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Most people rely on their employer to generate and capture wealth. Many senior developers would not make it going alone as technical acumen (without salesmanship) is generally insu…

You mean PinePhone not Pine64.

Money is power and now you have some external validation and can afford some nice things.

Yes, doing Amazon FBA as a side hustle.

What about deaths due to smoking or obesity? Should we ban bacon and cigarettes? "Smoking is the leading cause of preventable death. Worldwide, tobacco use causes more than 7 milli…

Is there anything like this for Windows or Mac? Many third party videoconferencing solution don't offer blur if you're interviewing with an employer, using Jitsi Meet, etc.

I've had some issues where changesets are not being saved/written. End up writing in a text editor and pasting into Google doc later. :/

Having said that some consideration to keep in mind: - audio code needs to be optimized for real time thread constrains. Many optimizations usually made by vectorizing rather than …

Porting PyPy is harder than just re-running the compiler, because PyPy contains a few big architecture-dependent "details", like the JIT compiler and the foreign function interface…

Anyone know what rewriting for M1 actually entails? Guessing maybe you just recompile all your libraries for M1 and fix any errors and warnings that crop up.

Jaleesa Garland moved to Tulsa in October, decamping from Berkeley, California. Living in the expensive Bay Area was a grind since she shared a house with anywhere from four to six…

I can recommend the Challenger and Guardian series. The website is terrible but the chairs are incredible. https://pulselabz.com/shop/ Just very comfortable if you are sitting for …

The ominous opacity of the AWS bill – a cautionary tale (taloflow.ai) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21694835

The Google search method did not work for me, but http://archive.is/BOsMr did.

If you have an @mozilla.com or @chromium.org email address, you can create a Slack account. If not it seems like you might be out of luck.

I wouldn't say workers suffered from "dire personal and financial consequences". The employees had good jobs that could help build their career with relatively little risk.

Check out https://www.amursoftware.com/blog/what-are-the-biggest-distr...

Check out HR codes, an alternative to QR codes which encode all valid URL characters to images. https://github.com/hantuzun/hr-code Human Response Codes are designed to be recogniz…

Bought a Surface Pro 5th generation. Less than 8 months later the battery barely holds a charge. ( In the end it was far easier to just switch over to a Thinkpad.

md is multiple devices. It's a RAID implementation in Linux kernel available since kernel release 2.0. It allows you to create RAID level 0, 10, 4, 5 and 6. It has various optimiza…

There is the concept of franchises like McDonalds which seems to go against your point.