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I am not optimistic about the future. I am very worried about what kind of world my kids are inheriting. Their grandparents’ generation doesn’t seem to give a flying fuck so long a…

When I read this article the other day I had the exact same thought. Is this simply correlation, or is it causation? Is teenage usage an indicator of a possible underlying conditio…

I’ve been using the django-tasks library in production for about a year. The database backend and simple interface have been great. It definitely isn’t intended to replace all of c…

While I don’t disagree, there are a number of additional stub libraries you can install that provide typing for libraries that don’t already have them. I personally find [django-ty…

Fabric may eat some of the descriptive analytics portion of Databricks’ lunch, but for core data engineering workflows there is nothing in the Fabric—or Synapse or Power BI—ecosyst…

We've been debating at work what level of backing up is safe, and at what point is it overkill. We run our own hardware and use VMWare to logically slice and dice that up. Our soft…

On iOS there’s an app called Exchange Blocker that does exactly this.

I was so excited when Quantum was released. I used it exclusively and was happy with the performance. Then Mozilla started back dooring ads and other promos and broke my trust. I’v…

Buon Natale!

The Array of Things is an experimental urban sensing project. Over the last few years we've been working on developing the hardware and software and this past year we've ramped up …

I find it useful for new projects. It allows me to define acceptance of core functionality and features. For established projects, not so much. This is especially true for people n…

I was a developer there, not a writer, but this kind of mentality was so basic to the entire company. It reinforces a great deal of humility -- not just in your work but as a perso…

I worked at The Onion a few years ago. The content teams there were some of the most dedicated and passionate professionals I’ve had the pleasure of working with in my career. This…

That’s not even close to what I was getting at. If you are interested in someone there are a million non threatening, non aggressive ways to signal it. If it’s purely sexual the sa…

No. It wasn’t meant to come off like that. I was responding to the context of the story. It doesn’t matter who it is. If someone wants to be intimate they will clearly signal it.

If a woman wants to touch you, she will. End of story.

For someone who doesn't appreciate having their information sucked up by a corporate machine and regurgitated as a targeted ad, is it practical to use Google products with a bevy o…

> proximity to large population centers The Chicago metro area has almost 9.5 million residents, 2.8 in the city proper. The larger Great Lakes Basin, depending on how you look at …

Not really, no. Especially in cities and immediate suburbs, the Midwest has diversity and is welcoming of new people. Maybe you should come to Chicago or Cleveland or Columbus or M…

This is excellent! I appreciate how much detail you’ve put into this. Could you recommend any specific sources I or anyone else on the team could read about how best to work with a…

Agreed. I was frowning at the editing error: NASA instead of NSA. Kind a massive miss on that one.