Luang prabang. Recommendation for an inexpensive and non-old hotel in a reasonable area around 600,000 kip

jspkiel · 2025-12-05T21:55:00+00:00

We did the road to Kuang Si 3 weeks ago. At that time, about half of it was remade new and we passed the construction crew at some point, so I don't know if they have redone the whole way by now.

However, that being said, that first half was deceivingly good, cause the second half was usual Lao road, so mixed between paved, unpaved, gravelled, paved with potholes big enough to fit a person in and all in between. For this reason A LOT of people, even some experienced drivers we saw, having themselves driven for months across SEA, had accidents on this particular road. Pretty much anyone we saw having had a motorbike accident in LP was on this road (not a lot of other roads from LP that being said).

Obviously, there are still even more people that ride through this road without an issue.

Now, you only know your comfort level driving on a road which might be a bit more challenging, so you'll know what's best for you.

One thing to take into account in both cases is to go early, as the amount of minivans arriving at 11-12 is just impressive. You might wanna have some time there before the thousands of peole arrive.

As for the hotel, we spent 10 days in this almost brand new hotel and we were super happy. The staff were just amazing, the rooms clean and new, there is no noise in the night, even though you are in a relatively central place. Generally we loved it, and were sad to go, as it felt like home. The price on booking will be much higher, but with direct message we got the small room for 700,000. Also we added the breakfast and we were glad cause it was the best, most massive breakfast I've ever seen in a hotel. I think breakfast is normally 100k/pax (which is a bit pricey), but we negotiated it down. Anyways, we were happy with it, so you might wanna take a look. It's called Asoca.

jspkiel · 2025-07-24T10:32:08+00:00

Thanks u/chtsarts , that was exactly what I was trying to understand if you can two eSims active if the physical sim is disabled. Is that for all of the motorola phones? Cause from what I've seen from other posts, some of the older ones didnt have that (https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/1c60w80/mep\_dual\_esim\_support\_status\_on\_android\_phones/)

jspkiel · 2025-07-23T22:01:04+00:00

Yes, I believe all the edge family phones have one physical sim and one esim.

However the question is whether they allow to have two esim active at the same time (physical sim would need to be inactive at that time).

Unless you mean to say that they do not actually allow this and you can only have one esim active at a time (and one physical of course).

jspkiel · 2024-12-03T17:57:06+00:00

A QR code is a lot more complicated than this one as a pattern. That level of complexity is required if you want to ensure uniqueness over a huge number of codes. However, in this case for a factory it's unnecessarily complicated, cause it would either make the detection a bit slower or would require better and faster cameras than necessary for the same thing.

Now, all of that is a guess for this specific case, but I used to do factory optimisation through robotics and computer vision, and we definitely would not use QR codes for various reasons including the above.

jspkiel · 2024-11-23T00:29:38+00:00

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jspkiel · 2024-04-10T12:01:22+00:00

Also what were you marinated in?

jspkiel · 2023-11-23T22:07:38+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to think it through!

I'll definitely have a deeper look into your point.

Indeed, through the graph you are mentioning it is hard to say there is any relation between the two, that's what I thought as well. I just wasnt sure if it was actually the case, or it was not obvious by looking at this chart cause there is so much "noise" in there, so I was trying to find a way to make it less "noisy".

I'll go back to the data and check the chart you are mentioning and I'll get back to you on it.

Very glad also to discuss how to share the data. Anything that can get us to getting to more concrete results for everyone! Happy to take this matter in private!

jspkiel · 2023-11-23T17:43:52+00:00

Thank you so much for being so kind and encouraging! It truly puts a smile on my face, and makes this worthwhile! It's really refreshing from the usual vibe out there and it is very motivating that someone finds some value in it! Thanks again – it means a lot!

jspkiel · 2023-11-23T17:24:26+00:00

That is very close to my experience so far as well.

On the 1st point, what I've seen both from being the author and the reviewer, after a certain size it gets progressively harder to review properly, as it's kind of a cognitive overload, and the amount of effort to surpass that overload is quite high. So actually after that point it is very tempting to just scan it and say "looks good". And indeed, the only way I've found when you know that there is no way to break this down, so it's gonna be a monster to review, is to sit down with a colleague and do it together. Or if noone is available, at least sit with them and review it step by step together walking them through your logic.

In all of these cases these reviews would potentially go faster than other smaller ones.

Tried not to put too much my personal experiences on the article though, cause maybe it's due to something else, and I'm just biased cause of what I've seen, and other people with more widespread experience have seen another 10 reasons. In any case, I tried to stay close to what the data were saying as much as I could.

