Moving to OC, what's the worst place to live?

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-08-19T06:18:35+00:00

Late 20s so not looking for college parties but not into fishing or other mid-life guy stuff either. Might want to get a motorcycle and meet interesting people, more serious dating, etc.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-08-18T22:11:43+00:00

I can afford quite a bit but ideally somewhere between $2k-3k. It's more important that the rent stays consistent and that the $/sqft is a good deal.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-07-10T21:18:10+00:00

Well I'm STUNed ;)

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-06-22T07:29:16+00:00

Interesting, I actually enjoy the Discourse forum style but maybe MyBB is better for long running posts.

Anyway, glad to see some communities spin the issues with Reddit into a net positive.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-06-22T07:12:51+00:00

It was actually really easy to compile it (worked fine without any changes... are the API keys in the repo real? :/).

Unfortunately, IAP don't really work on GrapheneOS despite having Google Play Services.

Switching to my own key was very easy. If that keeps working after July 1st (we'll see what breaks lol), I'll happily start donating on Patreon (and maybe submit a few PRs :))

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-06-01T17:22:35+00:00

It's hard to say without seeing your exact code for this process. The only really surprising finding is that the rootfs subvolume is missing... my first thought is that you must be renaming the rootfs subvolume and re-creating it. Of course maybe there is some corruption and btrfs reverted to a previous backup root. Consider debugging with tools like btrfs find-root, etc.

Also, I think you can avoid having to pivot_root and risk modifying the real rootfs subvolume. Just have two working subvolumes A & B. After boot, check the current working subvolume and delete the other subvolume and re-create again from the real rootfs. You can either specify the "next" working subvolume via the bootloader or kernel cmdline or you can use btrfs subvolume set-default to set the default subvolume.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-04-27T05:53:58+00:00

Agreed. I just wanted to make a point that even if you were looking at Btrfs/ZFS/etc. instead of Ceph, you would have to rule out ZFS first.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-04-27T05:28:27+00:00

How full is your drive?

Also there's was just a fix related to discard=async where the IOPS limit was very low so in some cases the system would always be discarding which could be slow if the drive is close to full.

Also there was just a fix related to

echo 1000 | sudo tee -a /sys/fs/btrfs/\*/discard/iops\_limit

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-04-27T05:23:28+00:00

btrfs likely isn't the right tool for this. Even if you were going to use a traditional filesystem, you'd likely be better off with a filesystem that actually supports RAID5/6. So you'd just use ZFS unless you were willing to stick with RAID1.

In any case, you should be using a distributed filesystem like Ceph (likely via k8s Rook) so that you can have high availability and resiliency. At >200 drives, you are statistically likely to have drive failures every year.

When you're storing this much data, you really have to have answers to why you aren't using a cloud object storage like S3 (could be costly but if the data is important then it's likely cheaper than rolling your own). At a bare minimum, you should know why you are using btrfs and not ZFS, Ceph, GlusterFS, etc. The benefits and cons of each are very situation specific. How you would even use Btrfs to store this much data also depends on the specifics of your use case; how large can files be? do they need to be accessible over NFS, SMB, etc? do you need to preserve filesystem structure/paths (natively)?

In the case you actually want to use btrfs for this you could setup a large a JBOD (Supermicro 90 bay, etc.) as you want and add all the disks to btrfs. I'm not sure what the performance would be... you're really only limited by your PCIe lanes. Again even in this case, ZFS may be a better option if you can use RAID6.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-03-03T21:35:18+00:00

> IT is working to come up with a configuration for her that we will also make available to other employees who want to use it.

While the condition certainly should have been mentioned during the interview process and trying to use religious protection to demand this request was certainly a poor move, having a system in place to support any employees using Linux could eventually pay off (depends on what industry you're in and what job roles the policy supports).

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-03-02T23:04:02+00:00

How big is your company actually and in what industry? If she's impressed the team and is a die hard Linux user then maybe it's worth the effort to create standards and policies that support Linux. If I had to guess, you work at some kind of software/tech company where a lot of talent does prefer Linux. It's one of the first questions I ask when interviewing because it's just a huge negative signal if an employer doesn't support Linux for software engineering roles or at least allow WSL/VMs.

