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Sometimes the person driving the car does not (want to?) pay attention or has "ceded responsibility" for car maintenance, and it's nice to get these reports without needing to peri…

I had a friend in high school who literally drove his (used) Civic every day for five years and never once changed the oil. You'd be amazed how well synthetic oil holds up in an en…

iStat Menus is the venerable favorite: https://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

... and everyone laid off from Meta this week ...

And yet it can also be haphazard and misguided too. My experience has mostly been that the general comp level is high enough across the board, but discretionary/additional equity i…

Fantastical is the Apple Calendar replacement that should have been mentioned.

I sincerely doubt anyone whose primary income is working as a retail employee is getting taxed anywhere near a 50% marginal tax rate, even if you include city/county/state taxes.

Firefox with the built-in "Enhanced Tracking Protection" gets you about 70-80% of the blocking that a dedicated adblock system can, depending on the site, and at least saves you fr…

I'm sure they would love one, but it's probably not that easy/cheap to find one that can handle that much torque with such heavy loads. The biggest/heaviest trucks just end up usin…

Trucks don't have 18 gears for efficiency. They have 18 gears because low-revving diesel engines have small power bands; mix that with heavy loads, and it pretty much necessitates …

I literally let my server sit without upgrades for almost three years before realizing my autoupdater script had been failing me. The biggest issue was needing to manually download…

How do folks actually watch Formula E races, without a cable subscription? The Formula E Youtube channel only ever posts "highlights" through the season, and then waits to the end …

Having your money "work for you" requires discipline, awareness, and trust in economic stewards far beyond what the average lottery player is capable of managing. The annuities sti…

> banking on your incapacity to calculate for inflation $43M / year for 30 years sounds like a pretty good retirement in any sort of inflation short of catastrophic economic collap…

Make a ZIP file containing the blob, and catenate it to the end of the executable binary. The ZIP format specifically puts all of the key metadata at the back of the file, so prett…

$42.69/share is just sitting there, patiently waiting.

On the flip-side, it's worth keeping in mind where the puck is heading. Every "new" macOS app from Apple (eg, Shortcuts, System Settings, and even recent refreshes of old apps) has…

Even better, OBS now supports directly logging into Twitch, which then also gives you windows to set stream description and see user chat, all within OBS.

I'd buy a iPhone with a slide-out keyboard—a la the HTC Dream/G1 [1]—in a heartbeat. I'm happy with the onscreen keyboard for simple things like a quick search or message, but I al…

I've been doing it for over six years now, so why not? Joined ten years ago yesterday and made it to IC5, and haven't had any desire for a promo since then, so I just work on we/ha…

I would rather get paid less (still in top 99+% of US mind you) to do work that is meaningful to me, my coworkers, and the wider open source community-and then clock out at six pm …

One of the best parts of being happy at a "terminal level" in FAANG is that I can easily pick what I work on for best impact on the teams around me (and the engineering org as a wh…

Oops! Thanks for catching that. I fixed the example.

This is only true for string literals. Strings constructed at runtime may (and often will) end up as separate objects: >>> a = "this is a long sentence in a string literal" >>> b =…

FWIW, that version ends up being slower, because you're constructing and iterating over a tuple for every iteration, which incurs a similar cost to running `.strip()` twice. The su…