FreezeInTheDark

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   by FreezeInTheDark 10mo ago

   Oh for sure you want to use TLS, what's insane is the developer experience of needing to implement it yourself.
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   by FreezeInTheDark 10mo ago

   One thing that strikes me about the author's experience is how unusable Azure appears to be in all this. Like, this hits somewhat close to me as I also run a couple web projects, also written in Rust, on a serverless architecture, and
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   by FreezeInTheDark 5y ago

   I can't speak to all markets, but in my experience in a HCOL city in the U.S., this is not true, at least anymore. Buying a place never broke even with renting an equivalently sized one, even in the long run. Yes, there are lifestyle a
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   by FreezeInTheDark 5y ago

   In my experience in the recent market (in a HCOL city in the U.S.), rentals (even only compared to the costs in homeownership, i.e. ignoring principal payments) are much cheaper than mortgages for an equivalently sized house/unit. That
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   by FreezeInTheDark 5y ago

   His central point is that the "rent" you pay via the costs of homeownership are often approximately equal to the costs of actually paying rent. Since principal payments are on top of those costs, that is money you _can_ do somethi