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You could say the same about Apple or any company over 20 years old which has had time to go through a few department leads and culture shifts. I’ve had the Dyson DC02 (1995) - gre…

> Do you guys require security clearances (in USA locations)? We certainly appreciate applicants with clearances but it is not a requirement. > Can you do visa sponsorship for the …

Dedrone (Axon) | Multiple Roles | Full-time | Sterling, VA | 3x/week in office Looking to write code and engineer products which save lives and solve emergent airspace challenges? …

Could it be the language and framework determines the industry and planning/release cadence too? I’ve worked in Java most of my career and anecdotally the Java projects were the mo…

Didn’t Andrew Carnegie, the very definition of rich and difficult to work for spend a huge chunk of his fortune funding 3000+ libraries? See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie…

> Other than power user distros (arch, gentoo, etc) Linux has been one click install and ready to go just like windows for a decade (Ubuntu, fedora, etc) and provides a very good O…

A lot of downers on AI and I can understand it, part of it is the response to things invented when we're older - new music, new movies, new technologies. I guess most of our brains…

Having had one for years they are fairly expensive, require some not insignificant maintenance and cleaning to keep them running optimally and are made almost entirely of plastic a…

That’s disingenuous - part of your compensation at many companies involves the expectation that the work is rewarding or its outcome has some non-monetary compensation. This is esp…

I just bought a Thinkpad T14S Gen3 after evaluating a bunch of notebooks. Compared to my Macbook Air the Mac excels in a couple of areas which Thinkpad is lacking in. Like ambient …

Upgraded from a maxed out 2015 Macbook Pro 15" to a Macbook Air M1 with 16GB of RAM. The new silent laptop is literally twice as fast in every metric. Air: https://browser.geekbenc…

> In that sense technology is becoming a feed back loop of society itself. I had a discussion recently with somebody about how it feels as though the 70s, 80s, 90s had a distinctiv…

Sure - it sucks doing self-learning and working in your own time but when else are you supposed to polish your skills beyond what work projects give you latitude to do? For example…

Yeah there are at least two known issues with it under Linux: Display flickering if you have the low power LCD: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Fedora/Random-screen-flickering... Micr…

Is that under Windows or Linux?

I have a T14s Gen 3 and whilst it's a fine laptop it has minor quirks which make it a compromised experience vs a Macbook Air. Screen resolution caps out at 1920x1200 which feels b…

For context running Slack with a medium sized company workspace: * Slack takes 6.5s to load on my 2021 Macbook. * Slack consumes 366MB of RAM - if I browse around that rises to 744…

> It doesn't help that they went full-Brexit, that sort of thing is bound to be offputting to foreign capital. WDYM? Virgin Orbital Inc. are incorporated in the US and listed on th…

I was curious to see if the UK had a similar rise, nope a 14% fall in the same period of pedestrian deaths (slight rise in deaths of cyclists and car occupants though): https://www…

Out of curiosity I looked up cancer rates in Islamic countries (which typically) have far lower rates of alcohol consumption. Seems there is a significantly lower rate of cancer th…

AFAIK only the founder of Ubiquiti worked on Apple's Airport product and quit (2003 according to Ubiquiti's incorporation date) well before the Airport lineup was cancelled (2018).…

I did the same - ripped all my albums to iTunes but after it slowly became more unpleasant to use for my use case I moved to Roon. It’s expensive but Roon does this at a level far …

I last saw Lawnmower Man in the 90s and rewatched it recently with my partner who hadn’t seen it. It seems in 2017 a new director’s cut was made which seems to be the default versi…

Uh-oh, did you have to call it Leon?