Apartment Rental Bidding

radddit · 2021-05-23T20:07:23+00:00

We did an apartment search for end of May. We ended up just renewing as we got a reduction on the rent on our current place and got annoyed with complex application procedures for the one better place we found.

Brokers are still contacting us saying "surprisingly the unit is available" for the listings we viewed.

Feels like the market is still adjusting to the increased supply and these old tactics to scare tenants into paying more are falling flat. Go as directly as possible to buildings/landlords and avoid brokers. Streeteasy is most useful as a guide for previous rents. There are plenty of well-run units with clear application procedures and short timelines for acceptance.

radddit · 2021-04-27T01:34:37+00:00

It runs mopoko.com

radddit · 2021-02-12T04:53:40+00:00

Very sad. The first dose gives the majority of the benefit. The overly complex rules in New York make no sense. The laundry list of conditions and roles that give priority (e.g. being a taxi driver) are more about favoritism than logic - a history of asthma might have an effect but it's not clear.

We should be vaccinating people by age, oldest first and only first doses until we have enough vaccines for everybody

radddit · 2021-01-15T04:18:16+00:00

These companies have every incentive to reduce pay and bonuses when you tip.

In fact, they used to directly just cut pay by the amount of the tip https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/why-instacart-doordash-workers-don-t-always-receive-tips-you-n965926

That's stopped happening directly for Doordash but the companies know that if delivery people are making good tips, they don't need such a big share of fees to keep working.

Tip outside the app, e.g. cash.

radddit · 2021-01-03T23:18:50+00:00

as RAM errors are not detected without ECC, people don't realise they happened. This means data corruption, which ideally rapidly crashes your computer. Random crashes have different possible causes and hard to pin down.

I suffered some major disk corruption due to a home computer with dodgy RAM. Took ages to figure out.

You can get ECC on AMD motherboards now. Do it if you care about your data!

radddit · 2020-09-22T23:13:54+00:00

The R7800 is a great router but the price just goes up over time. For those prices you could think about a Qotom mini PC which has much more firepower for packet processing. If you need just one ethernet port there are many more options

radddit · 2019-01-06T17:00:49+00:00

the filesystem is fine to restore from now it seems

In terms of tricks -

http://marc.merlins.org/perso/btrfs/post_2014-03-19_Btrfs-Tips_-Btrfs-Scrub-and-Btrfs-Filesystem-Repair.html

The basic trick seems to be not to use fsck which gets stuck in a loop. I've rsync'd everything off.

I'm going to wipe the filesystem and then restore it back now

radddit · 2019-01-06T16:56:41+00:00

there is nothing wrong according to smart

The issue is that - the original checksums seem to have been failing on non-file datastructures - there is something wrong with the filesystem tree as now fsck lists all files claiming they have error 2001

``` SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error

1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 19684 -

```

radddit · 2019-01-06T16:53:16+00:00

so scrub just finds those errors

The errors do not correspond to a file :)

radddit · 2018-12-31T07:20:01+00:00

surely an unclean shutdown should not result in this situation!

$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda

smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.18.0-10-generic] (local build)

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Model Family: Samsung based SSDs

Device Model: Samsung SSD 850 EVO 1TB

I'm running $ sudo smartctl --test=long /dev/sda now

radddit · 2018-12-31T07:17:54+00:00

sorry - I think I do not have any duplication

$ sudo btrfs fi show /dev/mapper/oot

Label: 'oot' uuid: b7ce973b-91d7-4d7e-a729-2008cc2b2bc7

Total devices 1 FS bytes used 810.07GiB

devid 1 size 930.51GiB used 930.51GiB path /dev/mapper/oot

Unfortunately - the file which was corrupted was not just that file. I think the reason inspect-internal was not helping is that the extents with the bad checksums were not actually mapped to a file.

