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As a hybrid macOS / Windows user (with 20+ years of Windows keyboard muscle memory), I found Karabiner Elements a godsend. You can import complex key modifications from community b…

Might I suggest https://www.prodigygame.com - it's a free-to-play online math game, where your child is a wizard that has to answer (age appropriate) math questions to gain magic t…

I wonder if this reduction in videos on screen is a result of an experiment due to "The Paradox of Choice" / "Choice Overload"? https://thedecisionlab.com/reference-guide/economics…

The following is my personal experience being part of a collective bargaining union (OPSEU local 598), which encompassed a few hundred workers for Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, in…

TIL! Thanks for the link - all the demos / videos had me convinced this was just e-ink technology!

Any ideas what the screen refresh rate is going to be at this point? All the screenshots don't have time that includes seconds, and having a watch face that can update at least eve…

Greenworks offers battery powered leaf blowers - might have been one of these? https://www.greenworkstools.com/collections/leaf-blowers

I came here to recommend the same! Mine's the thermal carafe version (so it doesn't have a hot plate) - so it's even more straightforward. Some selling points you didn't mention th…

I work for an EdTech company called Prodigy Game ( https://www.prodigygame.com ) - we have Math and English adventure games that help students in grades 1 - 8 learn at school or at…

I really like the Pilot G2 pens - they use a nice flowing ink and are available in larger 1.0mm and 0.7mm sizes. They are also pretty easy to find (Amazon has them, I'm sure other …

I may be mistaken here, but I think Patrick may be referring to the library of Stripe Press published books, which are available internally (and externally, if purchased)? https://…

DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer / Cloud Architect / Systems Engineer / Application Developer Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (UTC-4) Remote: Yes (also experienced with working …

DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer / Cloud Architect / Systems Engineer / Application Developer Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada (UTC-4) Remote: Yes (also experienced with working …

Thanks - when you're primary on-call, how often do you receive alerts / pages that you have to action?

Thanks - that seems like a reasonable way to handle on call, and more in line with what I've seen as well. Appreciate the feedback!

> Are the people in charge of fixing the underlying issues themselves on call? Yes - although we're on call frequently enough, and tasked with other priorities when we're not - so …

Thanks for the reply - this sounds like the right way to run an on call rotation!

Thanks - that's what I was expecting this to be like also - it's sadly not though. Appreciate the feedback!

Thanks for your reply - we do have some recurring types of issues, but I'd say it varies a fair bit. A lot of issues are customer support related (that require administrator access…

Thanks - of the 5-7 pages per week I was mentioning, all of these are things that are items that require me to manually action them. Lots are after hours customer support issues th…

Thanks - I'm glad I got at least one reply of someone who's confirming that level of paging wasn't abnormally high to them. When on primary on-call, we also are generally not expec…

Thanks - we try to tune our alerts, and we have a lot that are self healing as well. The ones I've been mentioning are ones that we currently don't have automated solutions for, an…

Thanks - this is what I figured was closer to normal. I appreciate getting confirmation my experience is not as far off reality as I was being told!

Thanks - yeah, all of the 5-7 incidents I'm seeing are considered high priority and require action. We get lots of the noisy false system alarms too, but those don't require me to …

Thanks for the reply - I appreciate the insight and follow up questions. > The question you should be asking is: why am I being paged so often? Are they legitimate things that you …