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I was curious about your point that we only have ~20 years supply. The article you linked doesn’t really defend that estimate, I think it’s actually pointing out that’s the absolut…

I’m not sure if only ordering from legit chains helps anymore. I’ve heard (and it’s mentioned elsewhere in this thread) of chains sub-contracting with ghost kitchens to offload the…

If anyone reading this hasn’t heard this before, I encourage you to read the do’s/dont’s of protobufs for some other good best practices. https://protobuf.dev/programming-guides/do…

We’ll start being asked for utility bills during interviews and recruiters will screen for people with heat pumps. “Candidate must have updated insulation and new windows”

Work on revenue-generating projects/products. When push comes to shove, cost centers are cut first. If you work on search ads at Google, you have a lot of job security. I wouldn’t …

I interpret that more as banning all of the shadier situations like the mattress companies that own “independent” mattress review sites.

In the article, it says they added sponges in the tank for that exact reason after they had a lot of sloshing during testing.

He’s accused of conspiring to trick voters into using fake voting methods so they didn’t vote. How would you react if someone created a fake voting location and put a full page ad …

This almost happened before when Trump issued an executive order for Bytedance to divest TikTok. Most of the media outlets reported that Bytedance was actively courting U.S. corpor…

It may not be related to nature. I remember reading research on how sunlight and focusing on distant objects is really important for developing proper eyesight. The current issues …

I think the passive system will likely using steering wheel sensors and driving-facing cameras to detect if a person is paying attention similar to Teslas requirement for FSD

People with serious mental health and/or addiction issues

Agreed. Even if your GI bill doesn’t technically cover all of your expenses, many schools have Yellow Ribbon Programs that waive any excess cost https://www.va.gov/education/about-…

I did a similar program in 2011 for one of the largest life insurance companies in the U.S. At the time, I thought it was a new program to get COBOL programmers since they were bec…

Tangentially related but I always appreciated Jeff Bridges hand-written website https://jeffbridges.com/latest Only posting because there’s a few suggestions about hand-written sty…

If you don’t mind, could you provide any more info on how to find providers for point to point relays? I didn’t even know this was an option and I’m having a tough time finding any…

I’ve never worked with fiber optics but I wonder if that’s the point of the recirculating loop i.e. use a shorter fiber but run the signal through it multiple times to simulate a l…

I appreciate you taking the time to tell your story. It’s easy to view expensive treatments that only extend someone’s life by a year or two as too costly but those remaining years…

I think we’re going to discover that the people operating these sophisticated instruments aren’t properly trained on how to handle anomalies in their data. One of them was simply a…

Exactly what I was thinking… code reviews are a major component of many security requirements.

Newsweek has an been an independent publication since 2018.

There’s lot of good solutions out there but if you really like using Postgres, you could move your logs to a secondary Postgres DB or Postgres server so it doesn’t affect your appl…

There has been active work on this: https://www.w3.org/annotation/ It says web annotation but it was born out of an open annotation initiative. The fragment selector supports the m…

There’s a javascript library called aXE that’s pretty good at catching the major things. There’s also a browser plugin to check a site by hand.

I'm going to look at this more later, but my first thought is how does this compare to WAL-e https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e