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SystemOut··on Did They Ghost You?
I think that there should be a feature of "they turned me down/declined" and have an option for whether or not they gave you useful feedback.

We should also reward and encourage positive behavior by companies.

SystemOut··on DuckLake is an integrated data lake and catalog format
Strangely I can't get to this domain. We have ZScaler at work with DGA Blocking enabled and it prevents me from loading the page.
SystemOut··on 3D-Printed Dune Chess Set
Fuzzy skin finish might also get you pretty close along with a wood PLA. They can do both wall and top layer fuzzy skin now.
SystemOut··on Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor
I'm on Mounjaro for T2D, previously on Ozempic. Besides the weight loss and the blood sugar control it also eliminated my IBS as well. Before the drug certain foods, especially nuts would cause excruciating digestive issues. I can now eat them without worry. It's been amazing.
SystemOut··on I designed a Dieter Rams-inspired iPhone dock
I think it's doable with a parametric design in Fusion but it is definitely more work up-front or re-work after you have a working version. Getting a well parameterized and set of constrained sketches can be a time consuming process since I don't do it every day. It's probably the part I've struggled with the most in making 3D printable designs (I'm not OP but design cosplay props for my kids) since I don't always know what I want the final dimensions to be.
SystemOut··on Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion
We just completed the switch to Rancher where I work. 1200ish engineers, mostly on Macs. So far it's worked out pretty well..fewer hiccups than I expected.
SystemOut··on Taking my diabetes treatment into my own hands
This may be a terminology thing but as a T2 I will always carry that diagnosis. However, mine is in remission because I manage it through medication/diet.

My doctor and I have talked about trying to see if I can drop the medications and still stay in remission but I'll still be a T2 patient.

Also, not all T2s can manage just through a ketogenic diet.

SystemOut··on Slack AI
I think it's only going to get worse as the LLMs get just that much better that people stop thinking more critically about what they generate. Right now I think many people still verify or read through the results to make sure they sound right. What happens when people get lulled into complacency and then it really goes off on a bender.
SystemOut··on The window for great-grandmothers is closing
From my limited vantage point (in-laws) this is normal in the Filipino culture. My wife and I moved away from her parents so we didn't do this but her sister's kids were probably a 70/30 split in being at the grandparents' house. Her cousin's kids were the same. In fact, many of them would send the kids to the Philippines for months at a time where the grandparents lived to be raised by them. It felt really odd to me at first but that's more because it wasn't how I was raised plus I didn't have any grandparents that were still alive when I grew up.
SystemOut··on Home Lab Beginners guide
This could almost be me. The main difference is my "server" is an off-lease Dell Micro PC that I maxed out the RAM on running ProxMox with a mix of VMs with everything stored on a Synology NAS all sitting in my basement office closet. I have tailscale setup so I can access it remotely.
SystemOut··on Let's build a VORON Trident
While I do use the AMS for multi-color prints, it's actually more useful to me because I can keep four filaments loaded at any time and it's easier to swap filaments out of the AMS that from behind the printer. I try to avoid prints with a ton of color changes just because of how much it slows down prints and the amount of waste it generates.

If the Prusa XL wasn't so expensive for 5 toolheads I'd get that since its' much faster for filament switches and the minimal amount of waste it generates.

SystemOut··on Let's build a VORON Trident
Have you taken a look at the https://github.com/viesturz/tapchanger project?
SystemOut··on US unemployment has been under 4% for the longest streak since the Vietnam War
On a recent Moody's economics podcast they did not think this was the case. Rather this job growth in government was more about back-filling positions they had struggled to fill when the private sector had been pushing up wages and pulling people out of government jobs.
SystemOut··on Argentina's New President Wants to Adopt the Dollar as the National Currency
I've read from multiple sources that they don't have the assets but couldn't they sell off state industries to gather enough assets? I thought one of the new President's plans was to privatize everything there.
SystemOut··on Why doctors in America earn so much
I think the ageism thing is not as big of an issue anymore. Yes, you will see it in startups that are run by 20somethings but I'm in my early 50s and haven't had any problem staying employed or getting offers.

If you stagnate skills wise or stop trying to grow/evolve your abilities then you definitely will have issues but that's true in many industries, not just ours.

SystemOut··on America does not have a good food culture
Can't tell if you're serious or not but Outback is not Australian.
SystemOut··on Launch HN: Twenty.com (YC S23) – Open-source CRM
Replace Salesforce and CRM with ServiceNow and ITSM and it's a similar story. They call it "Land and Expand". There's a reason they have a 99% or so renewal rate.
SystemOut··on Colorado repealed law limiting municipal internet
In Chicago it was typically 40Mbps but in the last few weeks my scheduled speed tests are running 230Mbps. However, during Covid I had co-workers that lived in communities with a large number of WFH and they were all having trouble with video conf on Comcast so it doesn't surprise me at all.
SystemOut··on Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more?
Yeah, most of the time I think I do. I suspect it has to do more with diet and maybe water as well. Since Ozempic slows down your digestive process my current thought is that fiber / gut bacteria might have more affect on things but I haven't done a food diary to try and track what impacts me more.
SystemOut··on Ozempic drug supresses desire to smoke, drink and more?
My story / anecdata.

