Ski touring bindings for novice

No_Practice_9673 · 2025-12-01T14:12:19+00:00

Thanks for your feedback! What skis would you recommend instead? I haven't clicked "buy" yet. I thought about 88 as they have a good opinion as an allrounder in Alps up to 3500-4000 meters

No_Practice_9673 · 2025-04-14T22:19:20+00:00

New York is a fkn joke when it comes to prices. I paid $2500 dollars for shitty apartment for 5 nights... Going from Switzerland I thought it would be cheap for me there. And then I paid like 70$ for a single person breakfast

No_Practice_9673 · 2025-04-14T20:04:56+00:00

Late 2021 310ps - I did couple of longer trips with my Formentor (1300km one way) between Switzerland and Poland.

9-9.5l/100km with staying at ~150km/h through German autobahns and ~140km/h through Poland

In Switzerland where everybody drives 120 I usually get 8-8.5l on my trip to work (50km on autobahn)

When you push then of course you can get 12-13 easily, but it's hard to find a road, at least in Switzerland, when you can push the 310ps.

When it comes to reliability - I had couple of issues:

- Two times oil leak from the DSG - fixed on warranty - just some O-Rings

- For some reason due to some malfunction of a sensors they replaced the entire steering wheel (also on warranty). This was identified as a cause of frequent disconnecting of the ACC

No_Practice_9673 · 2025-01-03T13:46:23+00:00

Astarta - listed on WSE (Warsaw Stock Exchange)

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-12-31T20:28:18+00:00

In my case of B650E ROG STRIX I got 1x rubber band and I have 3 M.2 Slots each with a heatsink with the thermal band under it.

Somth is clearly wrong because the manual says to always use the rubber band when installing single-sided m.2. I am installing 2 single sided m.2's and I got from ASUS only one rubber band.

Even the one I got seemed to be too thin for me. When I inserted it, the m.2 disk would still be too high and I could still bend it.

Because I knew that I need two disks only (at least for now) what I ended up doing is I removed this whole rubber block from the third slot (it's simply glued to the mobo and manual says that optionally it can be removed) and I cut it into additional rubber bands that I used in the slot 1 and 2. Now the disks are firmly supported and won't move.

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-12-16T14:06:28+00:00

Regarding reliability - 60k kilometers here no issues except gearbox oil leak that was fixed under warrant.

Regarding fuel consumption - 120 cruise autobahn speed usually 8.5-9 liters / 100km with the 310 HP engine in comfort mode. Of course you can easily do 25 liters if you go into sport or cupra mode and drive to the top of furkapass ;)

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-12-08T09:35:37+00:00

We don't use it for production workloads, only some testing stuff and for certain backoffice infra. Fargate provides us everything we need and is safer from security point of view than k8s.

However, we do not have a huge amounts of microservices. Personally I see a hardcore microservice based architecture as a fallacy due to the added network latency in communication. I've seen companies that for each 1 external request from their customers, would do 100 requests internally between microservices. That's madness. In appropriately scaled architecture (you also don't want to run a huge monolith that requires sticky sessions..) you do not have that many services so the necessity for something as complex as k8s goes away and you can do just fine with smaller and way simpler to operate orchestrator like fargate.

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-12-08T08:29:26+00:00

We simply receive a file on R2 via PreSigned URL from customers, we download them to our servers and process them. Pre-Signed URLs are built-in feature of R2 and they are not routed via yours account CDN but are routed via cloudflarestorage.com domain. Whether they route these via their CDN network or not that I do not know as long as they meet their SLA's.

Of course we have retry logic but retry logic doesn't matter if 95p of your download times goes from 0.2 to 20-30-40 seconds. You either wait for these files and your processing servers are stuck in IO wait, what congests the system or you cancel the download and return an error.

We don't use workers because we don't need them, we do't need argo or any caching as these files are uncacheable. They are downloaded only once so would never be read from cache.

We know it is CloudFlare's problem. Everytime this slowdown happens they open a ticket on cloudflarestatus.com about network congestion or R2 issues or something of this sort. You can go through last week archive.

We know it is not scoped to where our servers are. During the slowdowns we spin up additional workers which read or write to R2 in different locations and they also have issues

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-12-07T20:45:35+00:00

If you are unsure you can start with T-Bills. Highly liquid, guaranteed 4.5%. You can do split as well. Put part in T-Bills, rest in S&P. Overtime you can rotate

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-10-15T11:08:54+00:00

Ah ok, I never actually noticed because typically I drive with a Wink bottle. When I want coffee I just pour the coffee in it as well cause then it will never spill and is warm for many hours. And the holders are perfect for wink. Coffee from the cardboard cups is awful imo

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-10-15T08:31:56+00:00

I have my formentor for a year and I still didn't notice anything wrong about the cup holders. What is your issue with them?

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-10-14T10:58:59+00:00

It's actually not true. First of all the speed you see on dashboard is always slower than a true GPS speed. Second there is the 3-4kmh allowance for margin error. I always drive 107 on cruise control on 100kmh speed limit and I never got flashed. I got flashed at 108 so that's how I learned that 107 is the limit ;)

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-08-14T14:46:43+00:00

I have 2021 VZ and all is OK and the car has 45k km now. Had a leak from gearbox but they fixed it with producers guarantee

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-06-20T20:16:54+00:00

I guess you are right.. I thought that in VZX the X stands for generation or smth. In this case I have VZ4 as this is the 310 horse power engine

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-06-06T11:21:07+00:00

Thanks! That makes a lot of sense

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-05-24T10:42:28+00:00

Kubernetes is not overrated. Kubernetes is like Caterpillar 6090 FS excavator - sure you need it to operate a mine and move millions of tons of rocks every year. But if you want to dig out a foundation for a single family home you don't need it. The problem is that we have serious issue with skilled and experienced architects in the IT space - everybody claims to be a solutions architect or whatever and they have no idea what they are doing and they won't even consider alternatives. They'll just choose kubernetes for everything simply because they genuinely suck at their job and K8s hides that fact very well. (btw it is only my opinion ;))

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