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> As someone who did have 15 direct reports for a while, it’s a joke. > You basically are their manager in name only. Your time is so split you can’t give any one direct reports th…

An AI prompt in June 2025.

Do you think Google suffered any consequences for ignoring their "Don't be evil" motto?

RFK Jr believes: 1. That Wifi causes cancer. 2. That there is no vaccine which is "safe and effective". 3. It's unknown if the Polio vaccine prevented more deaths than it caused. T…

That's a regional difference in terms. I would generally call a limited access highway, a "highway". https://brilliantmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/big-fast-road.j...

I literally just had this printed, following that same blog post. Would recommend Whitewalls, it was a very high quality print. I got the 12x18 size, kind of regret not getting it …

That's how shutdown works on Linux too.

What do you mean? You can manually run Heroku database maintenance. We just did this recently at work. https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-mainte...

Heat pumps are air conditioners that are run in reverse, ie, you are air conditioning the outside. Another way to think of any AC/heat pump/refrigerator is as a heat mover, you can…

How did you notice? Don't they just look like normal cameras with the AI facial recognition running on the backend?

> It would also just randomly forget the resume point, and revert to playing the "first" file on the disk. Is there any hack that fixes this? It's my number 1 annoyance with my Maz…

Freezing is always what you want, that's what they are required by law to provide. There is no law that says they can't also provide something similar and encourage people to pay f…

If you're ok with a bit of DIY, I recently got some Qwiic I2C sensors combined with an ESP32 running ESPHome. The Qwiic connectors made the hardware part really plug and play. I ha…

I recently did a bunch of research into password managers, and went with Keepassxc as well. I'm using Syncthing to sync the password archive across Linux, Mac, Android, and Windows…

What watchdog do you mean? I've ssh'd into my Mazda3 and was planning on doing it again soon, but I don't know what you mean by that.

See for example, the Star Trek TNG episode that used Sherlock Holmes. At the time, the studio assumed Sherlock Holmes was in the public domain, but were contacted by the estate and…

It's almost as if it was meant as a joke.