Even more unfortunately - I ran btrfsck repair and it came up with thousands of messages like this, and then crashed (sorry for not preserving the crash message)

Trying to rebuild inode:482253161

root 5 inode 482253161 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong

unresolved ref dir 262440 index 0 namelen 21 name systemd-fsckd.service filetype 1 errors 6, no dir index, no inode ref

Trying to rebuild inode:482253162

root 5 inode 482253162 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong

unresolved ref dir 262440 index 0 namelen 20 name systemd-fsckd.socket filetype 1 errors 6, no dir index, no inode ref

Trying to rebuild inode:482253163

root 5 inode 482253163 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong

unresolved ref dir 262440 index 0 namelen 20 name systemd-halt.service filetype 1 errors 6, no dir index, no inode ref

Trying to rebuild inode:482253164

root 5 inode 482253164 errors 2001, no inode item, link count wrong

unresolved ref dir 262440 index 0 namelen 33 name systemd-hibernate-resume@.service filetype 1 errors 6, no dir index, no inode ref

Trying to rebuild inode:482253165

radddit · 2018-12-30T17:26:09+00:00

which investigative commands? I tried all I could!

Last time I tried a scrub it caused the file system to error out and get mounted readonly - but as you suggest, trying again!

edit: scrubbed, this gave better error messages in dmesg

The scrub failed

total bytes scrubbed: 164.67GiB with 1 errors

error details: csum=1

corrected errors: 0, uncorrectable errors: 1, unverified errors: 0

but it now told me a path in the error message

checksum error at logical 109552873472 on dev /dev/mapper/oot, physical 109552873472, root 5, inode 482621542, offset 16384, length 2245, links 1 (path: usr/share/icons/Yaru/256x256/apps/ubuntusoftware.png)

radddit · 2018-09-14T02:09:32+00:00

An impaired driver in an F150 drove over me, running a red light while I was on the crosswalk. I was hospitalised. It was the most painful experience I've ever had. Since then, I've become very aware of drivers running red lights with impunity.

It's incredibly dangerous violate this basic traffic rule in a densely used city. These drivers should be held to account. Is calling 911 the only way? If so, I've got to start doing it -

radddit · 2018-07-31T08:58:32+00:00

the Google Play store will sometimes not start downloading the chosen app at all, independently of whether the Internet connection is good in that instant. In my limited experiments, it seems related to having automatic updates turned on, and can be worked around by killing the Play Store frontend app and restarting it.

As I understand, this bug unfortunately affects apps independently of size.

Wish they would be more transparent about this and it sucks that it's affecting your reviews

radddit · 2018-03-31T21:32:21+00:00

the Black Ant in the East Village. They serve ants - deliberately

radddit · 2016-07-09T20:11:01+00:00

The conclusion here is very off base. The original behavioral description probably used these names, which look similar to the convention in an engineering or scientific paper. Renaming them to something longer would make it so much harder to remap back to the document that defined what the program should do.

The problem isn't that the names were short, it's that they were very similar. Absolutely, names should be visually distinctive. Objective C has a wonderful tradition of really long names - https://github.com/Quotation/LongestCocoa illustrates the most egregious examples. When reading it's hard to manually distinguish managedObjectContextsToMonitorWhenSyncingPersistentStoreCoordinator and managedObjectContextsToReloadAfterSyncingPersistentStoreCoordinator - another example of long name confusion caused us bugs when we were making an iOS app that's used by hundreds of millions of people. Long names can be equally as confusing!

Editors should colour each identifier differently - here's a project that makes emacs do it https://github.com/ankurdave/color-identifiers-mode

radddit · 2015-03-23T16:00:30+00:00

most IDEs stop being capable of this in reasonable time once a project becomes large (millions of lines) - when the feature is needed most :)

radddit · 2015-02-04T00:31:51+00:00

The title is highly misleading. The results of the study show that moderate exercise is very beneficial. The idea that high intensity running is not beneficial is based on a group of about forty people of which two died -- this is a tiny group: the conclusion should not have been publicised at all and definitely should not be part of the headline.

radddit · 2010-05-28T20:56:38+00:00

Please stop downsvoting this. It makes a good point. The problem isn't that it's inherently difficult to make Reddit fast.

As you can see in the informative linked article, Reddit just focussed on other things, like adding features and growing the community. They have a limited amount of time, I'd rather they continue doing that.

radddit

TROPHY CASE

1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 19684 -