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Could you please add a link to the Goodreads page of each book?

What is breaking? FYI, you need to remove the ball from time to time and remove the dust that might be blocking the optical sensors.

Tesla at a forward P/E of 80 is massively overvalued as a car company. You can get Mercedes or BMW at a P/E of 6, with a 9% yield. Sure, the EV market is still growing, but Tesla i…

So it's ok to sell a feature to customers if you only find out later it's not possible?

Can not recommend charging your phone all night wirelessly next to your head while you are sleeping.

So you're saying they knew engineers would be wasting their time doing useless things, but still went ahead? (instead of mandating 75% and spending 1/100 of the wasted time to adju…

Worst experience for me was .us. I bought three, don't know if they mentioned it at checkout, but those can only be registered by US citizens, which I am not. I could buy them, but…

What do you mean by extension heavy? In my experience, Firefox has the best extension ecosystem amongst all browsers. It took them quite long to get that to work on mobile, but eve…

Also loads instantly for me now, didn't make any changes.

Ironically this did not render in Firefox on Android (just the spinner kept spinning) Worked in Chrome. That said, epubs are great for reading books on mobile. The advantage for pd…

If you don't need incremental backups (thus saving space for the signatures) and want to store to S3 Deep Glacier, take a look at https://github.com/mrichtarsky/glacier_deep_archiv…

If you are spending more than two hours per day at your desk, it is worth it. There are some cheap ones out there that are OK (200€) but even a sturdy one is not that expensive, wh…

From the article: The new study found pieces of PET (polyethylene terephthalate), which is what most plastic water bottles are made of, and polyamide, a type of plastic that is pre…

Just buy glass bottles, tastes better anyway (or use tap water).

Notably a workers' council does not have power to negotiate compensation/raises. That's a major difference to a union.

Agreed, you can use ChatGPT similarly to Google now. Except you do not have to parse and filter the results, plus there are no ads.

Great book, recommended read.

It's certainly not enough if you assume there can ever be an error in the backend which Google is unable to recover from.

In a similar vein, Factfulness by Hans Rosling.

Thanks for this, I was actually Ctrl+F'ing the page for the year number to no avail. Remembering all the MS antitrust stuff, I thought this Windows popup must be a pretty recent ch…

Windows 10 warns when launching the Firefox installer, suggests using MS Edge instead.