Easily. Probably before even hitting my early 30s.
The term is known as carcaine for a reason, funny enough I attribute not getting into (much) trouble growing up to cars, and it's what gave me access to meeting more people in tech/engineering/medical fields than just about anything else when I was outside of it. I spent most of my teenage years and young adult life immersed in motorsports at various levels and as I said worked in the auto industry for a while.
I had delusions of being a GT pilot for a while, too; so given the company I kept I got access to a lot of cheap/crashed chassis or front clips with misc parts to make things out of for a while. My first 2 businesses were all car/car part based, fintech was the outlier in that regard.
> What are you doing to those cars? Driving not longer than a year?
Bought, fixed, drove, got bored and sold/traded mainly.
50 is conservative to be honest. I still own my very first car, which also makes that same chime noise I mentioned.
Time wise... hard to say, I just keep them until I no longer want to deal with them and do the aforementioned or give it away if all else fails.
The only Nissan I still really want but haven't owned is a Nissan Patrol, which I almost bought when I was in Europe, but decided against it at the last minute and bought a really cool MK4 GTI to teach my friend how to drive and eventually give to him.
I got a Land Cruiser when I got back to the US instead and I'm happy with my purchase.
Sidenote: its stupidly easy to get a car registered to drive in Germany, even as a auslander, if you play their stupid games; what they get you on is that TUV BS which is honestly just another of making sure people subsidize the auto industry--who are incredibly powerful in that country and write many of the laws.
Thanks for the explanation. You living in Germany makes it even weirder, in Austria only the registration of the car is like 250$ one time payment, I guess in Germany its the same?
If I count correctly in the 10 years I've driven since getting my driver's license I had 4 cars already. So depending on your age 50 still sounds high but not that high anymore.
Curious about your age and net worth tbh, so it makes more sense
Thanks a lot for the detailed answer. I think having a higher TTL + using 1.1.1.1 as nameserver would be a good idea. I'll let the 'infrastructure team' know about this suggestion
If using the public DNS servers to resolve things then certainly have a few of them. 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.4.4 in case CF has problems.
[Edit] Testing 1.1.1.1 it seems I have finally built cache on all their nodes. It took about 25 to 30 requests. Second test took only a few requests for a different record, same domain. Now I am more curious about their back-end.
If you have your own recursive servers in your datacenter then you can entirely control how many things are cached and how that cache behaves. Unbound is a really good option for this as it is fast, has controls around memory, threads, min/max TTL and you could even push your authoritative zones to the edge Unbound nodes if desired so that those records never expire. Some people take this a step further in their datacenter and have Unbound running on every instance to keep response latency low and handle upstream recursive fail-over better than the OS resolver does.
Another benefit to running your own caching servers is that you can purge records that you know are out of date during outages.
Yes. The most important thing here is that 1.1.1.1 is announced in seriously a lot of places. I just went to Hurricane Electric's looking glass, several times picked 3 routers at random and put in 1.1.1.1 as the destination. All of them returned it as the 2nd hop, meaning it's most likely announced in the same exact datacenter as where HEs router is located.
That gives you all the redundancy you'll ever need. Of course, you need to rely on Cloudflare to not mess it up. But you're not going to do better than CF.
Was thinking about building such tool, but I couldn't come up with an idea where to source the data other than scraping it. Was looking especially for big price drops.