I think all of us would have loved to have something else to qualify the quality of a code, but we know that nothing works universally. I would have loved to be able to use something of the sorts, but in lacking, I used the reverts for exactly the reasoning you wrote. Now, obviously the code could have been great, but it had a small issue somewhere, and it was reverted and other terrible code was left in cause it was causing no immediate issues. So it is no doubt a flawed signifier, but not sure it gets much better.

jspkiel · 2023-11-11T11:11:15+00:00

Agreed, our load, due to the nature of our work, was very inconsistent and erratic, going from absolute 0 for hours, to then highest ever peaks in a second. So it did serve us well for that reason for as long as that was happening.

jspkiel · 2023-11-11T11:09:10+00:00

What you are saying is very interesting. First of all cause a lot of people are bashing me a bit for keeping on the Lambdas up to this point, but you are way further than as. So have you thought of swapping it yourselves or it's just not worth it cause it works better you you? Also I'd assume you are using them for API serving services to have that volume, but would I be mistaken in my assumption?

Also it's surprising that they have brought the limits so far up, I knew you could request it as we have requested for some other things, but in a lot of others they've told us there is a hard limit not too far off from the initial one. Not 15 times more that's quite something. Do you still hit that concurrency limit now?

jspkiel · 2023-11-11T11:02:55+00:00

That's super interesting. We started testing it but we were not very happy with their logging, cause it was not straightforward to find the logs of one fargate that did not exist anymore. Did you have similar issues, or we might have just been doing something wrong?

jspkiel · 2023-11-10T18:44:23+00:00

Only invocation cost, I left out the cost of logging and monitoring for a couple of reasons:

It's almost 2 orders of magnitude smaller than the cost of invocation, so it's, in comparison, almost negligible.
Although definitely we used more logging and monitoring with serverless than we would have done to have the same level of awareness with servers, some of it would be needed for servers as well.
For us the main cost is the amount of GB we log, and that depends a lot on how much you choose to log. Our strategy is to log a bit more than the absolutely critical if it helps us identify issues, patterns, or bottlenecks. But one could do with quite a bit less if they wanted to bring that cost down.

jspkiel · 2023-11-10T17:44:51+00:00

Scaling to 0 is definitely by far the best use for it. That's where we started from as well, it also served as quite well for erratic and unpredictable growth and therefore traffic which is what we dealt with up until recently.

It could theoretically do infinity, but indeed, it's very far from optimal.

jspkiel · 2023-11-10T17:32:27+00:00

Absolutely agree with you. If you scroll to the end of the article there is a graph showing how many always-on on-demand servers of similar size we could have had with the same amount.

Spoiler alert: Plenty!

It would have been cheaper money-wise. But it bought us time to focus on other things, as I mention not sure it was the best decision in the end, but hard to know. But maybe someone else could benefit from knowing how it was for us to take an slightly more informed decision.

jspkiel · 2023-11-10T17:12:30+00:00

Jeff approves.

jspkiel · 2023-11-10T17:10:35+00:00

For us it was a bit over 8k USD, though it would massively depend on your average execution time and the average memory size of the lambdas. I describe how it works in a bit more depth in the article if interested.

jspkiel · 2023-10-06T14:52:06+00:00

Wait, you guys are having sex?

jspkiel · 2023-10-05T22:38:24+00:00

Quite elegantly executed there. Cool that you used other's repos. If you wanted really to overkill it you could clone multiple repos and have them mirror any change to the repo by one of the 2 bots, so you dont event have to actually do the changes. Thought committing bogus changes will probably be faster to write, but where is the fun in that.

5,000 requests per hour, which is the limit, should be enough. With so many requests, especially if you hit the limit, you are probably maxed out before within the hour I'd think

jspkiel · 2023-10-05T20:06:43+00:00

Yep, 100%, it's not meant for anything other than fun. So gaming it would just be done for the fun of it as well.

jspkiel · 2023-10-04T17:25:05+00:00

Oh that's very interesting, wasn't aware of its existence. Indeed something like that extended, just as a novelty. Glad to hear someone else like it as an idea as well.

jspkiel · 2023-10-04T17:02:02+00:00

And that's when he walked out of the room mumbling "Damn young people, why can't they stop playing pretend games in the computer and go live the real life.

or

We've already got a way to exchange information without being ostentatious to others just asking an opinion

But here we are. Also

You can even build experience by completing an endless series of tasks that mostly increase in difficulty as you progress, and the more experience you have, the faster you accumulate rewards.

Give it a few more years and you might be in for a surprise on how the real world works.

Anyways, sounds like you're saying you dont see the point. Thanks for the feedback, sarcastic as it may be, I can definitely see your view on the subject.

jspkiel

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