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twunde commented on The ROI of Exercise herman.bearblog.dev/exerc... · Posted by u/ingve

scotty79 · 10 days ago

Never seen a free tennis court in my life. I've seen plenty of paid ones though.

Did every city you lived it had a free golf course as well?

twunde · 10 days ago

If you're in the northeast US it's very common to have free or have to pay a nominal fee for public tennis courts (this may depend on the quality of your town's Park and rec department)

In NYC, it's 15/hr or 100/season. In the town I grew up in it's 20/yr for residents and 40/yr for non residents. I'm my current town it's free. And I suspect that there are waivers/discounts for folks that can't pay that amount.

twunde commented on XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images binarly.io/blog/persisten... · Posted by u/torgoguys

charcircuit · 15 days ago

When deploying to a VM you don't need to build a new image. If setup right you can just copy the updated files over and then trigger a reload or restart of the service. Different team's services are in different directories and don't conflict.

twunde · 15 days ago

This is much more viable than it was in the past with the advent and adoption of nvm, pyenv etc but the limiting factor becomes system dependencies. The typical example from yesteryear was upgrading openssl but inevitably you'll find that some dependency auto updates a system dependency silently or requires a newer version that requires upgrading the OS.

twunde commented on Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day gizmodo.com/amazon-just-h... · Posted by u/pseudolus

twunde · 4 months ago

In new England at least, independent bookstores appear to be thriving. The town I'm in (population ~12K) has at least 5 independent bookstores, all in a town with a great library. That's an unusually high number of bookstores but most of the larger towns have at least one independent bookstore.

twunde commented on Ask HN: My father passed away. How do deal with the grief? · Posted by u/gogo61

twunde · 6 months ago

Something popular in my area, especially in the somatics community, are grief ceremonies ala https://www.earthdance.net/event/grieving-ourselves-whole-ex... although there are several variations. If that feels too new age-y or its not offered near where you live, it may be worth looking for grief groups/bereavement support, either through your preferred religious institution or through the local medical community (they're often supported by your local hospital)

twunde commented on The Profitable Startup linear.app/blog/the-profi... · Posted by u/tommoor

pclowes · 6 months ago

Maybe for something truly novel, but the exception proves the rule here IMO.

What is an example of a not simple idea pure software play that would require VC funding at the earliest stage?

twunde · 6 months ago

VC funding is often required for companies that require a lot of runway prior to selling. The example that comes to mind are database companies like Mongo, dgraph, scylla etc. These require a fair amount of upfront work to create the product before their usable. A different example are industries that require a fair amount of compliance like healthcare, banking etc

twunde commented on Intel doesn't know how to be a foundry, Tim Cook reportedly said in 2011 tomshardware.com/tech-ind... · Posted by u/retskrad

gsibble · 7 months ago

Counter-Point:

GCP and AWS came out of product focused companies that effectively converted to providing the services they used internally.

twunde · 7 months ago

It's rare but does happen. And frankly I'd only include AWS in the counterpoint. Google really struggled with GCP. Outside of Bigquery and Spanner many/most of the services were custom built for GCP and were not used internally. Hell they built a VM service when basically everything ran on Borg internally

twunde commented on Ask HN: Why aren't cost-minded SME/startups using Linux on laptops even now? · Posted by u/raghava

twunde · 9 months ago

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/germa... discusses some places that are moving to Linux and some places where migrations have been reverted. But from personal experience the main issues are in order:

- Is all your software supported on Linux? Are you sure? Do all the features work or are any missing/broken? Have you tested this or are you relying on Sales or docs that are likely wrong? What happens if one piece of software drops Linux support?

- Does using Linux block any future planned projects or make future projects much more complex?

- You now need to spend time with every new hire training folks on the new OS, as well as retraining existing staff.

- Are you going to piss off a lot of staff because you've made their life harder?

- For compliance/security requirements, do you have everything necessary to easily explain to auditors that these computers have the equivalent security (antivirus, monitoring, mdm all with metrics, dashboards and logs)?

Essentially this boils down to a lot of work, which impacts the future flexibility and the morale of the company in order to save a relatively small amount of money. Often times your spending more money on supporting Linux than you're actually saving.

ChromeOS is a modified version of this argument. ChromeOS comes with a strong security and compliance story, and has easy built in management. There's been some adoption in call centers but primarily it's used in schools by students because the school has been given a grant so gets them for free. Even with all that, very free businesses are adopting ChromeOS because a) some workflow they use isn't supported and b) Windows is not significantly more expensive.

twunde commented on Why Scrum is stressing you out rethinkingsoftware.substa... · Posted by u/aard

LeFantome · a year ago

What in Scrum is about keeping managers happy?

twunde · a year ago

Daily stand-ups, the main benefit of which is that managers (EMs/PMs) get daily updates on status. Sprints themselves which promise that a certain amount of work will always get done, without any free time being wasted.

A lot of the ceremonies in general are mostly helpful to the EM/PM. How many things that you're doing are actually improving how you get work done? Especially when you consider how much time is spent on these ceremonies (sprint planning 1 hr, sprint retro 1 hour, daily standup 15-30 minutes. Plus whatever prep is needed and the interruption time.) For many companies this is a 20% or more overhead that's mainly busywork because you still need the additional meetings to understand what you're working on.

twunde commented on Documenting Dance: Keeping Score (2017) adafrobinson.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/mont_tag

twunde · a year ago

Something adjacent is the Underscore dance's glyphs ( https://globalunderscore.com/underscore-glyphs/ ) which describe the patterns/phases of contact improvisation