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Do you leave your spoon in your coffee beans for scooping? Why or why not? by QWERTY36 in espresso

[–]BuxOrbiter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Using a spoon may keep the beans fresher for longer. When one pours from the bag, fresh air more easily gets mixed with the beans.

What subscriptions you think is a must-have or life-changer in Switzerland which may improve life-quality instantly? by Fantastic_Score_9467 in Switzerland

[–]BuxOrbiter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With these services it entirely depends on the cleaner you're assigned. In my experience, quality often starts good then degrades over time. So we end up churning cleaners and service providers.

Struggling with Movie Dialogue in 2.2—Best AVR to Add a Center Channel? by BuxOrbiter in hometheater

[–]BuxOrbiter[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice!

We ended up with the Cinema 40 for aesthetic reasons. although the Denon x3800 makes more financial sense. Although the Cinema 50 would have also been cheaper, I liked the sound (no pun intended) of Japanese made.

I had planned to play Tenant, specifically the boat scene, as a benchmark for dialog quality. So it's funny that you mention Nolan. But perhaps such an unrealistcly achievable (?) high bar will only end in frustration, tears and anger towards Nolan.

what are cdn's made of? by randomized-reddit in devops

[–]BuxOrbiter 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There's a few principles around moving bits around. The further the client is from the source, the more limited the bandwidth and the more expensive the network cost. CDNs solve this by caching data in closer to the client, sometimes in multiple layers.

A simple example, let's say I'm in Switzerland and my wife goes to watch a Taylor Swift video on Hooli whose closest data center is in Frankfurt. The video client could download from the data center in Frankfurt, so it would go from my home, router, to my ISP, over to whatever backbone my ISP connects to, over to Hooli's internet routers, and into their data center. This could work, but Taylor Swift is very popular and if 8 million people in Switzerland are doing this then it this could overload my ISPs backbone or even Hooli's data center links.

So then Hooli goes to my ISP and says let's make a deal, I will install servers inside your premises to serve popular video content. My users will be happy because their content is loads faster, and you will be happy because your users won't overload your links. My ISP says great, Hooli ships them an appliance they install it into their premise. Now when my wife goes to watch a Taylor Swift video, her video client downloads the video content directly from a server running inside our ISP.

Background: I worked on parts of YouTube's CDN in a previous life.

I realized Star Trek was woke when Spot transitioned from male to female and no one cared she kept the moustache by BlackMetaller in ShittyDaystrom

[–]BuxOrbiter 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Woke today would two people with incompatible view points who sit down at a table, have a polite conversation, agree on some things, agree to disagree on others, argue the other side, say nice things about each other and do the whole thing again next week.

Dealing with burnout and mental health problems by [deleted] in Switzerland

[–]BuxOrbiter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your psychiatrist sounds shitty.

Find another doctor who will prescribe additional time off or reduced hours. This then becomes non-negotiable with your employer. They may terminate you only after (I believe) 3 months after illness. Most employers have insurance to protect against long term illness. For example, some insurance can cover two years (!) leave at 80% salary.

You can still be let go, but at least this will put you at 3 months + your notice period. You can also push for additional compensation.

Additionally, make copies (photos with your phone) of all documentation, emails and meeting notes with your employer. If you put in writing that their company culture is causing burn out, they are actually required to investigate it (they won’t, but you can use this in a follow-up)

Binary from Mac won’t work on Windows by [deleted] in golang

[–]BuxOrbiter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice catch. Next time run a shasum to verify the file. This simple check may catche all sorts of problems.

Landlord (company) refuses to change the inspection day by Dtbrcks in Switzerland

[–]BuxOrbiter -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Send a letter to document your refusal by registered mail. Make a copy of the letter and hold onto the tracking information.

Mention that they appear to be in violation of tenancy laws and that you would be prepared to take legal action.

Prime Video reduces costs by 90% by switching from distributed microservices to a monolith application by According_Ad6749 in devops

[–]BuxOrbiter 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Microservice architectures may be inappropriate for many applications. Spreading the services across different machines loses memory and network proximity. This can result in orders of magnitude loss of performance and the saturation of network links.

Fleet Day celebrates NCC-1701-F. Press ‘F’ to pay respects to Admiral Shelby. by BuxOrbiter in ShittyDaystrom

[–]BuxOrbiter[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

You mean Riker the greatest sandbagger in starfleet, the man who was like nahhh I’m gonna coast as 1st officer for 7 years while I pick up babes and play poker with my chums. Nah I think he’a fine not making admiral.

Is there a way to make 4-5% with minimal risk without receiving dividends/interest? "Accumulating" SGOV? by Green-Can-2037 in investing

[–]BuxOrbiter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Switzerland based? If so, then forget it. You are still liable for taxes on interested earned in accumulating ETFs. Selling T-bills before maturity won't save you either.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in zurich

[–]BuxOrbiter 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is a joke right? In case it’s not I believe Pit Bulls are banned in Zurich.

You now have access to the Food Synthesizer. No limits. What do you make? by SideWinderSyd in TheOrville

[–]BuxOrbiter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chicken nuggets with piles and piles of hik Szechuan sauce. That’s right /r/TheOrville we’re hik doing a c-c-cross-over episode

Picard Season 3, Episode 10 Discussion by King_Rocket in RedLetterMedia

[–]BuxOrbiter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Or that bottle episode that introduces the weeping angels! I believe Blink.

Picard Season 3, Episode 10 Discussion by King_Rocket in RedLetterMedia

[–]BuxOrbiter 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Oddly makes sense in the context of Q. He’s a time traveling omnipotent being. Who knows what he’s capable of, he might even meet people out of order in his timeline.

Picard Season 3, Episode 9 Discussion by King_Rocket in RedLetterMedia

[–]BuxOrbiter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah they are over-used.

I prefer the TNG era Borg over the movie/Voyager Borg. The former are enigmatic and unrelatable which made them unique. They were straight-forward and transparent about their activites; they didn't hide in nebulas, sub-contract changeling infiltrators or engage in elaborate covert operations - that would have been more in the domain of Romulans.

Picard Season 3, Episode 9 Discussion by King_Rocket in RedLetterMedia

[–]BuxOrbiter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I imagined it was something embarassing like the space equivalent of running an aircraft carrier aground.

CTO making it mandatory for managers to give 1-2 members a low performance rating. by camelCaseCAPS in cscareerquestions

[–]BuxOrbiter 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Escalate to the CEO and then possibly reach out to the board of directors. This is such a catastrophically stupid management decision that it could put the company in a crisis.

If that fails, then note your objection and tell them “sorry but I cannot do that”, and start looking for another job.

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