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TrueGeek··on The Creepiest Cycling Condition: Shermer’s Neck
I would agree. I spent a lot of time working closely with my bike shop working on fit. Many sessions over a couple years learning things about fit that you don't really notice until after your first really long ride.
TrueGeek··on Where Expats Should (Not) Move in 2022
Thank you so much, that’s extremely helpful. Can I ask where you’re from and if you returned there or went somewhere else after Germany?

My wife and I are American but we’re in the UK now, just to see how we like it before committing to a permanent move. We’ve also looked at Germany but I’ve struggled with the language, and although she’s conversationally fluent, I feel like forming deep friendships would be difficult.

TrueGeek··on The Creepiest Cycling Condition: Shermer’s Neck
I did Paris Brest Paris in 2019 (finished in 89 hours) and got Sherman’s neck for the very end. I saw other riders suffering from it, and one woman who had put her hair in a long braid and then fastened that somehow to hold up her head.

Luckily, for me, it came at the very end and I was able to finish.

Worse was that I compressed my ulnar nerve and had loss of feeling and tingling in my left arm for 6 months.

Lots of good memories from that ride.

TrueGeek··on Where Expats Should (Not) Move in 2022
Is it possible to see the full list with explanations and not just the summary of the top / bottom five?

UK is listed as 37 and I’d love to know why.

TrueGeek··on Can we protect land for nature and carbon by simply buying it up?
Note that this article is about the UK. It discusses your point in part 3 and goes on to discuss an alternative solution at the end. There are complex laws as almost all of the land is privately owned by either private citizens or the crown.
TrueGeek··on Iceland’s forest and bush cover has increased sixfold since 1990
Maybe he does both
TrueGeek··on Tell HN: I’m a wannabe developer, who works as a construction worker
What this might look like: the interviewer starts the call and says “good morning, how are you?”. OP answers with “Nervous! I’m not great at talking over the phone instead of in person.”

There have been a few times when, post interviews, I’ve been on the hiring panel and someone said “I don’t know if they were just nervous or what…”. Just be totally upfront about it, especially for a junior position.

TrueGeek··on Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent
Even The Guardian couldn't help but link to the TikTok channel, point out when it was posted so you could find it easier, and post a screenshot of the video with the woman in it even though it's an article all about how she didn't want to be on camera. They're going to get tons of views!
TrueGeek··on FBI Child ID App
That stat is shared among parents so much. "840,000 missing a year" in a nation of 73 million children is interpreted as meaning in any given year you have a 1 in 87 chance of never seeing your child again at any given time.

My brother won't return his shopping cart to the shopping cart return area because, in those 30 seconds where his back is turned, someone is likely to take his children. One parent told me they take it one step further and they won't use passenger door to put their children in the car. Instead, they reach through the car from the driver's door. This way they don't have to walk around the car which would allow someone to take their child.

I've suggested just locking the children in the car but it seems like solving the wrong problem, really.

TrueGeek··on Deepmind’s New AI May Be Better at Distributing Society’s Resources Than Humans
Just subscribed, thanks

An AI in control of humanities resources was also the plot of one of the stories in I, Robot (the book, not the movie).

TrueGeek··on I analyzed more than 7M developer jobs
I do Xamarin (Microsoft's iOS / Android framework) and the listings often throw in Swift / Java / Kotlin. Sometime's they'll throw in React Native and Flutter even if they don't use them. The Xamarin world isn't huge and I guess they just want to try to grab the attention of as many hybrid mobile devs as possible.
TrueGeek··on Hardening the registers: A cascading failure of edge induced fault tolerance
I think the important thing is to be consistent. I worked with a microservice system for years (as a front end engineer) where some teams would use 404 to indicate record not found, some teams would use your system, and a couple teams sent back the response in the header! Of the teams using your system it would quite an ordeal to find out the meaning of "status: 1000", especially if the system was 10+ years old and the original team no longer around.
TrueGeek··on The Great Decentralization? Geographic shifts and where tech talent is moving
With massive swings in barometric pressure. Atlanta is great for many things but I hate the weather here.
TrueGeek··on New GitHub Profile Badges Beta
I like how this is the most upvoted comment
TrueGeek··on Ask HN: Has Cloudflare blocked your domain without explaining what's going on?
I also want to see a Cloudflare post-mortem here. All of my domains are with them. The worse part of OP's story is that they even prevented him from moving the domains to another registar. So if this happens to any of us we're completely locked out of our email.
TrueGeek··on Tell HN: Microsoft locks migrated Minecraft accounts, requires phone to unlock
I was setting up an account for my child and it insisted on knowing their first job as one of the security questions. I normally put PIN-type responses to these and record them somewhere, but it said that wasn’t a valid answer. So many of these systems just aren’t very well thought out.
TrueGeek··on Poll: Is Large-Scale Climate Geoengineering Inevitable?
Technology: the cause of, and solution to, all of our problems.
TrueGeek··on Apple employees criticize work-from-home policy in open letter
https://hbr.org/2020/06/working-from-home-while-black

https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/10/health/remote-work-disabiliti...

