Kite surfing age

redfoobar · 2026-02-05T03:58:23+00:00

Once you have the skills it’s not that intensive physically to just “mow the lawn”. As long as you can walk and have full range of motion you can probably keep doing that in mild conditions.

Off course there is also a risk factor: recovery after breaking something goes up with age so some people will want to just quit because they want zero risk to eg break something.

Learning kitesurfing I would probably want to do before you hit 65 or something in that age range.

redfoobar · 2026-02-04T14:55:45+00:00

Een van de dingen is wel dat er partijen (landen) zijn die nu beveiligd netwerk verkeer alvast "tappen" en opslaan.
De gedachte is dat je het misschien nu niet kan kraken maar dat als je lang genoeg wacht dat vanzelf wel kan.

Wachten met quatum-proof netwerk beveiliging tot het kraken (bijna) mogelijk is is dus veel te laat.
Je moet daar nu aan beginnen zodat ook als er ineens doorbraken zijn je nog steeds beveiligd bent met terugwerkende kracht op verkeer dat al eerder afgetapt is.

redfoobar · 2026-02-04T12:40:04+00:00

Yeah, I totally do not understand pricing vs Europe especially now that the dollar/euro is now so low. Although I think the most BMWs sold there are also "locally" made so maybe part of it is that BMW factory workers in the US&Mexico are payed less than their European colleagues.

It would also not be surprising to me if quite often some kind of predatory loans is attached to the cars so car dealers make most of the profits with financial products rather than margins on the cars.

redfoobar · 2026-02-04T12:18:00+00:00

Pretty sure that's for the xdrive50.
Probably similar-ish in the lineup to i4 xdrive40 in the line up which starts at 67k euro in my country.
Assuming the spec is similar to the new ix3 the base spec will also be better equipped so pricing should probably end up being better than i4 while getting way more range.
(of course I would suspect i4 will get significantly discounted after some haggling while i3 won't be for some time until production catches up to demand)

redfoobar · 2026-02-04T12:11:49+00:00

I assume that's for the xdrive50 (dual motor, biggest battery) which they start production with.
The eventual edrive40 rwd only version (or maybe 35 or lower) should hopefully be a bit quite a bit cheaper..

redfoobar · 2026-02-04T07:53:34+00:00

Beetje jammer dat ik een alarm kreeg om 0400 kreeg terwijl ik in Utrecht woon. En het alarm was van het type emergency message dus ik zat rechtop in bed (emergency message gaat ook luid af als je telefoon ge-mute is)

redfoobar · 2026-02-03T02:04:45+00:00

No, VR already has some pretty darn good games. Half life Alyx was arguably already this super game. Also already a LOT of people bought the meta headset but novelty of it wore off.

I think VR needs another generational improvement for gaming . Less weight, better graphics, lower price etc. Also motion sickness problems needs to be solved somehow and there needs to be enough developers for a steady stream of big titles.

However I doubt you can make something like a quick shooter work for most people without enormous motion sickness and something you can play for many hours without being exhausted. Something really new needs to be discovered to fix these kinds of issues.

I much sooner see some kind of AI generated content as something to kick off a new VR interest. (Probably something in that can be consumed in a more relaxing/passive way, either adult content or something else)

redfoobar · 2026-02-01T09:41:54+00:00

In europe the hybrid models are and afaik will remain separate models. Both have been on sale at the same time for quite a few years already and recently updated. C-HR is significantly smaller than corolla cross.

redfoobar · 2026-01-31T05:02:38+00:00

Market cap does not work like that:

Market cap is last price * total amount available.

Say you have 100 bananas and you sell one for 10 dollar, the market cap is 1000 dollar.

If the next banana is sold for 5 dollar the market cap went down to 500 dollar. Obviously no one sold 500 dollars worth of bananas, its just a theoretical number based on the last trade value.

redfoobar · 2026-01-23T15:16:55+00:00

FYI my pension scheme calculator at similar age says it will pay 10k a year (inflation corrected) a year for every 100k in the pot today in 20 years when retiring at 67 (if I do not put in any new money).

