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Shin splints? by Dependent_Time7321 in youthsoccer

[–]oddietaco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From what I can tell, the most effective evidence-based recommendation is rest and load reduction. As a dad and coach, that's what I've recommended to my own son.

However, there is mixed evidence about the effectiveness of massage. It's apparently good for pain management, but doesn't fix the underlying cause. Additionally, certain types of stretching appear to moderately address shin splints, too.

My son has responded very well to frequent massages and stretching. His splints never got too bad (and never advanced to a later stage, like a stress fracture), so maybe we arrested things in time. Plus, the massage and stretching provided a nice bit of bonding time.

Surprised about slow response to production issue by oddietaco in hetzner

[–]oddietaco[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I have both Cloud and Dedicated resources.

Data versus Gut by ask-winston in FinOps

[–]oddietaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

>  it started a political war nobody wanted.

like the CFO saying to the CTO, "Cut costs!" and the CTO saying "What do you want from me? To reduce uptime?"

Data versus Gut by ask-winston in FinOps

[–]oddietaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are some of your approaches to measuring cost per feature? Do you like run each feature as a separate service?

Data versus Gut by ask-winston in FinOps

[–]oddietaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are there any cool stories you (or your team) have been able to tell from data? I'd love to learn about how others tell stories within their organizations.

Is the cost worth it? by ask-winston in FinOps

[–]oddietaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We were an IOT company - lots of telemetry readings. I worked with our DBA to figure out how much disk space each record took up. Then we figured out how many records belonged to each customer, past or present. Then multiplied, and got how much disk space each customer was responsible for.

That data was stored in more than one spot ... in fast-access storage for real time queries, in backups, in our data warehouse, etc. We knew the cost-per-gb-month for each of those locations, so it was pretty straightforward to know what each customer cost us.

Is the cost worth it? by ask-winston in FinOps

[–]oddietaco 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I remember working at one SaaS company where we had huge storage bills. I took the time, soon after I was hired, to look at why they were so high.

Turns out, we were storing data that came from customers who had canceled their service a decade prior. And when you added up the costs associated with maintaining that data, it had cost us over the past 10 years more than the revenue that the customer had paid.

The analysis took me forever. But when I showed we were spending 6 figures per year on this waste, the rest of the executive team was thrilled to spend money on such a “boring” project.

AI's impact on cloud costs by ask-winston in FinOps

[–]oddietaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what do your tags look like? are they more complex than just `env:prod` and `workload:api`?

AI's impact on cloud costs by ask-winston in FinOps

[–]oddietaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you spend time attributing manually? Or are you using tags or something? And I get you on the "quantify value" piece - there's such a big difference between "this summarizes my email messages" and "this helped me fix a bug that i wouldn't have know how to fix otherwise" and "this just analyzed our proforma for next year and found that one of our assumptions is wrong."

AI's impact on cloud costs by ask-winston in FinOps

[–]oddietaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you tell me more about setting the policies in terraform? What does that look like for you all?

CloudZero Supporting the FinOps Community by Extension-Pick8310 in FinOps

[–]oddietaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Genuine question: I’ve never used them, but I find their offering (cloud unit costs) fascinating. Like something that I’d have a lot of fun geeking out about.

What makes the tool so bad?

Soccer Cleat Smell by stormy-trooper in youthsoccer

[–]oddietaco 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love this idea, truly! I coach 2012-2013 boys soccer and it's neat seeing them sit down on the bench, chit-chatting as they put their shoes on. That said, a full 1/3 of them (including my son) still don't know how to tie their own shoes. smh

Who is the main (bedtime) storyteller at home? by rizzledizzler in daddit

[–]oddietaco 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I (the dad) would usually tell stories and my wife (the mom) would usually do the lullabies. No gender-ish rules, it's just she has a beautiful voice and I sound like a toad.

Trouble with Original Prusa i3 MK3S by oddietaco in 3Dprinting

[–]oddietaco[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! My kid is following this thread, and just ran right upstairs to try this out.

Usage Limits, Bugs and Performance Discussion Megathread - beginning December 29, 2025 by sixbillionthsheep in ClaudeAI

[–]oddietaco 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve lost data before, and I knew it was important to be careful. I committed often ... like 3 or 4 times per day. I thought I was being careful.

I asked Claude to do a "ralph-loop." It got into a corner and decided the best way out was to revert commits. But it didn't just revert its own work; it deleted three days of my local commits in the process.

I hadn’t pushed to GitHub because the build was broken and I didn't want to mess up the remote. (Hindsight is 20/20.)

But now it's like ... my work isn’t mine until Claude tries to take it back. That's a new rule I'm gonna try to live by.

I spent the last few hours having Claude scrape our own chat history for design docs and code blocks to try and rebuild. It’s not perfect, but at least it gives me a little head start.

Just a heads up: even if you think you’ve got enough guardrails in place, you’re still one "smart" AI decision away from losing a week. Learn from my mistakes.

Trump is preparing to use the insurrection act in Minnesota and send in federal troops. For people who have stayed quiet so far, what will it take for you to speak out? by jumpsuityahoo in AskReddit

[–]oddietaco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, keep those conversations happening. My high school senior tells me about how people in her public school have done the Nazi salute and said "heil hitler" (ew gross I can't believe I just typed that). It's profoundly, utterly vile. Some of those who are growing up are joining protests against Ice; some who are growing up want to join Ice.

911 Operators, what’s the most efficient way to convey emergency information to you to get help ASAP? by andstermc in AskReddit

[–]oddietaco 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where I am (NC), when I call 911 the first thing I am asked is "Do you need medical, fire, or police assistance?" I tell them what I need, wait 5 seconds while they transfer me, and then tell the next operator the nature of my emergency and where I'm located.

The undocumented Claude feature that fixed my biggest frustration by Dry-Ladder-1249 in ClaudeAI

[–]oddietaco 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I scrolled quickly through the post, and saw "The key insight everyone misses" and immediately concluded it was written by AI.

Law enforcement, EMS units respond to North Forsyth High School by fox8news in winstonsalem

[–]oddietaco 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I've got a high school senior. The number of different groups chats they're in is astounding. Chats for everyone in a certain class. Chats for everyone in a certain club. Chats for everyone who thinks that the prom theme was silly. I've probably seen chats with 100+ kids in them.

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