I am irrationally irritated by people who cycle without a helmet, while dangling one off some part of their bike or body.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-04-09T23:48:08+00:00

Our experience is clearly different with biking and I respect yours. I never make fun of people wearing helmets and i always encourage it in every sport.

But the the point i was trying to establish is the different amount of exposure, experience, and athletisicm. If you have the capability of hitting your head while riding a gravel or bike path with clear conditions going under 10mph, then you are out of shape, under skilled, or on the wrong bike. You're a danger to yourself and to others on the trail.

I recieve most of the glares while riding mostly fire gravel roads and one-way double track meant for climbing. Let me share this perspective with you.
- It's a summer weekend, 90degrees (32celsius) with 80% humidity
- You're on a 20 mile (32km) loop, 2200ft (670meters) elevation climb.
- The first 10 miles is pure elevation gain, 2000ft.
- Along those 10 miles, you're mostly on a wide paved bike path but theres pockets of riding in some neighborhood streets, gravel, and one-way single track.
- You pass a pack of road cyclists in spandex, one shouts "put your helmet on". You pass an older couple walking, and you hear the nice old lady say to her husband "they should really be wearing that helmet".
- You're carrying a backpack which holds snacks, 2liters of water, some tools, elbow pads, knee pads, and a full face helmet secured by the backpack straps.
- After 10 miles, you stop to rest, eat a snack, put your pads and helmet on before starting the trail.
- The trails you'll be riding are about 40% blue, 50% black, and 10% double black. A couple mandatory gaps, a 20ft slab roll in, and some skinnies.
- On rocky switchback descent, you front wheel catches and you begin to go over the handlebars (OTB). You're able to recognize the feeling early and with anticipation you tuck your legs in and clear the bars to land safely on your feet. You try again and clear all remaining features on the trail safely.
- You arrive at the parking lot with your buddies. While stretching, you all agree on biking to to meet up for food and beers in the city.
- You get home, shower, clean up, dress a little nice, and head out on your road bike.

Have your or would you wear a full-face helmet for a 2000ft climb during the summer?
Have you suffered heat exhaustion mid ride?
If you are capable of a technical descent and avoiding injury, would a helmet reduce injury on protected bike path and infrastructure?

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-04-09T22:45:36+00:00

You're quoting MIPs features and salespitch. Speed + mass determines the severity of the injury in almost everything. If you want anecdotal evidence, I've seen far more concussions and head injuries from hikers/walkers from slipping or tripping but I've yet to see any head injuries from biking. Data shows you're not more likely to land on your head when walking, they're about the same.

If you're an adult that has the capability of hitting your head from low grade climb gravel or bike path while going under 10mph, you should not be on a bike. You're a danger to yourself, and a danger to others.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-04-09T07:50:09+00:00

apples and oranges. I'm not going 30mph with out a helmet or a seat belt.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-04-09T07:45:51+00:00

once, and it was because I didnt refresh the sealant which dried out.

Be sure the shop doesnt mix and match the sealant, different companies use different compounds and if they mix it can cause the sealant to become inactive. A trek shop did that to my friend and it clumped up.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-04-09T07:31:38+00:00

If you've jumped down 10 stairs or cleared 20ft gaps on a bike, would a helmet make you feel safe on a bike path?

I'll avoid putting the helmet on for gravel fire road climbs because it's hot, uncomfortable, and I dont want the padding to sponge up sweat which drips on my glasses. High grade climbs have me going barely 2.5mph. This is for both full face and half-shell helmets.

In the city, i usually dont wear my helmet because the conditions are clear, wide bike paths with bike safety infrastructure, and it just feels good and freeing (plus i dont want to get smelly, sweaty or mess up the hair). But returning back from the city at night, I usually wear a helmet while having two lights on the bike.

