Message from @shadowedROM

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2016-09-14 01:00:58 UTC  

as in programming hardware?

2016-09-14 01:01:26 UTC  

"yes", in Verilog or VHDL (preferably the former)

2016-09-14 01:01:36 UTC  

give me $30 and I'll say whatever you bought was shipped

2016-09-14 01:01:41 UTC  

and it'll arrive in a month

2016-09-14 01:01:57 UTC  

if you're a student you can get them on discount

2016-09-14 01:02:22 UTC  

but it's not exactly like a "load a bunch of cool software and do rando stuff easily" deal like a rpi

2016-09-14 01:03:10 UTC  

any starter kits you know of?

2016-09-14 01:03:15 UTC  

Never done things like that

2016-09-14 01:03:56 UTC  

speaking of which, I claimed my AWS one year free tier and idk what to do with it

2016-09-14 01:04:07 UTC  

run an irc server

2016-09-14 01:04:18 UTC  

sounds fine

2016-09-14 01:04:22 UTC  
2016-09-14 01:04:57 UTC  

that one is pretty good; it's not autist approved since it strays away from oldschool codebases but imho that's part of the charm

2016-09-14 01:05:38 UTC  

tN.micros on aws can get throttled if you use up too many cycles so stuff like web and irc are good

2016-09-14 01:05:45 UTC  

don't, don't compile stuff

2016-09-14 01:06:42 UTC  

if you wanna learn things, an openvpn server is fine too, but watch out for bandwidth usage on the free tier

2016-09-14 01:07:18 UTC  

the openvpn server is pretty easy to set up; the hard part is learning to finesse around openssl commands, and that's kind of worth it

2016-09-14 01:07:46 UTC  

I just normally use sshuttle for my vpn purposes

2016-09-14 01:07:59 UTC  

also got lifetime subs to a couple of real vpn providers

2016-09-14 01:08:03 UTC  

great

2016-09-14 01:08:43 UTC  

the real good of an aws dev account is learning the aws ecosystem

2016-09-14 01:09:09 UTC  

i heard that you need to sell yourself to pay for it all

2016-09-14 01:09:13 UTC  

the more you think of it as another VPS the worst off you are and you don't gain from their service abstractions

2016-09-14 01:09:29 UTC  

having memcached or a sql server spin up as an appliance is kinda neato

2016-09-14 01:09:59 UTC  

and yeah AWS is expensive

2016-09-14 01:10:07 UTC  

i've never paid for it; only use it through work

2016-09-14 01:10:39 UTC  

but the cost of AWS is basically a means for entities to abstract away their IT staff so it's "worth it"

2016-09-14 01:10:54 UTC  

don't need to pay homo sapiens to run stuff

2016-09-14 01:11:29 UTC  

is it really different than say, run a bunch of VPSes from different pre-made images?

2016-09-14 01:13:15 UTC  

functionally - no; but, they provide API endpoints to abstracted services, so, instead of running some config mgmt or cloudinit script to provision a VPS instance for something like hadoop, you just use Amazon's shit by saying "I want a hadoop instance that does N-cycles amt of work" or whatever.

2016-09-14 01:13:17 UTC  

it's "magic"

2016-09-14 01:14:00 UTC  

idk you should research it yourself. it's worth learning if not only for the resume padding if you're a career-minded type.

2016-09-14 01:14:42 UTC  

as far as that $50, how about software defined radio gear

2016-09-14 01:14:52 UTC  

idk wtf ur interested in

2016-09-14 01:15:27 UTC  

I'm just a hobbyist programmer that does small sysadmin stuff

2016-09-14 01:15:32 UTC  

cool

2016-09-14 01:15:46 UTC  

Managed to get myself contracted to my school

2016-09-14 01:15:56 UTC  

So they cover anything I include in the bill without questions

2016-09-14 01:16:14 UTC  

Optimized a bunch of stuff and cut my yearly expenses by 50$

2016-09-14 01:16:17 UTC  

imho hobby stuff is not worth buying since it's mostly distraction. if your goal is programming, just code.

2016-09-14 01:16:22 UTC  

Need to do something with it