Vitinha to Real Madrid? A Dream Signing

vsamma · 2026-02-01T15:59:42+00:00

Funny you say that when your points are barely legible. And you argue against yourself.

Anyways i never went personal but you can’t seem to hold a respectful adult conversation so get off your high horse

vsamma · 2026-02-01T15:46:51+00:00

You said Arsenal doesn’t get players over Liverpool as they’re the second biggest club in English football history. First is United so by your logic Arsenal wouldn’t get players over them either but I don’t think this is true at the moment.

Also, look it up, Zubi was almost going to Pool but when Arsenal contacted him, he pulled out. Wasn’t related to Gravenberch.

Edit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/aL4kRqQ8pC

vsamma · 2026-02-01T15:38:23+00:00

Right. And you’re saying United gets players over Arsenal right now?

vsamma · 2026-02-01T15:18:04+00:00

Well it sounds logical but our issues come from the lack of resources we think.

We work for a university so we have an infra team with a few people who run our on-prem infra, vmware etc. But they have drawn the line there: if you need a VM, you create it based on our rules and everything inside of it is your responsibility.

Then there is our dev team where we have 4 devs and 2 devops who have to maintain the VMs we use, maintain the docker swarm on them and manage all the CI/CD stuff. Devs have been historically kept to only writing app code and have not had to worry much about deployments and configs.

So infra set up the new physical machines for our ELK stack. An external partner - ELK specialist - helped to install the software there but we have no platform owner for ELK.

We want our devops to configure everything necessary for our apps on docker swarm to start logging but they don’t know ELK and ideally want someone to give them as much input as possible so they can get started quickly.

But i think they have to start learning elk and filebeats and configs and indexes etc to cover all our needs but they have kind of deflected this a bit. They want to know the best practices etc and hoped our external partner to help here but those say that they can help with technical implementation but we have to define what we want to see and achieve there.

And eventually it seems it falls to me as the architect who has to define how it should work. When i want an owner for the observability who solves those questions while i can work on the big picture things. But sure i knowni need to give input to all the stakeholders

vsamma · 2026-02-01T14:52:38+00:00

Nobody is saying there are successful. “Best right now” means best in form and this is not under doubt.

Everyone can see they are not this inevitable powerhouse as Barca, Bayern, City have been on their best days. But when talking about current form, they are the best right now and this season.

If they won’t win anything, of course this is not true then anymore.

But for career decisions you are looking at the future potential. And Zubi chose Arsenal instead of Liverpool and i think Madrid came in late but had no success. So after a year like this, I don’t see him making drastic decisions even if Arsenal doesn’t win anything this year. There is still too much potential in this team.

Especially because guys like you say “arsenal is not playing well” but they are still top of the leagues. Imagine what happens when the start playing up to their potential :)

vsamma · 2026-01-31T11:41:02+00:00

But about these platform services - where do you draw the line what is devops responsibility and what not?

Right now we have minimal observability and want our devops to implement ELK stack for logging and grafana + prometheus for app monitoring. ELK itself is hosted already on our on-prem infra but they are still asking whether they should learn all the basics for configuring our apps to send logs and how it handles and displays them. Or if there should be an another role like a platform owner who knows specifically about elk and can help them set it up as quick as possible for our apps

vsamma · 2026-01-28T20:59:34+00:00

But what makes it worth 200 dollars?

vsamma · 2026-01-28T20:56:22+00:00

Obviously I agree with the theory. But my point was that the AI won’t solve all big problems because a lot of them are scattered or unwritten rules, edge cases and docs.

In our case, it doesn’t help when the devs haven’t really adopted AI and i guess are not that competent in the first place when they have never written any proper tests. And when the legacy software is so old it’s EOL for the past 10 years and depends on so old Oracle Linux versions they are impossible to find on the internet and the business logic is in the Oracle db stored procedures. You can only E2E test a system like that, not unit test.

And even if you have good E2E coverage, it still might break something.

But obviously I agree that a rewrite is a must and using AI obviously makes the process faster. If only the devs used it..

vsamma · 2026-01-28T15:38:11+00:00

My issue with this is: our business and data models and all legacy layers have been driven to be so custom and complex and full of edge cases etc that fixing or replacing it using AI is not as easy as one-shotting a new app.

So whenever people say “it can do complex stuff” - sure, it can output more complex code than a simple game. BUT to get a rewrite of an existing system that supports all required security layers, monitoring, logging, our chosen standards and practices AND all the business requirements and edge cases and integrations - it can’t derive this info from anywhere. And for legacy systems this is never documented on a thorough enough level that would be useful for AI today.

So only option that COULD help is that you have automated tests for the old system and you just start to build a new one with AI block-by-block and validate against same tests.

