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This is an incredible achievement, but as a musician, I wish this would go die in a fire. I'm a bedroom hobby musician with no dreams of ever making it big, but even so, I'm lookin…

Eh. I'm in exactly the same group she's talking about (born in 84, so at the upper end of millennial age) and my inheritance has started already. My parents have calculated that th…

That sounds incredibly rough. But as a simple counterpoint to this, I'm getting a lot out of therapy, as are most of my friends who are in therapy. It's not doing what I thought it…

Just letting you know that I downvoted you not because of the advice - which is pretty good - but because of the link to Jordan Peterson, who is generally a pretty nasty pseudo-int…

Yup. There was a famous memo from Jeff that went round years ago that read something like "I want to buy a kettle. I search for 'kettle' and I get thousands of products. That sucks…

Yes, indeed. I've had depression for nineteen years, and because of it I have giant holes in my memory - I know that I went places and did things when I was growing up, but I have …

Speaking of twitchy lawyers and Move to AWS... one of the weirdest things we had to deal with inside Amazon was that, for many years after AWS launched, we weren't allowed to use i…

Yeah. I did this once a few years ago, and it was quite unpleasant. Did get it done in the end, but it definitely put my team off looking for any other useful NPM packages. I wonde…

Ex-Amazon engineer of several years here. This is a pretty interesting article, but it's important to know that Amazon's internal tooling changes pretty fast, even if it's mostly s…

Worked for Amazon. It was a big issue internally, but we never got a good answer to that question.

Yeah. Amazon loses a small but significant number of potential hires when they learn about the open source clause - often very good people, too. When I left they were actively work…

Yeah, it's really weird. Amazon has other IP-producing divisions, and even though Amazon Studios is very powerful, there's nothing preventing people from making their own video con…

Yep. AGPL is explicitly forbidden within Amazon, even for non-customer-facing use, and their open source license lawyers are very twitchy about it.

It's amazing to see how modern conversions work - I'm seriously impressed. One of my family members has muscular dystrophy, which affects her ability to use and feel her legs. She …

This is amazing. One of my friends group was diagnosed as manic depressive recently. They quit their job, and have major issues with spending hundreds of pounds at a time on random…

A bit of a digression, but possibly a useful one for anybody wondering if amphetamines or other drugs might be an easy panacea for depression. The answer may well be "yes, and then…

Forgot to point out: I'm piscetarian as well. Which seems like a ridiculous self-imposed challenge ;) That makes getting ready-made food harder, too: my supermarket only does a cou…

I'm a pretty reasonable cook, actually. I spent a couple of years challenging myself to improve: I can make a reasonable pizza with home-made base and sauce (albeit American deep p…