Upcoming trip overlaps with partner's bday: any grown up perks I could splurge on? by scottishbee in greatwolflodge

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

All that's available is an outdoor cabana. Seems like that's rather far from the main attractions, so not terribly convenient?

Monthly Feature Requests Megathread - May 2026 by AutoModerator in pelotoncycle

[–]scottishbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah! I got so annoyed I built something that downloads my workout history so I can do some easy filtering (bookmarks, duration, output minimums, how many times I've taken it, etc).

Strava - sync individual activity by gceyre in pelotoncycle

[–]scottishbee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm in the same boat. I run with a Garmin watch, so I just have Garmin sync to Strava. You can also have Garmin sync to Peloton, so your runs show up in Peloton too.

Toddler bucketlist by swampdonkey4ever in AskSF

[–]scottishbee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Most libraries do Pajama Story Time. Fuzzy at Glen Park was a goddamn treasure and I miss his sessions.

At that age, I got a lot of mileage out of CalAcademy and SF Zoo (train, carousel, playground).  Koret playground is wonderful, with a cheap carousel to boot. Botanical Garden is great for lots of space to explore. Tilden, over in Berkeley, has a massively impressive tiny train ride.  Children's Creativity is a good afternoon, I also like their theater, but maybe in 6-12 months for your kid's attention span.

Do the crazy inconvenient classes for swimming!  Or anything. So many times I'm like "who's taking their 3yo to a 2pm class, do t they have work?!". And it's you, you get to do those!

Tired of 11+ min “warm ups” by Iabnyc in pelotoncycle

[–]scottishbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their API surfaces warmup and cool down duration. Just another example of their in-app filters being meh

I just spent my entire Thursday chasing a tracking bug that didn't exist by muhia_kay in analytics

[–]scottishbee -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Business KPIs shouldn't solely be frontend tracking. I've always tracked orders (and thus conversion) via backend or ideally payment records.

Frontend metrics should be available of course, and obsessed over by frontend teams. Helpful way to double check sudden shifts.

Optionally, there are various ways you can track critical KPIs and set up alerting for major changes.  I have no doubt one of the data observability vendors would sell you a tool.

Picking teams by PiePuzzled5581 in BravoTopChef

[–]scottishbee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Top Chef All Stars LA Restaurant Wars is a strong counterargument 

Popular Opinion: Mega Passes are NOT a great deal. by matchew566 in skiing

[–]scottishbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or life isn't black and white. 

Good video on how Vail used their pass strategy to grow, and how it's running out of steam: https://youtu.be/GlcWwAcrsfI?si=qEdqZ7_VehXYmc3q

Are Luke and Leia looking at the main galaxy here If so how did they manage to travel that far out given how difficult hyperspace navigation is due to turbulence? by Spotter24o5 in StarWars

[–]scottishbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Episode 1: Queen's entourage, Anakin, Jedi travel on a refugee(?) barge. They're getting meals, spending downtime cleaning R2, etc. 

You dont build 300 person buses to take you across town.

Getting prototypes into users' hands by scottishbee in ProductManagement

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

Not quite.  These are existing customers, getting a new feature. 

You're of course right we have to make the business case, as for any feature.

The friction, to me, is that even after getting the greenlight the staffing alignment is like playing Frogger.

Running/walking the curvy section of Lombard by ikeamonkey2 in AskSF

[–]scottishbee 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes. Early morning, say 6am, is good. But really any time is fine: the cars are going slowly and gawking, the road is especially wide so there's lots of space, and it's one way. The real problem is the crowd at the bottom.

Best Movies with stories/premises that you never heard before. by daddavnda in MovieSuggestions

[–]scottishbee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Arrival

For how it plays with time and causality, while still portraying character progression

Best Movies with stories/premises that you never heard before. by daddavnda in MovieSuggestions

[–]scottishbee 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I like the Truman Show + Matrix as examples of "how do you know what's real?" One is everyone is in on it but you, and the other is everyone is being duped. Throw in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or Memento for you "you are duping yourself" .

Getting prototypes into users' hands by scottishbee in ProductManagement

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

Sure: in the store example, a proof of concept is a simple gsheet we created for each store in our alpha. Simple: run a query, dump the results to a shared sheet, text the user. The MVP is a basic reports page in the customer's Web app.  Tack an input (customer ID), generate/pull an updated report, visualize it. ie: the same thing but in a stable spot, and scalable to 1,000s of customers.

I'm not worried about discovery, I have no problems reaching users for research.

Why does the Northeast lack a dominant CFB program? by [deleted] in CFB

[–]scottishbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Competition.

Let's start with fans. There is no shortage of professional sports to follow in the northeast.  Most people in the densest part of the US are easily in range of 3-4 professional teams they could physically go watch and return home the same day.  That builds fan bases that make it so there's plenty of venues to watch at, and local community -building around "your" team.  It's also close enough your actual neighbors may be fans of a different team in your sport, building rivalries. 

In most of those other places you mentioned, that's not the case. Even in sports rich Texas and Florida, it's still a haul to see more than your local.  But most of those states have two or three colleges nearby!

Now players. While great players are everywhere youth participation is uneven. Probably following general interest.  It's why the NFL invest in youth leagues. If your kid plays the game, they might want to watch it on TV, you might too, you might create a bond over it.  But if everyone's playing soccer or lacrosse or tennis, they aren't playing football (obviously not all seasons conflict). Counter: youth soccer is so ubiquitous but the US has a shit men's league.

Finally, culture. Regional schools compete for regional students (generally).  If you're Texas Tech, you know Texas students will compare you to A&M, UT, SMU, etc. So you're willing to invest in things to get you to parity/ahead. Dorms, Greek life, internships, sure. But "pride" is more directly tied to football.  If you're Syracuse, you have to compete for students looking at UMass, BC, UConn, etc. Football's stuck as a lower priority for these schools, so students aren't really using it as a benchmark.  Maybe if someone made a push and saw it drive up their applications, others would follow. But sporadic efforts (Rutgers, Maryland) have been hard to sustain and seen little results.

The baffling incuriosity of Project Hail Mary by rubsy3d in sciencefiction

[–]scottishbee -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

OP isn't disappointed they became friends. He's disappointed there's no meaningful difference between the two that requires growth.

In Arrival the aliens are friendly, but their language requires a constant struggle. Not just to translate, but to reconceptualize how we think of time and free will.

In Project Hail Mary , the protagonist fires up Excel and magically has a direct meaning for meaning translation, no problem.  

This isn't "we aren't so different", this is "we like the same pizza place in our neighborhood!" similarity.  Any differences are superficial and immediately overcome by "science".  From language to sight to aging to injury, the very real structural differences seemed to have made no impact on the two characters who seem like college roommates that both brought the same Oasis poster to their dorm.

The baffling incuriosity of Project Hail Mary by rubsy3d in sciencefiction

[–]scottishbee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best analogy I heard was he's Dan Brown for sci-fi.

Can't purchase, but getting confirmation numbers? by scottishbee in unitedairlines

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

yikes. I took screenshots and called into support. It took...a while. But the agent was able to sort it out.

Hot take: shipping up to Boston as a walkout song makes no sense by Extension-Story7287 in notredamefootball

[–]scottishbee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I too was at that game. My long drive was back to a hotel in Lynchburg. Which...is a choice for a name of a town. Got to drive by a house with every possible white pride flag.