What worked for me was handing them a credit card and transitioning myself out of the free tier. (I'd use the free credits they offer prior to doing this - they give you something like $300 immediately on signup.)
The always-free infra remains free, you just have the chance of incurring a bill if you make selections that aren't free or exceed block storage/egress (200GB/10TB) limits of the always-free tier. Leaving the free/trial tier gives you access to a much larger pool of instances. I never successfully deployed an A1 instance prior to becoming a "paying" customer - now I've done it hundreds of times without ever having an issue.
I've been running a small k0s cluster and a standalone webserver for months while incurring about $2.50 - $3 in spending each month, primarily from being slow to remove instance snapshots sitting in block storage.
Even things that are oddly expensive on AWS - like NAT - are free on Oracle. There are zero gotchas.
I hit the same roadblock as the above user and it never occurred to me to just cross the barrier with cash and then scale back to free. Thanks for this.
It doesn't actually charge you anything. You just have to put a card down to be considered a priority because now you potentially can spend money & therefore are more important then the other free-tier losers. /s It's still free tier & still free.
The free tier is also based on capcity usage, and not instances. If you want 3 cores on 1 machine & 1 on another, they're cool with that. I personally run Pangolin on a 1 core & self-hosted github runners on a 3 core.
> There are other ways to do that. School is an investment
For most people, yes. For our elites, I think one of the great losses over the past generations has been this financialisation of education. Measuring ROI solely in monetary terms, thereby sacrificing the civic and cultural parts for that which is easily measured and marketed.
I work in government and my position has been reclassified from computer programmer to software developer and software engineer over the past 20 years. Same workload and skillset. We're even supporting some of that same software written 20 years ago.
I think this type of "they don't care" attitude on any type of engineering is too simplistic.
Are there engineers who don't care? Probably. Engineers solve the problem given to them within the specifications also given to them. Those ultimately can't come from another engineer but the person implementing the thing implements it to specification. If that specification doesn't include edge cases then it's literally not their job to implement them.
Firefox is driven by Mozilla, which has long since lost the plot and shows no sign of regaining it. If Firefox were forkable we'd have seen one by now, but even Brendan Eich himself chose Chrome as the base for his browser.
I would love to be proven wrong, but my prediction for ten years out is that Mozilla will finally have gone under and Firefox won't be maintainable any more.
(Writing this from Firefox. I'll hold out as long as it's possible to hold out.)
Zen Browser is shaping up to be a nice fork, but if development on Firefox/Gecko stagnates or stops entirely due to Mozilla folding or something, it’s gonna be in a tough position.
I think that's a bit flawed. The purpose of lower education is learn how to learn. By the time you get to university is when you apply those skills to really learn.
Well, maybe the purpose of higher education is to learn how to learn _for yourself_. That is: to find sources, read them, evaluate them, and synthesize them into a conclusion.
I dunno. I passed all the undergrad maths through calc 3, diffeq, linear, and a 400 stats class, ~20 years ago. I could probably solve a calc 2 problem (which was harder for me than calc 3), but I would need a textbook and an hour or two.
Did I learn it? Or did I learn how to teach myself it? I would argue the latter.
I never cared for the "learning how to learn" line. We start from infancy and learn to walk and talk, albeit in that very special way. We are always learning, every day.
For me personally, earning by bachelor's and master's degree was a continuation of K-12 and I made sure to be a top performer. The looming debt was the underlying, motivating factor.
Looking back, I learned most outside after K-12 was done for the day and I was free to explore and get hurt.
That phrase is a thing because K-12 is structured as just learning what the teacher tells you. In undergraduate degrees, the professors are more like guideposts and you can't learn everything in their lectures - you have to figure out and understand the material yourself and most people upon finishing K-12 can't do that.
I also wasn't one of them, so I also had no trouble in college, but I knew a lot of people this applied to.