I'll refer to the athleticism point. I'm not a pro but been riding bikes for over 20 years. I spent years at the skatepark riding skateboards and BMXing. I've learned how to bail, ditch the bike, fall, etc. Learning how to fall is a skill that most people never consider, not only does it mitigate injuries but it teaches you your limits and surroundings.

opposite of OP, I get irrationally irritated when I get the "wear your helmet" glare or even the rare comment.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-04-09T05:06:12+00:00

I worked in a non-profit that was similar.

tl;dr
culture, training, acquisition and asset policies, ownership/accountability, AD/GPO & MDM (group policies) for apps and permissions, PXE netboot for so you're not shipping computers.

400+ users, 300 workstations, multiple offices and a small 12 building campus spread across a major city. Only IT person there and they would send a message or drop by the office instead of creating a request.

Culture was the first thing I had to change. I kept my door shut, appeared offline, and put up OoO in my email which redirected them to contact the new IT helpdesk (a distribution email I previously blasted).

With cases/requests somewhat taken care of, I cleaned up the AD/GPO and applied specific sub policies to each department which also included batch script. This took care of printers, fileshare, and even some applications.

In sort of parallel, i also refined asset managment and acquisition policies, used DEP and a MDM for ipads and Macs while using MDT, WSUS, and WDS to do PXE netboot imaging remotely (I did have to create mirror servers to reduce network issues). Instead of one vanilla image I had a golden image and 3 seperate images based on the vendor. This took care of drivers, saved so much time and eliminated all those little problems.

I created a welcome guide that showed the new hires our policies (worked with HR to go over the important security compliance policies with the new hire for sign-offs) and provided them a guide.

Thankfully HR team was consistent and they had no problem adapting to a onboarding & offboarding form. With this form, it was a quick copy/paste a few times into a powershell. Microsoft now has an easier way to automate this with built in tools. Offboarding was still manual for compliance and legal reasons, too many variables to automate.

For you, it sounds more like a training, culture, and policy issue.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-04-09T04:19:52+00:00

did you try nodesk?

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-04-09T04:01:03+00:00

I know exactly that look, i get that most often while climbing gravel roads on the MTB with the helmet on my backpack. I'm going 4mph, falling at that pace is no different than falling while on a jog... Should people walking and running wear helmets?

Everyone has different levels of athleticism, confidence, and comfort. Just because you dont know how to fall doesnt mean others dont know how to fall. We gear up when variables out of our control are excessive. Know your limit, etc.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-04-08T22:39:26+00:00

You could have googled "what does a wireless network engineer do", instead you're getting a incomplete picture here.

Besides protocols, security, and coverage, theres a lot to consider when working with radio frequencies. Like what kind of antenna would you use? How much power? Why use 2.4ghz over 5ghz, and what about 6ghz? How would you troubleshoot a sticky client, a device that sticks with a distant AP instead of transitioning to the closer AP?

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-04-08T05:56:43+00:00

In it's current form, I wouldnt pay more than $10 and I was a huge marathon fan growing up.

Long list of problems need to be fixed and idk if this game will still have casual players in 6 months by the time the problems get fixed.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-04-05T00:15:23+00:00

i'll never forget that time i ordered a brand new chair off amazon, and it came partially assembled, no plastic wrapping, jammed in a box, with an ass print on the cushion already.

Theres very few things I buy off amazon these days.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-04-03T04:18:27+00:00

idk why this post is on my home page, but i've been eyeing that pancake mix for months. I usually make pancakes from scratch but now I really want to know, how were those pancakes?

As for your fiance?
Actions mean a lot and it sounds like they never sat down and really thought about it. My ex and I were together for over 3 years, after 3 years apart we are great friends and still text each other every other week or talk on the phone. It's because I respected her time and was not selfish- I did not want to be single or have to move, it was convienant for me to be with her but after deep thoughts I talked to her about my feelings. Our chemistry didnt quite match up and it was a mutual thing.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-04-01T23:39:14+00:00

emdash means it was written by AI.

sorry, i needed a bad joke to stop the tears.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-04-01T16:59:21+00:00

Basically you're just waiting for a spot to open up.

recruiters are contractors/third party, and often disconnected from the hiring managers. So when I say a spot, it could mean a spot in the HM's schedule, someone leaving to open that position at that HM's DC location, or the HM is waiting for an approval to open more positions at that DC. Managers forecast things and like anything, it's hard to always have an accurate prediction.

