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I've submitted many reports through similar apps to my local council and find 25% of them are even acknowledged, 10% at most are "fixed" and the fixes are worthless. A pothole I re…

This is great! It really reminds me of https://trailrouter.com/ which I've found amazing for finding new running routes. It would be amazing to have similar functionality to sugges…

Strong vibes of US Highway Fatalities vs. Tons of Lemons imported from Mexico https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/mexican-lemons-res...

> Danish shipping giant Maersk has posted earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) of $30.9bn for the full year ended 31 December 2022, a 57% surge from $19.6bn in 2021. > This is…

The article suggests the solar capacity is aggregate of installs by individuals because the power is so unreliable from the grid

Azure has some really horrible design patterns from a security perspective If a user creates a resource they have the ability to delete it later, regardless of their permissions. A…

In the UK I had a minidisc drive in a PC I built, which I used for both data storage and for writing music to play on a minidisc player The technology was so far ahead of its time,…

Why would you need to look at a screen? Surely the feedback from a volume knob is the volume changing? If it doesn't change -> change it more It it changes too much -> change it le…

I can operate physical buttons without taking my eyes off the road. I know where the volume knob is and I can easily grab it and turn it without looking away. If it's slow to respo…

Highly recommend the TV show Black Mirror, which has an episode called “Be Right Back” where a character talks to her dead husband using an AI trained model in an app type setup. V…

Also own some newer Miele washer/dryer and found the estimated time is almost perfectly accurate I connected the Wi-fi for the app and I get a push notification to tell me the actu…

Miele already offer this on newer washing machine. They can connect to your inverter too and start a load when there is available local solar/battery/low spot prices. It’s called “…

In my personal experience, and through my network of friends/former colleagues, it's incredibly easy to find work as a contractor - in the UK at least. I've never met a contractor …

There are some SIGNIFICANT downsides as an employee to using an employer of record. It's another example of companies reducing employee rights and outsourcing risk and responsibiil…

If you don't manage them directly that sounds like you don't have authority. Without the authority to make changes you this will be very hard to do, given the scope of changes requ…

As someone who has worked for two FAANGs so far, I can tell you that leetcode is a running joke that has almost zero correlation to actual skills. Sure people practice a bit when t…

Yep, a single digit amount of entities/wallets have majority control over the network. "64% of staked ETH controlled by five entities" https://cointelegraph.com/news/64-of-staked-e…

Let's be clear: Bitcoin is NOT reducing methane emissions or carbon emissions. Crypto mining cannot reduce anything. This is just a straw man. The study you reference discussed bur…

Monitor USB ports also tend to have limited power output too. If you want to use a webcam and a usb Jabra speakerphone for video calls you may exceed the power limits. Took me way …

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I think the chat function is probably even worse than the video calling. It just feels brittle and flaky and awkward. Even small things like trying to insert an image often won't w…

I've had the same. When I was using Teams for many meetings I would restart the desktop app every few hours to try and prevent these kind of issues. Not unusual for me to restart i…

I was working for a Venture Capital firm at the time, and it was during COVID when everything was remote so it was a VC platform for our VC to do VCing!

Microsoft Teams is one of the worst desktop apps I've used - on Windows and Mac. You can see how it's built on layers and layers of badly designed compatibility layers and bad engi…

I used to work at Google Cloud, I left about 2 years ago so my advice might be slightly outdated so hopefully it helps someone. I highly recommend anyone running production workloa…