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I’m so sorry.

The tricky requirement that ends up existing and torpedoing attempts to clean up feature flags is a requirement for long-term holdback. e.g. "Test was successful so it's rolling ou…

The exact same point applies to Twitter's 3rdparty API getting killed off, and both moves are still a mystery. It'd be easy to say "as a condition of getting this API key, you agre…

Yes, it would be interesting, because you'd expect materials to cost roughly the same wherever you are in the country (modulo shipping costs), and cost of labor to account for much…

Any hash calculations using a "read from stdin or a pipe" strategy, in my experience, is fraught with issues caused by an extra newline at the end of the input possibly being there…

I'm shocked and disappointed at how expensive retrofitting insulation into a minimally insulated 1930s Bay Area house actually is. I estimate gas heating costs at around 2500$ / ye…

I thought I’d like the OpenComms but the Bluetooth stuff seems flaky. Not sure if this is everyone or just me, but if you pair them to 2 devices (e.g. a phone and a laptop), then s…

Some product categories seem to have the middle of the market (quality wise) hollow out and disappear, so all you've got left is the low-end crap and high-end pricy versions, with …

The Palo Alto school meals are by no means healthy. At least at my kindergartner’s school last year, nothing’s really prepared onsite, it’s mostly microwave-in-a-bag fast food (fac…

> Also, you can call the place in advance and just come to pick it up, no wait time I suspect both the orderer and order-taker are both a bit happier to have orders come in online …

How do you do present window sharing to a Meet call? Using OBS gives you a very flexible way to stack a window capture with video sources, composite them, etc, yes, but your output…

> It’s frustrating, because you have sunk cost in entering the employment agreement It's even more precarious for US immigrants where many types of immigrant visa (H1B, L1, TN) are…

I'm not sure how regulation can hope to really solve this when the problem isn't that an employer is forcing anything on you, but usually more one where your coworkers are independ…

I think of this more like: Just while you're not offering your work for sale in a country, then we all just agree as a society to look the other way as it's pirated. But you can en…

How do you propose someone actually review VPN services? All of them work, have many countries available as egress points, and are fast enough. The only actual differentiation is i…

Isn't that basically a "no true Scotsman" fallacy, though? I can completely believe both sides of this: the original Fishkin article, and this rebuttal which claims that "actually,…

If you're in tech, things are changing so rapidly I don't think it's realistic to walk away for 15 years and then be able to come back and get hired as a practicing, competent engi…

What's incomprehensible to me about the Tether saga is: the idea of a stablecoin pegged to USD is so incredibly useful as a bridge between financial systems... why go through all t…

As a child in the 80s/early 90s I played little league baseball. Our annual fundraising drive would get capped off by a random draw amongst all the players on the team, performed b…

No dual bluetooth. For some reason, the current crop of streaming devices all fail the use case of: 2 people want to watch a movie on headphones, without waking the kids. The curre…

> Even worse when your romantic partner has different goals in life, as happened here. What stings (as I can't help but empathize with the author's feelings) in reading this blog i…

A counter-argument I've read to the dark forest theory is that: * spectroscopic analysis can show that our atmosphere is oxygen-rich, and this can be detected from a range of many …

The one time I've tried doing this sort of "publish hash first, plaintext later" scheme, verification was hard because the hashing is vulnerable to whether or not the reader adds a…

Wouldn't it make sense for the basket of goods used to compute CPI to try to blend the impact of rents (which are included) with "affordability" of buying a house (maybe measured a…

Oh yes. I'd love to be able to hook up Google Assistant devices to my iCloud reminders lists, so that "remind me tomorrow to call the doctor" spoken to the Google Home would just n…