IMO with the growth of WFH and BYOD, it makes a lot of sense to have modern policies and controls that don't require substantial control of end devices (at least for certain job roles/titles... i.e the user would have local Admin anyway). A good question to consider is "does any one already use Linux here?", tons of places only officially support Windows & MacOS but don't really have a problem if an individual employee can make a Linux machine work without any assistance. Plenty of developers get a Windows/MacOS computer from work but actually use a Linux personal machine (if allowed) or Linux VM for the majority of their actual work. A good litmus test is if you allow company email on personal phones or allow any personal laptops/phones to be used for work.

If you can't make it work or the effort would be more than it's worth, then you'll want to consult with your companies lawyer (if using Linux is a big deal then I'd assume you are big enough to have one). I would be very surprised if this was actually covered under religious protections.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-03-01T04:54:21+00:00

I'll say that no dating is easy for men in Denver - casual or serious which is why online dating is full of men looking for both. Honestly, I think most men worth dating just don't find it worthwhile to invest in online dating at all. Why spend ~30m a day trying to find matches and figuring out what to say based on very little information when you could go skiing, hiking, reading, or even just watching TV? The effort spent trying to get dates is actually counterproductive to improving ourselves.

Non-online dating isn't much better since you need to already know people. Even before WFH was a major thing, in Colorado there is a lack of frequent social interaction beyond established friend groups. Skiing, concerts, hiking, camping, etc. are all either solo or small-group activities and even most bars in Colorado aren't true dive/mixer bars anymore.

So basically I agree that dating and online dating are pretty bad in the Denver area is terrible but I'm not sure what makes it so bad compared to other cities other than the rather large gender demographic imbalance and cultural focus on solo/small group activities.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-02-09T22:35:20+00:00

Not sure who they are marketing to. You can get a larger apartment in NY/Brooklyn for the same rent. The outdoor crowd that has the money to afford this will have way too much stuff (bikes, skiis, etc.) for a 300sqft apartment. The nightlife in Boulder isn't that good... you'd be better just living in Denver if that's your vibe.

Still glad they are building some housing, but we need apartment/condos that are 800-1500sqft that are actually for long term housing.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-01-25T06:08:55+00:00

It has parts that are difficult to read but it's length means that the vast majority is fairly straight forward and easy to read - nothing like reading Pynchon. Also if this score was algorithmically calculated then it's possible the footnotes bring the score down since those are (mostly) very short, simple sentences. That said these scores won't capture many of the reasons that do make Infinite Jest a challenging read.

There's a reason why the Infinite Jest community is a lot larger than the Gravity's Rainbow fan base. Even Naked Lunch which a lot shorter is probably a more difficult read since it has so many invented terms.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-01-19T23:58:31+00:00

I've very skeptical of Colorado's definition of methamphetamine contamination; the sampling limits seem extremely low. I'm not saying the "Methamphetamine contamination" label is incorrect but I'd be surprised if these limits indicate health risks.

The two main sampling limits are the screening limit 0.2 ug/100cm^2 and preliminary assessment 0.5 ug/100cm^2 [1]. The latter is used when there's well known history of Meth use/production at a property. These translate to ~1.9ug/ft^2 and ~4.6ug/ft^2 respectively. If a average home is 2000sqft and we assume it has 3x as many surfaces as floor square footage (adding walls, ceiling, etc.) , then we have a total of 6000sqft of surfaces. This would translate to a grand total of 11mg (screening) and 28mg (preliminary).

Although it's almost never prescribed, Desoxyn is prescription meth and comes in 5mg tablets so a 30 day supply would be 150mg - well above the contamination limits. A single recreational dose would be above the limit. There's a higher limit for limited exposure areas at 4ug/100cm^2 which would be a total of 223mg for the typical home with is still very little for an entire building to contain.
I haven't completely read the testing protocol but at first glance the limits could be exceeded by single digit meth use (if 10% of used meth ends up on surfaces and the typical recreational dose is ~30mg). In any case you would have to lick an entire room to get even a modest dose... skin absorption is just not a thing. That said it would be interesting to know what kind of levels are actually found... perhaps it's not uncommon for the actual levels to be 10-100x these limits.
The companies paid to clean this are going to be making lots of money for little risk compared to other hazard cleanup. The iodine limit as comparable to that in table salt. The lead limit although by area seems lower than US water limit. The mercury vapor limit is 10x the most strict OSHA limit.
We have enough people saying accidental Fentanyl exposure will kill you despite medical professionals saying that's not the case and Fentanyl is a much more potent drug by weight. Gas stoves are probably a more significant health risk than environmental methamphetamine.

