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We’ve had a few great threads about tinnitus recently [1], which in the comments even went into how to help with Floaters Another neurological / sense based issue is Visual Snow. T…

I've been in tech for 15 years now. A lot of what I loved about it has changed, and I'm now at a crossroads where I have an opportunity to leave and do something else. I ended each…

I am a people & open source obsessed Product Manager with over 10 years of experience working on databases and developer platforms. I was an iOS developer for 5 years prior. I have…

That’s literally how Facebook started I remember begging my older step brother for an invite since he had the college email to get in

If you’ve ever wondered why the symbol of health is a snake spiraling a staff (the Greek god Asclepius’s staff to be specific), it’s because in Ancient Greece they used small amoun…

Anecdata, sample size of one: When I was looking for my next role after being laid off, I didn’t get much of a response with my human handmade resume despite my experience Just for…

We can’t know, they didn’t disclose ;-)

Just checked. I continue to have Claude Code with my Pro plan This is concerning though. If I lose my current usage allotment at this price point I will likely switch to codex

This is why the First Amendment is so important

Apple is usually pretty good at keeping older phones performant enough but, This is the first upgrade cycle that I upgraded in anger over an unusably slow and energy inefficient OS…

> If Gmail goes down in 20 years, it will be a major occurrence. If mailgoforward.fart goes down, you’re screwed. The technical equivalent of “if you default on a $100,000 loan you…

The steps to trouble: - identify who owns the number - compel that person to give unlocked phone - government can read messages of _all_ people in group chat not just that person C…

Every time I see this, I upvote it I’m sure it’s different than it was when I was a teenager but building Linux from scratch was the thing that got me into computers as a kid It sh…

I’d love to see how this impacts their bottom line Sure short term it’s more “focused” and “greedy” But the damage to the community and acquisition through a free tier must drop th…

Why so? Apple explicitly acknowledged that they were using OpenAI’s GPT models before this, and now they’re quite easily switching to Google’s Gemini

Someone tried to get into my account 2 days ago by attempting to reset it with “forgot password” That’s never happened to me before, wonder if it’s related

My hot take: We’re already in a recession. We just use AI to justify doing all the same recession behaviors while making it sound like innovation - not hiring this year > AI is mak…

I'm looking to set up a doc set up wherein I can put my laptop into the doc and it automatically connects to my Monitor, USB devices, and AUX cord for my speakers What are folks us…

> sudo killall coreaudiod seems to fix it for a while For me this fixes it for about 30 minutes then I have to do it again… and again… and again… I wonder why some folks need to do…

> It is a vs code fork Google may have won the browser wars with Chrome, but Microsoft seems to be winning the IDE wars with VSCode

What are the specific regulations that make building new power plants hard?