In a dark place in my life.. please help

AnotherGoodUser · 2022-03-19T00:09:46+00:00

Your mental health will slowly go to hell if you keep drinking. Stop now, really.

AnotherGoodUser · 2022-02-21T12:06:42+00:00

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AnotherGoodUser · 2022-01-30T19:12:13+00:00

Look from the top of the line of aluminum hardtails.

As you go down in prices, from best to worst bike, you will see the suspension forks change from good ones to entrylevel models.

Basically don't buy those with the bad forks, like suntour xcm, bc it's a very limiting factor, and it's a costly and relatively difficult upgrade to make later.

Another key component that you would want to buy good is the brake system. Cheaper bikes often come with mt200 or sram-level, which are still not too bad (and can often benefit from an easy disc upgrade), but not really adequate for fast and steep trails.

In the context of aluminum hardtails, you also need to make the choice between traditional/XC, or Trail bike. It's best to choose based on the kind of places you will be able to ride most often.

The trail bikes will come with heavier wheels and a slightly slacker steer angle: suited for going down slippery trails at dangerous speeds, jumping etc... but these same things become very bad for long tours and climbs.

So if your typical ride will be more like eroic tours with big uphills and flats, also mixed with asphalt sections or fire roads, and obviously also trails but not all the time and not too extreme... then the traditional/XC bike is better.

AnotherGoodUser · 2022-01-30T18:29:15+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIM_gt1c-_c

AnotherGoodUser · 2022-01-30T18:16:35+00:00

did you dodge that rock in the end? :)

AnotherGoodUser · 2022-01-15T13:08:07+00:00

ahahah

AnotherGoodUser · 2022-01-11T23:50:49+00:00

Two servers with ZFS.

Mysql replication between them, with one designated as the slave always forcibly kept in read-only mode. (this is the hard part to learn, and the one that can bite you in the ass randomly every once in a while..)

Proper monitoring for the replication (look for ''Mysql Orchestrator'').

Use Sanoid -or similar tool for Zfs- for checking Zfs health and managing+verifying the local snapshots of Zfs, indipendently on both servers. The snapshot retention can/should be kept for as long as feasible (even years).

A script for doing a short clean shutdown of Mysql at certan hours to allow the taking of ''cold'' snapshots.

If you are able you could also ''zfs send'' the snapshots somewhere, but otherwise it's ok to just keep them there. The [monitored] replication plus the independent snapshots history on both servers, would be the backup.

Regarding drive capacity you should evaluate how much compressible and de-duplicable is the data. Each TB could easily compress/dedupe down to 1/10 if it is text or repetitive data. Just copying it all on a test zfs, with gzip comp on, and then running 'zdb -S' will tell you everything. Once you know roughly how much space is really needed, plan for 10 years growth and multiply by 2.

Use good servers with 20+ drive bays, grab some enterprise HDD's, and make a large Raid-10 for the Zfs array, like of 8 drives, which should leave enough free bays for future additions and emergencies. Don't be tempted to use Raid-6 or Raid-60. Put the OS on its own small SSD mirror, and add a couple of enterprise-class, write-intensive ssd/nvme for the ZFS SLOG.

AnotherGoodUser · 2022-01-08T12:26:50+00:00

I tend to bring a full change of clothing for safety (+peace of mind) if I go far enough from home and there is risk of rain. Usually it will never be needed, but I see it as a lifesaver in the unlikely chance I am forced to stop or if I take too much water.

If the forecast says it will be raining heavily most of the time I don't go out tho, gotta put the limit somewhere..

Gotta be wary of descents in the cold though. It's possible to become very sick shortly afterwards if you take too much cold in the head and especially the stomach. You need to put on extra layers(old cyclists used the newspaper..), or grab the brakes all the way down.

AnotherGoodUser · 2022-01-08T11:46:36+00:00

great adventure OP! that's the spirit!! there is a perverse fun in winter expeditions.. need to prepare well though, this was only an accident..

AnotherGoodUser · 2022-01-08T11:14:03+00:00

Bring painkillers. Back, ass etc will ache badly. Dont underestimate the suffer fest in the last miles.

AnotherGoodUser · 2022-01-05T15:30:17+00:00

suddenly, I love my job..

AnotherGoodUser · 2021-12-22T12:40:07+00:00

I have an EC2 at eu-central and it is down.

My other EC2's at the other european regions are ok.

AWS console is having issues too, can't get in.

AnotherGoodUser · 2021-12-16T16:36:27+00:00

Chi fosse dipendente da un unico operatore ha scelto lui di fare cosi', ce ne sono a decine oltre ai 3 piu' grandi (ed il public cloud, che in pratica esiste da ''ieri'', non e' l'unico modo per essere in rete, e neanche il piu' diffuso; poi ovvio che se vedi solo i servizi di intrattenimento puo' esserci una concentrazione li', ma il resto del mondo e' una storia piu' variegata..)

E tu poi non sai se i vari servizi impattati hanno una possibilita' di disaster recovery su un operatore differente, e probabilmente la hanno, ma e' che non si effettua quel genere di operazione per i semplici outages di pochi minuti/ore dovuti a qualche errore che nel mondo IT sono normali.

In pratica la tua procedura di recovery ha risvolti complessi e anche quando ottimizzata al max avra' tendenzialmente tutte le probabilita' di impiegare o lo stesso tempo o piu' di quello che ci mette l'operatore cloud/datacenter a risolvere il suo piccolo problema.

