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Yeah. The article reads like a long-winded personal opinion. Advice for the author.

Have you checked out https://ocw.mit.edu/ ? They have a ton of MIT courses online for free in the format you just described.

This is what I do. I don't write docs for other people, I write them for myself. I find them most useful for processes that are intricate but that I won't have need to do for month…

And the lack of ability to just skip past them.

The 'Kill Sticky' plugin for Firefox works pretty well for me for most stuff. Most popups darken the screen, though, and it doesn't handle that. It's very useful to me nonetheless.…

This is one of my go-to indicators that I'm in an IT shop where I need to leave. I'm really good at sussing out and learning systems that people are guarding for the sole reason th…

This is another benefit of truly analog manual controls: Memory. Used to be your stereo volume knob was just at a certain level; when you turned it on it was at that level. Now the…

I purposely NEVER connect smart TVs to the internet for this reason. I'd like to get a "dumb" TV but the ones in the sizes I'd like are prohibitively expensive.

+1 for Integza. You should probably include a disclaimer that it is backyard engineering at its finest. He doesn't really do a lot of hard science in his videos. He has great ideas…

"The path to being healthier starts with observation. Keep a food and activity journal and crunch the numbers." Downloading MyFitnessPal and actually using it alone was such an eye…

There is an Okinawan principle to eating that says to eat until 80% full. There is a lag between actually being full and your brain realizing you're full. I can't find actual paper…

I've also noticed a tendency of "rockstar" types to entrench themselves. They'll bury some esoteric process/scripting/infrastructure or combination of the three somewhere knowing t…

Far in the future, we will also see the effects of having full or near-full adoption of self-driving. If all the cars on the road are driven by the "same" or at least similar drive…

Home Assistant has a lot of plugins but I haven't checked in a while. I seem to remember something about an AI/ML plugin for voice either coming soon or starting development. Every…

True. I guess I was thinking that if you build totally new infrastructure for these new overhauled cars, you'd keep it completely separate from other modes of transportation. My sc…

Let me preface by saying that I hold no strong opinions on this matter and my comments are purely speculative. This is kind of a position I've held for a long time but a different …

Isn't this always the trade-off? While I do appreciate useful software, it gets tiring that it's almost always at the expense of a little bit of privacy or tracking. Seems like the…

I think my favorite aspect of the show is how there are still societal remnants of the fancy, Victorian era customs and Columbo uses breaking social norms to put people off-balance…

Small band-aid on the repressive overall issue. You can usually push the second button down on the right-hand side to mute the mini-TV once the ads start playing. Not sure if you k…

Precisely this. I think this is why these discussions always blow up. A lot of commenters talking past each other about the tech that is pretty awesome. I've loved the idea of a pe…

To add to your 3rd point, your friends (and possibly you) may have shared yours and other's contact information without them even knowing it. As you said, Facebook is one of the wo…

This is the problem with distilling any group of people into a monoculture. The only true fact you can get from grouping people into the collective term of "developers" is the fact…

To add to this, since the work I do at my job aligns very closely to my hobbies, I find that work saps my interest in putting time into said hobbies. If I were able to spend the en…

Your description reminded me a lot of TempleOS. Another project created from scratch by a single developer (possibly with mental illness) that is going nowhere.

I have this "fun" slider on my retirement account's website that shows different values for different retirement ages. In order to hit my minimum, I had to slide it all the way to …