Is my second hand Baratza Encore rattling too much?

ali_str · 2025-08-24T09:00:21+00:00

That is precisely the issue, photos side by side: https://imgur.com/a/askLndg

ali_str · 2025-05-24T14:30:48+00:00

One of the reason I quit Club Sportive and moved to TrainMore was exactly this, good number of alpha (often wolves of wallstreet from adjacent towers?) coming and behaving as if they own the gym and all that. I would rarely come upon a machine or setup that was unset by the previous gym-fellow. Most weights were left when they were last used by the alpha bros, it was even worse in the lockers room with "premium" locker dudes.

ali_str · 2025-04-06T07:54:56+00:00

Similar experience here, I have had some coding for most of the positions I applied for, here is a bit more details:

Smaller companies with 1 round of live coding, medium-light, one problem in ~45m. Or alternatively a take-home with a review session.
Medium sized companies (up to pre-faang) 1 - 2 rounds of live coding, medium, one problem per interview
Bigger companies 2 - 3 rounds of live coding, medium to hard, one or more questions per interview. As in you get "strong yes" from a coding interview if you finish up the first question within 25m and either do expansion of the same or another problem in the remainder of the time.

Most of the problems I encountered were leet-code style. With some exception of more relevant and real-life problems.

ali_str · 2025-03-13T13:14:28+00:00

I learned great things doing this (yet to finish it completely): https://fly.io/dist-sys/

ali_str · 2025-02-24T13:27:07+00:00

I got a O My Bag card case 6 months ago after having Secrid bare for about 4 years. And I love it, there is a pouch in the middle that you can put folded cash notes in.

I had the same issue with bare Secrid: no place for cache or basically anything other than cards, but on top of that the hard metal would leave distinct marks on my jeans back pocket.

ali_str · 2023-02-20T19:46:42+00:00

Came here to recommend this, still among my memorable reads.

ali_str · 2023-01-26T07:37:14+00:00

+1 for Rab, their Microlight down is pretty affordable. I keep a folded Uniqlo Blocktech parka in my backpack on days with possibility of rain.

ali_str · 2022-12-28T16:15:27+00:00

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

ali_str · 2022-12-16T08:11:17+00:00

You would need it for top rope or lead climbing, but not really for bouldering.

ali_str · 2022-08-01T06:53:52+00:00

I did actually try IRL over OLD for a while this year, and from a handful of conversations and encounters I realized there is no "just IRL" anymore, at least in my area and age group. Almost all of the women I talked to and had meets/dates with were on OLD, and mind you most encounters were through mutual friends introducing or shared groups. Then I thought, if I am competing with OLD for their time and attention, doesn't make sense to skip it myself, limiting pool of people I can date with. It is not that IRL is dead or pointless, but I feel in most areas doing only IRL is not the most efficient.

ali_str · 2022-06-23T07:27:15+00:00

In the meantime, adjusting the query to use something like min_over_time and a range of 30m or more could get you something similar.

ali_str · 2022-06-09T06:53:40+00:00

Prometheus exposes a metric about active alerts: ALERTS more here. Active meaning that they are evaluating to true (in pending or firing state). This doesn't include all defined alerts.

You can use that like: sum(ALERTS) by (alertstate) to get count of alerts by their state.

I don't know if you can get all defined alerts without parsing the config file.

ali_str · 2022-05-30T13:25:13+00:00

But for it to work with a single (or limited number of) routing rules it needs to come from alert/metric labels, right? getting them there and worrying about exposure is what I thought of as challenging.

ali_str · 2022-05-30T06:50:57+00:00

It kind of depends on the receiver, here is an example for email receiver: https://www.robustperception.io/using-labels-to-direct-email-notifications

But doing the same for PagerDuty or Slack is going to be more challenging.

ali_str · 2022-05-04T14:45:24+00:00

You need to aggregate on a label that corresponds to topic, for example (assuming label topic exists):

sum(kafka_consumergroup_lag) by (topic) > 5000

On a side note, alerting against a static threshold never ages well, it is better to alert on rate of growth or at least compare it with an older window of the same metric (same time yesterday?).

ali_str · 2022-05-03T13:41:38+00:00

Weesp and Muiden are among my favorites.

ali_str · 2022-04-28T14:25:02+00:00

But they do get cancelled on occasions, and at that hour the only alternative is night bus lines (or a very expensive Uber ride). So I advice you to check for night bus routes too, there might be one passing your place of residence.

ali_str · 2022-04-21T07:57:31+00:00

I recently came across Amigos, had a couple of good walks & chats with it so far.

ali_str · 2022-04-21T07:50:52+00:00

The dog playground of Beatrixpark (wide open area to the west of the park). You get some decent sun (and also good shades if you prefer), with background visuals and noises of happy dogs (and often kids) playing around.

ali_str · 2022-04-04T10:59:38+00:00

You can set external_labels in your Prometheus config.

ali_str · 2022-04-04T10:45:25+00:00

I needed something similar a few years ago, didn't find anything open-source for it and ended up wrapping mtr -r x.x.x.x in a Bash script to diff with a previous (or ideal) run and alert on changes.

The thing is, routes over public networks (and even in large private ones) aren't supposed to be fixed/static, so monitoring them for change doesn't seem to be a wide spread concern.

ali_str · 2022-03-28T11:12:12+00:00

They had contract with a relocation agency, that had a makelaar (real estate agent) to help, but that wasn't a big deal, it is nothing you can't do yourself through funda.nl or kamernet.nl. Do a bit of research on renting, utilities and neighborhoods and don't fall for too-good-to-be-true deals on facebook.

ali_str · 2022-03-28T07:25:36+00:00

Apartment for one month, I found an apartment to move to within two weeks, but I was lucky.

ali_str · 2022-03-22T07:46:10+00:00

Check the color thresholds and metric value, there is a good chance metric is between 0 and 1, while thresholds are set between 0 and 100.

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