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richman777 commented on How I Use Home Assistant in 2025   vpetersson.com/2025/01/22... · Posted by u/ingve
aucisson_masque · a year ago
That's why home automation is such a waste of time. All this work for that? And the cost too.
richman777 · a year ago
For what it’s worth I’ve been using HA for 5 years and don’t deal with any of that and it generally just works. I was dealing with worse with overlapping hubs and ecosystems.

All my switches are unicellular and ceiling fans and lights are their fan hubs as well. Over a hundred devices and it generally just works.

richman777 commented on Intuit Is Closing Personal-Finance App Mint, Shifts Users to Credit Karma   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/gwintrob
exabrial · 2 years ago
I'll give it a look. Are you affiliated in some manner?
richman777 · 2 years ago
They are. Looks like the creator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38090161

Note: I’m not forming an opinion on it or saying to use or not use it, was simply curious because I hadn’t heard of it.

richman777 commented on The AirPods Pro “Rattlegate”   annoying.technology/posts... · Posted by u/dewey
leokennis · 6 years ago
I always wonder with "gates" like this: how many people (what percentage) are affected?

For example, I never had an issue ever with my AirPods Pro since I bought them six months ago. Does that make me the outlier? Or is it just that 1% have issues, but they are very vocal about it (for understanable reasons)?

richman777 · 6 years ago
It took a bit down to get to someone like me too. Have had no issues since day one and now I'm going to be insanely critical of them.
richman777 commented on Most new NY coronavirus hospitalizations are from people who stayed home   cnbc.com/2020/05/06/ny-go... · Posted by u/lxm
RickJWagner · 6 years ago
“I was afraid that it was going to infect my family no matter what I did. We’re past that,” Cuomo said at a press conference on April 13. “If you isolate, if you take the precautions, your family won’t get infected."

Yet also:

"Most new Covid-19 hospitalizations in New York state are from people who were staying home and not venturing much outside, a “shocking” finding, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday."

Seem contradictory, no?

richman777 · 6 years ago
That's the point. He said one of those things on April 13th, the other he said, presumably, yesterday, May 6th.
richman777 commented on The Toyota Way   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The... · Posted by u/qin
tvanantwerp · 7 years ago
I really enjoyed The Phoenix Project. I agree that things come together a bit too nicely at the end--seemed unrealistic. The first half though, when everything is going wrong, seemed very realistic. I couldn't read it before bed, or else I'd get too worked up to sleep.
richman777 · 7 years ago
It made a rough transition for me because all of the things going wrong were all too familiar.

Then when it wrapped up very nicely I felt like I was bad at my job. "Wait, how did they fix it so fast!?!" (hyperbole here but it was sort of a gut punch)

richman777 commented on The Toyota Way   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The... · Posted by u/qin
richman777 · 7 years ago
A lot of this was covered in "The Phoenix Project". A good read but a bit idealistic in the expected outcome. The fake company was essentially able to right the sinking ship after the band had already stopped playing, in 2 quarters no less.

However, the core tenets were valid from a general approach. My fear when reading was the potential to go overboard. We have all met over-zealous scrum masters. Same could be applied to a lot of the stuff they were essentially transferring from manufacturing to development and more specifically devops.

richman777 commented on Niki Lauda has died   theguardian.com/sport/201... · Posted by u/CaliforniaKarl
vermontdevil · 7 years ago
He wanted to boycott the race at Nürburgring saying it’s too dangerous to race there. The track is spread far for emergency personnel to quickly reach any accident.

Ironically he crashed and the rest of the story is well-known.

One of the greats

richman777 · 7 years ago
Compared to today's tracks it's insane to me that Nürburgring was widely used. The logistics at the track are clearly very high stakes and seeing how we could look at how huge that track is and think that's a good idea just shows how far the sport has come.
richman777 commented on Jack Dorsey says it’s time to rethink the fundamental dynamics of Twitter   techcrunch.com/2019/04/16... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Bokanovsky · 7 years ago
What I really dislike is the spam in the notifications section. If someone likes my tweet, replies to it or retweets it, that's relevant. I don't however want to see a notification for something Tweeter deems interesting under other people you follow liked/retweed this as a notification.
richman777 · 7 years ago
I don't quite get why you can't disable these notifications at all. I really don't want to see the things I missed or it finds interesting. And they're purposefully pushing you to look at it to dismiss those notifications.
richman777 commented on Apple finally enters TV streaming space with new Apple TV+ service   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/mpweiher
richman777 · 7 years ago
This launch event was very odd. It seemed like a launch event geared towards the general public but about a media platform for the media. No real launch details and no pricing structure with no previews of shows.

Given the recent debacle with the airpower lack of a launch date I can't help but not really trust that this is going to come out in the fall...much less "what" is coming in the fall.

richman777 commented on TLDR Stock Options   tldroptions.io/... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
woolvalley · 7 years ago
Which is why as a startup you have to offer something that FANG can't offer, like full remote working or similar.

That or taking the people who fail to get FANG offers / naive jrs.

richman777 · 7 years ago
I wonder how much the proliferation of start up failures has to do with this very fact versus a poor product/model/founder/execution/etc.

Not saying that the employees are to blame but I'm sure there's plenty of good ideas out there that just don't have the right people trying to implement it.

Or that's such a small amount that it really doesn't contribute.

Really just wondering what that number is.

u/richman777

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