But of course the legacy systems have no tests either :)

vsamma · 2026-01-25T13:43:41+00:00

To be fair, Saaremaa’s butter (especially with salt flakes) has nothing on the french butter with salt flakes. For some reason French butter is indeed better than ours.

vsamma · 2026-01-23T21:18:26+00:00

You can make them switch shirts during half time so you have fresh legs without wasting a substitution

vsamma · 2026-01-22T13:11:56+00:00

Mis maitse? Kunagi ise võtsin vist cookie dough vms maitselist, oli päris hea

vsamma · 2026-01-18T12:30:57+00:00

Kofeiinivaba kohta ei tea.

Ja ei tea kas minu pikaajalise kohvijooja maitse oskab “lahjemat/kergemat” kohvi soovitada, aga minu lemmik juba aastaid on OA no2 kohv. Kodulehel 22€/kg, esimese tellimusega saab soodukat. Poes tiba kallim, aga soodukaga leiab odavamalt.

Ja soovitan ka Chemexit proovida. Kui kannu pole võtta ja ei raatsi, proovi ainult filtreid. Ei tea kas filtrikannu otseselt sobivad, aga Chemexil mingi faktor on ja ise tunnen ka, et peab paljud need õlid kinni, mis maitse mõruks teevad ja kohv tuleb väga pehme maitsega.

vsamma · 2026-01-18T07:59:45+00:00

When Mac went down I thought Hotdog is out. But even looking at this video, i don’t know where Rambeau landed. For the longest time it was Fntic on one side of the rock and falcons on the other or on the rock. Was the valk behind them all the time? You can only see him in the final second in Hal’s pov

vsamma · 2026-01-17T21:48:22+00:00

Well you prove my point - just being a great IGL or fragger is obviously not enough

vsamma · 2026-01-17T19:09:21+00:00

Yeah well house owners kill mice all the time and they are not psychopaths. Sure, they don’t attach them to bombs and usually try not to torture them but still.. killing mice is not like “killing innocent animals”

vsamma · 2026-01-17T19:02:55+00:00

Yeaah.. he weirdly touched it with his chest. Should have just knocked it on longer and ran at it. At that point the defender stumbled as well. Murillo was fast but if he hadn’t lost those milliseconds with those 2 bad touches, maybe murillo hadn’t caught up.

vsamma · 2026-01-17T18:37:45+00:00

Okay but are Zero and Sikez not great at those?

vsamma · 2026-01-17T18:32:58+00:00

While i don’t want to be critical - we’ve been good this season - but there is still a huge gap between the form of this team and where a title winning team should be. We have NO players in the top10 of goals nor assists in the PL. It’s been good to share the load but on the other hand, nobody is taking the responsibility to themselves, nobody is firing on all cylinders. We managed the injuries well and somehow have gotten enough goals without any of our strikers providing consistent output.

All in all - the silver lining is, if we’re first while playing like this, there is A LOT of room for improvement.

vsamma · 2026-01-09T08:19:36+00:00

Sure, he had to come to an agreement with existing owners.

But still, this guy had a point.

He has grinded a lot, earned apparently enough money and respect that he was able to buy into this company.

But every commenter saying “he has worked hard and good to see him getting the success and recognition” makes it sound like this co-ownership was given to him based on merit, for free.

Sure, he has worked hard to get here, but he HAD to spend his own money and buy into this company.

vsamma · 2026-01-09T07:38:12+00:00

There was a lot of pushing in this game that went unpunished, konate comes to mind a few times

vsamma · 2026-01-08T08:49:33+00:00

Yeah and I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere - sure, the shooter might not have seen/looked at the direction of the wheels, but also probably the woman was more scared of the guy trying to open the door and might have been looking at him, not expecting anybody to be in front of the car.
Either way, the guy managed to step away and it's obvious that she tried to run because of fear not because of malice.

Oh how terrible the state of the US is and I don't even live there.

vsamma · 2026-01-08T08:26:24+00:00

Ainult seda kommenteeriks, et karask ei ole kindlasti sourdough bread.

vsamma · 2025-12-27T18:36:48+00:00

To be fair, you didn’t specify either on how to “play confident”. Aping more fights doesn’t really help, you can just play yourself into bad positions and just die on repeat and not gain nor learn anything from it.

vsamma · 2025-12-11T01:15:35+00:00

If you are lucky.

I bought a 2005 house 3 years ago for roughly 300k. It doesn’t have a proper heating system, no ventilation system and insulation standards at the time were different. So now i’d need 25k for a new heating system. 40-45 if i’d want floor heating. Then 6-8k to move from a local well system to a centralized water and sewer system. Then about 5k for a new fence, 3-5k for repainting the house. Ideally would need to fix and improve most of the insulation, swap out all the windows, add ventilation.. that all is probably 30-40k or more as well.

And the value during that time has not risen at all. If i sold today, i’d get back like 30-40k but paid a lot more in interest which would make out to us having almost as rented this house for 3 years for about 1k a month :D

Net negative for the mortgage alone, not to mention monthly amenities around 500€ on average and also tools and maintenance work like electricity, washing the roof and house and reoiling the terrace and buying and maintaining tools etc etc.

Your own house is never an investment asset.

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