TrueGeek··on Show HN: I am building a free version of Strava
I disagree. The bike computer is more rugged and I’m much more comfortable mounting it on handlebars. It’s a better size then even my iPhone Mini. As the other commented said, the battery life is much better then a phone, and it’s trivial to hook up to a dyno hub. (I’ve run a Wahoo head unit over multi day rides many times)

Plus, it keeps my phone free for photography.

TrueGeek··on Costs of California’s troubled bullet train rise again, by estimated $5B
Roger Rabbit
TrueGeek··on Ask HN: People who use different emails everywhere, who sold you to spammers?
The worst, by far, is Camping World / Good Sam. It’s just amazing how they are willing to sell my email to anyone and everyone. My local branch has a good service department though so I just setup a filter and keep going back.
TrueGeek··on Ask HN: I burned out but I don't want to let my team down
In my entire career as a US software developer (15+ years) I've only had 1 employer that offered sick leave. Every other employer offered a "bucket" of time off. So even if you just have a cold you either go to work or you have one or two less vacation days that year. It's not uncommon to only have 10 days total for the "bucket", even for senior developers.
TrueGeek··on Ask HN: Have you had any real benefits from apps like Headspace, Fabulous, etc?
The intro course in Headspace is amazing. I had to experience with meditation and Andy really explained it well. It completely changed what I thought meditation was. But then, afterwards, he made it so simple I didn’t need the app at all.

You’re right about his story. His book is great, simply for the first quarter where he tells how he got where he is.

TrueGeek··on Ask HN: Why Blog at All?
This is why I do it. If I can figure it out quickly or via a Stack overflow search, great. If I get stuck for 2 days before solving it then I’ll blog about it. Maybe one person will read it and my 5 minutes of writing a blog post will save that person 2 days of headache.

I have seen visit logs where people visit my articles from Google years after I write them so it seems to be working. And more then once I’ve been stuck, googled the problem, and found my own article because I forgot I’ve solved this exact problem before.

TrueGeek··on Ask HN: Why are you sorting by new?
I’m also here from RSS. I read Reddit the same way. I follow just 5 or 6 subreddits and don’t have to worry about falling into the trap of endless scroll in an app.
TrueGeek··on Tell HN: Recruiters are lying about remote positions
Welcome to Atlanta. There isn't an easy way to get from Gwinnett to Alpharetta.

I did try it via bicycle, and it did take about the same amount of time. But the streets here are vary narrow and southern hospitality ends when you get in a car.

TrueGeek··on Tell HN: Recruiters are lying about remote positions
This happened to me. The interview process went well but the company's closest office was 15 miles from me, which in Atlanta traffic is over an hour. I said I would need to be remote, they wanted me in the office full time. We were using an external recruiter, which I had never done before. Eventually the recruiter negotiated that I'd be onsite for the first month for onboarding and then remote after that.

My first week I mentioned something to my boss about being remote after the first month and he had no idea. The recruiter had simply lied about "negotiating" so that I'd accept the offer.

Luckily it all worked out. Although company policy was officially no work from home, my directly manager didn't care at all. And shortly after corona hit and they company ended up going 100% remote anyway.

TrueGeek··on One-click checkout startup Fast is laying off its staff
I love one click checkout. Amazon is okay, and I've used it a few times on sites that support it. But if a site has one click Apple checkout it makes it so much easier. I don't have to worry about them having my credit card info, and it takes 1 second to check out.
TrueGeek··on Daily steps and all-cause mortality
That actually helps, thank you. A lot of my meetings lately are non-video so I could easily take those while walking.

I'm working on moving into a city. The plan is to get rid of the car and I think that'll make a huge improvement in health.

TrueGeek··on Daily steps and all-cause mortality
Working from home I find it nearly impossible. Even using a standing desk, using the bathroom on the other floor instead of the one near me, trying not to ignore my watch when it says to get up and walk, etc... I'll often end up with less than 2k steps.
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