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If anyone out there is feeling a bit down about the general state of the tech industry, I highly encourage you to look into jobs in the green energy field. There are so many things…

Southwest executives understood that they were running on borrowed time with their crew scheduling software. At the very least an alternate or secondary process should have been in…

Excellent question and thanks for asking. I've spent some time with a fair number of millennials and I'm impressed with their kindness and consideration for others.

Lauren Bobert tweeted Nancy Pelosi's location when she was relocated for security reasons. The leaders of both the Oathkeepers and The Proud Boys are under arrest for their involve…

Oh you!

I've seen the term "pedantic" frequently used.

I thought I wanted to live in the Sierra foothills. After the Paradise fire I've decided against it.

As I understand it, the Russian aircraft carrier gets towed all the time. So that might not be so far fetched.

Will this be reported on Russian media?

If I had to apply an "aggravation factor", air travel is worse. The train just doesn't seem to bug me as much. One difference is that when the train arrives I'm in the city center.…

You're not wrong but there is a cachet with Macs that is undeniable. It's not unusual for the executives or creatives to use Macs in an otherwise fully Windows based organization.

Take a look a the I15 corridor north of Escondido in San Diego county. There are neighborhoods there farther than 5 miles from services.

In American suburbs it's typical for there to be nothing but houses within a 3 to 5 mile area. Any supplies or groceries must be transported a significant distance in a pedestrian …

There was Halted and that place in San Carlos that sold things like surplus metal subassemblies.

Being a COBOL programmer is starting to look pretty good.

Old people have cable. And they tend to be the most reliable voters.

Contrast this with the fact that cable subscriptions are in steep decline: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/03/17/cable-and-s...

Can someone smarter than me explain why GPU's are so good at Cryptomining?

Just anecdotally, we went out to eat at a place we hadn't been to since before the pandemic. Their prices have doubled. We spent $50 on lunch.

Corporate is nervous about cyber attacks and has asked about isolating the corporate network from the Internet and use VM's for webmail and browsing. Updates can be done offline. I…

3 things I don't hear much about: * Plenty of places in the Midwest (Arkansas and Kansas, for example) are depopulating. Affordable real estate exists there - https://www.arkansaso…

Do the UK bus companies provide an effective alternative to rail? I can't imagine paying these prices on a regular basis.

Reading the piece the other day about Kansas giving away free property got me to wondering what it takes to make "affordable housing" worth "unpopular location".

I always wonder who benefits from the extremism.