rfreiberger

I'm just here for the two stroke that we never got in the states. :(

I believe there's a video on youtube with this, they used a whistle to signal when to stop and change teams. IIRC it was 2 minutes of exposure, followed by hour of cool off time or something like that.

But everytime I hear this story, I got to wonder who would pick up an object generating heat and not question why it's still hot hours later?

I'm not in development or engineering directly but work in an operations role (mostly Puppet and Terraform work) where I've been oncall for the majority of my career. One thing that is common when things get really bad is the mindset of oncall doesn't count towards my role at the company. Many people see it as the painful work of cleaning up while the others are out building the next big thing. So it's easy to see people jump into the shift, deal with the mass alerts, then leave without making any improvements for the next guy or gal.

One way we have been trying to improve this is working with PagerDuty reporting and looking at the total amount of interruptions (not just pages but anytime PagerDuty reminds you for an alert/expired snooze/escalation) with the team. It's very easy to forget the oncall as you leave, but having more eyes on the shifts starts to bring awareness and lots of "why is that still broken" questions that are better answered at 10am vs 3am on a Sunday. I came from a large Operation Center so I know the pain of bad alerts, mostly cya stuff where it was put in place just to make sure the last guy can't get blamed. Sort of like adding 100's of random smoke detectors in a build without any fire suppression. The intention is good but the results are poor.

Outside of the meeting with the team, we also have proper handoff meetings with off call and on call, so they can share what's going on verbally instead of tagging the next person with the alerts. Makes it easier to share what's going on, any weird problems, notes. Also we're not using a 24/7 oncall coverage but 12/5 and 48/2 for the weekends, it's a small change but helps so much. The worst I ran was a 7/24 at a major email company and was paged every three hours, for the entire week. After that I knew the team didn't want to change and I needed to do something about it.

I have this issue and my work around is marking my most used pages as "favorites" so they sticky to the top. But it's super annoying when I hit a forced refresh and my location a few levels deep get reset.

I really want to visit some day but doesn't sound like it's what I picture in my mind as a old German town.

I used to think this way, going with the cheapest method possible but I now try to buy directly from the publisher or local stores. Not only does it hurt the publisher buying from Amazon, it also diverts the funds to produce the next book. Some of my books have been extremely expensive but these are pennies to the value I find in them and how it improves my career.

The Mountain View Computer History Museum is near by and I love making a visit. The era that interests me the most is from the 60's where they started to scale up from the tube era. It's just amazing considering the time and effort compared to today.

I've been a user of Notion for two years now switching from Evernote. But the biggest reason was for the tree view which in Evernote is only done using tags. Are there other note apps that off a tree view?

Also Notion seems to store code blocks without formatting them, I found that in Evernote, the backtick and single quotes would get formatted even inside a code block.

Personally I use this in terms of trickle-down technology. If a feature appears on a Milwaukee, it will shortly appear on A Ridgid or Ryobi soon. This was the case for hydraulic impact drivers, that first came out on the Ridgid then Ryobi and Milwaukee soon after. But it's really about the entire tool family and how much does it fit you. Since you're not buying a single tool but more about buying the battery format. So if you need garden tools maybe down the line, check out a tool lineup that offers this, even if it's a remote possibility. All of the tools IMHO are well built and I doubt there's a huge gap in performance.

Given the age of the babies and CRISPR technology, how long before we find a rush of Olympic records suddenly broken by surprise athletes?

I would be interested to hear the ratio in other countries, my father who spends time in Taiwan mentioned that they subscribe antibiotics for almost everything, almost as we do for acetaminophen or Asprin.

The only site I know is actually open would be https://archive.org/, is this site another clone/fork?

I've been a user of Evernote since 2011, and previously I would use various ways of documenting my personal notes/work notes. Why I use Evernote is it's decently polished, works across OS versions and allows the best mix of storing attachments. A few months ago I tried a large selection of other note-taking apps and really wanted to like Standard Notes but it just felt not as polished and the extensions were not so great. I really think Quiver would be a winner if it was open to Windows, and I'm starting to think Onenote is the winner. But most of these lack the tree view of the notes (nested tags/notebooks) or they don't allow attachments storage.

We visit this mall every few weeks and the robots are still somewhat of an attraction there. People will stop and take photos, blocking the path of the robot, which emits a flashing beacon and whirling sound as it's working.

What we have seen is children will run up and hug the robot and dart around the base, which I would assume doesn't expect a human to be at this level. Another incident was a dog owner walking around the robot, but the dog went the other direction, leaving the leash between them. The robot started to run over the leash and almost drag the dog until the owner backtracked and pulled the leash free.