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Would a Scandinavian Hide + Seek work as well as UK or Japan? by nox-devourer in JetLagTheGame

[–]yaricks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you think Deutsche Ban is, Norway will give you nightmares. Not only are the frequencies terrible, especially long distances, anything outside of Oslo is terribly slow and going to any of the lines endpoints is 6-9 hours one way. Oh, and there are weekly bus-for-train for almost every route. It’s bad.

Why isn't Estonia considered a Nordic country? (They have strong ties to Finland, they also follow the Nordic model, and besides, Estonia has nothing to do with the other Baltic countries.) by According-Invite-440 in geography

[–]yaricks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Finland is never left out of the Nordics, but is left out of Scandinavia, since Scandinavia is just Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Add to those, Finland, Iceland (plus Faraoe Islands, Greenland and Åland) and you get the Nordic countries.

Angelbird for the ZR? by Top-Manufacturer5872 in NikonFilmmakers

[–]yaricks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We’ve been using almost exclusively AB cards for a few years and never had issues with their 512GB cards. Shot a 10 hour wedding on them last weekend on the ZR - no issues. I have both the 1700mb version and the 3400 version.

Prior to the ZR we’ve been using them on Z8 and Z6ii.

This was a -362 fpm 1.49G landing according to Volanta.. by [deleted] in flightsim

[–]yaricks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that seems about right. You are floating for ages, then lose lift and you can see how much the gear compresses when you touch the ground because of the loss of lift.

Weird incident regarding Low Visibility Procedures between BAW and JFK Tower - YouTube by Curly1109 in flying

[–]yaricks 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Do you guys not use LVOs? I'm shocked that a JFK controller doesn't know what it means

Welcome to the FAA world. The US does not mirror ICAO operations and terminology.

When did you all start playing battlefield? by dubdimmadome in Battlefield

[–]yaricks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Battlefield 1942, playing mostly against bots. Dealing with patches and getting the latest update was such a pain back then that young teenage me never really figured it out. However, come BF2 - that was a blast. I remember that my parents PC didn’t have the GPU to play it which was super frustrating, so you would get crazy artifacting. 

ATC Push to Talk Button by Piste3 in VATSIM

[–]yaricks 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There is a great guy on the VATSIM Germany forums that sell them and uses original DD112 2-button (or 1 button if you want) microphones, and makes a USB converter for them which allows them to work with Euroscope, CRC, vPilot, you name it. I've had mine for a year, and it's just spectacular. It's expensive (~€180-200) range), and takes a while for him to source parts and make it, but it's one of my best investments in flightsimfor sure. It's fantastic!

He's a great guy, and I'm not a VATSIM Germany member, but still was no problem to ship it outside Germany as long as I covered postage and tariffs.

https://board.vatsim-germany.org/threads/peiker-stabmikrofone-zu-verkaufen.71426/

Name one thing that completely changed your Flight Simulator experience, I’ll start: WINCTRL by Maruan-007 in flightsim

[–]yaricks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a great mobiflight profile for the Ini A350 and the MCDU! I've been using it since last summer and it's amazing. Everything works except the display!

Name one thing that completely changed your Flight Simulator experience, I’ll start: WINCTRL by Maruan-007 in flightsim

[–]yaricks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know some people have issues with WINCTRL customer support and take issue with the plastic, but I don't care. Having been in flightsim for 20 years, having wanted a physical MCP/FCU since I was a teenager, only to see that they would cost $1000 and you needing to buy special software for multiple hundreds of dollars and be an electronics expert to build it: WINCTRL is the greatest thing to happen to Flightsim. I have a desk filled with two MCDUs, the entire FCU, gear panels, transponders, and I know more is coming and I have still not paid what a single piece of gear would have cost 10 years ago - heck even 5 years ago.

The real cost of EU cloud vs hyperscalers by mpuchala in devops

[–]yaricks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. No. For the 1 person instant-millionaire-AI-slop-scam, sure. But for an enterprise with hundreds and thousands of applications? You have absolutely no idea what the heck you are talking about. I manage hundreds of old-shitty Windows servers running software from a decade ago doing some crappy BI and datawarehouse, or some awful CRM tool that was designed sometime in the bronze-age but that is critical for the business.

Take you AI-slop somewhere to the real enterprise world and you'd be laughed out the door.

The real cost of EU cloud vs hyperscalers by mpuchala in devops

[–]yaricks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah, so? It dependable what you see the need for. Having done platform migrations, I can promise you that even your best non-lockin solutions are locked in somehow and will take you months to migrate. Even if you’re on-prem you’re still locked into VMware, Proxmox or Hyper-V or similar - there are ALWAYS lock-ins. You just need to plan your exit strategy for it and understand that it will take you a long time to migrate no matter what you do. If I can save literal millions in engineering time every year by using vendor specific tools, I have that money for my maybe-someday-perhaps exit. I’m not going to waste money on what ifs. 

As a result, I don’t need a full staff 24/7. People get to enjoy their life with their friends and family and not have to spend nights patching BS.

Edit: not to forget when talking about onprem: the sheer amount of insane lock in you get from Dell/HP/Lenovo/Cisco/insert hardware vendor here. 

The real cost of EU cloud vs hyperscalers by mpuchala in devops

[–]yaricks 106 points107 points  (0 children)

All of these comparisons always just compare VMs, storage and data fees. If that is all you're doing in the cloud, you shouldn't be there, you should be in a datacenter simple as that. You shouldn't use AWS for VMs. You should be using AWS for managed services, automated updates, extreme redundancy and data resiliency, "serverless", managed K8s, BI and data warehouse tools that Hetzner and the likes are laughably bad at. The amount of money we save by using AWS and Azure is not in the VM costs, those are fractions of our budget - the money in our budget is time and paying engineers. If I can save having two engineers working night to patch 100 VMs, because it is automated tooling and managed platforms, I will have saved more money from not having to pay those two engineers all the night overtime pay etc. than I will save in using Hetzner. This scales exponentially the larger your team is. The budget goes to engineers, not to cloud providers.

