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Ok, so do you think that's the normal range? Pretty lower than I expected.

I would imagine it fluctuates wildly based on the topics of the day, the time of day, and the day of the week. On a real hot topic you'd see it spike.

Depends, most of us only type ratatata when company websites are down

Trino can do this.

Micro-consulting sounds like hell. Sales are a huge drag on any expert trying to capitalise. By the very nature of their business they need fewer but larger deals.

So the "sales" part is what the platform has to provide, in order for it to be valuable.

Since the data won't change frequently it might be worth trying to load it into ClickHouse. I've had needle-in-haystack searches on multi-million row tables speed up by 2 orders of magnitude over PG.

If one of the ten bosses fires you, no big deal. This is the essence of self employment, not having a single source of failure in your income stream.

Most clients I work with read HN. It's completely normal in my circles.

Play PS4 or some music in Bitwig.

There is a 300+ example repo for using GEE with QGIS. It's a trasure trove of inspiration.

https://github.com/giswqs/qgis-earthengine-examples

Video and music production, game development, stock trading, book writing. You've got every prerequisit by the time you hit 30, you can do anything at a global level.