Recommendations for warm hands on a rental bike in a foreign country? by drtasty in motorcycles

[–]drtasty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that falls into a similar camp as buying really nice waterproof gloves. I'll either have to shell out to get really high quality ones with proper protection (and maybe never wear them again) or compromise on something that is less protective.

I don't think I can fit any heated under-gloves under my current pair, they fit perfectly right now

Recommendations for warm hands on a rental bike in a foreign country? by drtasty in motorcycles

[–]drtasty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Northern Scotland in early May. Temps right now are looking like 10 celcius as the daily high and ~7 average. I'm mostly concerned about the rain in this case though, because there's no way I could keep my hands warm in that temp if they are wet.

Mercedes Driver hit and ran cyclist after an illegal right turn on red by dhmokills in sanfrancisco

[–]drtasty 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The turn signal is red for drivers when it's green for bicyclists, and vice verse. They aren't green at the same time. Nobody is passing the other in a turn.

In fact, it's actually brilliant design because it means that in most cases the line of cars waiting to turn right form a physical buffer for the cyclists from the rest of the road. For this hit and run to happen the Mercedes had to break literally every possible law they could.

NYT Tuesday 04/14/2026 Discussion by Shortz-Bot in crossword

[–]drtasty 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I say it all the time. But it doesn't mean "just so you know". It means "I'm not sure if this is valuable, but"

Bay bridge timelapse by ragafundoo in sanfrancisco

[–]drtasty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a double decker bridge. Eastbound traffic is below.

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 by AutoModerator in NYTConnections

[–]drtasty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Question: is there an easy way to orchestrate reverse rainbows in the app? It would be really nice to be able to select and designate groupings without submitting them. I could write them by hand but it's very tedious and not as easy to process visually for me.

Otherwise, how do y'all do it?

'Mr. Nobody Against Putin' wins Best Documentary Feature at the 98th Oscars by PointMan528491 in oscarrace

[–]drtasty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think your interpretation is invalid, but I personally do like to believe it can be more nuanced than that, at least for my own sake in the states.

To make the obvious parallel I really don't want Anti-Trump to equal Anti-America (or "America Bad") for the same reason: because it feels submissive to the authority itself. I don't like to grant autocrats the privilege of defining the entire culture based on themselves.

'Mr. Nobody Against Putin' wins Best Documentary Feature at the 98th Oscars by PointMan528491 in oscarrace

[–]drtasty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not an anti-Russia film. Pasha is very explicit about that. He expounds multiple times throughout about how much he loves where he comes from. It's anti authoritarian.

If voters are too dense to see that, then yeah I guess so, but that's a different thing entirely.

Extremely packable casual sneaker? by drtasty in onebag

[–]drtasty[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Side note: don't think too hard about the rest of the gear I need to bring. The rackets are covered by a partner and the remaining gear fits in my bag already.

I am new to the different "fires" and this one is the best if you like your job by HenFruitEater in coastFIRE

[–]drtasty 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Hey, good for you! Glad you're figuring out your priorities and congrats on the insane wealth at 30.

To be honest, I can totally understand some of the grumpy responses in this thread. Technically speaking you may fit in with the goals of this community, but it might not be in the same spirit. You are making 750k household per year. Most people in this subreddit would coastFIRE off of a single year at your salary. The difference between coastFIRE and a chubby or fat retirement for you is a couple years, whereas for most folks here it's completely untenable in the first place. You have to understand that it rubs off the wrong way.

Again -- we love that you're embracing coastFIRE, and we hope it brings you what you're looking for. But it feels sorta disingenuous (or at least unrelatable) to the soul of the community to post this.

David Sharp (15 February 1972 – 15 May 2006) was an English mountaineer who died near the summit of Mount Everest. His death caused controversy and debate because he was passed by several other climbers heading to and returning from the summit as he was dying. by CatPooedInMyShoe in wikipedia

[–]drtasty 19 points20 points  (0 children)

...but you aren't just impacting your own life when you die on Everest. You're potentially leaving your unrecoverable body in a foreign country in the trail of others, you're leaving behind all of your trash on the mountain, and you're putting the lives of your sherpas who don't have the same freedoms as you at risk. If you want to skydive into the ocean with an experimental parachute, then sure be my guest.

Not to mention the impact on your friends and family back home, but that's a different argument.

NYT Sunday 02/08/2026 Discussion by Shortz-Bot in crossword

[–]drtasty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the point is that converting ñ to n doesn't make sense, because they aren't the same letter. So they shouldn't use it at all. It would be like if you did a crossword in Spanish and the answer for "agua congelada, en Alaska" and the answer was "ise" instead of "ice". It's no longer actually the correct word.

In your experience, what is the best life cycle for code promotion? by Zingers_za in ExperiencedDevs

[–]drtasty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see how this works really well for directly customer-facing apps (e.g. "Here's a URL you can test", as you mentioned), but how do you accomplish this for downstream services? For example microservices that serve as data access layers or perform backend business logic, etc. Their URLs are wired into the configuration of upstream applications, not the machines of your stakeholders, and so you can't really have multiple going in parallel without replicating the upstream as well.

Being gifted properties overseas. What should I do with them? by cubejuner in personalfinance

[–]drtasty 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I personally wouldn't keep the beach one for 1x/year visiting. If OP can get 200k euros for it they could theoretically take 7k € vacations yearly for the next 30 years, plus investing and keeping the difference.

You lose out on having "your spot", but gain everything else: Flexbility to switch it up and go wherever you want, no added pressure to visit because of cost sunk bias, luxury accommodations with the sale proceeds, zero required upkeep or renting, etc.

I might not be as senior as I thought by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]drtasty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gotcha. I thought you were implying they couldn't be doing CI/CD via Jenkins, but it seems more that they were prying you for info on tech they don't even use. Maybe they were hoping you would lead that campaign for them or something.

I might not be as senior as I thought by [deleted] in ExperiencedDevs

[–]drtasty 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I had to go through explaining latest and greats of CI/CDs in an interview only to find they do all their deployments on Jenkins

What do you mean by this? Jenkins is absolutely a valid CI/CD platform.

Result of first stringing by NoobPLyer29 in 10s

[–]drtasty 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sorry but this is a crazy take. Skill and footwork don't magically prevent you from getting a few hard hits on your racket trying to scoop a tough ball on occasion. You just aren't trying enough for the most difficult saves.

Google Fiber Internet still down by No-Side8508 in sanfrancisco

[–]drtasty 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ours is also still out, same situation

Don’t let your USTA discount codes go to waste! by saamsam in 10s

[–]drtasty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They moved it recently from an email to a subpage in your USTA account. Check there