brendawalsh

Interesting position. I like it.

It took me a bit of time to realize you can make money “out of the money” with options.

Are your Puts naked?

Cool concept! I will check it out.

I am a big fan of redash.

It is really great in situations where non-SQL people ask if you can run a query or report for them.

It is amazing how quickly you can build up instrumentation with it.

Have you tried combining the tiles on-the-fly as image sprites?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Images/...

Yes, without clear leadership, it is easy for a dev team to flounder around in a cloud provider’s offerings.

Do you have any more info about this?

I am curious about the history of residential HVAC in the US.

There are two kinds available currently for ceiling.

The cassette, that would fit into a drop ceiling, and there is also a mini-ducted unit, installed in the ceiling with small-run ducted ports.

My favorite are the ones that look like picture frames.

I was gonna say, the outlay of capital for a building-wide hydronic system and an evaporative tower, versus each owner be responsible for their AC, I can see why that would be possible.

Particularly if the building is older.

Also, I am curious why there are multiple single condensor units in lieu of multizone units...I guess it is financially easier to purchase one unit at a time.

These minisplit units are typically, at least 9k to 12k BTUs, and if it a multi-zone unit it can be 24k or more.

I have yet to see a portable AC in the US that is more than 12k btus and as quiet as a mini-split.

Mini-splits are more popular now in the US, but, for whatever reason, the US is really into ducted systems.

I never understood why putting an air duct in a hot attic and an air handler in a hot garage made any sense.

You do have me curious on traffic stats for HN by country, though.

Senators used to not be elected by the general voters. Instead they were elected by state legislators.

The 17th amendment changed this.

I asked this a few weeks ago, and got 8 different answers.

So, my most recent success has been using pyenv and pipenv.

I install pyenv first, then install any specific point releases I need, then switch to the python version I want to use, and then use pipenv to install dependencies or run commands in the virtual environment.

I don’t know how old your dad is, but I remember mine had an IBM XT and used WordPerfect, w DOS 3.3, I think.

I remember WordPerfect being very popular in law offices, but also dictation machines, so who knows?

Anecdotally, I disagree with this, for both lawyers and doctors.

I know several doctors my age and younger that cannot stand using any computer or laptop, while my best friend’s father, a surgeon, had one of the first HP color flatbed scanners (SCSI) and the only person I knew to have an ISDN line.

My cousin is about a decade older than me, and I remember spending the night at his house with his TRS-80 and Apple II computers. He is an attorney.

So, HN doctors here, how ‘computer literate’ are your colleagues?

I have worked with doctors of varying age groups, including family, and it really just depends. Age is not a factor, it seems some people are averse, and others passionate.

Does that work for a fleet of 10 drones? 100 drones? 1,000 drones?

To be that old, and not ‘know’ Linux, and insist on using Windows, that is more of an issue to me.

He has been in the industry for over three decades and is afraid of a CLI?

The sooner Slack is out of my life, the happier I will be.

Once you use it with a decent amount of people for work, things just get ‘lost’, because the frequency of messages in a channel is so high, info is missed, or employees working on different shifts need to spend a decent amount of time at the beginning of their day to review all the missed messages, some are relevant, most are not.

As you mentioned, there is also an inclination to send alerts or tasks to a channel, and similarly, the alert gets buried w additional messages, or you want up creating a bunch of ‘alert’ channels that you mute, or become hijacked and people start convos in those channels.

Also, the threading sucks. It is very difficult to get users to use threads.

Twitter was vulnerable because of a social engineering attack via their Slack, so definitely possible to get access to post a message.

Is the K in CMYK black, though?

I had an HP Deskjet that you had to swap out the color CMY cartridge for the black cartridge, otherwise black was a dark green.

My newest printer is CMYK and the black is crisp.

What do you pay for licensing the services?

I actually have DSL and it is similar, not speed, but asymmetry.

12 Mbps down and 768kbps up, almost 20 to 1 ratio.

Most ‘consumers’ download more than they upload.

Zendesk?

Intercom?

Salesforce?

It is amazing what can be done with 20+ year old technology.

I saw the apt install cron, and wondered what the solution w/out cron entailed.

Have you read the book ‘Natural Capitalism’?

There is a point made that the current costs are not adequately addressed, and instead externalized to the public.

It was written in 1999.

Maybe your plastic.

Mine is transported several miles away, where it is buried and can then leech into the river, which is used as our water supply downstream.

But, yeah, who decided to put the water treatment plant next to the landfill?

All true, but still made me chuckle.