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beardbound commented on Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year   helsinkitimes.fi/finland/... · Posted by u/DaveZale
beardbound · a month ago
Sure, but it's also paved with bad intentions, and neutral intentions. I would say that intentions have very little effect on the overall outcome of actions in general. Also good and bad are relative.

I would say that the road to outcomes are paved with actions. Not as pithy as the original though.

beardbound commented on Apple fights to keep DOJ antitrust suit from reaching trial   theverge.com/2024/11/20/2... · Posted by u/thunderbong
satvikpendem · 9 months ago
It's funny because in Android you can set animation speed to 0.5x or even turn them off entirely, it's an option in the developer settings. Apple would never let you do that.
beardbound · 9 months ago
You can set them off in accessibility settings https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/reduce-onscreen-motio.... I agree it's not something they make easy though. A lot of cool features/customization like that is in accessibility settings.
beardbound commented on Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts   community-scripts.github.... · Posted by u/BramSuurdje
prettyStandard · 10 months ago
A bit of a tangent. I've been trying to manage libvirt& Unraid through terraform, but have run into issue after issue. I'm about given up, and will just manage the virtual machines manually...

What's the virtualization technology on proxmox?

What's the advantage to using something like this as opposed to terraform or salt stack or Ansible?

beardbound · 10 months ago
proxmox is using KVM for virtualization and Linux Containers (LXC) for the containers. I agree that something like terraform and/or ansible would make more sense for an IAC (infrastructure as code) deployment. Most of the people I talk to that use proxmox for a homelab prefer to do things manually and don't bother with any IAC implementation.

For work I'm a firm believer in reproducible environments and IAC. We actually a combination of vagrant, libvirt, and KVM to spin up local clusters for quick testing and development. It works out pretty well, but in my homelab I don't have anything complicated enough to bother setting up terraform/ansible for. Although I imagine if my server crashed I probably wouldn't think that way anymore.

beardbound commented on TLA from First Principles   buttondown.com/hillelwayn... · Posted by u/ingve
larsrc · 10 months ago
TLA Will always mean Three Letter Acronym in my book. It took many link hops to find an actual definition, I finally found it in Leslie's first paper on the subject. PEYA, people! Please Explain Your Acronyms!
beardbound · 10 months ago
I've seen this more and more in recent memory. I feel like the standard used to be define an acronym the first time you use it, then you can use it without explanation.

Such as the TLA (three letter acronym) used here.

beardbound commented on Ask HN: How do you ask users about their pain point?    · Posted by u/yr1337
beardbound · a year ago
That's an interesting thought. I've done quite a bit of work in the medical/healthcare space in tech in the past. I think part of your issue is that doctors are notoriously hard to get a hold of. Also they don't make any of the decisions for tech.

If you're just generally trying to get an idea of pain points in the industry I think you should get more specific. Here are some for instances:

- Are you trying to make the interface between the doctor and the patient easier?

- Are you going to look at the way the doctors interact with the EHR (electronic health records) vendors?

- Are you trying to make the check-in process easier for patients?

- Are you trying to provide analytics for long term quality of care metrics on hospitals?

- Are you targeting small clinics, hospitals, or ER/minor emergency rooms?

Also for cold calling doctors on Linkedin, I am not surprised that you aren't getting much feedback. Most of the doctors I've known tend not to be into online stuff. You might have more luck reaching out to a local professional organization.

Also you might think about trying to contact nurses, nurse practitioners, or physician's assistants. There might be a local nurses professional organization that you could reach out to who could ask their members if anybody is interested. Just frame it as you're trying to figure out a way to make their jobs easier.

This ended up being a little rambly, but I hope it's useful. Cheers.

beardbound commented on Meta outage   metastatus.com/... · Posted by u/geocrasher
citrusybread · a year ago
can we really call it standalone if you need it to phone home to Meta? and doesn't it require an account one of their services too?

they did a fantastic job with hardware. I just wish they didn't couple the software so tightly.

beardbound · a year ago
For what it's worth it does require a meta account, but not a Facebook one. I refused to buy one while it required a Facebook account since I deleted a couple of years ago. Once they made the change I figured that was an OK compromise. I just found out today during the outage that my headset won't work if I get signed out of my Meta account. That was an unpleasant realization, although I suppose it's partially my fault for trusting Meta not to hamstring the hardware their selling.

It's the equivalent of finding out that if Microsoft's auth servers go down no one with a Windows PC can use it since they can't authenticate. I'm fairly displeased.

beardbound commented on A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now   mstdn.social/@Pandamoanim... · Posted by u/zhte415
jdminhbg · 2 years ago
> It's just The Market For Lemons at work.

It's not, really. Information about brand reliability is widely available. People just value different things.

beardbound · 2 years ago
I agree that people value different things but I wouldn’t say information about brand reliability is widely available. I have a consumer reports membership for checking that kind of thing simply because all of the info out there is mostly blogspam and fake review sites.

Information from reputable sources on large appliance purchases is incredibly hard to find since most people don’t buy appliances often, so even consumers used to doing online research will be hard pressed to know which sites to trust. I know that I wouldn’t have a clue.

If there is a place besides consumer reports, which is a paid service, where you can. Heck these things I would be very interested in hearing about it.

beardbound commented on Grocery Mergers? Not So Good   waterwrights.net/grocery-... · Posted by u/luu
bombcar · 2 years ago
The largest grocery store in the USA is Walmart; the second is said to be Amazon (via Whole Foods?). Third is Costco.

You likely have those near you. If not, the tenth is Target.

beardbound · 2 years ago
I don’t think that’s correct. Walmart is first, but second is costco and third is Kroger.

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/20/most-popular-grocery-stores...

beardbound commented on Community is the future of AI: Blog post and community discussion   meta.stackexchange.com/qu... · Posted by u/yeputons
andrewstuart · 2 years ago
This is the person who cancelled SO jobs.

SO jobs should have been an absolute gold mine, instead he cancelled it.

Makes no sense to me. If you can’t make a ton of money on job ads on Stack Overflow then you’re not trying.

It’s true that SO was doing SO jobs wrong, but it should have been fixed, not cancelled.

beardbound · 2 years ago
I loved looking for jobs on SO. I found some of the coolest companies and was seriously bummed when it went under. It’s how I heard about my current job I’ve happily been at for a couple of years.
beardbound commented on The ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 10 as a Linux Laptop   theregister.com/2023/03/1... · Posted by u/teleforce
bluedino · 2 years ago
I've had Windows 10 run certain (major?) updates that fubar the boot record or something because they ruin my dual-boot Linux install.
beardbound · 2 years ago
If you use the windows boot record as the parent boot instead of grub you can mostly get around this issue. It’s what I did on my gaming rig. I mostly use that as a development machine these days, but occasionally boot into windows for games.

u/beardbound

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