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This is exactly the distinction that needs to be drawn: Relative time is only useful within the next or past few hours. For pretty much everything else, the absolute time is more i…

Utter futility! — said Koheleth — Utter futility! All is futile!

This is basically the premise of Robert Sheckley's short story "The Robot Who Looked Like Me".

I'm with you on this. I had the temerity to suggest there are benefits to face-to-face collaboration, and that meeting with colleagues was a valid reason for asking them to be on s…

Speaking as a senior dev who has interviewed dozens (if not hundreds) of candidates, I assure you that the bulk of the burden is firmly on the interviewers, not the candidates.

This. "Accept it" or "ignore it" are perfectly valid options, and perhaps the healthiest for one's mental and emotional state.

Israel here -- full-time employees generally don't file taxes on their own. Your employer will ask to fill out a single form for any changes in tax status (such as single parent or…

Completely agree: My eldest was born when I was 24, and my youngest when I was 30. Now at 49, we're approaching empty-nest-hood -- other than the copious time we spent with our 2-y…

HN has a religion all its own, with its virtues and deadly sins.

Shabbat observance is a massive world unto itself. It originates in Biblical sources (i.e. "the word of God"), but has developed throughout the entire rabbinic tradition, from the …

I've found that my remote work meetings neatly break down into 3 categories: - direct engagement -- 2-4 participants - broad forum -- 5-12 participants - fly-on-the-wall -- any num…

Speaking as a long-time Perl monger (Perl5 has been 80%+ of my day job for most of the last 25 years): Perl6 was definitely a fiasco that contributed to Perl5's demise. The active …

If it's relevant enough for Github/Gitlab to render Markdown for the browser, clearly there's a visibility and aesthetic value to rendering.

I typically compose all messages in Markdown and then convert that into rendered HTML. So if you believe in the expressiveness of Markdown (which I hope you do), then HTML renderin…

Apologies to the general audience -- this is going to get very low-level in terms of Jewish technical practice: I agree that all historical attempts to associate electricity with p…

The grounds for probihiting electricity usage on Shabbat have gone through something of a metamorphosis, as rabbinic scholarship on the nature of electricity has expanded and the m…

This is an excellent question, and one dealt with in Israel. Today, electricity is required for the normal functioning of modern civilization, including for hospitals and security.…

Try to think of the Torah -- God's literal word, to Orthodox Jews -- as the Constitution, and rabbinical scholars throughout the generations as the Supreme Court. The Torah prohibi…

I would phrase the Shabbat prohibitions as "creative work", modeled after the days of creation and the creative labor of building the Tabernacle. The 39 general categories of labor…

Many aspects of Orthodox Judaism observance focus on halacha , often translated as "ritual law", but probably better described as technical religious practice. This may confuse tho…

Yes, I already run Emacs (Spacemacs, to be specific) under WSL2 with X410 as the X Server. Presumably, I'll be able to ditch X410 when this layer gets to my corporate-mandated Wind…

Born-bred NY-expat Israeli here, working for a West Coast Big Tech company. New York (probably all US East) and Israeli cultures are fairly analogous. In just 3 extra timezones, We…

I've also used Skype for Business (aka Lync) using the Pidgin plugin on Linux, which worked fine for chat and files.

I have often said that there are practically no C programming jobs. Rather, there are many job writing in the macros for a specific project (with the minimal associated C code).

Suggesting iMessage -- available only on Apple products -- as a alternative to avoid WhatsApp lock-in has to be the most ironic thing I've seen today.