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This is all an interesting read from where I sit -- I worked for a global multi-national telecom that spun off from the 1996 deregulated local carrier, was bought up by a dot-com b…

You make a good point. I'm "neurodivergent" but when it comes to empathy/sympathy, I tend toward the over-sensitive side rather than oblivious (as does my son, who is diagnosed wit…

It's kind of always been a wild time to be alive in this industry. You covered people washing out of CS degrees and people getting degrees and then not, ultimately, doing something…

Wow, yeah, I picked up one of these a few months before the new generation came out for $350. Everything shot up after that. My son is using that card, today, and I'm amazed at eve…

I feel deep gratitude to you for this, and the timing of your post. Thank you! Seriously. I also feel like you're owed an apology for having had to write this in the first place. I…

> As a parent/carer you probably are much more motivated No question. No teacher cares more about my child's education than I do. Really, though, the biggest factor is just being t…

> It says something about a system dedicated to teaching children wen parents think they can do as well or better. I home schooled my children up to High School (and they are very,…

I appreciate you sharing -- specifically because my kids were Home Schooled until High School and attend Public High School, now. I feel the same way about the value of early-years…

I Homeschooled both of my children from birth to 7th and 9th grade, respectively. The state I live in had, at the time (might still), zero regulation around Home Schooling. I have …

I believe this has a lot to do with the problem in my area. We have a bunch of disconnected sidewalks almost everywhere. They've started connecting them. There's more pedestrian tr…

Oh man, you're bringing back memories. I know I went with SCSI, originally, because I had actually purchased two drives -- the huge one, and another one that was a bit faster but s…

I didn't make that point clearly enough in my comment ... my point, somewhat lost due to lack of brevity was "looks like some of the least reputable HDD salvage outfits discovered …

This is interesting, it really sounds like they were running a pretty normal salvage operation with the evil twist of "they were selling the salvaged drives as new" -- kinda feels …

Right there with you. I just dropped an amount of money I'm unwilling to admit on replacement bulbs throughout -- only this time I was replacing WiFi RGBW LED bulbs in rooms that h…

They list the PWM frequency in the bulb specifications? That's news to me. A few months ago I went through most of the bulbs in my house and replaced nearly all of them with LIFX b…

So ... like ... WOW. I read your description and thought, "some toy 3D project; probably slow/lacking features." I mean, you did a fine job but perhaps reading it in such a simple …

So these are popping up everywhere, then? I have two within five miles of my house. They've both been there over a year, probably a bit longer. I'm in a mid-western US suburb, most…

Beat me to it -- completely relate, man. I wrote an entire Visual Studio extension just to let me set my monitor to extremely low brightness/contrast and still be able to read the …

He did it more out of necessity, originally, but when I met him, yeah, it was "for fun". Among the other stories I found to be true was "I worked at KFC for $8/hr and owned a home[…

Interesting ... it's presented in the context of drugs for curing infections. I wonder if this is being used for other drugs. My curiosity stems from personal experience: I had Mig…

Getting laid off is a unique experience -- I can't find a better word than that. I mean, on one hand we always knew this was a business transaction: I'm providing a service, you're…

A buddy of mine started me on a similar habit that I find obnoxious but impossible to kick. It started when we were in a meeting with an executive (who was a wonderful man) who -- …

The only issue I've ever had with archive.* links had to do with compatibility with Cloudflare's DNS but those just fail to resolve. I'm not sure what three lines that fade out is …

I mostly agree with what the author is saying with regard to "the current state of things." I do not feel, however, that it is a particularly large concern, especially long-term, g…

The company my employer uses, as far as I can tell, handles all of HR functions -- compliance, training, tax/payroll, benefits and the like.