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> I see these complaints on HN a lot, and maybe it’s anecdotal, but I just don’t see this in the real world these days.

It happens all the time where I work. I don't want to be specific, but we have lots of examples here. In some cases people don't like the core software, so they work around it by tracking things on a spreadsheet. And sometimes that spreadsheet disappears (in one case, it was being kept on an XLSX on a USB thumb drive, but the thumb drive got corrupted and we lost some very important data.)


The availability angle changes things quite a bit. Having a single source of truth online sheet is much different than a file that is passed around.


Its kind of funny--my GPS's LCD screen gets /more/ readable in sunlight.


I participate in a number of 'old school' forums, never anything like reddit or discord. On those forums, while I have posted on some a fair amount, I actually find that most of the time I spend 15 minutes writing up a post, then delete it. There are a number of reasons I don't hit the submit button. Sometimes its because I see that a lot of other posters will disagree with it, and I don't think they will argue rationally and in good faith; but the most valuable posts I don't submit are when I get to a point in my argument when I realize that I'm wrong or that my opinion or point of view is badly supported or any numer of other things that force me to re-evaluate position. I've probably held that position for a while thinking I'm right, but actually formulating the argument forces me to confront my biases or mistakes.


Sounds like forums are your rubber ducky debugger of life.


i have a 13 mini. Its beat up, battery life is getting worse (even though I rarely use it) and both cameras are smashed (in my pocket during a motorcycle accident), but I look at all the options now and figure I'll just keep using this one. I'd rather be using an iPhone 4, but I need some stuff that that one didn't have to work with a glucose monitor.


Mounjaro uses a single use fully autometed injector--clean your skin, remove the cap, press the injector against your skin, then press a button. A springloaded needle penetrates you skin and a spring loaded plunger injects the medicine. You have no way to pull backthe plunger to see if you are in a vein/artery.

I've never used Ozempic, but my understanding was it used a device similar to insulin pens--dial you dosage, attach needle, insert needle, press at the base of the pen to inject the selected amount. Also no way to pull back to see if you hit a vein/artery.


Yeah, both Ozempic and Trulicity have automated systems like this, just press a button and pop. Is there even a way to hit a vein? The needle is not very deep (it's subcutaneous, just barely under the skin). And it's the stomach, which AFAIK, doesn't have a lot of exposed veins?

Either way super simple and quick. Fairly painless. I had a weird rash one time, but apart from that a total of about 15 injections haven't had any issues on either Ozempic or Trulicity in terms of injections. Others may have difficulties, but it's been super easy IMO.


You can get these drugs with a vial and needles and it’s cheaper that way. Not familiar with the autoinjectors, but the instructions when using a vial and insulin needles is definitely to pull back.

Peptides don’t have the same negatives as say insulin, but preferable to not have them in your bloodstream nonetheless.


> And it's the stomach, which AFAIK, doesn't have a lot of exposed veins

And it's mostly for people who have plenty of stomach fat, so even less chance of hitting something else.


Mounjaro uses very different designs across the world. The UK has an included needle; here in Germany you need to get them yourself, and neither is an auto-injector.


This is right. It's all or nothing, and there's no "pull back" functionality.


Only on the autoinjectors. Not true with the vial and insulin needles.


never tried Radium, but in Apple's Logic Pro you can write Javascript to do stuff to the MIDI as it comes in or goes out. I've found it quite useful. I once wrote a small script (at the request of another Logic user) that turned a monosynth that only supported "low note priority" into "last note priority." I'd be interested to see what Radium can do.


Just still be cautious and carry some insurance on your stuff. My brother broke up with his girlfriend, she moved back east. She packed all her stuff up in a PODS and shipped it home, and the pod dissappeared. PODS completely lost it.


Curious if an AirTag (or similar BTLE device on a mesh network) could mitigate some of this risk…


If this is a metal box like a shipping container, you'd have to attaching it to the outside somehow. However the website just says "steel framed" which suggests the sides might not be metal, in which case it might work.

However it's quite possible that something else happened to it that they don't want to admit. Like maybe their driver was DUI and crashed it.


PODS are advertised as having a transparent roof for light, most likely polycarbonate. Not sure if that would be sufficient for an AirTag signal if the rest is metal, but I suspect it would be.


Aluminum frame with fiberglass panels. I put a cellular GPS tracker in the one I rented and it worked fine.


My experience with PODS is it's basically a smaller shipping container with a rolling door.

I didn't test airtags at all but they definitely stack them pretty high up in a warehouse so idk if an iPhone is always going to walk by yours.


I bought a cellular GPS tracker for my PODS. It worked fine, and being able to track it every step of the way added a bit of stress relief.

It also came in really handy when the driver claimed his truck broke down and he wouldn't be able to drop it off on schedule. I told them I could physically see the container in the storage yard and would like it delivered on the agreed upon date. They dropped it off 20 minutes later.


Isn't that PODS job?


Did you read the parent’s comment? The company lost the Pod and paid compensation. Sometimes money / replacement value can’t fix the sentimental value or living during the inevitable delay before payout.


That's crazy! How does something so big go missing? Did they ever find it?


Maybe two records getting written to the database in the same millisecond somehow getting the same uuid primary key... could happen if they use some javascript library to come up with the uuid ;)


I was always taught that knowledge was "justified true belief."


Now you get into the tricky waters of defining "justified" and "true". It's a circular definition that does not settle anything.


Einstien said it was what was left over when you forgot everything you leaned in school.


The Gettier examples disagree!


no they dont. At least not in the US.


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