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This work seems so much more challenging, interesting, and fun compared to what I do as a senior software engineer. Why does hardware engineering pay so much less??

Most employers in the U.S. over about 1,000 employees are “self-insured”, meaning they hire the insurance company for the network and administration, but the company actually does …

No mention of permafrost? Yes, the _air_ will be more habitable, but if the _ground_ is a boggy mess, you’re not going to be doing much with this newly habitable land.

This is brilliant! Check out the demo video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxFad7Rxw7Q

I get the sense that hyperscalers don’t give Intel a ton of margin in negotiations, so they already have access to great server chips at competitive prices. And they’re bringing in…

I’m rather happy about buying the recently updated 13” MBP and basically skipping ARM Macs. My last one lasted 8 years, so I expect this one to last roughly as long. By then they’l…

This is essentially what RISC-V does with its "Compressed" instruction set, except without the dictionary switching. They pulled a bunch of statistics over real-world machine code,…

Oof. This really hurts. So often when folks complain about Google shutdowns, I defend G with “but that was a consumer product! GCP doesn’t kill off things. It’s different.” But her…

I love my ARM-powered Chromebook. True, it can’t teally do native development, but ARM clients aren just coming. They’re here. And wow doesn’t have amazing battery life and an unbr…

Check out Tiller! https://www.tillerhq.com/ I tried going down the route of dealing with OFX in GNUCash, and it's just a huge never-ending hassle. Tiller dumps the raw data from Yo…

Methane deteriorates in the upper atmosphere fairly quickly, whereas CO2 sticks around. Methane is a dramatically better insulator than CO2, so in the short run its impact is highe…

It'll always be missing a bunch. Feel free to add them as proposed edits!

Great idea! Thank you.

Thanks! It's in there (row 21), but I got the price wrong.

Sweet! Another compelling option for sub-$100 SBCs. I've been keeping track of them in a Google Sheet at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TCugLk0GSukeWjhsLu73... .

According to CrunchBase, they've only raised $45M. 16x return after 4 years in business. Well done! https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quip#/entity

The difficult part of separate AWS accounts is that connecting between them is tricky (Security Groups, VPC, etc.). Not impossible, but a pain to get right. The spectrum between de…

Yeah, we connected with LDAP because that's how AdRoll operates, but we'd like to support a more universal backend eventually. That support just didn't make the cut for open-source…

Yeah, when we spoke with Amazon, they already had a couple of labels for what hologram is, so it sounds like we at AdRoll are not the only AWS customer who has had to roll it ourse…