mclouts91 (u/mclouts91)

mclouts91 commented on A runner who leads every pack and then vanishes nytimes.com/2023/02/25/sp... · Posted by u/georgecmu

boppo1 · 2 years ago

How do these runners knees not succumb to problems? Genetic lottery? I run 6 miles on a treadmill with zero drop & pronation inserts, stretch withe a calf wedge & still feel like I'm flying close to the sun with my knees.

mclouts91 · 2 years ago

The old myth that running is bad for your knees. It isn’t unless you have a condition. What you may not have is tendons ready for the effort or the right supporting muscles. These can be worked on.

mclouts91 commented on Apple avoids job cuts because it didn’t overhire like Google and Amazon bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

tablespoon · 3 years ago

Or maybe the current tech layoffs are a fad not driven by necessity, and Apple tends to set trends, not mindlessly follow them?

mclouts91 · 3 years ago

Most layoffs are happening in growth businesses that aren’t even profitable on paper. Apple, make things, things people want and quite often need. they are a solid business that are unlikely to suffer much in a short term tightening of people’s finances interest rate rises.

mclouts91 commented on ‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/pseudolus

sidewndr46 · 3 years ago

I thought the UK had government healthcare?

mclouts91 · 3 years ago

It does but it doesn’t mean you get any treatment available. They carefully make decisions on what treatments they can/should provide. This may be offered eventually but at the moment it’s a case of be very fat and get offered gastric sleeve or just be overweight and no treatments are offered other than advice about losing weight

mclouts91 commented on Get Running with Couch to 5K nhs.uk/live-well/exercise... · Posted by u/MonkeyClub

dotBen · 3 years ago

Is there a cycling equivalent Couch to 5k app?

Given the impact running has on the joints, it would be great to do a program like this with a bike instead.

(Other than Peloton which obviously has a high entry cost and even their app-only experience is pretty expensive for what it is)

mclouts91 · 3 years ago

You need to realise that weight bearing exercises (this means running, walking etc) are good for bone health. Low impact activities like cycling don’t give your bones the right stimulus to stay strong. And as the other commenter has said, the impact damage is probably in the minds of people who say that running does then damage but in reality it doesn’t do damage, it is actually a benefit to bones and joints.

mclouts91 commented on What would a “good” WebMD look like? blog.tjcx.me/p/why-is-web... · Posted by u/tomjcleveland

switch007 · 3 years ago

One issue with the NHS is that I get the impression the information they publish that strongly respects their goals and desires perhaps to the detriment of patients sometimes.

I’ve certainly noticed in the past big differences in advice. The NHS will downplay and not suggest investigations whereas another (non UK) site does the opposite.

The NHS advice surely is carefully crafted not to cause unnecessary (from their point of view) GP visits, tests etc.

mclouts91 · 3 years ago

NHS is focused on the appropriate allocation of resources to the problem. It strikes an excellent balance of doing the right work when necessary and based on probabilities. If you have evidence that the process recommended by the nhs is failing patients in statistically significant numbers I would agree with you on them not doing enough tests but frankly, I think NHS would perform very well if it was adequately resourced (it’s currently starved of necessary funding).

The NHS follows a strict set of guidelines for the identification and treatment of illnesses. They do not act like medical businesses such as hospitals whose goal is to do as much testing as they can justify to get more money from insurers.

mclouts91 commented on Manhattan rents cross $5k threshold for first time axios.com/2022/07/14/manh... · Posted by u/rascul

afavour · 3 years ago

As a New Yorker myself I do wonder where this ends up. Me and my relatively well paid friends can afford to live here but we depend on a lot of lower paid folks for the city to function. Grocery store clerks, delivery drivers, coffee baristas, all that sort of thing. Maybe right now they have a half hour subway ride to work and that’s acceptable. But as they get pushed further and further out it’s going to break down somewhere, no one is going to commute 90 minutes for a minimum wage job when there are plenty of jobs available elsewhere.

Wages will need to go up, which means the costs of goods and services will need to go up, and the city will get even less affordable.

mclouts91 · 3 years ago

Wages will rise

mclouts91 commented on Ask HN: How do you deal with slight memory impairment? · Posted by u/MarcellusDrum

bryal · 3 years ago

Also, get a new smoke detector just to verify that you're not sleeping every night in a room with a carbon monoxide leak.

mclouts91 · 3 years ago

You mean, get a CO detector. Smoke detectors won’t help.

mclouts91 commented on Imagine there’s no human error surfingcomplexity.blog/20... · Posted by u/kiyanwang

mclouts91 · 3 years ago

I thought this post was going to show me something profound but it’s clearly a surface level idea without any real knowledge of the topic. Human error comes in many forms and from a safety perspective we want to identify what impacts human error will have and then work to reduce the risk associated with each one to as low as is reasonably practicable.

Process design, interface design, organisation and manning, ergonomics etc all play a role.

It is inevitable that a human will make an error, with a well designed system it should be very very hard for them to do so.

mclouts91 commented on Tell HN: Turned 44 today and I'm lost · Posted by u/0414throwaway

mclouts91 · 3 years ago

Have you thought about teaching your skills to others to pass the time?

mclouts91 commented on Show HN: Monte Carlo simulation for predicting project timelines quotes.vistimo.com... · Posted by u/diiq

mclouts91 · 4 years ago

There’s a typo on the how it works page... Unkown unkows