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Copies in Seconds: Chester Carlson and the Birth of the Xerox Machine by David Owen "A history of the photocopier offers a portrait of reserved physics graduate Chester Carlson, wh…

The bad grammar was a tell for me - did not even come close to being plausibly from a native English speaker. That said, I can understand how someone who very much needs/wants a jo…

They were after data for other carriers and/or more enriched data than they could easily collect. They could use this data for their own marketing and/or network planning. e.g. “We…

Install an extension? ha ha lol. good luck.

Installing an extension. ha ha lol. good luck.

Put it in your garage/closet and forget about it. Life is too short! If they want their stuff back they'll figure it out.

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Lot's of memories from Fry's and Weird Stuff too. Sad. https://thesixfifty.com/these-photos-of-weirdstuff-warehouse...

"even not particularly addictive when not delivered via burning leaves" My personal experience is that it is even more addictive. First, with NRT (gum, lozenge) you can use nicotin…

Clojure. I wanted to love you. But at the end of the day types matter (to me at least) and spec just feels like an afterthought.

"Print statements are a valid way to debug code." In 30+ years of programming, vast majority of bugs I've fixed were diagnosed with a few strategically placed print statements. "I …

I too have suffered from depression. The work of Dr. David Burns have proven to be most helpful to me! I'd suggest checking out his website feelinggood.com or his new book "Feeling…

A few years ago I fell and broke my elbow. It was a mess and had to have emergency surgery to put it all back together. After surgery I'm sent home with a "ball" around my neck tha…

I'd talk to a doctor or two. I posted above about a friend diagnosed with stage 3 at 45 who passed on at 49. She too had a family history (aunt, uncle, grandmother)

Prepping for the colonoscopy is worse than the procedure itself. Get a good doctor, the risks are low but not 0 and, of course, you can google up the worst outcomes. A dear neighbo…

Thank you sir for your generosity! My wife teaches second grade in a lower income bay area school district, she's rocking a 2012 macbook pro :-( Let's put it this way, the fan is a…

I hate to get any sort of "thin" envelope from the IRS..

My wife is a 2d grade teacher. She brought home her lumens ladybug that she used with her Promethean board in the classroom. However, the lag was terrible, her 2012 macbook pro jus…

I think this has to be some attempt to "test" the guy to see how he would respond to a company policy that is not only wrong but could have serious legal consequences.

Countries with nukes and 2M+ man armies? Besides, too much is at stake by our corporate overlords to put military action or sanctions on the table. Sadly, Hong Kongers need to stee…

re: "free lawyer" - many times you get what you paid for. Hence people with incompetent representation (purposefully or otherwise) ending up with bad plea deals and/or lengthy sent…

I've coded/supported a number of admin tools for a number of large companies (banks, telcos, etc) so I'll take a stab at "why" First, god mode can be implemented cheap and fast. Go…

I lost my software engineering job a year ago. In my late 50s I sunk into a depression. A resource that helped me get back on my feet was the works of Dr. David Burns. His website …

You can create a graalvm native image for your Clojure app. You have to jump through some hoops to build it though.

Was in job search late last year so not much to worry about. But abuse me and you lose me, goodbye triplebyte, we hardly knew each other and never will.