Hacker News: logosmonkey

New comment by logosmonkey in "“Real Water” that poisoned dozens contained chemical from rocket fuel"

logosmonkey — Sat, 07 Oct 2023 14:26:18 +0000

I love that some influencers who were marketing alkaline water would gush over how much they loved it with a wedge of lime or lemon squeezed into it.

New comment by logosmonkey in "Fi now opts you into the use of your CPNI by Alphabet affiliates"

logosmonkey — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 14:13:12 +0000

Huh, I did it yesterday and I clicked the 'here' link in the email and it took me to a page that said I was now opted out. I didn't have to do anything additional.

New comment by logosmonkey in "66% of Americans say they want extended European-style vacation policies at work"

logosmonkey — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 14:48:16 +0000

They will first stop paying your sick days and depending on what job you are in they may allow some additional time before they eventually fire you. If you are in a lower paying job it's likely you will be terminated earlier than someone in a higher paying white collar job.

New comment by logosmonkey in "Why Japan has so many ‘never travelers’"

logosmonkey — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 13:18:22 +0000

For the three weeks I was there in March I bought a suica card at the airport and never had to think about fairs for subway or buses for the rest of the the trip. I also used it to pay fir food at convienance stores and roadside stops. That seems pretty darn convenient to me.

New comment by logosmonkey in "Life before cellphones: The after-work activities of young people in 2002"

logosmonkey — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 12:45:03 +0000

I work for a large US Corp in the US. I close my laptop at 430-5 and don't open it again until the next day. I don't have work email on my phone. Most of my friends who work for corps are the same. So I dunno. We are all on our 40s so maybe younger folks in their 20s are more connected or something but I don't think so.

New comment by logosmonkey in "Ask HN: What's Happening at Southwest?"

logosmonkey — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 16:55:49 +0000

Apparently Southwest is one of the biggest offenders in the airline industry when it comes to not investing in their IT infrastructure. You can only get away with that sort of debt for so long.

New comment by logosmonkey in "Ask HN: What can I do about my declining typing ability as I age?"

logosmonkey — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:34:16 +0000

I also want to mention that I am in my 40s and had never climbed before I started about 5 months ago. I just signed up to take an intro to bouldering course at a local gym and went from there. Additionally climbing is a very technical sport that involves a lot of problem solving which I find very appealing. Being overweight or out of shape shouldn't stop you from giving it a try, you might stay climbing lower grade problems longer than others but you will still find challenging physical and mental puzzles that you can complete.

New comment by logosmonkey in "Ask HN: What can I do about my declining typing ability as I age?"

logosmonkey — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:28:45 +0000

Very interesting. I was going to make the same suggestion. Specifically bouldering since I think it's generally easier for folks to plug into their daily routines with the proliferation of gyms and not needing a significant amount of equipment. But three times per week bouldering has radically changed my body and hands for the better. I no longer have elbow or forearm/wrist pain that I used to experience quite frequently after typing for a long period.

New comment by logosmonkey in "Ask HN: What software do you miss that no longer runs on modern hardware?"

logosmonkey — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:35:54 +0000

Glyder 2. It was a magnificent mobile game that stopped working quite a few android versions ago. I keep meaning to dig up an old phone and sideload it.

New comment by logosmonkey in "Hertz paid Accenture $32M for a website that never went live (2019)"

logosmonkey — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 02:49:30 +0000

The hospital I work for just outsourced the majority of IT to Accenture in what I am sure will become one of the worst mistakes they have ever made. The 10% if us they kept are now going to be just doing cat herding work with all our contractors. It's..... a whole thing.

New comment by logosmonkey in "What do Starlink’s latest Ookla results mean for its RDOF winnings?"

logosmonkey — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 02:20:12 +0000

Same, I got a setup before I went out west this year and I can now camp off grid at places I couldn't the previous years. It's great.

New comment by logosmonkey in "Ask HN: Are companies preparing to end Remote?"

logosmonkey — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 01:38:04 +0000

Doubt it. The healthcare org I work for is still happy for all IT staff to be remote and the companies that have come headhunting me recently have all offered full remote. This is for analytics work in hospital systems, they aren't exactly the most forward thinking orgs but even they are adopting WFH as a new normal for back office staff.

New comment by logosmonkey in "Ask HN: Which new skills for a data science career?"

logosmonkey — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:10:53 +0000

Truthfully, most roles advertised as data science in most corporations and Healthcare orgs are mostly just data wrangling for presentations or dashboard work. You have plenty of skillset to get in the door at most places if you interview well. Your big problem will be weeding through the jobs to find one where you will really get to do data science working and not just write somewhat complex sql queries for people.

New comment by logosmonkey in "Ask HN: What (almost) company sinking engineering mistakes have you witnessed?"

logosmonkey — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 16:44:30 +0000

I worked for a company that did an SAP modernization project. The IBM consultants did a large part of converting all the custom ABAP stuff. The idea was to get back to as vanilla SAP as possible and included a ton of Business Objects and data warehouse work as well to convert old reporting etc. They were constantly behind and decided to just push the load testing off the road map to hit the cio's arbitrary go live date. Within three days the data volume got large enough to grind the entire system to a halt and the company couldn't take, bill or fulfill orders. Of course the consultants were well out the door by that point. I spent months unwinding the stupid crap they did on the Business objects reporting side.

New comment by logosmonkey in "Ask HN: My Google account was hacked, Google says they can't help"

logosmonkey — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 22:21:26 +0000

yeah, it just allows you to receive email from people who don't know their email address. I have my full name @gmail and constantly get folks who send stuff to first.last@gmail

New comment by logosmonkey in "The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle"

logosmonkey — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 17:09:58 +0000

Yeah, my mom (grew up in the rural south US) has told me multiple times about how her mom would heat bricks fro the beds each evening. They were very poor and had no central heat so wood stove, bricks, and multiple kids to a bed (there were 13 of them) was the go to winter strategy.

New comment by logosmonkey in "Grocery store shortages are back"

logosmonkey — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:18:09 +0000

Also Midwest (Ohio) and I don't recall seeing a shortage on anything other than maybe during one of the first snows, which always happens because people are dumb.

New comment by logosmonkey in "When a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like"

logosmonkey — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 22:15:47 +0000

Yeah the current spike is well over 100 more cases per day for my hospitals than either of the previous spikes. It's pretty nuts. That's a ton of additional inpatients.

New comment by logosmonkey in "When a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like"

logosmonkey — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 22:11:45 +0000

Just looking at ICU doesn't tell the whole picture. Not all covid patients - confirmed or awaiting a test - are place in ICU. ICU beds are a fraction of the total. ICU and vent patients are obviously more likely to die but all those other covid positive patients are still in our hospitals. My hospital now has more positive patients, and patients overall than we ever have in the entire pandemic - or any other time for that matter. We just don't have the staff to maintain these sorts of levels long term, regardless of the beds we have. We aren't necessarily crumbling but it's definitely getting harder and harder.

New comment by logosmonkey in "When a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like"

logosmonkey — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 22:01:51 +0000

Most hospitals have been having back office folks re deploy to do the drudgery for months now. Lots of stuff like stocking rooms, bed setup etc. Ohio has now drafted national gaurd units to help in our hospitals to pick up this slack as well. None of these folks can do direct patient care stuff like blood pressure etc but they can and do pick up nearly everything else.