If you're near the Maastricht / Aachen area:

https://www.meetup.com/euregiotechmeetup/

So the completed sample was estimated at $0.35, actually cost $0.52, but spend $0.55

This bot is almost as bad as I am at estimating projects.

> Build a completely greenroom, open source AWS

> est. total target $516.00

Lol

Is green room a word? I've heard clean room. And green field. Is it just an amalgamation?

It is. But doesn’t fit with the rest of the sentence.

“In a television studio, theatre or concert hall, the room where performers await their entrance.” https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/green_room

Not sure but a green screen version of AWS for $500 is totally plausible and a decent metaphor for what you’d get with AI anyway.

Maybe a green field clean room implementation :)

Its where the band can hang out before the show.

author mistook the word

AWS has over 200 services, so that's a little over $2 per service. Yeah, a lot of it is built on OSS, but there is a ton of it, and there is also a lot of work involved in building the APIs and web UI, and making it scalable , secure, and resilient.

Now, you might be able to make a version of some small subset of aws services that runs works ok for a small scale for with relatively simple needs, for that many tokens, but I don't think that's what they were going for.

IAM for example is in house and integrates with every service. Sometimes in deep ways.

I’m on your side in that I would never take a contract to actually do this, but…

If we swapped out the IAM backend for something extremely simple like just private keys (one per allowed service or JWT-style list all services in the key), then we could have something that looks/feels pretty similar. With a 2$ token spend.

Not at all the same but it would look/feel pretty close.

> you might be able to make a version of some small subset of aws services that runs works ok

lol, you’ve got that goblet of koolaid with me! Equal parts horrifying and interesting that it might not be impossible

The hard parts are not based on OSS

Exactly. It's like someone saying, that EC2 is OpenStack. Well, yes, but actually no :)

But, like, on paper it is, and on paper is where the prompt lives.

You’re getting lost buddy it’s definitely ridiculous.

You, my friend, have drunk from the goblet of koolaid.

Careful dude, that's not a goblet of koolaid, it's a bottle of Amazon Delivery Driver Urine!!!

lol but at least in comes in a nice cup then

lolz. build aws. no mistakes.

Did it not charge anything for the estimation itself? I wonder what model they’re using for that

> it identified items in our AWS that saved us $250 a month

I gave Claude Code access to the Azure CLI and had it review usage. It found a couple servers that were underpowered, but it also found a lot of things that weren't being used at all. The total reduction was $40k a year.

We're having the users who understand the business processes use Claude to create clickable demos. Then these are presented to the engineering team to re-build. The users are loving it because they can ask for exactly what they want.

But if you get tired of flagging them, you know what to do

> monetary requirements, which are actually quite low

Technically, yes - you are required to hold only €4,500 as an "investment" in the business you create. In reality you will need a lot more. My wife and I spent about €40k to move over which is inline with what others on the DAFT program have said they spent.

Completely worth it though!

From my research, the biggest roadblock these days seems to be lack of housing.

What was your final motivator to depart [mine: crony capitalism e.g. healthcare setup]? Were ya'll's companies already established, or created in the moving process? Citizens, yet [spekin de Dutch yet eh]?

Lastly: is living in Maastricht similar to living in a US state panhandle (e.g. benefits of: border shopping; tax reasons). What drew ya'll south (V.e.g: Amsterdam)?

Any suggestions/websites for a single electrician that's been thinking about DAFT for over a decade? My own would be YouTuber Not Just Bikes (expatriated to Utrecht for traffic engineering).

> What was your final motivator to depart

Our main motivator was that we watched our grandparents grow older and just stop moving. I absolutely love America, but you do spend the majority of your time sitting. I'm not inactive, I do ultras, I hike, etc. But that doesn't make up for the fact that we're just always sitting - at home, at work, in the car. We wanted to live somewhere that would force us out of that.

> Were ya'll's companies already established

I had an LLC I used for contracting in the US, but the DAFT visa required setting up a new Dutch corporation.

> Citizens, yet

We're currently applying for our first visa renewal. Next time we'll be elligible for PR. Citizenship would require us to give up our US citizenship and I don't want to do that.

> is living in Maastricht similar to living in a US state panhandle

It kinda is. We don't have a car, but we do have neighbors that only grocery shop in Germany because it's cheaper.

> What drew ya'll south (V.e.g: Amsterdam)?

I just couldn't imagine living anywhere so flat and so far from forests / mountains. We still don't have proper forests in Maastricht, but I can be in the forests of Belgium or Germany in 20 minutes.

> Any suggestions/websites for a single electrician that's been thinking about DAFT for over a decade?

No websites, but just as someone who has tried to hire an electrician in both countries it seems like the shortage is greater here. It really seems like you could just come over and have a lot of work.

The nice thing about DAFT is that after 5 years, I believe you can get EU permanent residency, not just Dutch permanent residency. Basically gives you the right to live and work anywhere in the EU like a citizen. There are continuous residency requirements to meet eligibility, but a lawyer I talked to about DAFT told me that they're not super strict about it.

I appreciate your perspective, from having lived DAFT experience.

>We're currently applying for our first visa renewal. Next time we'll be elligible for PR.

Good luck (shoe-in, correct?)! As PRs, would you still then need to remain self-employed (forever)?

>electrician shortage

I've run my own residential electric shop, on/off for two decades, but eventually want to get into industrial controls.

Definitely need to look into licensing/reciprocity.

>It really seems like you could just come over and have a lot of work.

Sidework would be an eventual hustle, but honestly I'd have to learn about local wiring practices and wouldn't want to be independant in a new AHJ/system. If I dafted it'd be in an adjacent careerpath. I'm honestly looking into engineering programs, abroad (possibly pre-DAFT).

>couldn't imagine living anywhere so flat and so far from forests / mountains

It's raining here in Appalachia. Soft little pitterpatters upon my tin roof.

Thanks for chatting. I've bookmarked your website for further inspiration =D

> As PRs, would you still then need to remain self-employed (forever)?

Nope, once we get PR we have the same rights as citizens except: we can't vote in national elections, and we can't leave the country for too long without losing the residency permit.

> I've bookmarked your website for further inspiration

Haha, last blog post was, what, 2 years ago!

>~ my last post was 2 years ago!~

I'm ten years behind, you're thoughts are very helpful =D

Maybe I'll neighbor you in two years (you get free electric help).

I think you're fine. The guidelines also say:

> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.

I also think the old epochconverter UI was dated. I'll switch to yours

Just purchased - I don't have any time to play this week but I'm on a train for 6 hours next week and have been looking for a game for my Steam Deck.

Thanks for the purchase. In the next days I plan to release many bugfixes targeting Linux and steam deck, it's the most requested thing at the moment.

I seem to remember Gates talked about how we would soon have cheap enough storage that a person could record every conversation they ever have for this reason. This was in his '95 book 'The Road Ahead' or maybe I'm remembering it wrong

That’s been the case for at least a decade

Maybe unrelated, but do you have trouble completing CAPTCHAs?

Not usually, no. (edit: and that totally went over my head, lol. good one :) )