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This doesn't apply to small residential contractors. I've had nothing but bad experiences hiring contractors. They rarely do the work themselves and instead hire subcontractors who…

I have firsthand experience with this, and yes, that was my last thought. I was young and foolish, and alone in the wilderness during the winter. I drank some bad water and became …

Taxes and health insurance are the big ones you're missing

How do you control for quality variation between patients? In my experience, AI note taking tools display a clear bias against participants who are {quieter, ESL, women, ...}. How …

If you're a hobbyist runner, this equation very quickly gets flipped on its head. It's very difficult to make up the calorie deficit from a 20 mile long run every week . Throw two …

>All previous programming abstractions kept correctness That's not strictly speaking true, since most (all?) high level languages have undefined behaviors, and their behavior varie…

I never understood why it's so complicated. On Linux, you can make a liveusb as easily as `cat liveusb.iso > /dev/sdX`. I imagine there is a powershell equivalent. There is a risk …

This is unfortunately very common for OHRMs. Once your heartbeat approaches your running cadence (~180 bpm), physical movement becomes confused with the color change of your blood …

4 people splitting rent on a house will get you very nice accommodations for 600-700 in most of the US, even some coastal cities.

I routinely see hardware failures in a fleet about an order of magnitude larger than the article. It's often enough that we have to plan for and recognize it, but not often enough …

>Honest question here, is pair programming still a thing? It's still by far the most effective tool for certain tasks. Inherit an extremely complex codebase with 50 levels of abstr…

I had the same experience at around 10,000 ft in the cascades. Once you're above the thickest part of the atmosphere, a whole new dimension opens up in the sky. Everywhere you look…

This is a problem for anyone who is not actively vigilant about the information they consume. A family member (who I would not describe as "terminally online") came to me today in …

Really excited about the sway spin. I've been using sway since early in the project's history, and love to see it become more stable and widely adopted.

In a way, yes. The specific meaning of words here is important. Sex likely refers to primary sex characteristics and gender may refer to secondary sex characteristics. For example,…