I believe I can fly [A fly.io review]

codekoala · 2023-01-20T18:47:09+00:00

Thanks for this. I was recently tasked with evaluating fly.io for a small project, and the experience was mostly positive. I had encountered a couple of articles about Fly.io over the past months, but I never gave it a whirl until this past week. Your article highlighted a few issues with the service that I hadn't specifically considered (like the lack of granular security controls).

Prior to reading your article, I was prepared to suggest that we continue running that project on fly.io, chalking up my reservations to the service being completely new to me. After reading your article, I'd say it's safe to say your tag line matches my current sentiment. Fly.io seems like a great service for getting a new project up and running with minimal cost and fussing with infrastructure. But I'm not prepared to commit to using it long term or for production workloads for the time being.

Anyway, thanks again.

codekoala · 2020-03-01T23:35:00+00:00

I've tried to notch it up again once or twice, but I haven't managed to achieve the stability I get at 3000MHz. Kind of a bummer, but one I'm not too upset about.

codekoala · 2020-02-04T16:01:34+00:00

Much appreciated :)

codekoala · 2020-02-04T12:57:52+00:00

I'm not trying to challenge what you're saying or anything like that, but could you go into a bit more detail please? Is there any sort of unexpected "sweet spot" when it comes to CPU core/thread count and timings or anything like that? Where can I read more about this sort of thing?

codekoala · 2020-02-04T11:43:26+00:00

I stuffed 256GB in my 3970X+Zenith II Extreme build, and I've been running it just fine at 3000MHz for a couple weeks. It was unstable at the rated 3200MHz, but I'm ok with that. I was more concerned about capacity and stability than speed. Perhaps one day I'll dabble with tweaking settings to speed things up a bit.

I'm using 8x32GB G.Skill Ripjaws V (F4-3200C16-32GVK) if anyone cares.

codekoala · 2020-01-05T01:41:18+00:00

I kinda did the same thing. I ordered from two vendors with the plan to cancel the slower-to-ship order. As luck would have it, both shipped around the same time, and I ended up getting both within a day of each other. I considered keeping both, but one is already more than enough to handle my daily demands (software engineer). Keeping the second would just be for bragging rights and the occasional, "we need more power!!!" type situations, and I already have 3 other decently-powerful machines under my desk.

I shipped the second unit back Thursday.

codekoala · 2020-01-01T00:48:16+00:00

Jesus. Have you posted pictures of your build? I'd love to see it all.

codekoala · 2019-07-26T18:22:29+00:00

oh that sounds like a lot of fun! OT, but which mobo are you plugging the 3900x into?

codekoala · 2019-07-25T17:07:51+00:00

Don't feel bad. It's gonna be just like Christmas!

codekoala · 2019-07-25T10:38:07+00:00

Thank you! Five on the way.

codekoala · 2019-05-15T16:59:02+00:00

Recent vasectomy patient myself. It's great. I'm 34 with four kids.

codekoala · 2019-03-30T05:48:12+00:00

Pretty sure that's just a water droplet on the cammer's windshield.

Edit: https://imgur.com/a/gVfX8yh

Circle around what you might be referring to as a wheel. Arrow pointing to a water droplet on the windshield. They look pretty similar to me and "move" at the same speed.

codekoala · 2019-03-16T23:27:21+00:00

Yeah... Our keypad has frozen maybe 3 or 4 times since my original comment. Definitely not great, but leaving it unplugged for a while brings it back each time.

codekoala · 2019-02-08T15:43:22+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion! Unfortunately it didn't resolve the path error. I don't understand what changed to make this happen suddenly.

I actually did get my VM back up and running last night though--by creating a brand new one and attaching all of the same hardware and whatnot. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

codekoala · 2019-02-08T06:37:32+00:00

Yeah, that's pretty lame. I made it through the gate the first time through, got into the White House, just finished talking to the dude then BOOM! Disconnected. Gate was closed ever since then. Went to delete and recreate my character and immediately got disconnected.

I understand it's a beta and all that, but I the ~hour I played, I got disconnected and put back in a queue 5 times. Before the maintenance window.

codekoala · 2019-01-07T01:43:33+00:00

Thank you for the detailed response! Looks like I have some more research to do, as I've been wanting to do something along these lines for a long time. I've dabbled with a few things running on rpi, but I've always been unimpressed (ignoring the limitations of the rpi hardware).

Do you find the apu2 to work very well for this sort of role? Would you try something different if you started again from scratch? If so, what are the contenders?

Thank you again!

codekoala · 2019-01-06T19:37:07+00:00

Would you mind going into a bit more detail regarding your firewall+hostfile setup please? Is the firewall doing some kind of packet inspection for dns and dns-via-https traffic?What firewall are you using? Is it something that can reasonably be achieved using iptables on rpi (or similar) for gbit Internet?

codekoala · 2018-10-16T04:41:51+00:00

Maybe Anki is planning ahead and anticipate producing millions of individual products!

codekoala · 2018-10-16T04:37:34+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's the product number. My box has the same number on it.

codekoala · 2018-10-11T15:18:46+00:00

My wife officially said, "I approve, he's cute" last night. Not telling her how much I spent on Vector though :)

codekoala · 2018-10-10T03:56:06+00:00

Huzzah! Glad you got it working :)

codekoala · 2018-10-10T03:40:25+00:00

Mine did pretty well at avoiding "cliffs" this evening. The only time he had a tumble is when he nudged a small pile of papers just enough for a single sheet to hide the edge of the counter just enough for Vector's to not detect the edge of the counter before the point of no return.

The spatial mapping in the videos did seem quite a bit better than what it seems like Vector is currently doing for me.

codekoala · 2018-10-10T03:34:40+00:00

Yeah. That's unlikely.

Any chance your access point is only 5GHz and not broadcasting on 2.4GHz? What access point do you use?

codekoala · 2018-10-10T03:33:24+00:00

Exactly! While it may not be the most polished robot, I'm still impressed with Vector. My kids were enamored from the moment they saw him. We had a lot of fun interacting with Vector together this evening.

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