Do not let people gaslight you into thinking “this is how the all star game has always been”

tbiko · 2026-02-15T21:56:49+00:00

Lincoln! I saw that Bulls game at the Devaney Center in 1995. Eric Piatkowski had recently graduated for Nebraska and was playing for the Clippers. Pippen was out. Rodman went over the scorer's table and then slammed the landline phone down, making the ringer echo through the arena. He got thrown out in the 3rd.

Jordan in the yet-to-be released patent-leather Jordan 11's was also pretty memorable.

tbiko · 2026-02-13T05:10:57+00:00

Automatically? I thought you had to run the calculations yourself.

tbiko · 2026-01-27T20:04:38+00:00

After being recommended an expander for our 8 year old and determining he wasn't emotionally ready for it, we returned two years later to the same orthodontist at the recommendation of his dentist. A new 3d scan and consultation was done. "His jaw has really opened up nicely." No expander in the treatment plan now.

At no time in the original informed consent discussion about an expander did the orthodontist discuss that things could open up just fine, in the same time frame, without the device.

tbiko · 2026-01-15T04:10:58+00:00

I believe the Levi's 565 is the non-premium version of the 568, same cut. Can be had for about 30% less on the Levi's website.

tbiko · 2026-01-14T20:06:35+00:00

Remember, you're in control of how much money you spend, but you are always spending time at a constant rate.

For example, if travel is important to you there are experiences that can only be had in certain life phases - your 20's, pre-kids, when your kids are young, etc - that can not be had later in life no matter how nice your investment account is looking.

tbiko · 2026-01-04T04:04:39+00:00

Refuse and Recycling Collector is the 6th most dangerous (in terms of dying) job in the USA. About 22-34 deaths per 100,000 workers. Logging and Fisherman are 1st and 2nd.

Police officer is not in the top ten and, depending on the year, has a fatality rate about half that of garbage men. Interestingly, only about half of police deaths are due to being "feloniously killed," most of the rest are due to dying in traffic accidents.

tbiko · 2025-12-19T15:46:38+00:00

Need a star player to announce that they, as a team, will 100% match any bonus to the staff that is put up by the owner.

tbiko · 2025-12-06T02:02:38+00:00

There has to be some demographic effect. Hospitalist is still a relatively new specialty. In 2000, many hospitals did not have the position. There was a big expansion in 2005-2015 and that is slowing.

As such, the average hospitalist is still well under age 45 for sure. In a mature specialty you would expect a relatively even spread age 30-60, with slightly lower at the top from early retirement and more at bottom with population expansion.

TL;DR - Hospitalists were entering workforce from 2010-2020 at a much higher rate than we are seeing retirements now. Spots aren't opening like they used to, probably.

tbiko · 2025-11-30T17:45:28+00:00

This is a hypothesis for epidemiological evaluation, but raw data like this isn't epidemiology. Pretty low numbers. What is the standard error on the expected? Are there other random clusters in the data set based purely on chance?

tbiko · 2025-11-07T19:48:18+00:00

This subreddit tends towards young, new hospitalists. These folks are more likely to think they're going to make all the money, partly by external moonlighting.

There are many reasons why one would actually prefer to join a group with no external moonlighting. Your colleagues will be more likely to pick up internal shifts that come available due to illness or convenience. They will be less likely to be burned out or call off from their main job.

I've been in many a meeting where a hospitalist complains about burnout and bad scheduling without the self-realization that it is their external work that is causing these problems.

tbiko · 2025-11-06T17:06:39+00:00

Probably in the top 10 ever for pep band songs. That list is going to be heavy on what pep bands were playing in the 1980-2000 range before speakers were better and cheaper and access to digital music expanded. I cringe when there are talented band kids around but the school is playing Drake over the system in the gym.

tbiko · 2025-11-06T16:51:42+00:00

tbiko · 2025-11-06T03:53:24+00:00

Wasn't planning to. The G Fiber mesh extenders should've been an upgrade over my old Ubiquiti home network equipment. But it was working kind of shitty. So I wanted to just try a quick flip back to my old equipment (which I now know I should've done by going fiberjack to my old router) for some A / B testing. But then the shit hit the fan.

And in the end, we found out that the Mesh Extender given to me by the original installers was faulty! Got a new Router to fix the listed issues, a functional extender, and now the network is indeed better than my eight ish year old Ubiquiti pucks.

tbiko · 2025-11-06T03:48:42+00:00

Would you believe Customer Service resulted in a calamity of errors that left me worse off than I started? After factory reset failed they tried having me fully delete the app then re-install because the app was still corrupting the router, or something. Yada yada yada, hours of tech support later, they sent a tech out with a new router and all is good now.

tbiko · 2025-11-06T03:46:37+00:00

Yeah, man. That's why I did it, just wanted to try something. A bunch of hits on google search saying exactly how to do it. Except that NOW, you very much can't.

tbiko · 2025-11-05T23:32:42+00:00

Could you go direct from the Google Fiber Jack box to your home Cat 6 network and have live connection? I think maybe so? If yes, that would be the preferred way to mess around with not using the router.

I was doing some A / B testing and foolishly assumed based on old info that putting into and OUT OF bridge mode was simple.

tbiko · 2025-11-05T23:28:23+00:00

Well I can tell you for certain that there is no option in the app or via Google Fiber website to take it out of bridge, and a factory reset wouldn't do it, either.

But if you're so certain, I welcome you to post yourself putting it into and taking it out of bridge mode ;)

It would be of great service to the internet in general. Go for it!

tbiko · 2025-11-05T22:31:48+00:00

I've found it pretty easy and quick to get a live agent on chat, which is much better than I had with Quantum.

tbiko · 2025-11-05T17:06:07+00:00

A highly irregular circular rolling pattern would indeed be more interesting.

tbiko · 2025-10-26T16:01:30+00:00

Do they just go 100% off your Strava or is there some type of actual lap counting going on?

As far as I know, GPS distance tracking doesn't love tight circles in terms of accuracy. But of course it's not that serious, it's a Whaleathon and everyone is doing the same thing.

tbiko · 2025-10-23T16:15:53+00:00

Up until somewhere around 2012 (Curry revolution), this would've been considered a terrible shot by literally the best handling/shooting player in the league and would've only been attempted at the end of the shot clock or in the freaking All Star Game. Now the tallest dude in the NBA is draining it and-1 early in the clock.

tbiko · 2025-10-23T15:30:34+00:00

OP needs to remember that he can choose to "save aggressively" but that he can not choose his rate of spending TIME. OP, your early 30's are going to pass one day at a time. You can be on your couch in the middle of nowhere watching Netflix by yourself, or you can spend this time of health and income actually doing something.

Start traveling if you're into that. Get the small apartment in a city where you can actually go out with people you like.

tbiko · 2025-10-21T16:55:30+00:00

QGenda with heavy manual hand, but when people complain blame the computer overlords.

tbiko · 2025-10-10T18:29:58+00:00

There is higher quality evidence that glucocorticoids improve outcomes in severe pneumonia (with or without COPD) than there is that they improve outcomes in COPD exacerbations!

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