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"User reports indicate problems at Amazon Web Services" User reported outage sounds like people confusing the Heroku outage with AWS.

and if this article were about Timnit Gebru, this ad hominem attack would carry more weight. You can find plenty of other ex-Googlers saying the same thing: https://www.nbcnews.com…

I've been using a Vim clone of Magit for a while with good success: https://github.com/jreybert/vimagit Not being an eMacs user, I'm not familiar with the feature differences, but …

I have vivid memories of the demos at Incredible Universe, including an early-stage VR setup. It's also the place I was able to try out crappy consoles like the Atari Jaguar and th…

As recently as last week it seems, TriMet's board has been discussing how free fares might work: https://www.oregonlive.com/commuting/2019/12/is-trimet-discu...

I figured I'd see Quinn's name mentioned in the comments. He had a good Twitter thread a bit ago about the easiest things you can do to lower your bill: https://threadreaderapp.com…

Would that be the quick keynote excerpt? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F61GtueelP4 Or their IoT talk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7oqSTmrfVc

Happy Metropolitan user here too. I bought a couple other inexpensive fountain pens to try them out (Lamy Safari, Pilot Prera Iro-Ai), but I came back to the Metropolitan. The weig…

I use uBlock Origin in advanced mode, which lets you do something similar. Haven't used it extensively, but blocking the following domains sped things up a little: - hangouts.googl…

Yes. He can put actions behind his words, or his reply is just hot air. Plus, by endorsing it as a Google-sanctioned event, he's effectively taking power away from those walking ou…

Here's another that I use daily: https://github.com/clvv/fasd You can even combine that with the aforementioned `fzf`: https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/wiki/examples#with-fasd-1

"If a hiker gets lost in the mountains, people will coordinate a search. If a train crashes, people will line up to give blood. If an earthquake levels a city, people all over the …

+1 for Deoplete. As long as you're using NeoVim or a more recent version of Vim (8.0+) with a few plugins, it just works.

You can choose to either vote by mailing your ballot back in the provided, pre-paid envelope, or dropping it off. I usually end up waiting until the last minute and then driving to…

Coincidently, 1998 was the first year I could vote, and the first year of vote by mail in Oregon. It's made it super-easy to vote, and I honestly have no idea why other states have…

Ah, that's the kicker. Looks great on my MBP's built-in retina display, but crap on my older external monitors. So far the only font I've been able to use on those without anti-ali…

Can you detail your Mac setup a bit? I've tried out these fonts, but end up struggling to get the right size, and disabling antialiasing makes things look pretty ugly.

It's not a really long read, and it's worth reading it cover to cover, even if you don't follow its advice to the letter. That said, essentially: Keep a daily list of all the next …

Be thankful you have that option. Comcast is the only real broadband provider in my area. My only option to avoid caps would be to switch to a Comcast Business account.

Did you mean "Letters from a Stoic" by Seneca?

quote from "Snowcrash": > “It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be se…