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Hate to do a hit & run post but here we go... Both AT&T and Apple transferred (albeit both temporarily) ownership of my phone # (AT&T) and my Apple ID (OK you know the company) fro…

Not Linus, this is Randal Schwartz, but this might be the video you're thinking of? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dhZ9BXQgc4

(somewhat) unrelated to this kerfuffle, but I can say I've ordered thousands of dollars of stuff from Adafruit, and the quality of the electronics, the speed of shipping, the price…

Pretty much the same story here. I'm on my 2nd Targus TXL617 (holds 17" laptop) in 18(?) years and I use it for everything every day. I've even used it for a short 3-day internatio…

Yes, absolutely this is fiction. It's a combination of his fantasy of how he'd like to "get back at the system" and also it's written to be clickbait ("poor helpless disabled guy g…

Sarah Adams (ex-CIA, The Watchfloor podcast) literally discussed this possibility yesterday in a podcast titled "Your Phone Isn't Safe Right Now" Most people here are tech savvy an…

I noticed all the feeders seem to be similar / same. I'm in California, I feed 3 strays in an area where the average outdoor cat's lifespan is about 4.5 years (fires, traffic, hawk…

Yes and I would swear that 1700 of those 2000 must be in Westwood (near UCLA in Los Angeles). I was stopped for a couple minutes waiting for a friend to come out and I counted 7 Wa…

Everything you say is correct. There is one other significant cost that isn't mentioned here: liability insurance and legal counsel. If a little kid (sorry) loses an arm, or worse …

Would just like to jump in and remind folks of the Therac-25 incident just a couple years before this (1985 and 1987), and the user interface was also identified as a contributing …

This is (unfortunately) very, very true. I don't have firsthand experience, thankfully, but 2x secondhand experience, and I cannot think about those two cases without getting tears…

Yep, been there... made that mistake ONCE. Never again. Never.

>> x =- 5 I think you mean: x -= 5, which indeed is different.

I left a very good job 7 years in (digital design) to go out on my own. That was more than 2 decades ago. I could write paragraphs of the rookie mistakes (business-wise) and the fi…

Yes exactly. There is much more than just "benefits". Cost of office space, computer equipment, office supplies, electricity, janitorial costs, heating, security, servers, IT overh…

Amen. I had a 10-email back-and-forth exchange with Ilfak maybe 10 years ago - multiple times I said "I'm literally begging you to take my money, you don't seem to want it." I am s…

Yes it sure is. Interesting, in California in 2020, there was an attempt (Proposition 16) to overturn Proposition 209. It went down in flames, almost 60% against / 40% for. Prop 20…

You are definitely right about this (many of my green-card friends have multiple weapons), and of course you're right about state law. I think what parent post was saying is that i…

Whhooossh moment. You said there was a $6K /markup/, parent was making a joke about /markdown/.

What is cannabis software?

Yes, network cables. Way back when I was a staff engineer at Motorola, we'd often have network problems from workstations caused by marginal cables. At first, the IT people would c…

I know this anecdotal and related but directly on-point, but here I go anyway... About 12 years ago, I consulted, on-site, for about a year with a Japanese company with a very very…

I like this idea. I've participated each year, only finished the 2020 one (most have 1-2 to go, never had the time & motivation to fight through it.) BTW, there is a great book tha…

About 15 years ago I was debugging an ARM7 memory corruption issue on an embedded target. Chip was running at 40 MHz but the instructions were ARM 32 bit instructions, but the exte…