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We once interviewed a candidate for a senior engineering position and when asked what his primary role was at his current job, he said "I mostly make sure that nobody changes the s…

A better way to frame this might be that Apple tried VR and quickly realized the market wasn't there and moved on. Compare that to Meta, who went all-in (so much so that they chang…

The hill to die on might be the one behind your house that has a nice view of the illegal methane generators that these data centers are using, because they sure as hell aren't run…

This is a core misconception about how the 2020 election results have been investigated. Trump has hired multiple qualified firms to find fraud in the 2020 election and thus far no…

Doubtful, the ones I still receive come from people faking caller IDs so these are not good actors and can simply continue abusing the system.

If you're a California resident, under the CCPA you can submit a request for Thomson Reuters to both provide you with and then delete any information they have collected about you.…

First they gave all the water away for free to big ag, and now they're doing the same with the power.

IANAL but if this is actually true then they're violating California law. I submitted a CCPA request to them to give me and delete everything they had on me. Their response is that…

I would guess that users of the Steam machine would mostly be as locked-in to Steam purchases as PS5 users are to PS Store purchases. I stopped PC gaming about a decade ago and my …

And here I thought my being a murder victim was bad. I looked up the city and year cited by the model for my untimely demise, and it turns out the crime is real, but the real victi…

> was pushing the envelope of "interplanetary" travel/species I don't think they were. All the Mars stuff is just dressed up version of The Boring Company - a distraction by Elon t…

Much in the same way that the company selling tickets and taking a percentage of all ticket resales shouldn't also own the venues which can then force artists to use a specific tic…

Not covered in the article are two critical reasons: 1. They're breaking environmental laws in order to meet power demands. xAI has already been busted on this [1], but they keep f…

Many of us recognize that the days of nearly-free tokens is quickly drawing to a close, and at some point humans may very well have to dig their keyboards out of cold storage and r…

Have you tried drilling into the reasoning when this happens? This is why I usually leave it in "Plan Mode" and when it proposes a solution that seems unusual or unexpected, I poin…

Depending on the rate difference, I'd be tempted to setup a 'burner' checking account at a separate financial institution and just auto-transfer the loan amount from my primary ban…

PHPStorm's indexing is incredible. Aside from a scant few times it's been corrupted, which is easily corrected, I've never gotten stale results. Although if you've ever used Claude…

And we're still selling what little water we have to foreign & domestic corporations for a fraction of what residential citizens pay. We are also refusing to maintain critical wate…

I've read the same, but for me, a newly-formatted microSD will overheat as soon as it's plugged into the MBP. The OS may be reading/writing something to cause that, but it's automa…

Anecdotally, and as a big fan of Apple laptops, I've had so much trouble with their USB and SDCard hardware when it comes to data transfer that I wonder if I'm cursed or if I'm cra…

I've been through a handful of SOC2 audits and they've never asked us to _prove_ that we aren't storing passwords in plaintext or with reversible encryption (we weren't). This is w…

Microsoft buys github. Microsoft forces AI usage down everyone's throats. AI bot usage takes down github. I have to assume that there are some serious fights going on between the p…

I'm having a similar issue with Volvo. It occasionally sees a gate track on the ground as a 'hazard' and will hard-brake when slowly backing over it. It's inconsistent but happens …

The ban is specifically on adjusting prices _per-consumer_ based on data known/collected/stolen/assumed about the consumer.

By whom? Which regulatory body is not completely captured in this administration?