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I work as an Equipment Reliability Engineer at a nuclear power station. The only programming we are allowed to use is Microsoft Excel Macros, nothing else. There’s a reason why VBA…

My apologies, I've been up for 18hrs today

Certainly not for money, he lives in a simple house and drives a simple car. Probably because he just likes his job

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No, I pay fastmail [1] to do it all for me. I am reading in the comments that a lot of people have success with self-hosting, and maybe I will look into it someday when I am not bu…

make recompiles source code files by detecting the last modified date on a file, hence it only recompiles source files as necessary. So if you have 10 source files with 5000 lines …

Because it means less eyeballs on the front page, hence less ad revenue

I think that's an exaggeration of how it works in Europe, it is not the case that it "sucks so bad people end up buying private healthcare anyways"

The level of crime in Rotterdam is lower than in San Francisco though

This is exactly my experience with my differential equation lessons in my maths classes at Year 1 and Year 2 undergraduate chemical engineering. The way we were told to just follow…

When AMD or NVIDIA sell GPUs to scalpers, and those scalpers resell the GPUs and keep the profit, there's outrage about it. Nobody ever says to "build more GPUs" to fix the problem…

Same stuff can happen with Windows too with unexpected updates. Not sure about Mac though, I've never used one.

> https://twitter.com/techemails/ Slightly off-topic, but wow. What an absolutely brilliant twitter account.

I am genuinely surprised that there is so much interest in the comments here and excitement about fusion energy powering the future. Yet I see surprisingly few numbers or physics b…

As per the comment: > it is also nice knowing that I never have to worry about losing my device since all of my actual work is on a server I can login to using just about any other…

> People wanted cars because, for most of the US, they are the only practical transportation method. And that's because government zoning at the time prioritised suburban single-fa…

> I think you’re misdiagnosing the cause. Nearly everyone I know—my circle skews highly educated and well compensated—cares more about social issues than economic ones. Of course t…

No I don't think so. People still pay a pretty penny to watch live music, and the human and emotional interaction with an artist just can't be matched.

I think the fact that companies like Klarna are downsizing is good overall. Klarna literally offers nothing but interest free loans (3 instalments typically), and they tear out you…

> Lets be real, you need to be using JavaScript for the internet to be functional, even within Tor That's incorrect, especially the last part. Dark services work very hard to desig…

There are lots of uranium reserves around the world that are in classically Western countries

Let's not forget the time where the 30% tax refund Apple misinformation spread like wildfire on the front page

> It’s not entirely clear to me why working hard has become a Bad Thing in certain parts of the US Because working hard is not a guarantee to a successful material life. https://ww…