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As an American who moved to Berlin 15 years ago, I love not needing a car. We like to visit Paris, Amsterdam, London, Florence, and more cities multiple times a year and we never g…

This article could have been published 30 years ago. In professional unix admin circles this was already well known back them. Although I could be misreading it as the article is n…

In case you aren't aware, UTM is a full featured VM solution for Apple Silicon machines which is freely available and easy to use.

This is not a case of one or the other. I do all of the above and more.

I imagine that (at least) 2 things have happened to Google Search. 1. SEO content farmers have filled it up with low quality results. 2. Google used ML to tune the system and it op…

Yeah, I refuse to buy any product that requires a subscript simply to be able to use it. A subscription should bring new value every month, like a magazine. I'm OK with subscribing…

That's why I laugh when I see they want to charge a subscription for this. It's easy enough for any competent developer to take available open source tools and crank out something …

I love UTM. It works great for my needs. I mostly develop infrastructure automation and configuration tooling and I run all my VMs in terminal mode. The wide availability of arm64 …

In my recent experience, Google search is totally broken for anything that is hard to find or uncommon. I recently search for "raspberry pi uart hat" and Google responds with the f…

From my perspective this is undesired by the vendor because there was no therapy session, just various free uses of OpenAI via their account.

I'm starting to see a lot of products in "beta" that seem to be little more than a very thin wrapper around ChatGPT. So thin that it is trivial to get it to give general responses.…

For me this article joins a long list of "I don't believe in X" where the author has apparently only experienced bad versions of X. Most of the time with the articles, the answer t…

My HR team got a Leadership Development plan for several of us from sharpist.com. They match and supply the coaches. Very happy with it so far!

I have been an engineering leader for over 10 years and in all this time I received almost no training or coaching. I was pulled up from my role as an engineer. For the past 6 mont…

I took a look at their privacy policy and the company behind this blog isn't even GDPR compliant, despite their claims. Note the following from their privacy policy: "Research and …

I work for a German company and am responsible for GDPR implementation. I would not suggest following the advice in the article. It is full of mistakes and bad advice and would eas…

After two experiences, I no longer use or trust Glassdoor. 1. After turning in my notice to resign, the company I was leaving offered me a written agreement where they would pay me…

How does your team use it and how would you rate it? My CEO wanted to introduce Gather with the idea that everyone would be in it working all day. He wanted to be able to "stroll b…

If you are taking this article at face value then you are missing the point. This is 100% a marketing piece. It is a standard part of modern Mentalism to pretend to explain how it …

Is this is really important to you there is at least one solution: Wearable Microphone Jamming[0] 0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28885739

Unfortunately I don't have a link. It was an internally developed class at that company. This was in 2002.

Back in the day, the company I worked for required all newly hired system and software engineers to take their Unix Fundamentals class. 8 hours a day for 4 days they covered how th…

I don't know how many times I have to repeat this advice: if it isn't in writing in your contract then it doesn't count. It doesn't matter what a recruiter or hiring manager promis…

It's not dark at all. It seems from the comments that most people think the only way to interact with tiktok is the fyp (main feed) but if you jump over to any hashtag you get a cu…

I am totally lost as to how this is a cloud. The author's definition of pocket-sized cloud is "a place to run our code, which can be configured through an API - using containers fo…