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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • Our first was bottle fed, and our second breast fed and it was so less stressful. No constantly cleaning bottles and sterilising them or not being able to change plans on the fly while you’re out because you didn’t bring enough sterile bottles. The NHS are constantly changing the standards to make it ever more difficult to bottle feed.

    There was also an issue at the time where people would bulk buy baby formula and then sell it to people in China at a premium as it was in demand, so it drove up the price of formula.









  • I’d guarantee that they’re already doing that now anyway. If you buy a new car but don’t choose the heated seats optional extra, the seats will still have the capability, just that they won’t enable it. This has been going on for decades; I recall an old Peugot 405 my parents had when I was young, there were various placeholder areas on the console where some switches would have bee on the more expensive models. All the wiring would be there, but just no phsyical switch on the console. They’ll standardise as much as possible to make the production process as simple and cheap as possible.

    I can see the appeal from a potential customers point of view as you don’t need to stress about picking the wrong options and later regretting it.



  • There are huge house building projects going on, at least there are in my area. However there’s constraints as to how fast you can actually start these projects as you need to find suitable land, go through all the red tape and have enough resources (materials, people) to build them. So if demand keeps outpacing supply, the prices will still continue to rise.

    Interestingly, I saw an article recently that average rents actually started to decrease, so maybe the increased supply is very slowly having an impact on the rental market.

    Slightly off-tangent, but it frustrates me when sellers complain that they can’t sell their house and then take it off the market. No, you can’t sell it at the price you want, it’s obviously over-priced. If you were to knock off £50k or £100k, I’d guarantee that you’d be able to sell the house.







  • The two huge benefits are that you only pay for what you use and you don’t need to spend any effort managing it. For my own personal stuff, it makes zero sense to have something running continuously as the number of invocations per week is like less than 10!

    The time spent managing stuff can’t be understated either. At my prevous job, we used EC2, and involved a fair bit of management: always doing deploys to roll out the latest AMI’s with security patches, doing load tests for different trading peaks and working out how many instances we’ll need at what size, monitoring the instances during deployments on the chance that an instance might not be brought back in, which would sometimes happen.

    My current job, it’s 100% serverless. The website, any API’s, everything. We never have to think about scaling or patching or load testing. The running costs maybe higher but the actual costs for the teams is less.