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Speed Queen for washing machines. Bosch for dishwashers.

2-3 years ago, I was thinking something similar along the lines of "yeah, why doesn't Apple just stick with computers/phones/peripherals/software." But if anything's become clear i…

I agree with the sentiment--and with most of your comment--except the assertion that "I don't think it's possible to beat this stack". I have something similar: Kotlin on the serve…

What's a "large sum"? If you compare how relatively spoiled we software engineers are to other (even white collar) careers, we're doing pretty darn well. Even if you're making supe…

100% agreed. $350k salaries for people that have basically built and maintained the modern-day Library of Alexandria is a pittance. These people deserve it.

A confounding view here though is that even though seafood contains pollutants, the benefit of high omega-3 content in some species outweighs the negative effects of the pollutants…

Try the (free, or premium) tabnine plugin. It uses a ML model to analyze your codebase for patterns and suggest better-and-better autocompletion over time as your project grows--it…

Really curious to see what (if any) increase in digestive cancers a low-mercury-pescatarian diet would confer over a pure plant-based one.

Agree with this incremental step from a political perspective as an easy sell / quick win. But, it's imperative that this be understood as an incremental step. The hazard here is e…

One step further: they needed a larger cube. Seems like the study reasoned that providing unlimited food/water ruled out "resource scarcity" as a cause for decline. Space is very m…

In the JVM world, jOOQ is great happy-medium technology between the extremes of string SQL and full-blown ORM: - Type-safe DSL generated from your schema that looks like SQL - (If …

I worked as a consultant for BP shortly after the Deepwater Horizon spill. I can't speak to what the (office) safety culture was like in the pre-spill days but at the time I found …

Install a second shower-head and make them shower together. Parallel processing is your friend here.

Checking in at 33 in the same boat. I still feel like I have juice in these legs to hit it hard hands-on-keyboard for another decade or two--but I keep getting pushed into a positi…

Git blaming code from billions of years ago would be hilarious. Imagine understanding the few hundred keywords in a long-lived language but not being able to understand the git com…

Agreed. Exception here is when you're making the trade-offs to buy into a DI framework--which you could argue is a descendent need from the "everything is a class" worldview. Pure/…

Kotlin has been a godsend when it comes to breaking free of Java dogmatic thinking. The effort to write good functional code is so much less. That's not to say that classes are use…

Looking at you: - Crotch rockets (driven by dudes in jorts and a t-shirt flapping in the wind) - Dodge chargers w/ aftermarket exhausts - BMWs with iridescent vehicle wraps - Lifte…

Said another way: "Short-sighted Man Attempts Extreme Money-Saving Measures At Expense of Years of Longevity and Inevitable Sky-High Medical Bills"

Agree 100%. Stated another way: asymptotic functions convincingly appear that they'll hit zero--though obviously never do. Same reason I'd be shocked if physicists ever achieve abs…

Because there's value in being able to differentiate between when a value is "truly absent" vs. a zero-length string. To take a trivial example with a simple API: a null string can…

Exactly. Just wait until you have to auth with a 3rd party API, fetch the request async, do a transformation on the response, load it into a 3rd party UI grid, add custom styling t…

The band-aid had to be pulled off sometime. US occupancy of the ME initiates a feedback loop where our military presence creates cause for (often violent) anti-American sentiment. …

[I think psychologists have]( https://alifeofproductivity.com/how-to-experience-flow-magic... ) Basically, those that are more "brainy" need a higher level of mental stimulation in…

Obligatory evangalism: Considered Kotlin as a JVM-lang-of-choice? We use it on all our backends and we really love it.