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In my last job, we observed ByteDance scraping TBs of OS testing data using the restful API that our OSS community front-end was using to serve it's CI result to the OSS community.…

If you're a UK company (it's doable but) it can be a pain holding your bank account in dollars (which you'd want to do if your main customers are in the US and if you're paying you…

Having had a mouse infestation at my cottage that took over a year to resolve, this would have been a great way to keep the critters out of and off the bedding during that time. I …

For me it's really an intestinal gas issue that's forcing my stomach to compress, such that when I lay down, the acid makes way to my esophagus.

I have a wealth of experiential data on this, validated as recently as this previous July over a two week period. Like clockwork, if I take my Vit D supplement in the evening (like…

I take Ibuprofen, and only when I can tell there is a problem (like when I've been up several times on preceding nights). It also seems correlated with junk food and alcohol. I gen…

Parent is correct. It might or might not be prostate, or my intestines putting pressure on my bladder.

Indeed, when I have intestinal gas, it pushes my stomach 'up' and exposes my esophagus to the acid.

I just use Ibuprofen when I know there's an issue. It's not ideal, but it works.

Benadryl does nothing to me except kill my deep and REM sleep and leave me "sleeping" but conscious. I'm exhausted the next day. I only take cetrizine.

I have always had insomnia and have to maintain very good sleep hygiene. Here's a few things I have found that help me get to sleep: - No exercise after 18:30/6:30pm - Absolutely a…

I was recruited directly out of a feeder school (University) for this company after focusing my undergrad course selection on operating system topics. Compared to twenty years ago,…

My experience has been the complete opposite. When I was in Uni I was required to take an assembly language course and was told it was foundational but I'd never use it in industry…

> Time to get rid of people they don’t want, without them look bad since everybody is doing it, and also they’ll have an excuse if financial results aren’t very good. This is IBM's…

Metabolic syndrome isn't so simple. You can sugary calories in small doses throughout the day, lose weight (through caloric deficit), and still develop insulin resistance because y…

I recently read a book on managing forests "A Landowners Guide to Harvesting Your Woods" and one of the salient points in the book is the fact that the majority of woodlands in the…

Every new piece of paperwork that requires an additional face-to-face hand off or brings in a new entity provides another avenue for corruption to occur and a place for money to di…

> “I’m a person who doesn’t drink alcohol.” This is very interesting. I have gradually become this person because I don't tolerate alcohol well anymore and it doesn't bother me to …

> Tip #6: Make new friends, cut back on the old ones I've been told this is one of the hardest parts, because those old friends are often the ones encouraging and reinforcing the a…

My understanding is that payment processors find themselves enforcing the Overton Window lest they run afoul of present legal trends. There's a sliding scale on what is or is not a…

I'm curious what they're going to do, long term, about their use of PFAS (the alleged forever chemicals) in waterproofing. Apparently they've been trying to reduce usage or find al…

> If the layoffs are NOT based off of performance, as the CEO says: Performance motivated layoffs are where a company decides they're going to do a reduction solely to cull underpe…

> he's been able to climb up to a engineering manager in a shorter amount of time than I've been working as a SWE If you want to be an IC, don't short change your accomplishments. …

> Trees only have a finite lifespan. Even "wild" forests reach end of life stage and that's when responsible logging and forestry management can promote healthier forests. I absolu…

Letting a tree grow to complete maturity is a gamble. Many of the US's classic native tree species are under incredible stress (or nearly wiped out) due to the rapid spread of para…