A foot and a half of Subway sandwiches and two bottles of pop is $29 in my country

Sure, but how many foods are we talking here? This sounds like probably <20 rows on a sheet, with columns for ingredients.

Tracking a single cat doesn’t seem like DB work

Why wouldn’t a simple spreadsheet and some pivot tables work?

8 billion stupid monkeys

There’s not much cost with S3 object. It’s just a file system in Linux, and replication is a protocol standard.

Use object storage for media and backups, then use s3 replication to put a copy somewhere else.

Ask it to make a function, then do some other function, then make them work together etc. Making it write a lot in one go won’t work. It’s more pair programming than having it write for you.

I use it to write code, but I know how to write code and it probably turns a week of work for me into a day or two. It’s cool, but not automagic.

Because of nuclear non-proloferation treaties. You can’t run a “recycling” program without also being able to make plutonium for bombs.

If you have enough users and systems that this is a problem then you should be centrally managing it. I get that you want to inventory what you have, but I’m saying that you’re probably doing it wrong right now, and your ask is solved by using a central IAM system.

It sounds like you’re probably looking for some kind of SAML compliant IAM system, where credentials and access can be centrally managed. Active Directory and LDAP are examples of that.

Well, 1ms of latency is 300km of distance, so unless you have something really misconfigured or overloaded, or you’re across the country, latency shouldn’t be an issue. 10-20ms is normally the high water mark for most synchronous replication, so you can go a long way before a protocol like DNS becomes an issue.

Go to the interview and get the practice, or try something new. Make outrageous demands, tell them they do things wrong etc.

I find a lot of stuff is using docker compose, which works with Podman, but using straight docker is easier, especially if it’s nothing web-facing

Yes, but you don’t need Kubernetes from the start.

Use object storage and enable immutability for the backups. If they compromise your site they shouldn’t be able to delete your backups unless they have the NAS password too.

Script that checks your external IP and updates your DNS provider via API.

Diamonds are a commodity like gold and silver. You can buy market value diamonds from a dealer and then have a ring made. Even for synthetic diamonds this is the cheapest way to get a diamond ring.

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