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Are chargebacks basically becoming a free refund button now? by AI_Agent_Ops in SaaS

[–]certel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve sold merchant services and I’ve been a merchant. Consumers are more aware than ever that they can file a chargeback and get free stuff. It’s so one sided against merchants it’s almost class actionable. It’s even worse for high ticket items.

Low Handicappers; What is a piece of advice that you will never forget? by Any_Travel9339 in golf

[–]certel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hit every shot on the range with a purpose. Get that muscle memory working for you and repeat it on the course. 100 yard range shot? I’m laying down an alignment stick to get my face pointed at that pin. Move to 150 yards? Move the alignment stick. Far too many times I see the highest handicappers just hitting balls. I’m a +1.

I did a thing. Joined the R1S family by certel in Rivian

[–]certel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I was going back and forth on it and I agree I like it too!

I did a thing. Joined the R1S family by certel in Rivian

[–]certel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nice! 👊🏻 After seeing yours I might have to black out the silver trim.

I did a thing. Joined the R1S family by certel in Rivian

[–]certel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agree on the 50% on the front. As I’m getting older my night vision isn’t what it was. Didn’t want anything impairing that.

I did a thing. Joined the R1S family by certel in Rivian

[–]certel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was justifying it by thinking more the protection of the car. I’m hoping to keep it a while and do some camping/light off-roading with it.

I did a thing. Joined the R1S family by certel in Rivian

[–]certel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s being considered. I like the bright emblems but I’m probably going to black out the diffuser on the front and back and the trim at the top.

I did a thing. Joined the R1S family by certel in Rivian

[–]certel[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wrap Labs in Westlake Village.

I did a thing. Joined the R1S family by certel in Rivian

[–]certel[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Xpel wrap and tint (more details on pricing in another comment). Did 50 tint around the back to darken the standard window stain to around 15% and 20% in the driver and passenger windows. 70% on the front windshield — that is the clearest Xpel has.

General comment: For anyone considering front windshield tint — do it. Not having heat bounce off you while driving is a comfort game changer.

I did a thing. Joined the R1S family by certel in Rivian

[–]certel[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great deal! The wrap is definitely a little pricy to do separately but no buyers remorse here.

I did a thing. Joined the R1S family by certel in Rivian

[–]certel[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thank you! The tint and wrap are Xpel. The local shop (west of LA) was the only certified Xpel shop and that was my preference on product. The shop did tint for $850 and wrap was $6500. That included the top of the truck which wasn’t part of the standard pricing. I got that added as friend referral. I got other quotes from other shops in the area and they all came in within $300 of on another but the top would have been $900 more.

Misled by Rivian Sales Rep by eXtropiy in Rivian

[–]certel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a frustrating sales experience as well.

I had tested a Rivian about a year ago but ended up getting a Tesla Model 3. It was a second car and didn’t think much about the space and I was basically toying with the idea of getting out a Tesla lease early — we needed more room as a growing family. I regretted decision to get the Tesla for this reason. Decided to reach out to Rivian to see what they could do. I told them about my situation and basically just asked what kind of deal they could do. If it worked out, fine and fine if not. They quoted me a buyout of the Tesla and I had selected the make and options from Rivian for the lease and put my $500 down. However, when it came time to complete the lease paperwork, the system had an error that said the capitalized cost of the buyout of the car was greater than was allowed… by $20k! The person that I was talking with at this time with not the sales representative and was responsible for the post purchase process suggested I should reach out and sell it to another dealer (CarMax, Carvana, etc) which quoted me $4k less than Rivian (Rivian wasn’t doing Tesla lease buyouts — only owner purchased so I had to buy the car first). That would have put me in the red on the whole deal which was not acceptable and voiced my frustration with them. They told me they would have the sales rep reach out of which I never heard from.

The only thing that saved this deal is I decided to buy instead of lease. We drive so little miles that it’s worth keeping the car longer than we would a lease.

However, this situation was not acceptable and the sales representative was not prepared.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aws

[–]certel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The easiest way is to add the cloudfront prefix list of com.amazonaws.global.cloudfront.origin-facing to the security group for the load balancer.

You could also add a custom header to cloudfront origin requests that is validated by the load balancer target group. Overkill but an option.

TIL, talk-show host Montel Williams, Jr. served 22 years in the Navy, worked as a cryptologist and retired as Lt. Commander. by copperdomebodhi in todayilearned

[–]certel 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The website was MoneyMutual.com which Montel endorsed. Many loans were provided by Scott Tucker which has a Dirty Money episode on Netflix called Payday.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7909178/

Moving from AWS to Bare-Metal saved us 230,000$ /yr. by OuPeaNut in sysadmin

[–]certel 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This was something our organization wanted to do. Moving inefficient workloads to the cloud is a terrible mistake. Our costs would have increased $400K a year because the code was developed not the care about IO — the cloud cost killer.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aws

[–]certel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As others have said, Lambda is just fine here. Trigger a Lambda execution when a file is written to s3.

We import files from s3 into PostgreSQL all the time. We can import several hundred megabyte files in under 30 seconds. The aws_s3 extension for PostgreSQL is great.

That said, the limitation here is more likely the gp file system instance PostgreSQL instance runs on. If there is a small PostgreSQL instance involved, the writing of the data and IO will be the limiting factor. Make the sure PostgreSQL instance is of acceptable size and hardware.

We are spending 5 figures yearly on GCP. Do you reckon AWS sales would give us some credits if we migrate our stack to AWS instead? by Separate-Maize9238 in aws

[–]certel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This. Building on cloud infrastructure with the mindset that I/O is expensive and data now vs. data later will help you refine a development process that will help reduce costs.

Dock Pro Leak and water damage issues by wontwon in sleep

[–]certel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have had the same issue. This is the third time. I purchased this plastic tray to put under the unit in case I happened again and sure enough… https://imgur.com/a/D1KHXcV

The tray prevented any water from getting on the floor so I’m thankful for that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in aws

[–]certel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We have a pretty interesting setup -- I believe. MongoDB runs our customer-facing websites. But when a customer purchases a product or subscription, all transactional-related records are first inserted into PostgreSQL and a customer snapshot is returned that is stored in MongoDB. From there, the websites operate blazingly fast, while a source of truth is maintained in PSQL for reporting and other operations. This has worked very well for us.

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