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New comment by chunkymilk in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

chunkymilk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:27:28 +0000

It depends on where the hike is: Dropping an orange peel in a humid, temperate, low-elevation place is vastly different than a desert, high-alpine, tundra or other environment where organics take a long time to decompose.

New comment by chunkymilk in "Ask HN: Why did LinkedIn become what it is today?"

chunkymilk — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 18:05:21 +0000

Thank you for sharing this. It's the sub I didn't know I needed.

New comment by chunkymilk in "Lower Obesity Rate During Residence at High Altitude Among a Military Population"

chunkymilk — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 22:21:42 +0000

This was outside of Boulder, in Westminster, just west of 25 on 136th.

New comment by chunkymilk in "Lower Obesity Rate During Residence at High Altitude Among a Military Population"

chunkymilk — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:35:44 +0000

This was my experience when I moved to CO. On the east coast I had to drive to running trails and cycling routes by my house had no shoulders and a lot of traffic. In CO I had access to 120 miles of trails from my backyard and the roads had either dedicated bike lanes or wide shoulders.

Add in a walkable grocery store and I was a lot more active in CO than I was on the east coast.

New comment by chunkymilk in "Tell HN: I salute everyone on call/working support through the holidays"

chunkymilk — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 21:01:22 +0000

> Always be kind, and say it’s your fault.

I do this with internal teams at work. I've found approaching other teams with issues with their library/framework in a "this could be our mistake" manner really helps in keeping them from getting defensive and stonewalling.

New comment by chunkymilk in "Widespread drastic reduction of brain myelin upon prolonged endurance exercise"

chunkymilk — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 01:50:44 +0000

I've made the mistake of driving home (to Philly) the day after IM Lake Placid the first time I raced it.

It's bad for a number of reasons, but the punch-drunk feeling was unexpected.

I made sure to stay an extra few days when I did it again.

New comment by chunkymilk in "Ask HN: Can you take more than 2 consecutive weeks of vacation?"

chunkymilk — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 18:21:53 +0000

The only "rule" around vacation is the longer the vacation the more notice you _should_ give. I've had colleagues take 5-6 weeks off, but they let the team know 4-5 months in advance so it wasn't a big deal and we could work around it.

New comment by chunkymilk in "Lahaina Noon"

chunkymilk — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 19:59:57 +0000

I had the same thought looking at the photo of the level standing upright. Looks like the OpenGL programs I wrote in college.

New comment by chunkymilk in "I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars"

chunkymilk — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 17:50:52 +0000

Can't disagree. He's was doing what the incentives in place said he should be doing.

I would find it boring/tedious to keep rebuilding the same thing since I'm more of a solve the problem, operationalize the solution, then move on person.

New comment by chunkymilk in "I accidentally saved my company half a million dollars"

chunkymilk — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:58:59 +0000

My last place also called it promotion-driven-devevlopment.

It got to the point where some dude built a system that completely floundered but got him a promotion. He then re-wrote it so it sucked slightly less and got another promotion. Last I heard he was working on v3.

Never mind that someone with actual domain knowledge would have either not built the system (since it didn't _really_ need to exist) or would have built a much simpler/more reliable system to get the job done.

New comment by chunkymilk in "Please Pay for a Year of Nothing"

chunkymilk — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 00:53:30 +0000

I don't but know folks who do. They keep track of things they want to watch until they get to the point where subscribing for a month makes sense then cancel at the end of the month.

The hard part is keeping track of what you want to watch and what service it's on and whether it's still there when you want to watch.

New comment by chunkymilk in "She's the star witness against Sam Bankman-Fried. Her testimony was explosive"

chunkymilk — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:07:56 +0000

The "Judging Sam" podcast had some color on this from a reporter who was there. It felt to them like she was a bit overwhelmed at being walked into a packed courtroom with everyone staring at her then being asked to point out a guy who's appearance had changed a lot recently (haircut and suit/tie).

Personally, I can't imagine being very composed in that situation at that age.

New comment by chunkymilk in "Video streaming at scale with Kubernetes and RabbitMQ"

chunkymilk — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 03:03:24 +0000

My background is in linear (title VI and OTT) and ad-insertion. A big chunk of my job is explaining to folks that just because you solved VOD that doesn't mean you've solved linear. It's almost best to think of them as two distinct problems.