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My concern has been that companies with a huge install base (hi, Meta) would take advantage of this: "in order to provide you with the best experience, you have to turn off the res…

Growing up, almost every woman I was related to was in education. Principal, office staff, teachers. Now, almost every woman I'm related to is in health care. I've been joking for …

Seems like it’s been solid lately, or at least not quite so obviously broken. I was thinking last week that I hadn’t seen a GitHub outage on HN in quite a while.

I’m intensely grateful that despite rumblings, the company I contract to hasn’t switched from self-hosted Jenkins to GHA. Hopefully the steady drumbeat of failure will keep it that…

Hotmail redux.

Remarkable level of detail. Favorited so I can read sometime when I'm not at work, while I also ruminate on how many other submissions I've favorited for the same reason and never …

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184755

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49184755

Regrettable English nit: "complement", not "compliment".

There are many challenging questions that should have been asked, and weren't.

There was an article shared today about skilled laborers are in very short supply wherever data centers are being constructed, so that may not be a universal truth.

I've run for office (as a placeholder) as a Libertarian. I've voted Republican at times, although I definitely lean liberal. I'll never vote Republican again, at least not until th…

I’ll never stop using a case. Too clumsy, too careless. 2-3 days without my phone would be manageable but why?

For me, the primary value of my phone is the camera, and the telephoto on the iPhone Pro Max models has gotten significantly better in the 2.5 years since mine was released. Were i…

That’s a scary read.

The current administration is not remotely shy about proclaiming its interest in a Christian theocracy.

> Question: if the news reports something you don't like, is it fake? One of Trump’s many talents is corrupting language. The phrase “fake news” was originally used to criticize hi…

They’re typically on the hook for making sure those tasks are accomplished, however. I’ve spent 30 years in this industry doing my best to avoid that role, because that’s a terribl…

em dashes are also sometimes used to express interruption in dialog. "I was thinking—" "Well, there's your first mistake"

That bothered me decades ago, when I heard people suggesting we no longer needed animal trials, we could just simulate human biology for testing. Don't get me wrong, the way we col…

I have a suspicion that Google and Android aren't going to just vanish.

I'd definitely prefer random disturbed violence by civilians over a government militia with zero accountability.

It seems like all home technology adds friction and inscrutable failure modes in order to gain functionality/flexibility. "Smart" seems to mean "powerful but complicated and frustr…

Imagine how expensive it’s going to be for the world to help Russia if it collapses.