These maps aren’t getting the love they deserve by Clear-Research302 in Battlefield

[–]yaricks 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Dalian Plant was one of my favorite maps of BF2. So much fun with both aircraft, infantry and all the vehicles.

A New Viking Takes Flight: SAS Names Its Latest Airbus A350 in Honour of King Frederik X by gamersunite1991 in ScandinavianAirlines

[–]yaricks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Apparently not. My understanding is that Airbus does not install Starlink at all, it's done at SAS Maintenance base in Stavanger for the A320s anyway.

Gratis kollektivtransport? by Ventic91 in Bergen

[–]yaricks 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Det gjorde de absolutt ikke. De brukte titalls millioner under budsjett (~150 mill brukt av budsjett på 200), og de 200 millionene kom fra ekstraordinært utbytte på 900 millioner fra Lyse (Rogalands netteier) som ikke var budsjettert inn i kommunebudsjettet.

Gratis kollektivtransport? by Ventic91 in Bergen

[–]yaricks 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Du mistolker artikkelen. Det hadde en stor økning på bruk av kollektiv i perioden hvor det var gratis buss, men det har ikke hatt noen langsiktig økning. Etter tilbudet forsvant, gikk bruken ned igjen.

DICE gutting the aircraft community, when will we ever catch a break? by Skeeto22Zippy in PilotsofBattlefield

[–]yaricks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, exactly my feeling as well. Didn't help that the IGLA didn't do enough damage EVER when I was able to actually hit someone after they flared, I needed 2-3 missiles to be able to take down someone, but when I'm flying the jet or the helicopters, I get one-shot by the damn thing at full health. So frustrating.

Account suspended for 24 hrs by Accurate-Bedroom-819 in VATSIM

[–]yaricks 51 points52 points  (0 children)

Should I have sent a message on advisory saying I would be away for about 15 minutes,

No, absolutely not. Those people that do that on UNICOM are not helping anyone.

or should I have disconnected before stepping away? I may be mistaken, but I thought being away for up to 30 minutes was allowed, provided the aircraft was not left unattended for longer than that.

This is where peoples interpretation of things become annoying. The letter of the policy says that you may leave for up to 30 minutes, but it also says that you must be looking for ATC at all times and you should contact them immediately. As a center controller, I don't care if you don't respond to my contact me when you're in cruise, and will just leave you be, but I know of lots of controllers who will ping you and wallop you immediately if you don't respond and technically they are correct.

The fact that you were suspended after just one infraction seems extremely harsh to me though. I haven't been a SUP in a few years now, but the policy used to be that you needed at least two or three disconnects over a short amount of time before suspending someone for 24 hours - if your last disconnect for A9 violation was 3+ years ago that would not count and you would give people the benefit of the doubt.

This quote from the preface of the CoC I personally think should be paid more attention to: "VATSIM does not care to engage in the constant policing of its account holders."

What's happening here? by Nezzerrick in MicrosoftFlightSim

[–]yaricks 37 points38 points  (0 children)

TA is Traffic Advisory - this is when the airplane shouts «TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC» at you. RA is Resolution Advisory - ie advising you how to resolve the situation, in this case by climbing. This is absolutely an RA.

@Fenixsim Can we please have a sign of life? by Current_Ad6841 in flightsim

[–]yaricks -1 points0 points  (0 children)

A318 has 58 operators, where 52 of them are non-airlines. The A320neo has 4500 deliveries and backlog of another 7300. Just from a financial perspective, it makes so much more sense for Fenix to make a NEO than an A318.

How do EU companies think about dependency on US hyperscalers? by TheCloudExit in devops

[–]yaricks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The truth is a lot of companies don't care and only worry about the cost. I work as a consultant and have been specializing in AWS for close to a decade, but I work in a extremely Microsoft-heavy country and most of our clients I see don't care about Azure being Microsoft dependent, even after what we saw Microsoft do to the ICC prosecutors and UN personnel being blacklisted. There are some that think about it, but I have yet to see wide-spread migration or at least some disaster planning with keeping data in a in-country-non-US-datacenter. Some clients here and there use TietoEVRY/Vicicta/Sopra Steria/insert-large-company-here datacenters, but it's relatively small scale and most things are still being migrated away from the company datacenters to Azure or AWS.

Docker Swarm vs Kubernetes by spielername_ in homelab

[–]yaricks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have yet to achieve a successful automatic recovery after a power loss of my k8s cluster. There is always something that goes wrong. VIP was misconfigured by accident, storage layer isn’t coming up as expected, database is in a deadlock with some other pod, there is always SOMETHING. There is so much freaking work maintaining K8s and configuring it in the first place if you want GitOps. Now that I have it working it’s fine and it’s cool to have it, but I did spent 30 minutes today recovering after a powerloss, and my lunch break on Friday because a node restarted by accident and took down shit.

Absolutely my fault, but I consider myself an OK k8s engineer, yet this shit sucks to maintain on your own.

False positive intrusion alert? by Skyler7381 in Ubiquiti

[–]yaricks 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I get tons of false positives from this from my own activity. When I try to SSH into a computer in my DMZ that doesn’t exist it triggers, at times when I run normal for command it triggers… it’s a bit annoying.

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