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The parallels are pretty superficial. The process is similar to theologians arguing scripture or maybe querying a low-grade LLM.

Nobody directly involved ever mentioned the idea and we didn't change jurisdictions. We had the right to reject a magistrate simply because they were a magistrate judge and not sim…

I won through a little bit of advice suggested by a layperson. I simply got the case moved to another room. The old judge hated us and the new judge loved us. All we had to do was …

I was pulled into a tough legal case and my lawyer explained that engineers have the hardest time working with law because they expect things to be logical. It's really a squishy m…

Interesting. I'm in the breach but never knowingly used that software, so it's likely buried under some other product or service.

And then the retention department pretends to cancel, as they want to be on target for their monthly bonus. Now you can print a copy of your phone call as evidence when you get bil…

Do you even realize you can send mail from your mailbox? I can walk to my mailbox and put the little metal flag up in a couple minutes. I can't be put on hold or have the conversat…

Cancel by mail. Companies don't mess with letter writers. They know you have a paper trail if you need to dispute or sue. It often takes less time and way less mental energy than a…

I joined a startup whose mission statement was to "do something with XML." We grabbed an embedded board, connected it to a printer port and enabled legacy systems to "print" to an …

I'll one-up that with a computer science dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3San3uKKHgg

USA. I planned on freelancing my whole career. The cost of health insurance ended that about 15 years ago.

When experts do chime in, they're blasted as shills. Have fun finding someone who is truly an expert yet has no connection to the industry that uses the technology.

"Dear EWG, This Is Why Real Scientists Think Poorly Of You" https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/05/25/dear-ewg-why-real-scien...

The "user as the product" model works well for the user for a while, when business is booming. I now pay Microsoft for email simply because they have someone answering the phone ov…

My concentration face looks like I'm daydreaming, and I've been called out for not paying attention.

To run multiple browsers in one sense, use the --user-data-dir flag for Chromium based browsers. Give each of the 9 instances their own directory.

I've been doing this for more than 25 years and the income gains for being productive are miniscule. Strategizing your job hops carefully is what gets you the 1/2 million.

I've seen other examples where thinking outside the C++ box is taboo. There was a talk at one of the conferences where the speaker was obviously referring to some of the enhancemen…

Besides the licensing issues, I found it bloated and flaky. For me, the friendly GUI just added pain. I use docker in Hyper-V as my home media server instead. WSL2 also works.

https://github.com/radareorg/iaito

Compared to other providers, it's much easier to call Microsoft and reach a human. I don't know that they can help, but it's worth a shot.

Hotelling's law and Nash equilibrium can partially explain why so many "next silicon valleys" haven't panned out. It's also interesting that the valley is in a jurisdiction with su…

> How does a white middle class male answer? Someone close to me hired a writer to pen a woke entrance essay for their son. This was after a guidance counselor warned that "people …

Can't wait to tell all my friends on Allo, Chat, Duo, Hangouts, Spaces, Messenger, Voice and Wave. Pretty sure I'm missing a few.

I hadn't thought in terms of collective guilt including everyone