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Common cold is caused by a variety of viruses, only a small subset of which is coronaviruses. Look it up.

I have worked for several years with WordPress. Everything you say is true if the devs are incompetent. Then yes, the variety of ways one can shoot themselves in the foot and compl…

As someone who has interviewed maybe 30-40 sw and devops engineers over the last year, I wish more interviewees would ask things like this. It shows engagement and ability to speak…

This baffles me as well. The technology to solve so many problems hard to approach with other tools is right there, why not use it.

Can you quickly explain how this meshes with existing data formats such as gpx or fit? Will there be converters? Can traindown express time series or is it more of a high level log…

It is already all but illegal to use Starlink in Russia, and given modern surveillance technologies, setting up an access point against the will of authorities might be practically…

Just Sweden does not eat an unreasonable amount of fish (see https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fish-and-seafood-consumpt... ). According to press release by Arla (the largest Swed…

I am lazy and did not read the study, sorry. But nowhere in the comments I see discussion related to whether it somehow accounts for dietary variance in vitamin D intake via fortif…

> No parent no matter how poor wants their child to work unless they cannot afford to feed them. As anyone who has grown up in a country where child labor was normal will tell you,…

I find it curious and vaguely racist that the word 'clan' is almost exclusively used in reference to immigrant and poc families and with an allusion to inherent criminality. This d…

We are designing a fairly complex application where we strive to achieve as high availability as possible (99,99 is the current target) and want to try out some things that our org…

We have unofficial office rules that work just like that. We do not have a sea of 50 people in the same space however, instead we have sort of isolated spaces that contain about 15…

"Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives" by Nick Rozanski, Eóin Woods. Found this book really useful due to its methodical appro…

How cute. I tried your suggestion once. What I got was an overengineered, poorly documented delivery that matched the spec about 50%. Oh, it was also a year late. Sorry, but proces…

Veoneer, but on other carmakers' products.

I did a summer working at a printing house where we assembled printed calendars by hand (post-soviet country, people were cheap, machines were horrendously expensive). The job cons…

Tested a KIA e-Niro during the weekend and it had gas stations in the points of interest list on the infotainment system. Cute. :) To their defense, many / most gas stations sell l…

Brasil has benefitted a lot from technology exchange with Saab. For those of you who are not familiar with the concept, the idea ,(very simplified) is that Brasil buys a lot of Saa…

There is a competition between RPA and automation by Python ongoing in my workplace. We are low on devs and high on buzzword-susceptible non-technical managers. The argument that i…

After 6 months of back to back meetings all day long all week I started doing this and it has been a lifesaver.

During the first 30 or so years of my life I actively strained to have a happy family, wide social circle and all the associated social trappings. The amount of money, energy and t…

Regarding light reflection on facial features and so on, it is worth noting that even _color film_ was already strongly biased towards light-skinned humans [1] Also the argument th…

I suspect that a significant amount of developers do not care. A job is a job, if the problem to solve is interesting enough or it pays well enough, rest is irrelevant. This is sup…

Does anyone else work on a relatively large internal web project in a global corp where GA for obvious reasons is forbidden to use internally? How do you do statistics? Which stati…

I suspect Facebook bans accounts of people they dislike fairly regularly. A friend of mine was banned recently due to FB having a spat with a company he once cofounded. At the time…