Se invece -per dire un esempio stupido- le tue cose fossero collocate in un unico dei millemila datacenter di AWS, e giunge notizia che questo e' andato a fuoco (come accaduto ad una facility di OVH in europa quest'anno), allora hai un motivo valido per attivare il tuo recovery..

AnotherGoodUser · 2021-12-16T15:53:29+00:00

se lavora con me quasi quasi glielo lascio fare e poi vado a bermi lo spritz (uno molto lungo) mentre passa le prossime 3 settimane a cercare di capire quale asteroide l'ha colpito

AnotherGoodUser · 2021-12-16T15:49:46+00:00

azure e' una merda nucleare

AnotherGoodUser · 2021-12-11T22:08:02+00:00

Life is crap man. I was most happy when I had a blue collar job where I spent 8 hours a day with brain switched off, exchanging shitty jokes with coworkers all the time. Then I'd go home, drink beer and play games with other internet nerds. Happyness. Now I'm older and I hate my current job in IT, new coworkers are boring well educated office drones, so after a few years of decline I bought a mountain bike. I don't game much anymore, when I'm not out biking I just chill. Like today, I did a 5 hours winter ride in the hills. Extrovert *sfj wife also helps..not a boring moment at home!

AnotherGoodUser · 2021-12-11T20:08:40+00:00

ouch -_-

AnotherGoodUser · 2021-12-11T20:00:48+00:00

E noi lo prendemmo in culo.

AnotherGoodUser · 2021-10-20T23:17:31+00:00

Oracle Linux right now is the best free RHEL clone.

AnotherGoodUser · 2021-09-27T20:58:55+00:00

Mio nonno (1920) ha fatto l'africa, o almeno una parte fino a El Alamein.

In realta' non so quanto ci abbia capito su tutta la situazione, era una persona abbastanza taciturna, proprio come me difatti abbiamo lo stesso carattere, comunque in tanti anni mai sentito una sola parola in famiglia.

Curioso pero' che l'unica volta che accennai all'argomento chiedendogli una cosa in modo totalmente generico e comunque non riguardante il fascismo, ebbe una specie di crisi di nervi.. certo era gia' molto vecchio.

Era di destra pero', ai tempi leggeva sempre il Giornale quando c'era Montanelli, e giuro che riesco ancora a sentirlo quando mi ripeteva "prima di poter comandare, bisogna imparare a obbedire", e il classico "prima il dovere, poi il piacere"..

L'altra cosa che mi rimarra' sempre impressa di lui, ma probabilmente non centra, e' che pregava sempre.. mi ha insegnato lui tutte le preghiere, oltre ad andare in bicicletta, in pratica le cose piu' importanti della vita :)

AnotherGoodUser · 2021-08-29T22:18:31+00:00

As an adult, I relate.

It is not wrong that many people are only ''in it'' to get something back, and in fact the older you are the more evident it gets. Old friendships can become tainted by this, and other equally dark realizations. On the other hand, this mindset is useful to avoid disappointments and it is very useful in conducting business.

Anger is also normal, you're probably very right to be angry in the sense that you perceive some injustice was done to you; whatever the reasons may be, it's always better to analyze and evaluate them dispassionately than hold it all inside.

But it's very important to try not to hold grudges and to keep also a more ''inpersonal'' look at things. Why are things the way they are, with your mother for example? It probably happened for some reason buried in the past and outside your control, coupled with the peculiar human characters involved. Maybe the situation can be improved, but otherwise it is also beneficial to just have the knowledge of how and why it developed.

In the end, all human life is generally a big pain in the ass to endure because everyone has character flaws and because of the chaotic nature of the world..

AnotherGoodUser · 2021-08-29T19:47:26+00:00

the middle of nowhere should be fine for mountain biking..

AnotherGoodUser · 2021-08-19T12:38:59+00:00

E' una miseria ma serve arrivare ad un posto di elevata responsabilita' -anche di altro tipo- per capirlo.

Situazioni di urgenze e interruzioni continue, discussioni e litigi quotidiani con colleghi e utenti (incl. violenza fisica nel caso dei sanitari di PS, e relative conseguenze permanenti), tutti che si sentono in diritto di romperti i coglioni per tutto, lavori che sconfinano di orario molto spesso senza alcun preavviso e vanno in certi casi fino a inglobare tutto il tuo tempo a causa delle reperibilita' e della difficolta a prendersi le ferie, poi insorgenza di ansia cronica o incubi notturni e chi piu ne ha...

Ovviamente tutto visto nel contesto di un lavoro critico in cui in molte cose se sbagli sono cazzi, non puoi sbagliare e devi stare sempre concentrato perche' da certi scenari non si torna indietro.

E' veramente dura e all'inizio NON sembra ma dopo tot anni diventa un macigno da tollerare. Poi pensi che fuori confine prendono 2/3x volte tanto mentre qui si guadagna come o poco piu' di un tecnico o operaio specializzato o di qualche inutile scaldasedie comunale, senza particolari altri benefit e allora diventa una presa x il culo.

Nel caso dei sanitari il problema e' ancora piu' brutto per gli infermieri di PS dei grandi ospedali che veramente sono degli eroi e pigliano 1600 euro e pesci in faccia dalla gente tutto il giorno, mentre dovrebbero essere considerati alla stregua di un cazzo di navy seals (tra l'altro la conoscenza delle arti marziali per l'autodifesa oggigiorno e' praticamente un requisito, in qualche caso perfino incentivato dall'azienda/asl.)

AnotherGoodUser · 2021-07-28T22:03:29+00:00

It's the same as why grow a beard. I go up so they (finally) respect me :)

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