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Having worked at a company that did a four-day week, I'll chime in that it was both amazing and eye opening. I say that as someone who had read Tom DeMarco's now-classic book Slack…

There were a few TV models a couple of years ago that would stop working after enough time without a network connection. When they reconnect, they're clearly going to download a ne…

This is precisely what the linked article says. From the section "Charging Incentives": “And it’s not just California and Western states. All states may need to rethink electricity…

To a large extent, I think this is the nigh-inevitable outcome of the corporate world's entire take on open source. Open source has been a hugely successful way of distributing cod…

As a software rather than keyboard hack, I've been using and loving the following setup on macOS: * Remap Caps Lock to Ctrl * Then use Hammerspoon[1] to map Ctrl(hold) / Esc (momen…

Agreed. Thiago's introductory PARA writings do seem to imply a strict deadline, but like the parent, I use a concrete definition of completion ("completability") as the defining ch…

And likewise, this theme shows up in Tom DeMarco's classic book Slack , which contrasts "efficiency" (the rate at which an organization is moveing towards some goal) vs "effectiven…

Inkjet printers are fine, so long as you don't need or buy the terrible low-end consumer offerings. As an occasional-use around the house printer, I agree they're absolutely terrib…

Because the relevant legislation was crafted by those who fundamentally do not understand how the web (or computers) work. The relevant parts of the GDPR should always have describ…

Can you have the skill to come up with a good design if you have no clue how to implement it or how someone else would? This is a straw-man. Real-world designers absolutely do have…

From the Dec 28 update: The XMLRPC Search endpoint remains disabled due to ongoing request volume. As of this update, there has been no reduction in inbound traffic to the endpoint…

Washington State has a single-subject rule that affects both bills in legislature and ballot measures[1]. We've regularly had poorly crafted voter initiatives tossed out by the WA …

AnandTech speculates on a 128-bit DRAM bus[1], but AFAIK Apple hasn't revealed rich details about the memory architecture. It'll be interesting to see what the overall memory bandw…

This article leaves more questions than it answers. Room-elephant number one: access being available after an employee has left is bad. That access remaining five months later is b…

This rant feels a bit banal, like it's going up against a straw-man just to be ... a rant. On one hand, I can't think of the last time a developer in an org I've worked with hasn't…

That indeed looks like it, thanks. It also looks like old memory mixed up bits and pieces of it; the interview wasn't in fact set in the machine room shots.

Back in the early 90s, my grad AI class referred to AI as the "incredible shrinking field". The class kicked off with a black-and-white newsreel style interview from the 1950's wit…

I'd like to offer a recommendation for Zoom Tab Close[1]. It's an extremely simple extension that closes out the leftover tab when a zoom link received by the browser redirects to …

> Maybe ten years ago I would have believed this, but with each macOS release the litany of unforced errors just continues to grow. Apple, of all companies, is not a monolith. Ther…

An example of PAPR application: I know of a professional woodturner who uses one, a 3M system IIRC. Beyond potential issues with long-term exposure to wood dust, turners tend to us…

True; rent should be suspended due to the crisis. The mechanics are tricky, and much worse, I have no hope of the actual policy leadership required to see this through here in the …

> we’d be figuring out how to temporarily suspend rent, loan payments, and taxes This. Under society-wide crisis, it's madness that the economic impact is supposed to just stop at …

To be honest, I hit my tl;dr threshold on the article, and skimmed only the high level. But speaking personally, I've used vim-tmux-navigator[1] and some related setup on the tmux …

Then there's Warren Buffet's approach, which is to understand the "value" of the asset. He uses an example around a farm he purchased, one of his early investments. He likened the …