About 6 months ago there was a posting about Ozempic and I had said something to the effect that it wasn't worth it watching some of the side effects my wife had from it. And then I went to the doctor for a check-up and lo and behold I had diabetes. Asymptomatic, but an A1C of 11. My doctor re-ran the test because he didn't believe it and it doesn't run in my family. My cholesterol had also jumped and he said he was going to put me on a statin after the initial 3 months of adjusting to the diabetes medication.

My Dr. puts me on Ozempic and I grumble about it but with that test results I had, I knew I had to do something. Fast forward 3 months, I dropped 20 pounds, and every other measurement is back in the green, including my A1C. Now, I made some serious lifestyle changes and ate a diabetic diet (limiting carbs, the types of carbs, etc), and have been keeping up with being more active but my entire relationship with food has changed because of Ozempic. Before I had a near compulsion to eat more than I should. Now, I don't because one, I feel fuller quicker and two, I know I'll feel horrible for hours if I over-eat. It only took one of those events to never want to do that again. I can't really explain why but I also don't have as strong of a desire to eat foods that are bad for me. I really thought I'd battle the cravings more after going cold turkey from "bad" foods. I can't say why it is but it's true. Side note, going to the grocery story was really difficult at first....there is so much sugar in the American food supply.

Energy wise I will say that I did struggle with low energy initially as my body adapted to lower calorie intake but I also learned that when I found the right balance of protein/complex carbs for me that my energy levels came back up and I now feel better than ever.

My doctor was shocked. I've never seen him that animated when I came back in for the 3 month follow-up. I didn't need to add any additional medications and they're slowly adjusting me back towards a single medication.

SystemOut··on A eulogy for Dark Sky, a data visualization masterpiece
I would just like an app that has a functional precipitation map view. Both Dark Sky and the iOS Weather app have been horribly unreliable. Sometimes I can zoom in/out and it will/would work but it's amazing how often it doesn't.

The Apple app has been even worse than Dark Sky was at this.

SystemOut··on The New Madrid Seismic Zone
When I was a freshman at Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri S&T) this guy, Iben Browning, predicted that there would be a major earthquake on the New Madrid fault line in December. I think a few schools even closed for the day in the area because some parents were so freaked out about it. It was just the craziest scene that people believed that this nut job could actually predict an earthquake.
SystemOut··on MacBook Pro featuring M2 Pro and M2 Max
My M1 MBP wouldn't reconnect to my monitor via USB-C until I unplugged the monitor and plugged it back in. Of course, I had to go digging on forums to find that out.

Permission issues also arise after every upgrade. I purposely wait until the .1 so that other people find all these issues but it's still super annoying.

SystemOut··on HoloKit relaunched, $129 AR Headset accessory for iPhone
I tried MS Flight Simulator with a Quest tethered to my desktop and I couldn't get the resolution high enough to be usable for the instrument panel. I'd have to still zoom in for them to be readable. The concept is amazing but I couldn't get reality to match up with it.

It was also weird not being able to see the my throttle and yoke and all the different buttons I needed to use. I didn't have enough hours on the setup to have it all be via muscle memory yet so I needed to be able to look at my cheat sheet sometimes.

SystemOut··on ‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers
Have the side effects stopped? Or have you only been on it 3 months? My wife has been on Ozempic for longer than three months and the side effects haven't stopped. The nausea is typically bad for a few days after taking each dose but some of the others linger most of the cycle. For some I can see that tradeoff being okay but I can't see non-obese, non-diabetic folks making that trade-off for longevity. I know I wouldn't.
SystemOut··on BloomTech, previously Lambda School, cuts half of staff
Yeah, we found an amazing engineer through one of the bootcamp programs. It might have helped that she had a math degree and so she probably started with an analytical approach but either way, she did really well. This was in a rapidly growing enterprise software company with rigorous reviews.

There was definitely some bias against it in a few corners of our group but by and large, most didn't care. Ironically, the guy on the team that didn't like her because she came from a coding bootcamp (he had a CS degree) was by far my worst performer.

SystemOut··on Hyundai’s Ioniq 6 EV makes its US debut
Do they sell the Mini Electric there? US pricing is 34K which is about 50K AUS. Range wise it's 185km. I have a friend here in the US with one and she loves it.
SystemOut··on Writing down what I do in Obsidian
Try the "Checklist" plugin. You can put a #todo tag above a section in your note and it will aggregate all your checklist items under that tag into the sidebar. It lets me put todos across all my notes and keep track of them.
SystemOut··on EDI vs. API
This is so true. Am in logistics so can't speak to other verticals but every-single-implementation has something unique to it. Either they're on a version we haven't tested on, or they only support some date/time formats, or they have custom codes, whatever.
SystemOut··on The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures
This was one of the primary reasons I left. I had a project that enabled more than 100M+ increased revenue globally and the sales teams it impacted loved my work. But it wasn't considered hard enough or technically challenging work by engineering leadership so I got CME. That was it for me.
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