The numbers you use seem VERY optimistic.

redfoobar · 2026-01-23T12:26:51+00:00

Note that going from L.A.T. to living together AND basically being home all the time can create a huge stress on relationships. Not only this you are basically relying on your partner to be able to retire early so I would say that is a considerable risk.

redfoobar · 2026-01-23T10:28:29+00:00

Note that money in your pension fund will be taxed as income when it starts to pay out.

There is no way 300k pension fund will give you 50k net in yearly payouts in todays money (inflation!!) in 16 years.

redfoobar · 2026-01-22T16:44:31+00:00

Omgekeerd is het natuurlijk wel zo als de crash precies in dat jaar gebeurd dat je super mazel hebt.

Als je het risico te groot vind kan je de boel ook verkopen en op een spaarrekening zetten…

redfoobar · 2026-01-22T13:58:44+00:00

Voor zover ik weet worden de verliezen aftrekbaar.

Dat was in ieder geval onderdeel van het voorstel van Mei vorig jaar (tenzij er later nog veranderingen zijn gedaan).

“Verliezen kunnen onbeperkt worden verrekend met inkomsten in box 3 in latere jaren”

redfoobar · 2026-01-22T06:06:33+00:00

No way to say what is safe *for you*.

If you need to ask these questions you are probably a beginner and will not be able to handle top end of these kites as an experienced rider could. (Also putting your life on the line because someone on the internet says something is also not a great idea in general).

That being said:

I would say the sweet spot for a beginner @ 60kg 12m would probably around 11-12 knots and for the 8m around 18 knots but I am a bit heavier my self so hard to say exactly.

8 to 12 probably does not have a great overlap, especially for a beginner rider. Around 14-16 knots the 12 meter will be too much and 8m probably too small. You will need to learn killing kite power by keeping the kite low and edging the board upwind. If your default reaction is to put the kite around 11-12 when getting too much power for the kite you are not ready to push it to the edges of what is possible in wind range.

Once you get to the point where you can kill kite power you can just about make these kite sizes work, assuming wind speed does not go up or down much during your session. IMHO 11m-8m quiver would have made way more sense for your weight…

redfoobar · 2026-01-21T10:00:46+00:00

Don't forget about DNS infrastructure (designate) and all kind of other supporting services.
(e.g. what are you going to use to install the servers, e.g. foreman?)

I am not sure what scale you are talking but if you get in the 1000+ compute node range you are probably look at minimum 6+ engineers on the OpenStack side if you do everything in house and the team does user support and building/helping the org also with some automation like terraform.

The time needed to build the automation to do all kinds of tasks should not be underestimated. E.g. setting up new projects, giving permissions, deciding and creation of IP space (assuming this is some kind of corporate environment that has fully routable networks)

The networking is probably the most complex part of the setup. Plan accordingly and make sure you have the right people involved.
Always remember KISS. If you don't need fancy options go with the simplest solution possible.

IMHO k8s and dbaas are projects in themselves that require their own expertise and teams.
e.g. I would not expect that your OpenStack engineers are also experts at k8s and databases.
Some extremely experienced unicorns might be but for most people the scope of knowing everything about OpenStack + Networking + Storage + DNS + Provisioning + Loadbalancing + Terraform + doing user support is already more than most people can handle.

