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In my experience the only people who get paid "well" to just code up well defined JIRA tickets are new grads, and this is essentially a training period until they grow into leading…

If you've got secret agents on enemy soil who can get near targets with drones, you're probably just bombing them.

If we can beat a security-state airgap by sprinkling USB drives in the parking lot, I think the Iranians can beat an "internal" network by getting someone to click on an email atta…

I enjoy watching Cursed Controls on YouTube. For him, the gold standard is a flash drive with the program on it physically hanging out in the control cabinet.

The problem with ads is that they steal your attention to serve someone else’s commercial interests, whereas the objects in a home should serve its occupants’ purposes, practical o…

A screen with an ad on it is objectionable enough, even if the ad is untargeted.

And how many more are on the same internal networks as dozens or hundreds of ordinary Windows desktops on which municipal workers are checking their email? Hardly better.

In the professional A/V integration world, it's normal for displays and projectors to have serial port interfaces that can be driven by commands from e.g. a Crestron controller or …

The wealth of the capital class is, unsurprisingly, capital - the facilities, equipment, organizational structures, etc. used to make stuff. What does it mean for capital to be hoa…

A company at the scale to benefit from this almost certainly has some kind of development sandbox environment and/or periodic job runner that's integrated into its environment and …

From what I've read, very few people who buy ortho split keyboards, even people who love and swear by them, ever recover their WPM. I could never get comfortable on my Ergodox. The…

It was enough for a single person in a good studio or middling 1BR with no kids, probably no car, and no desire to own property.

High CoL jurisdictions like having the offices there, they just prefer that the employees and their families be someone else's problem. I couldn't imagine anything short of a feder…

If you personally are being rotated out of FAANG, sure. If FAANG isn't hiring, good luck.

In other words, do not buy a house or start a family within 2 hours of any of their supported work locations.

>Now, since it's impossible to code review the tens of thousands of lines of code that AI produces I would simply not ask the AI to write me more code until I'm satisfied with the …

Name, address, and phone number served plenty of critical functions when they were published in the White Pages. Cell phones not being listed there was kind of an accident of histo…