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It's funny how our perceptions are driven by the source of our news. I generally perceived the positive coverage in regular news as unrelenting. I know the tech news sources I read…

Love this "auto" truckers hitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8MuOWO0Qs Edit: Same knot, with an explanation before showing what I knew as the classic trucker hitch https://ww…

I've had a Brother HL-L2340DW for 10 years now.

>You should also make sure not to bring your phone to anywhere where a nearby crime is happening because that's all it takes to make you a suspect Proximity to a crime makes you a …

Everyone needs to go transparent. Secrets are lies. Sharing is caring. Privacy is theft.

How are they for lots of text? Do your eyes fatigue at all?

>but I instead bought USB C display glasses How did you use these? Did you like them?

>kind of enthusiastic about just taking stuff from those who have it, considerably more than the current understanding of private property (or even taxation) considers acceptable. …

How would you feel about a machinist refusing to use CNC machines and only manually machining parts?

>I just believe that there is going to be a MASSIVE increase in demand for high performing software professionals with experience... we just aren't seeing it right now because of t…

Not defending the legitimately douchey things amazon does, but it explains it right in that article : >In short, an Amazon listing features prices not only offered by Amazon, but b…

Some info on the new one: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artemis-iis-toile... https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20220005710/downloads/NA...

>It'll be interesting to see how many people get methanol poisoning from trying their hand at it without doing the research properly. If you're into home brewing or distilling, the…

I rewrote the article, it's even better now: The tomahawk entered service in 1983, in 2026 they only produced 57. DO THE MATH! This means the military can only have (2025-1983) * 5…

A better article: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/u-s-tomahawks-iran-war-faster-t... >The maximum rate of production is estimated to be 2,330 per year: Three contracts from Raytheon e…

>might make Karen suggest to her boss that they accept PDF files. I'm not sure what state or country this was written in, but requiring physical copies or a fax is very likely a le…

I suspect this is some light with chronically-bad timing that gets run by tons of people every day. The camera is taking a photo with a bunch of vehicles in the frame and it's tick…

Maybe you could reach out to Flock directly and ask them to install cameras in your kitchen and bedroom too (for crime reduction reasons).

Meta needs to make a find-your-lost-dog commercial for their smart glasses ASAP.

Tariffs, and retaliatory tariffs, have really messed up the US export market for alcohol too.

Template metaprogramming, move semantics, const correctness, multiple/virtual inheritance, implicit conversions, many ways to initialize variables, argument-dependent lookup, stati…

Left federal and my private 401k is 150% match up to 6%. Better than TSP in everything except fees, which are slightly higher. But that mattered a lot less than my pay, I was a GS-…

#1: I am extremely skeptical they are paying that. I suspect this was put together by someone who has no understanding of federal pay systems. "$150,000 to $200,000" is already an …

Before all of this happened the hiring I had to deal with when I was federal fell into similar buckets: 1. Completely inept or lazy people that couldn't get a job anywhere else (~5…

>Granted, these were mostly with private contractors who mirrored the GS pay scale along with their supporting government offices. So they weren't federal jobs?