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He was prone to broken bones starting in high school, but kept playing basketball because he was quite good at it despite all the recovery downtime. ESPN did a writeup: https://web…

Where is the letter P in the second image?

Sounds like the sort of program that'd give you a 0 on an assignment if it worked perfectly but emitted a compiler warning under Sun Studio

no.

This thinking is taught in MBA programs but does not map onto real businesses. If you're in the ice cube business and you made the profoundly unwise decision to set up vending mach…

I've been on the receiving end of that kind of "reorganization" and this didn't look like that. EDIT: Specifically, replacements were not "cheap".

> whatever algorithm is being used to remove people Different functions/teams/departments seemed to use very different algorithms, suggesting there was just no leadership at all. I…

The reason the word "inept" keeps coming up is just how opaque and senseless to the rank and file the January 2023 layoffs were. High performers, low performers, newest hires, most…

Thinking about my own usage patterns, when I'm working from home my laptop is VPNed to somewhere reasonably close lag-wise, but certainly not within 50 miles of my house. Meanwhile…

I'm unclear whether you disagree with the linked video or just Kurzgesagt as an outlet. If it's the latter, I suppose we should also link their response: https://www.reddit.com/r/k…

Absolutely! I suspect it would also alleviate a couple of headscratchers like where you spelled out "underscore" when setting a breakpoint.

The novel /referenced/ is Children of Ruin, the sequel, which is just as amazing. I assume the author is referring to the diptych by its first part's name. Small discrepancy which …

Probably the wee Brother 3200-something you can find at any office supply store. We had a rebranded sibling sold by Dell for a decade. CUPS likes them. They're slow, but they work.…

Libraries don't let you check out books which can't be replaced economically. You might have heard the word "circulating" in the context of libraries: stuff from Tom Clancy and Har…

The new high (secondary) school treated her like a new student, not one with a year of comically poor performance. This isn't about college or university; it's about the last few y…

It's unwaxed, unbleached, and thick. How does that help?

$150 for 50Mbps is what I'm paying for Comcast Business, and they haven't been able to render an invoice for months.

To save somebody the tedium of finding an archived version of the actual post: https://web.archive.org/web/20050528050324/https://appletalk...

I commented similarly elsewhere, but in my experience UPS won't ship more than one or two packages without an account. Red flags will definitely be raised if you try to smurf packa…

I helped a friend pack and ship a successful Kickstarter campaign. The first time we showed up at the UPS store with a minivan full of boxes they made us set up an account. They ha…

From the spec: Servers MUST use TLS version 1.2 or higher and SHOULD use TLS version 1.3 or higher. TLS 1.2 is reluctantly permitted for now to avoid drastically reducing the range…

The "infamous art" was a red screen of death from a beta copy of Windows Longhorn. Apparently the blog post was in the middle of the negative news cycle about Longhorn and his post…

Things outside GCP e.g. G Suite integrations are also impacted. This is just the first status page to be updated. EDIT: It's now posted to https://www.google.com/appsstatus

Hey, I work on public-facing support for GCP. Given the point that it's hard to see what mailing lists are available I wanted to point out https://cloud.google.com/support/docs/gro…