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It's not at all uncommon, and important. When someone is empowered to work remotely, and is salaried and not held to specific hours, then it's very hard to identify what work is "t…

My suggestion would be even simpler: MQTT -> Postgres (+ S3 for archive) > 1. my "fear" would be that if I use the same Postgres for the queue and for my business database... This …

The distance between a scientific revolution being accessible to the ultra-wealthy and the average consumer is measured in years, and shrinking rapidly. I would rather billionaires…

It’s not much harder to just harden your system to not be vulnerable in the first place, and that protects your from a lot more.

I cringe at the idea that beyond a certain level one stops writing code. You never stop writing code, unless you truly just don’t enjoy writing code, and if that’s the case please …

Our house is above the prevailing level, built on a cement slab foundation. We have no basement, and water would have to be >3' high above the land to get into the house, but that'…

Depends on the island! As I said in a different response though, when you have a hardened home you fear storm surges, and we do. Our house would probably be obliterated by a 12’ st…

It does depend on the housing in question too. As the study concludes, wind will absolutely tear apart a cheap house, or a structure not built to be resilient to wind. And most are…

I live in the Caribbean, and we get a lot of hurricanes. A few every year. We build for extreme weather. Our building codes (and common sense) protect us. My house has 10" of concr…

I’ve also burned my Google system. In my case, I use a Google Apps email account so my family has a shared email domain (and I can better handle tech support and manage my kids’ us…

IMO the only chance for redemption here is opening up the devices to open source projects. It’s good hardware, just let us use it. (Also please ship a PoE++ adapter.)

I am an experienced engineer with twenty five years of infrastructure and protocol development, and my experience setting up an all-Sonos home system is a _saga_ of epic proportion…

I’m constantly amazed at how differently I learned to do things from my father than from school. My father had all sorts of approaches similar to this, and it’s how I learned to wr…

I live in a country which has no local auto industry to protect and can import vehicles from nearly anywhere. I can confidently say that China has won. There’s just no comparison, …

Pick one single customer and fanatically meet their individual needs. Then add a second. Repeat until you’re no longer needing to tweak your system to delight a new customer. At th…

Though I share your pessimism, “fortunately” the drug companies don’t make much from dementia directly, the cost burden is borne by children and care facilities. And for what it’s …

I mean, a trillion dollars to solve global warming sounds like a pretty good deal to me?

Or if they care for their descendants in their later years. (Not saying fish do this, though I wouldn’t be surprised if giant elder fish clear out predators. A lot of people forget…

That’s the one! Data URL! Thanks. :) The primary way we used it was as the body of a tracking gif, returned as binary. But we also used it as a spacer here and there inline in HTML…

I went down this rabbit hole about 15 years ago, I ended up hand-rolling a transparent .gif which I think was 15 bytes? Small enough that we inlined it as cdata data urls. (Is that…

It’s fascinating that this is a paper - we did the math about 20 years ago and have been using excess electricity for desalination in Cayman ever since.

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That’s literally the first sentence of the dictionary definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trans%20woman#:~:...

You become a business guy the same way you became a technical guy! Don't waste time selling soap though (unless you really love soap) - my best advice is to try to sell something y…

Corollary: you do not need a non-technical co-founder. My advice to engineers is that it's nearly always easier to learn business/sales than to learn to like a co-founder, especial…