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logosmonkey | 2 years ago | on: Why Japan has so many ‘never travelers’

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.

logosmonkey | 2 years ago | on: Life before cellphones: The after-work activities of young people in 2002

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.

logosmonkey | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's Happening at Southwest?

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.

logosmonkey | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What can I do about my declining typing ability as I age?

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.

logosmonkey | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What can I do about my declining typing ability as I age?

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.

logosmonkey | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are companies preparing to end Remote?

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.

logosmonkey | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which new skills for a data science career?

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.

logosmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: What (almost) company sinking engineering mistakes have you witnessed?

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.

logosmonkey | 4 years ago | on: The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle

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.

logosmonkey | 4 years ago | on: Grocery store shortages are back

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.

logosmonkey | 4 years ago | on: When a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like

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.

logosmonkey | 4 years ago | on: When a health-care system crumbles, this is what it looks like

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.
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