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Stop blaming engineers for stupid policies. Engineers usually have no say, this is almost always thought up by some manager or PM somewhere.

It's a merit badge now https://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Cooking And apparently has always been > The Cooking merit badge was one of the original 57 merit badges issued by the …

Hey, my dad was aboard that one.

That's... not what labor laws cover. These ships also have an electronics engineer aboard to take care of such stuff. That's aside from the usual team of marine engineers handling …

My side project is a specialty, niche application for speech pathology and audiology courses at major universities. So, traffic is driven by word-of-mouth (all the people in charge…

It's true, the industry does "blow" and the biggest carriers offer... nothing good.

I made a course and documentation management, and grading system for speech pathology students. Netted me >12k last year (before tax).

At work, I had a spreadsheet. Technical people, coders even, had a hard time finding the solution: convert to CSV, cut -f, awk print, in order to tack a hostname onto a column with…

Yep. My old phone used to plug in on USB, show up as a disk, I can use standard tools to copy the pics and vids. New phone, no of course not. Progress. Feh. Clue: Everyone is not i…

That's the Golden Gate Bridge, which is shorter and has ped/bike lanes (separate from traffic, IIRC). The Bay Bridge's western span has no such thing.

WordPress is the PHP of web frameworks.... I'll be in the corner.

Mumbai/Bombay Calcutta/Kolkota Madras/Chennai

"Phototransistor IR Chip Silicon NPN Transistor 2-Pin T-1" is a great name for a part that a human somewhere needs to read and understand what it's for. If that were a piece of Com…

I like TT-RSS. It has that mark-read-on-scroll thing as well as next/previous article by arrow keys (or k/j) thing. Awesome sauce.

Most of this is about advanced git features, Simple features are simple (checkin/out, push/pull, simpler branching). Which is 80% of what you need, and probably 99% of what you nee…

I can use them to do math Mostly just multiplication and division by 2,4,8,16,32....

Yay! We use padrino. Yay!

In India, car dealerships are called showrooms. Read that as "ex-dealer", or "from the dealer". It's just a straight Latin-to-English thing.

It's the freaking Bay Area/Silicon Valley. $65-75k is entry-level.

I did not know sort had a -h. I've been doing du -sc|sort -n. Thanks!