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We use the blank cards almost exclusively. For Christmas, we got several members of our extended family to read their favourite story book into a voice memo on our phone(s). We set…

Because their husband secretly has HIV? Secret outside of the relationship, that is.

I've got a Samsung laser printer that was gifted to me when I started post-secondary 13 years ago. Still chugging right along. Never had a hiccup with it. Windows finds the drivers…

Is this true? I would love to read further on this. For one reason or another, I am experiencing some concern lately about my waning ability to learn new concepts as I age, or at l…

I was just last week in an interview for a role at Amazon and was told that -- while they would entertain a permanent remote arrangement for the right candidate -- it was the inter…

One of the issues that I know Canada faces (having been in this exact position) is a southward "brain drain". There is no small amount of top talent that graduate from Universities…

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss. This relatively short book has made more of a difference to my personal livelihood than maybe any other pice of literature or advice. You …

Wow! Hot take. What Azure services were you using?

>I expect our migration from 3.1=>5.0 will be a total non-event, but we don't want to risk any regressions during our current crunch phase FWIW, I just did a find/replace across 66…

I just did a straight up find-replace for `netcoreapp3.1` -> `net5.0` across 66 projects, built and passed tests without a hitch. Zero issues so far outside of the warnings resulti…

Oh, rats. I was just wondering if a-Shell would get hit with this too. I get a lot of mileage out of that app.

> My guess would be it's meant to annoy you into submission No reason to believe that this is not considered to be optimal by the company.

I find myself confused by this as well, surely people who are sufficiently technically sophisticated to own bitcoin won’t fall for “I’ll send you bitcoin if you send me yours first…

If there’s one ad I get the most, it’s the God damned YouTube premium ads. I don’t know how many times I have to say no to the prompts. I wish there were a way to say “I will delet…

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team is a perennial classic, though not tech focused. But that's probably okay in combination with more tech-industry focused literature.

About the purchase of large amounts of gift cards; it’s not as uncommon as you’d think. I worked at a grocery store customer service office and it wasn’t uncommon to have people bu…

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Yes, the popular story about the 30-odd bystanders was broadly unfounded. In fact there were two calls to the police.

In the Amazon app, a search for “shirt without stripes” now get corrected to “shirt without strips”.

Lexus also has a touchpad, and an interesting "tactile joystick" type of solution. Takes some getting used to but the tactile feedback goes a long way to reducing the need to look …

Thanks for the tip!

You can also set up 1PW to use a OTP itself. I use 1PW for OTP generation and for passwords (naturally), but my 1Password account itself is protected by my password + secret key, a…

I don't use 1PW for teams, but I do use it personally and use it to store all my OTPs except my OTP credential to access 1Password itself. I use a different authenticator app for t…