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There is an interesting tell, they sent the old presidential plane. But then Trump flew onwards from England on the new one. The two planes are sufficiently different that they can…

Nah, all those defaults are features . Of course, there are contexts where those defaults are unsuitable which means: Use a Different RDBMS!

I have easily read thousands of personal development books and blog posts. Alex's post is easily the most revealing, inspiring to date. Thank you Alex. I'm a textbook case introver…

I have worked in environments where as the day wore on, my performance plummeted. After a lot of investigation, I suspect that air quality, lighting, ergonomics can have adverse ef…

Like all engineering answers: It depends If you want money, status symbols and no life = Amazon. Oh, you might gain some experience that is near useless in a non-FAANG org. If you …

Have worked with Sabre and early GUI interfaces for travel agents. It has only taken 30 years for WebJet to deliver something consumers could use and has displaced swathes of trave…

It would be more useful to determine why insurance premiums are rising faster than almost every other homeowner expense. At the same time noting that insurance companies are making…

I think the more critical question is how well compiler writers can update the heuristics which identify the instruction sequences that benefit from the architectural features. Las…

I get the impression you are not technically challenged at your work. Not an uncommon dynamic when working for a company for which software is a means to an end. In order to dig de…

My jaded view is that many over-enthusiastic people are surrendering their autonomy technology. We've seen the impact of delegating our self-esteem to social media. Now having a ma…

My move? Get the f** out of the office, away from keyboards, screens and cubicles, take up tools and get apprenticed in a trade.

Here we go again ... Company A buys company B. A's management decrees the henceforth B's aqcuihired team must comply with company A's standards. Second system effect kicks in. Bugs…

An amazing effort and result. Shame watching the video gave me motion sickness.

Yes, tenants can be a pain. The laws have increasingly become less investor friendly. In my experience having a good managing agents provides a valuable buffer. The real money is m…

I think it is due to the wide disparity between potential members. For example, consider an agricultural co-op, e.g. wheat growers. The members of the co-op have farms of differing…

Not in SV, not even in the USA. So my experience is probably different. Whilst I was pulling down a good salary, invested in apartments to rent out. Banks are happy to lend if you …

Keeping it simple usually saves the day.

Back in the day when I replaced the battery in my MBP, I recall the battery was a significant part of the total weight. To build an all day running ultra-light would probably requi…

Smart doorbells and thermostats that upgraded in the night often became a nuisance or an expensive brick. But a faulty software upgrade on a car can kill you and others. Car compan…

The Gaslighter in Chief wants to abolish the First Amendment.

... again Didn't work too well last time. Will be amazingly effective this time

If it's anything like the "negotiations" where the other party gets bombed before even leaving the venue, it could be a trap.

What's the point? No matter how detailed and comprehensive the instructions and steps by the AI, you still don't get a PBJ sandwich to eat. You have to go to the kitchen and do it …

Good on you for rising up to the ranks of Linux/BSD. You just need to recognize that not everybody aspires to be competent with lower-levels of hardware and software that Apple mak…

I spent a part of my career supporting IBM PC/XT, PC/AT and then Compaq and the many PC clones. Microsoft, as its name implies, started out and cuturally was always a software comp…