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I quit tech a couple of years ago to become a high school teacher. No regrets.

> with people too I'm pretty sure the article is about interacting with people.

I'm just one person, but I replaced the catalytic converters on my FJ Cruiser so it would pass the emissions test

Too many ads, did not read

Looks like `haptic` is local first, not local only

The summary article makes it sound like it’s somehow surprising that sea turtles can swim. The paper itself clarifies that it’s more a question of whether there are trends in the d…

I think failure mode analysis is definitely part of engineering

You’ve seen Greater Houston, now meet Greatest Houston

> Wright Waste Management, located in nearby Harris County Houston is in Harris county…

I’ve spent so much time wrestling with and learning all (most) of these pitfalls, and I consider it time well spent. After my first few weeks I started dreaming in bash.

An obvious example of platform enshittification https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshitt...

Turns out frogs are smarter than we thought https://web.archive.org/web/20240118204920/https://www.fastc...

What’s wrong with uuidv4 as PK?

I searched and didn’t find any identical prior comment

What sound should it make when it's using up your battery monitoring for freefall conditions? Maybe some sort of radar ping... vigilance mode enabled...

Strive to clarify fundamental goals. Consider possible second-order effects of policy decisions. Reevaluate intermediate goals after observing their effects.

> an intern who wrote code .... his code had been in production You get what you pay for, eh?

FWIW I've been quite happy with the ZSA Moonlander https://www.zsa.io/moonlander

On the plus side, why are they storing gender info in the first place?

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Breaking news! Some number of people have an opinion about something.

Makes sense to me. Good luck! > Ironically, this sort of cross functional work is highly valued, but if you're drawn to this path, you'll find yourself doing much more cutting thro…

That's just the decrement operator and inequality operator!

That first anecdote in the article is relevant, and the article does eventually get to talking about Google. This is the nature of long-form, it doesn't have to dive straight in.

Simple, clean, straightforward. I've done similar things in bash before but not bothered to publish :) It's a good idea though to have an ecosystem of simple but flexible tools lik…