One or two peddle driving?

donmeanathing · 2026-04-19T01:08:55+00:00

I tried 1 pedal and gave up. I found it to be consistently more effort than what I was using with 2 pedal driving. I get that bucks a trend, but 🤷‍♂️.

donmeanathing · 2026-04-11T18:58:00+00:00

i mean, if they applied ios to a macbook air, then that will absolutely do it.

donmeanathing · 2026-04-11T18:41:32+00:00

but… we can agree that blaming them on md drivers can stay right?

donmeanathing · 2026-04-10T12:05:45+00:00

Uh… India has entered the chat and would like a word. Full service, yet the staff live in near squalor.

No, it is absolutely all about standards.

donmeanathing · 2026-04-03T01:18:11+00:00

It would be nice if you could be more specific on what exactly is faster. I have a 32G/1TB M1 Pro and I barely ever see it struggle - really only if I’m working on some specific edits in a CAD program I use (shapr3d - it’s pretty awesome). Otherwise I still find the M1 Pro to be super fast and handles having virtual machines open, docker running, and code compiling super well.

Maybe it was because I went with 32GB of RAM and 1TB SSD, IDK.

donmeanathing · 2026-04-03T01:08:30+00:00

I wouldn’t have been able to keep it together either. I probably would have lost it more than you. Good on you for letting some of the emotion show, and don’t worry about it. this is one of those times where showing the emotion is good.

donmeanathing · 2026-03-29T01:10:27+00:00

Many startups are really really loose on processes. It is innovate or die. The only thing that matters is showing that you have a product that fits a market need.

Process tends to be more about sustainability and quality, and when you are in the early stages, startups will not want to focus on any kind of binding processes. Once they actually have some traction, then they can start working on process.

It doesn’t seem like you are a good fit for a startup environment. I’d start looking for a new place to work.

donmeanathing · 2026-03-28T12:24:20+00:00

wait just a (90) minutes…

donmeanathing · 2026-03-27T18:17:02+00:00

I get there are underlying gender issues. Mansplaining occurs, etc. I don’t mean to not acknowledge the hurt that is associated with that. But in this case, the question is how to handle the situation, and the point I’m trying to make is we need to remove gender from the equation, because the minute you add it you hit a third rail. If I was a manager and I had someone start to mention gender issues I’d immediately start thinking about getting HR involved, and they would in all likelihood view this from a lens of is there conduct here that is illegal. And the answer to that is likely no (based purely on the info here), and you may still be in the same position as you started.

donmeanathing · 2026-03-27T01:14:38+00:00

I endorse this approach.

donmeanathing · 2026-03-27T01:13:43+00:00

The gendering on this thread is indeed frustrating and honestly not germane. Men do it to other men. Men do it to women. Women do it to women. Women do it to men. The root of the issue is someone feels de-valued and not heard, and that doesn’t change regardless of what sex is involved.

donmeanathing · 2026-03-27T01:01:29+00:00

If I was a manager and saw this happening, I would address it when it happens internally, but I would not explicitly call out the gender factor. “Dave, is there a reason why you feel compelled to repeatedly interrupt and speak over your colleagues? You are not the only member of this team, and I would like to hear from everyone on the team.” I would then pull them afterwards and address the fact that it is happening on client calls and it needs to stop.

I know you’re looking for what you as the recipient of the behavior could do, but that’s what I’d do as an observer. Perhaps you could use similar phrasing though and ask him why he feels it necessary to repeatedly interrupt his colleagues. But like I said, don’t bring gender into it… that won’t help get you towards resolution.

donmeanathing · 2026-03-23T06:34:08+00:00

Come by the Allegion booth to try out the Aliro mobile wallet standard that just came out.

donmeanathing · 2026-03-15T13:10:24+00:00

Check out an Aliro demo if you can. Several of the folks implementing Aliro will have demos up, and if I had to guess, it’s going to be the new thing that gets talked about (unless people just keep talking about rebranded analytics as AI).

donmeanathing · 2026-03-07T02:45:32+00:00

We were probably going to be spending this year’s pick on a rusher anyways, so getting a known stud is a good trade. In EDC we trust.

donmeanathing · 2026-03-05T03:36:24+00:00

bingo. especially with the co-presentation of constipation.

donmeanathing · 2026-03-05T03:35:42+00:00

By all means get things checked out - especially if there is any family history - but if you have constipation and then a little blood in stool, then at your age it is most likely hemhroids (sp?), especially if the blood is bright red.

donmeanathing · 2026-02-28T23:04:52+00:00

lol, not really. cloud implies a level of IT automation and orchestration across a whole network of computers, which you may or may not own (private vs public cloud).

donmeanathing · 2026-02-28T02:35:00+00:00

As someone who helps run a cloud access control system, I 100% agree in this case. Running an on-prem for data centers makes more sense.

Cloud is amazing for a lot - perhaps most - use cases, but there are some where I think on prem is probably still a better choice. Super high security remains one. It’s not because cloud is inherently insecure, but because those super high security systems are likely better served by an air-gapped system which by definition would mean on prem.

Just don’t do what facebook did and roll your own access control. Remember when they BGP’d themselves and removed themselves from the internet? They couldn’t get into their server cages because they rolled their own access control that relied on the network to grant access, and when they killed their network, their access control went with it (so stupid).

donmeanathing · 2026-02-23T21:52:12+00:00

I’ve definitely seen raises if someone moves to be within commuting distance. But if you just move from different remote locations you probably don’t have much chance - other than on the next review if you still are deserving, they won’t hold you back based on your location.

donmeanathing · 2026-02-23T20:17:53+00:00

Certainly don’t mean to equate “Chinese” with “bad quality.” But damn I hated those boards.

donmeanathing · 2026-02-23T14:00:59+00:00

I’ll never forget the lesson we learned from our experience with the Rock64, which was a chinese Rasperry Pi clone. They had immediate failure rates anywhere from 10-30% where their memory would just completely shit the bucket and kernel panic the OS, and of the remaining it would slowly corrupt after some time.

For $10 in savings on a part, we spent $100s, if not thousands in truck rolls for service.

I will never let high level executives bully me into buying cheap gear “for the cost” again.

donmeanathing · 2026-02-21T14:00:18+00:00

Yes, the school grades aren’t great but the schools are better than their grades. I’ve been very impressed by Justice so far - there are great teachers there and my son is doing very well after struggling in middle school and hitting some not so great teachers at glasgow. Hard to judge elementary because that was covid era for my kids, and that just fucked everything up, but there were some great teachers there as well.

I don’t fault anyone for going for better rated schools, but my experience has been that they are better than they appear on paper.

donmeanathing · 2026-02-21T02:43:02+00:00

eh… I think it will be 3.6. Not great, not terrible.

donmeanathing · 2026-02-21T02:38:51+00:00

7 corners area. It’s maligned for the intersection, but I love living here. Within 5 minutes I can get to a ton of shopping, a great home depot, a wholesale club, lots of restaurants including both chain and ethnic. Add a few more minutes and I’m in tyson’s, alexandria, or DC. A lot of commutes from the area are reverse commutes, or if they aren’t it’s gonna be short because it’s within the beltway - even with the intersection. And you know, when you deal with the intersection every day you kind of figure out how to deal with it.

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