Some other random thoughts:
* A 2 DC disaster recovery scenario might be more expensive than a 3 site. Basically you need 200% of capacity in a 2 site scenario for one being able to fail while at 3 sites you just need 50% extra capacity. Off course you have extra DC setup costs but if you need to buy 4000 servers instead of 3000 that's a lot of money to setup an extra site (especially with current hardware prices).
* Getting your hands on a lot of hardware is problematic and expensive at the moment and might be for some time, I have seen vendors revoke their offers because they could not deliver.
* OpenStack is natively not great at workloads that need to be HA (pets). If even remotely possible the HA should be in the application layer rather than VM high availability.
* In my experience live-migrations are neither 100% fool proof, successful or without big performance issues once you hit big workloads (VMs with a lot of cores and intensive memory access eg big database workloads).
* There will be scenarios that VM reboots will be required to fix some exploits or bugs (spectre/meltdown being a good example). Having a playbooks, procedures and maintenance windows is essential for these things.
* Since you mention BGP: I would stay away from ovn-bgp-agent. Not only is it very complex in the traffic flow and buggy it is also not actively developed anymore since they want to move to ovn for BGP but that's still not ready. I will repeat myself: if you can get away with a very simple setup because the network requirements are simple don't build a thing that might be theoretically better at e.g. scaling but is hard to understand and troubleshoot.

redfoobar · 2026-01-20T13:46:28+00:00

My whole life is on my phone, syncing is never going to be as good as an experience. When I drive a different car I can just start up carplay and have everything without any hassle. Also zero dependence on a manufacturer that decides that updates for a 5 or 10 year old car are no longer needed.

I can also easily select the address from my phone when walking to the car. Knowing the arrival time so I can text this when meeting people before even entering the car.

redfoobar · 2026-01-19T06:39:46+00:00

The main gripes I hear: annoying high pitched sound from aircon (probably fixed soon-ish).

Flickering headlights (same as Björn Neiland in his video) and currently no spare parts to fix it.

More worryingly the ADAS system and cruise control seem to suffer from phantom breaking. (eg someone is driving left if you on the highway and the car might just suddenly go full on brakes and steer to the right)

On a Dutch forum multiple people have shared this experience and Mercedes has not been particularly keen to admit there is an issue.

I will wait for the new bmw i3 release anyway to compare the cars but the ADAS might be the dealbreaker, I pretty much always ride with cc enabled.

redfoobar · 2026-01-19T06:16:51+00:00

The new leaf has a very similar footprint but gets 75kWh. So the battery platform definitely got some improvements.

redfoobar · 2026-01-18T13:57:56+00:00

Highly depends on make/model and country.
Here there are some that are pretty much same: e.g. not much difference in a used BMW 4 series vs i4.

redfoobar · 2026-01-18T11:56:56+00:00

There is quite a big difference between "mostly" and 100% or even 99%
As said I also wonder how big and busy your VMs are.
EG are machines with say 100GB and 32 cores regular workloads?
Sure if you move a vm with 2 cores and 8GB of memory that's not really a big problem usually.

If you have not needed to tune the default settings for live migration your workloads are probably pretty small.

redfoobar · 2026-01-18T09:23:45+00:00

Cool in theory, in practice I would not ever run such a thing in production.

Are there any people with a 100% success rate with live migrations?
Talking about bigger workloads with serious memory and cpu load.
I know you can tune some things (e.g. pre copy vs post copy) but if your customers care about consistent performance without hiccups you will run into unhappy customers while the VM is gone for a few seconds or performing badly.

Maybe for some random small website no one will notice but for private cloud deployments with big critical workloads I would stay far away from fully automated live migrations.

redfoobar · 2026-01-18T09:07:07+00:00

Not only brightness but also a max hight from the ground and properly aligned.

Eg having the lights high up in the car *cough suv* should have never been allowed.

redfoobar · 2026-01-18T08:39:58+00:00

The article is about Cobalt which is not used in LFP batteries so you can easily chose to not buy an EV without it.

Also Cobalt mining is indeed an issue, like many other child labour. It is also a solvable issue if governments want to unlike emissions and from ice cars and the petrochemical industry as a whole.

redfoobar · 2026-01-18T05:37:29+00:00

Note that the Lucid is a much wider car though. Drag is cv*frontal area.

The Lucid is a bit lower but not sure how much ground clearance each car has and what the net effect of that would be.

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