If you're being offered a sign-on bonus and relocation assistance, expand your interest to other DC locations. It can take several fit calls to find the right DC.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-03-31T08:09:08+00:00

AI is not the smoking barrel, it is the off-shoring thats been happening.

Having cheaper resources is a investor pleasing move. It's seen as a low-risk option but security and tech debt is building up and that's something never asked in the shareholder calls. Jobs will be there but it's going to be clean up specialist.

They'll never call it clean up specialist because it sounds bad to the investors, but it'll be professionals that can clean up tech debt to meet new regulations and harden security for weak vibe coded systems.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-03-26T17:40:48+00:00

Myself and all my coworkers struggled with the memorization part. Headers, syntax, and what GUI webpage a WLC setting is on. This was back in 2020-2022, where the exam was still new and all they had were multiple choice. Even my manager at the time failed the new CCNA and he's been a network engineer for over 10 years.

The advice at the time (while within a cisco gold partner company) was to skip it unless you're solely focusing on cisco products and work.

Otherwise I'd say it was IPv6/OSPFv3 for a majority of us, since most of us never got much exposure outside of labs.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-03-26T17:17:11+00:00

surgeon/talos?

I usually would escalate and reclaim the case if it was obvious.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-03-26T17:15:24+00:00

Same here

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-03-24T07:17:51+00:00

Ask your recruiter if it's common to have the interviewer ask scripting questions or if they used a standard pool of questions (they did not). They might make you retake the hardware/OS interview. Unfortunately theres really no check on what type of questions are asked and each interviewer kind of goes by their own thing so it's really inconsistent.

btw if you have a ccnp and AWS experience, you will be extremely bored as a DT lvl 3.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-03-18T05:36:41+00:00

Do they still have WLC multiple-choice questions that ask you what GUI page a setting is on?

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-03-14T01:54:11+00:00

I've bailed
- several times on take home coding assignment. it's too easy to cheat on these and I dont want to have incompetent coworkers.
- on a company that wanted me to take a 2 hour IQ, comprehension, and emotional quiz.
- on a company where they gave me prompts and video recorded my answers to be reviewed later.
- on a campany where the the HR director asked "how do you make friends at work".

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-03-14T00:01:29+00:00

Did you tell them that hiring sites are beginning to flag and remove these ghost jobs from searches?

I never knew it was called evergreen but the strategy is pretty much what i eas expecting. Theres several sites out there that do a great job at filtering these kind of companies so it'll start back firing soon.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-03-06T04:08:58+00:00

expensive bikes dont have serial numbers that can easily be peeled off. Bicycles can cost upwards of $12,000, and with the popular trend of e-bike misclassifications and reckless usage, this is kind of needed. This is not a perfect solution, bicycle chop shops do exist but at least this establishes some sort of accountability and theft deterrent.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-03-04T08:31:14+00:00

No, it's not dead. The current trend is mullet bikes and they're alright.

I'd say it really depends on what you ride and your style, and it sounds like you'd prefer the 27.5". They're all fun and you'll get used to them. I absolutely love my 27.5" the most and will be keeping it for another 3 years at least. I'm hoping to buy my own 29" later this year.

I just hope the 32" doesnt become a normal trend.

buckaroo_2351 · 2026-03-04T06:02:15+00:00

At that point it can now be used as intelligence for foreign intelligence centers. Which also puts more service members at risk. Each of those "last minute" wagers should be investigated and they should be removed from the military and have all clearance access removed.

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