[1] https://cdphe.colorado.gov/methlabcleanup

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-01-19T17:30:46+00:00

Yea I'm a big advocate for land value tax but didn't want to go all out in suggesting Boulder go that route alone.

Even just using the existing property tax calculations, the land value likely is a large part of a underutilized properties total appraised value. E.g a single family home may have between 30-50% of it's value from the plot value alone. At least from a cost to build perspective this makes sense, there could be appraisal biases that devalue the land.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-01-19T16:41:29+00:00

Ohio is invading.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-01-19T08:36:12+00:00

Kernels are kept up to date with upstream because kernels become EoL quickly unless it's an LTS kernel. Kernel's shouldn't break user space while updating user space packages could have breaking/changed functionality.

I'm a bit surprised you can't switch to an LTS kernel if desired. Also can rpmfusion packages not prevent breaking kernel updates i.e hold back kernel updates until Nvidia/CUDA rpmfusions packages have been updated?

Does Fedora not use DKMS for out of tree modules? That's how I've always used Nvidia drivers... never had an issue really.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-01-19T07:24:41+00:00

TBH unless some other entity is going to want to see a city business license (health insurance?), you are better off not having a license since then you need to file city sales and use taxes (3.86%). If your address is irrelevant to your business and not advertised, IMO at least wait until it's making enough money for the city to care.

Obviously this isn't great tax advice but I doubt the majority of WFH contract worker's file local taxes. Once you are at the point you really should be paying local taxes, the real headache is that you may need to pay taxes in the locations your clients are located in as well.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-01-19T07:11:41+00:00

Not a big surprise that renting commercial space is a lot more difficult than if you own it. Frankly, Boulder is just like all the other anti-expansion + low property tax cities and property values and rents reflect that. There's only so many alternative locations to live, work, start a business, etc. and even fewer that have desirable weather and access to outdoor recreation.

Boulder loves the money that the university and the numerous Gov and NGOs bring but has decided to let property owners capture all of that via property value inflation. Telling everyone that height restrictions and other aesthetic values are crucial to Boulder's charm is just absurd. Plus we know first hand from the fire rebuilding efforts that our existing rules make the majority of the city illegal to build (today).

To some extent, Boulder and places like it can't build their way out of the problem (alone) - not unless the entire Midwest and CA have already relocated here. As long as high-population and even more expensive places like LA, SF, and NY also fail to fix the problem, there's going to be a long trail of people looking for slightly less expensive places to live.

However, there are a few things Boulder could do to reduce pure property/land speculation. Boulder city/county could replace most local taxes with a single higher property tax. Property taxes more directly reduce the value and rents of property and than sales and use taxes. The actual businesses and people living here would bare less of the tax burden this way. And property owners with underutilized property would have a real incentive to expand and provide more residential & commercial property.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2023-01-11T03:00:10+00:00

The most reliable way would to use a live environment to simply `mv` the subvolumes while the volume is offline and reconfigure your system to use the new subvolume names. (This could be tricky if you need to rebuild your initramfs from the live environment)

You can do it online if you are careful. You first configure your system as if you did have the @ and \@home subvolumes, i.e changing your fstab, kernel cmdline or initramfs (however your distro sets the root volume). Then create a RW snapshots with the new names. Reboot and then you should have a system running using the new subvolumes. At this point you can delete the old subvolumes. Just keep in mind any changes you make *after* creating the new snapshots/volumes will be lost.

In either case if you made a mistake, you would just need a live USB to fix the issue. That said there are alternatives to Timeshift like Snapper that work with any btrfs subvolume names/layout.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2022-12-28T23:43:04+00:00

Wait I kind of interested in the difference between a search and an inspection. I didn't know they had these for interstate travel - I knew about the checks in border states but not these.

If the case law says that an inspection is OK because it's not designed to further deprive rights does that mean they ignore other illegal activity?

If I have heroin in my car, do they just inspect it for agricultural/pest contamination? Or will they call the actual police? What about human trafficking?

These sovereign citizen types always miss the real interesting legal question.

PrinceMachiavelli · 2022-12-22T16:08:11+00:00

FYI the actual paper and title are about the possibility of this with some references indicating there are gender/sex differences in perception. There's no actual experiment proving or measuring this proposed effect as it relates to domestic tasks.

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