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We have a training thing at work that sends out phishing emails and you are supposed to report them using a handy button in the email app. If they are training emails you get a goo…

The MSG health panic was racism against Chinese people and their restaurants, nothing to do with health. So many foods and sauces contain glutamic acid yet nobody is complaining ab…

This is a good way of putting it. People who advocate for over-engineering don't consider cost-benefit vs not doing it. This is where FMEA analysis comes in when developing product…

>But for me the take away still is: “hardware is as hard as you make it”. I dislike this statement. Hardware is as hard as the product dictates it needs to be. A 25 component PCBA …

Seriously, microSD cards are the second worst hardware component to have to deal with (first being labels). For being a "standard" you end up with cards that are subtly but signifi…

That is awesome. I worked at a bowling alley as a mechanic in high school (Brunswick A2) and got a sense of how stupid expensive the replacement equipment was. At one point another…

>People think this doesn’t matter, but GoPros are used all over in aerospace. If we replaced the brand with Insta360, that puts a big attack vector all over the place. I'm actually…

It seems like every recommendation algorithm gets into a state that is broken eventually. For the music streaming services, I find they end up in one of two states, either it shows…

The functionality is literally built into both Android and iOS. For example, I've got some of my self-hosted services linked on my home screen. On Firefox for Android you just brow…

This is China's massive differentiator than anywhere else. They have impeccable supply chain management. You will find that certain items are almost always made in the same city. S…

It depends on how you look at it. I've traveled all around Asia visiting different factories for projects over the years. After some time, factories just tend to blend together, bi…

I'm pretty strongly in the camp of trust the science and measurements for audio stuff. Thus I suspect its mostly just better sounding masters, but I was shocked at how much I notic…

This doesn't answer the most burning question I have, which is why the wind-up gear has the spiral around the shaft...

>In simulations, their approach solved 99% of Wordle puzzles, while the traditional method solved just 90%. This seems wrong to me, getting a 98%+ solve rate for Wordle is pretty c…

I've definitely made the effort when traveling for work to always say "Bill of Materials" if I'm doing any work in an airport.

Tourism is a huge benefit for many places and brings lots of money into their economy. But at the same time over-tourism can significantly harm locals and the environment. My photo…

>Usually explained by a different time of week/year/month I hadn't thought about that and checked the dates of the photos I took on both trips. Coincidentally apparently I was ther…

While the folks like Bourdain did romanticize tourism, and TV shows are known to regularly kill businesses that don't know how to manage the increase in customers, they did at leas…

Yet when I switch between home and work I have to fully restart my laptop about half the time in order for it to even detect the monitors. I also find this feature has an issue wit…

I've tried Darktable and RAWtherapee. The problem is that I'm lazy with my photo editing and since I started using DxO PhotoLab I've come to rely on its features that help me get t…

A good portion of it is just that I'm more comfortable with Solidworks and Creo, so if I'm modeling something complicated I'd rather use those so the tool isn't in my way. Otherwis…

I made the switch about 1.5 years ago and haven't looked back. The only software I use frequently that doesn't have a good enough equivialent available on Linux is photo editing an…

I asked it since I wasn't sure if I was just my brain being the odd one out here. I tend to just remember topics and search for them when needed. For example, I rely completely on …

How many people actually find utility from a Zettelkasten system? I just can't bring myself to go to the effort of documenting a thought and adding links/tags unless it is somethin…

Massdrop's original version is essentially what you are describing, they were a middleman that ran drops where you would pay for something upfront and once done they would collect …