sickygnar (u/sickygnar)

sickygnar commented on Retirement the Margaritaville Way newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/Thevet

nimbius · 3 years ago

so the takeaway here is that whilst the rest of the world enjoys the wrack and ruin of boomer excess, boomers enjoy...evermore excess?

What am i supposed to take away from this other than smouldering rage? this is an advert at best.

sickygnar · 3 years ago

I'm not sure whats so enraging about it. Average people having fun with a goofy lifestyle?

Some of the Jimmy Buffet stuff is tongue in cheek. I mean "cheeseburger in paradise?". Everything about the song is awful, and I think everyone understands its awful, but it's juvenile and fun. The margaritaville thing is a welcoming in-group. It's "who cares, don't worry about it, live and let live." Key West certainly reflected those values when I visited. I kinda get it now.

sickygnar commented on Two-minute battery changes push India’s delivery riders to switch to e-scooters theprint.in/tech/two-minu... · Posted by u/rustoo

russellbeattie · 3 years ago

Every single person who's ever put batteries in the back of some consumer electronics device immediately thinks, "Why don't they just make it so you can swap batteries in EVs?" I was definitely no different.

I now own a few eBikes including a DIY conversion, a Sur Ron dirt bike and an Onyx emoto. The batteries are just so insanely compact and heavy, it's surreal. The Onyx has a removable 72v/48ah extended range battery which weighs 37lbs (17kg) [1], similar to the weight of the swappable batteries in the article. Let me tell you, that may not seem like a lot of weight, but it really is and it's *just so dense!* It's the equivalent of over 4 gallons of milk contained in two shoe boxes.

Seriously, every time I have to move - or should I say "manhandle" - the batteries in any of the bikes, I audibly groan and make sure to lift with my legs. The batteries are all different shapes, sizes and in various boxes and all shockingly heavy for their size. The sharp edges of the Onyx battery box is a true hazard as its momentum will give your thigh a nice bruise should you swing it, or your car a nice dent.

Anyways, I'm sharing all this to say: Batteries are heavy af. Really. As good as a solution this is for scooters, don't expect it to go much more beyond that. There won't be swappable batteries on your big Zero or Livewire any time soon.

1. https://www.onyxmotorbikes.com/collections/parts/products/rc...

sickygnar · 3 years ago

Each scooter has 2 smaller batteries, presumably because of this problem.

I own a Sur Ron too, and I don't find the stock battery weight to be an issue. ~30 lbs isn't unreasonable for the average person to lift. It's amazing they packed a dirt bike into 125 lbs. I'm able to lift it over barriers and load/unload it from my sedan, and it doesn't ride far off from a mountain bike. It's only twice the weight of a top of the line e-mountain bike, but has 7x the power output and goes further. Easy decision. It's the most fun machine I've ever owned.

Zero uses 3.6 kwh modular batteries. I'm guessing they are 40-50 lbs or so which is probably around the upper limit the average person would be comfortable lifting and loading regularly. I'm sure they could be engineered to sell them in smaller sized units, but I don't think they're actually hot swappable.

Keeping my eye on this one: https://starkfuture.com/en-us-US/products/stark-varg

sickygnar commented on Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams? · Posted by u/dtagames

sickygnar · 3 years ago

They filter out positives, though according to hiring managers, that's the point. I had a frustrating experience with a hackerrank recently. My code was passing all of the public test cases, but failing one of the hidden test cases, and there was no way (that I could find) to debug it. Incredibly frustrating. Even if you're a long time senior developer who can code, don't be fooled into thinking you can pass one without practicing on the particular platform.

sickygnar commented on LXC vs. Docker earthly.dev/blog/lxc-vs-d... · Posted by u/lycopodiopsida

sickygnar · 4 years ago

I never hear systemd-nspawn mentioned in these discussions. It ships and integrates with systemd and has a decent interface with machinectl. Does anyone use it?

sickygnar commented on Get mock interviews now, pay when you find your next job blog.interviewing.io/anno... · Posted by u/leeny

alasdair_ · 4 years ago

I have a friend who does this with companies that he finds morally repugnant, except he takes it a step further and gets free vacations out of it by having them fly him in for the onsite in New York and put him up in a nice hotel the day before and the day after. He usually walks out after a couple of hours and spends the day visiting tourist stuff.

sickygnar · 4 years ago

Sounds like he'd be a perfect fit for those companies

sickygnar commented on Where have all the insects gone? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/jseliger

pengaru · 4 years ago

Last year I had a jarring experience driving through some of the agricultural land near the Salton Sea en route to Bombay Beach coming down from JTNP, taking back roads.

The general region is desert, water and food is scarce, but through this agricultural zone there's this dense pocket of food and water on the surface.

I was in a Miata with the top down, and the amount of chemicals they were using to keep the pests/insects away from this lush green oasis in a land of nothing was noxious. I hadn't exited my car, just drove through these fields on the farm roads, and it left me feeling sick with a headache and nausea well into the next day.

Of course I didn't encounter a single insect, spotless windshield.

sickygnar · 4 years ago

I've done the same drive, thru the farmland and cattle ranches to the south of the salton sea by Brawley. God it was noxious. Despite the sea having a reputation for an awful smell, it didn't compare to the farmland below. My throat hurts thinking about it. You sometimes get a similar effect in the san joaquin valley.

sickygnar commented on Rethinking Triplebyte triplebyte.com/blog/rethi... · Posted by u/Harj

kumarjsingh6 · 4 years ago

Your preferred language was nodejs after all

sickygnar · 4 years ago

hah, fair enough.

sickygnar commented on Rethinking Triplebyte triplebyte.com/blog/rethi... · Posted by u/Harj

sickygnar · 4 years ago

I'm salty towards the platform because they rejected me a few years ago, and my ego has barred me from using them again despite their outreach. I was also very unhappy when I heard about the public profiles. I don't want people to see that I interviewed poorly, or to have any kind of public record of that. I'm a decent engineer, I swear!

I had some bad luck. My nodejs build broke after a recent update on my machine, which I didn't realize until right before the interview. During a test with a different language, I tried to define a constant with the same name as a built-in function and ran into a vague compiler error (something about missing parentheses, ugh). This language has case-insensitive function names to compound the confusion. I unfortunately looked up how to define a constant in the docs. Their conclusion was that "I was uncomfortable in the language," despite having used it for 10 years. There was some other feedback which I felt was inaccurate, I think I just had a bad day, and obviously didn't convey my knowledge and experience well. I could see why a recruiter would hard pass on me for some of the stumbles, since their main goal is to forward candidates who interview well. It hurt to get rejected.

sickygnar commented on Seizing the Middle: Chess Strategy in Business fs.blog/2021/06/seizing-t... · Posted by u/feross

sudhirj · 4 years ago

> He was the only player to defeat Anand, an obvious sign of computer assistance.

Ok this is a bit much. This was a celebrities simultaneously against the grandmaster match, and this guy is a serious player who competed when he was young, and likely plays regularly for fun and practice. Given this was an exhibition fundraiser, and the guy had nothing to prove (already runs a very successful brokerage and hedge fund, India’s youngest billionaire and all) why make an accusation of cheating?

sickygnar · 4 years ago

The guy didn't just cheat, he blatantly cheated, using the computer for every move outside of his first move blunder. Then he bragged about winning in the post-game interview.

The guy obviously lied about his chess background, he lost to a scholar's mate (4 move checkmate) in one of his recent games. He probably just said he had a chess background to sound smart. Arrogant narcissist.