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Most common car repairs 2015: Replacing an oxygen sensor – $249 - Teslas don't have these Replacing a catalytic converter – $1,153 - Teslas don't have these Replacing ignition coil…

What happens then?

After this culture war is over, the first people in the hole will be the actual right wing racists The second people in the hole will be left wing people throwing that accusation a…

Well that appears to be what your media has informed you

In the UK you can be arrested for teaching your girlfriend's pug to heil as a joke.

The fax protocol includes a strong "read receipt" type mechanism that the machines can't ignore. "Did you get the last page?" "Yes, no bad lines." Legally, this is interesting beca…

As an engineer looking, it's rather depressing how many places have job requirements that are just a wishlist, or a resume-whittling strategy.

Because the end of the last ice age was only 12,000 years ago; and in that time frame, if that warming was caused by a prehistoric civilization, there would be a ton of evidence fo…

Generalists are never going to happen. In this industry people only hire Specialists.

UPS drivers are all about timing. They know precisely what they can carry, and what amount of time it will take them to manage the packages, with or without the awesome heavy-duty …

Enforced monogamy, i.e., marriage

So: if you are both skilled at tech AND at working with people, and you're shooting for a tech job with an experienced interviewer... BE MORE AWKWARD!

Well that's the thing about the slippery slope argument... it always leads to jackbooted thugs marching into your living room and by then it's too late Having heard this argument m…

This same argument has been made countless times. "Linux has no chance in the corporate world. HP has thousands of paid devs working on HP-UX." It turned out there were a greater n…

We should be able to derive this from the immediate actions that were taken in 1970-71 that actually prevented the end of civilization.

I'm trying to think of what it is, exactly, that Facebook has a monopoly on. The nearest I can come up with is: Facebook has a monopoly on Facebook users. The followup question wou…

> people change, even if they were a good hire a few years ago, now they may not any longer be good at that position in that company. When a manager takes a very skilled person and…

And that's why farmers take care of their land, because farmers generally retire on the worth of it.

To be more exact, RSS is headline-oriented, so it's about clickbait. It is not about sharebait .

Linux Engineer, 53. When my cow-orker lent me the book version of "No Country For Old Men" saying "Here, this is going around", I figured I might be in trouble. I was laid off in t…

"a calorie is a calorie" This is the exact point the article is... arguing against in a very convincing fashion

HylaFAX Enterprise is a full SW solution, (roughly) HylaFAX plus the Dialogic SR140 which does both T.38 (new school fax) and G.711 (old school telephony fax). But generally it's 1…

User #333 here. Back in the day, someone offered me oral sex for the low user number. What a perfect metaphor for the dot-com era: offering to wildly overpay for a social media ass…