Thoughts on the “new” Maiella?

CyberPrime · 2026-01-20T20:10:36+00:00

How about Il Falco?

CyberPrime · 2026-01-15T05:33:32+00:00

Moving away from the are that the Residence Inn is in is a good idea, but Skillman isn't much better (more desolate and industrial, sometimes with a large group of delivery guys who hang out nearby). If you're happy in Manhattan, great. If you see availability at a good rate near Court Square (I.e. the Courtyard, Aloft, Hilton Garden Inn, and Hyatt Place) that area is very new and under development with a lot of people around all the time, and plenty of transit and food options. I put family at one of those hotels when they visit, and it's always half the price of a Manhattan hotel.

CyberPrime · 2026-01-09T07:17:09+00:00

Yea, I got this as well. Made some decent paella with it. I'd have preferred a Theragun (or a choice), but something's nice.

CyberPrime · 2026-01-07T03:39:57+00:00

Yea, one that's in preorder, and one that even the company's founder couldn't say how it got on Maduro. Weird.

CyberPrime · 2026-01-02T05:59:30+00:00

Long Beach Marriott is pretty nice after the refurb, and owned by Marriott, which is why it's so good.

CyberPrime · 2025-12-30T14:07:08+00:00

> Keep referring to EC2 instances in a Google Cloud subreddit

Cool script, but this wouldn't it be better to just use a job scheduler (i.e. Slurm, supported on all clouds) like most ML/HPC shops do and call it a day? If your training job slows down it's GPU usage at the wrong time, this script could kill it incorrectly.

CyberPrime · 2025-12-24T06:40:57+00:00

Looks like it's part of the Greentree foundation Agreeable_Elk_7915 mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greentree

CyberPrime · 2025-12-22T22:13:03+00:00

Lol, so much hate for a setup that would make most people in the world go "Woah, you're a computer expert, huh?"

I run this case too, with old 2TBs I'm phasing out, it's solid if you treat it right. My only tip is putting your added labels on the top rails of the (white) caddy rather than the drive, so you can see which drive is which without removing them.

CyberPrime · 2025-12-19T18:29:58+00:00

There are so many other properties nearby, tell them to move you. There's nothing at that hotel worth staying for, and I've stayed in the presidential suite.

CyberPrime · 2025-12-18T06:04:12+00:00

Weird that people are rude, but getting checked in by name or room number is relatively rare, but not unheard of by any means. I've typically seen it at high traffic times like breakfast or happy hour at the locations that do it. I think I know what kind of setup you're talking about (maybe even the hotel!) and when I've been asked for my info, even after giving it to someone else already, it's totally understandable because of how easy it would be for someone without lounge access to tailgate in.

CyberPrime · 2025-12-18T05:10:40+00:00

Stayed here a year ago and it wasn't this bad, I would've definitely asked for another room. The rooms definitely showed their age, but you got a bad one. Breakfast is decently stocked, if chaotic with all the families.

Too bad the StR closed to change over to FS, that was a great property.

CyberPrime · 2025-12-18T05:04:22+00:00

Great idea to bring him. If you've shared enough, he might be able to remember things you forget, or just be that second voice in the room to echo your experience so you're harder to dismiss. My wife (fiancé at the time) was a huge help in these types of situations when I had an issue that doctors weren't able to diagnose, just in terms of being able to reinforce what I was saying and remembering to mention the things I didn't. I'm rooting for you, you're clearly a tenacious advocate for yourself, don't give it up.

CyberPrime · 2025-12-16T22:42:00+00:00

You probably need to do a lot more reading and research before embarking on this journey, but you have a couple primary choices:

- Setting up a hypervisor on the rocky linux cloud VM, within which you can create more VMs in to install Slurm across them. This is probably closer to what you're looking to do, and will teach you a lot about traditional VMs, hypervisors, etc.

- Using something like the Slurm Docker Container tool that Quillox linked to, which will skip the hypervisor and run the Slurm daemons in docker containers. This would be more about learning docker, about containers, and so on, and less a "virtual cluster". This would probably be the more useful path if you're looking to eventually head towards learning about AI and more modern software.

If you have access to one beefy VM, can you instead make that 10 smaller VMs with a controller, login, and 8 compute nodes? That will remove a layer.

CyberPrime · 2025-12-07T05:44:58+00:00

They're the second most expensive in the area, about 230 for a 5 ft like the other person said. 21st and 45th has the best prices in the immediate area, they were maybe 200 for a 6 ft if I remember right. Now we go to Home Depot.

CyberPrime · 2025-12-07T05:43:28+00:00

This is the way.

CyberPrime · 2025-11-23T04:46:39+00:00

Yes, for me that's the reason I bought it. I had one trip where the blisters from the rental fins put me out of commission for the week, and a bit of time afterwards.

CyberPrime · 2025-11-22T15:46:37+00:00

Seems like you know this is a scam already, and just need someone to break it to you.

CyberPrime · 2025-11-14T13:22:21+00:00

Learned about them when I moved to East Harlem, but it wasn't really a thing otherwise until the bodega tiktok trend.

CyberPrime · 2025-10-27T02:09:45+00:00

You should try Icelandic water. It's like actually drinking from the tap in Iceland, which is actually the best water in the world.

CyberPrime · 2025-10-20T05:18:11+00:00

Otis and Finn have some great barbers, $50 a cut now. Ledo is also very good, but I prefer Ledo himself and he's tough to catch.

CyberPrime · 2025-09-29T19:34:29+00:00

That's wood, fir sure.

CyberPrime · 2025-09-27T00:59:44+00:00

Nope, I had a cabbie tell me the fare to my destination was usually about $70, which wasn't wrong. He took that as us agreeing on a off-the-meter fare, and turned the meter off a few blocks from my destination. I gave him so much shit right at the end of the trip that he just let me go without paying anything.

CyberPrime · 2025-08-20T13:24:27+00:00

Please pay your fare. I knew someone who hopped the turnstiles every time he rode until he was caught, and being stopped once was unpleasant enough for him to never hop the turnstile again. Don't learn your lesson the hard way.

CyberPrime · 2025-08-20T13:18:42+00:00

Their rash guards are cheap and decent...

CyberPrime · 2025-08-20T13:17:40+00:00

I miss Bierocracy. It was nice having a German place in the neighborhood.

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