expert, work finds you.

https://thebusinessofauthority.com/

I never thought about these as different acquisition models. What others are there to learn about?

The last time I mentioned this I got downvoted into a crater, so maybe ppl hate it (I'm open to hearing counterpoints!) but there's an army of tech freelancers swapping advice in a slack called "Rands Leadership Slack". My old boss suggested it. I thought it was BS. It was surprisingly informative - case in point it's where I first heard of the above podcast.

I have seen Wiggtenstein's language games invoked to explain this "your red isn't my red" possibility, but I've never really been able to follow the reasoning.

Perhaps some philosophically inclined HNer who passes by here can let me know if this is a legit application of his ideas?

> “An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.”

On the JR line in Tokyo, standing with a friend who motions to me with his glance to a salaryman standing next to us. "Hand-stitched suit", my friend whispers. Which is when I notices this guy's "threads" (literally).

Perhaps not Warren Buffett, but no doubt an executive of some stature riding with the rest of us plebes.

I didn't use this app, but I did happen to make a paper moai mask recently using a pattern purchased from etsy.

https://ibb.co/BHcG4BkB

Hell yeah this is weird af! I love it <3

Ooh! Were you happy with the results? If so would you be open to sharing the pattern you used?

Very happy with the results - and learnt so much making it - i.e. building my own vac forming table to make the visor.

Loads of sanding and spray painting, in-all I think it took me about 70 hours, but we wore the helmets loads for festivals and parties.

I no longer have the file sadly, but got it from a paper craft forum - where people posted them. Happy to share pics if of interest.

Wow how hard was it to make the vac forming table? Have you used it since? I'd love a link to a tutorial if you have one.

Sadly I can't find any pics of the basic table we made, but that was actually an easy thing to make once I thought it through.

I basically got a 2 sheets of MDF to the size I wanted (roughly the size of a baking tray for the oven, as I had to heat the plastic in my home oven) then drilled a hole every couple of cm in one of them, then made them into a shallow box - sealing all the places the wood connected with bathroom sealant on the inside and duct tape on the outside. I made a hole in one of the 'side' pieces that would fit my vacuum cleaner hose, and then added more duct tape to seal.

Then I made two wooden frames as big as the largest baking tray for my oven, then cut some heatable plastic to size, and clamped them in the two frames and put them in the oven.

This part had loads of trial and error - ie how long the plastic needed heating, how long to run the vacuum cleaner, how to make sure the plastic didn't end up behind the thing you were forming, how to make sure the think you were forming didn't deform while under pressure.

Email in bio if you want pics or more info.

Glue gun. I've made probably a dozen paper masks in this style, patterns purchased from Etsy shops and printed on heavy bonded paper.

I like hot glue for this type of work because it gives you a _little_ bit of leeway to make mistakes while it's still warm, so you can slide the pieces around to get them just so. Then it cools and hardens quickly so you don't have to wait a long time before moving on to the next piece.

Nice, thank you!

thank you, this comment helped a great deal.