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Same. I would look at that every time I was in the bathroom and wonder how they died. Did they suffocate from toxic gasses while exploring a cave? Maybe it was more gruesome like f…

> The feds doing this for airfare was the best thing to happen for consumers shopping for flights. They need to redo it for airfare, because the airlines have figured out how to wo…

It's really a treatise on good leadership and management from the perspective of a showrunner. There are a bunch of great quotes, but this bit from 4th Law (Make decisions early an…

Other sources I've seen are blaming the dramatic heat during the summer of 2019. It "scrambled the broader marine ecosystem" causing die-offs and migrations for many species of fis…

The senior architects and principle engineers at my company have started scheduling focus hours as well as office hours for people to drop in and ask questions. They were getting s…

> The bipolar-level manic highs and depression/lows are very real. I've had to be very careful about NOT using those terms when talking to doctors and psychiatrists. As a layperson…

It's changed a few times over the years because of insurance, but right now it's Focalin XR and 5mg Ritalin as needed up to 2 times a day.

As the parent of a child with ADHD that is medicated, it seems completely plausible that it could cause depression. When my kid has had too high a dosage (or accidentally takes a d…

According to a coworker that had worked at IBM for a couple decades it was a great place to work until sometime in the mid 2000s. It was like they suddenly noticed how shitty Oracl…

> Baseline demographic, lifestyle, and dietary data from the UK Biobank were used This data is from the UK where coffee is still significantly less popular than tea. Would be inter…

> you can break the trip up into "daytime travel", stay in a city like Chicago for a few days, and then "overnight" to the next city My limited experience with Amtrak in the West o…

Data-journalism is actually a thing, and bigger organizations like the New York Times have done some pretty impressive work building tools and training programs for their reporters…

It's not like there weren't issues then as well - https://www.firstpost.com/tech/news-analysis/steve-jobs-says...

Yeah, the headline could easily be flipped with the subheading and most people's reaction would be drastically different. Overall I think a single-payer system is for the best. Hav…

LastPass was great for almost 10 years until LogMeIn bought them and they've been messing around with the business model and pricing ever since. I paid $12/year for several years t…

According to the article, education (particularly for women) seems to be the biggest factor: > The strikingly different fertility rates in different regions of India reflect the ro…

* lightweight AR glasses

It seems like AR is the key to making the Metaverse a thing. VR is neat, but the current experience reminds me of 3D TVs from a few years back - gimmicky and awkward. Even if parts…

> Above a certain threshold, every veneer of civilization vanishes no matter what the country (some have a higher threshold than others). > At this level, only power matters. And t…

> If you want a better conspiracy... Honestly, that's not very far out as far as conspiracies go. Zuckerberg has been asking for more direct regulation for at least a couple years …

Microsoft flat-lined for over a decade after the antitrust lawsuit. They completely missed mobile and nearly missed cloud. They've had to do a 180 on open source and they've had to…

That's interesting. As a developer I've often felt outright hostility coming from Apple developer relations, and maybe it's this lack of a partnership mentality. They generally tre…

We had this happen to our truck when I was a kid. The exhaust pipe was packed from the catalytic converter back through the muffler. It took a bit to figure out what was going on a…

> However I would argue that 1:1 is the one area you shouldn't try to minimise It should also be a scheduling priority. A 1:1 may not seem super important, but it's often the only …