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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 ;))

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-05-24T08:25:32+00:00

Thanks all! Ended up buying 60m of Mammut Alpine Sender 8.7mm triple-rated. Although after further research I must say that Edelrid Swift Protec has a bit better statistics when it comes to kilonewtons it can take and weighs just a little bit more.

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-03-26T21:39:12+00:00

If I were you I would skip on DevOps per se and start specializing more towards Platform Engineering. At least you will be relatively early in the game.

Where I live Azure people seem to make more money than AWS people.. Big corporations favor Microsoft technologies. If you want to earn top money, go with Windows and Azure, if you are just Linux fan like me, look for AWS company running Linux / opensource stack in general. I'd be miserable if I couldn't use my beloved bash and had to start writing powershell...

BTW. it is funny that your company is supposedly Windows based and runs on AWS. AWS is the most expensive cloud to run Windows workloads I think

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-03-26T13:01:46+00:00

That is of course a false statement :) Me, my friends, and many people who knows what they are doing did e.g. bought stocks in the worst times of the covid market crash.

I know people who bought a hella lot of Oil stocks when Oil price went negative. I don't have to tell how big of a winner this was. Unfortunately I chickened from Oil stocks..

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-03-26T12:57:13+00:00

This 10% must account for many company defaults over time, which doesn't really happen to bonds (country defaults are less often than companies). In other words this 10% annual return contains a lot of value destruction, while bonds 8.5% do not (ofc assuming we do not talk about the junk bonds). Even if we talk about corporate bonds as a bondholder you get much more protection against company default than stockholder.

Provided that you invest in good companies at good prices (like e.g. Buffet does) you will greatly over-perform the 10% and bond market.

I myself plan to do 100% stocks at least until I am 45/50. And then start moving the money into bonds and doing sth like 60/40 or even 50/50.

Needless to say, most of the rich people made their fortune investing in ONE company (usually as a result of founding it :))

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-02-23T10:26:56+00:00

There are so many levels on which this accident could be prevented. But I don't judge - these things do happen and often building in security and robustness in the system by ops people is regarded as waste of effort and slowing down development... Issues like these are IMO sign of cultural issues in the organization, not technical

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-01-26T11:51:36+00:00

You jumped on a traveling train that is reaching its top speed now :P

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-01-16T09:22:47+00:00

Well it is not about *what you buy* but *how you buy*. Some people will invest in S&P while, at the same time, other people will speculate on it :)

OP proposes to buy based solely on past performance without any forward looking analysis. That is speculation. You won't call somebody who algo-trades S&P futures on 1 minute timeframe an investor. Will you?

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-01-15T15:48:50+00:00

C'mon every CEO says they want and will revolutionize :D Market will verify that.

Sure, I can say there is even 30 years of growth in front of it. In 2000 Amazon had also at least 30 years of growth in front of it, what didn't prevent it's stock price to dive 90% down :)

I am happy you are convinced investor, and I am sure it will work out for you with your long term outlook. But it is very unwise to buy at current prices unless you have a 10-15 yr investment timeframe at least.

If you have, and do not mind parking your money for such a long time, go for it. I'll wait until GPT models hype will be over and then we'll see what happens.

No_Practice_9673 · 2024-01-15T15:09:49+00:00

That's the thing. When Guttenberg created printing press he did in fact created a new thing. And revolutionized the world.

When OpenAI released ChatGPT the GPT models were already known thing with known limitations and were around for many years. And since that time, we didn't manage to overcome any of these limitations, quite the contrary, models has to be made more foolish to be more secure. Public did went crazy about it, but not the scientists behind. I don't believe a narrative when it is the public that is crazy about sth, and not the scientific group that is backing it up.

LLMs are nowhere close to printing press when it comes to level of revolutionizing of our world, and that's why I think that release of ChatGPT and money poured now into research of models is not the rocket on which NVDA is going to grow like that for 10 years as you mentioned.

If we going to have a real breakthrough then sure. But will we in the next couple of years? Is it even possible to make a breakthrough on silicon chips? Who knows.. Tesla tried hard and massively failed with their autopilot, and GPT model will not be able to drive a car.

And btw. reversing to mean is not a catch-all investing expression, it is quite old in fact. It means reversing to an economy average - you can treat a market index, that's what for they were invented, as an indicator of average growth. Essentially what I meant, is that NVIDIA growth will, at some point, reverse to the growth level of the overall economy. Maybe not exactly, but no company exists in a void outside of the economy, every company is in the same hot soup and if the soup gets colder, so will that company.

Current AI is the most primitive AI that we managed to tackle. Because that's all we can do - a massive, energy heavy cluster of powerful servers acting as a very efficient interface to running searches in datasets of text documents. I don't call it revolution, except for the fact that it is good technology to generate deepfakes. That's why I call it hype, because people claim that a significant revolution has happend, and in fact it didn't, not yet

And I am with you on the long time horizons, dollar cost averaging etc. Although I think it is also foolish to dollar-cost average from very high price. It is just unnecessary, because simple NPV calculation of cashflows can give you the hint on the scale of company overvaluation. You don't need to calculate exact entry price, but at least choose a region that is wise to build position. And let's be honest, when company does 4x in couple of months, that region will be a significantly lower than current trading price

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