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It's not a static situation. The questions have changed, to the point where solving them in interview conditions is a separate skill. When I interviewed people at Google, I asked i…

I can't code with somebody looking over my shoulder. I need to relax and think about the task. They expect me to code while being judged by one or more strangers, against the clock…

Tyson was fighting Jake Paul, not Logan Paul. That’s Jake’s brother.

My Mac IIcx with Apple Portrait Display was a lovely system. Luckily most modern screens like my LG can be pivoted to vertical, and then the Mac lets you specify the rotation. Ther…

Otherwise known as Linux.

This is the area where I grew up. The Angel is not just that corner, it's that whole neighborhood, although it is named after The Angel pub (which no longer exists). The Angel exte…

I wonder how long the "pair of" phrasing can stick to things that were once a pair of items and got redesigned to be one thing, like trousers, or scissors (originally a pair of kni…

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The ruling also ordered Hamas to release all hostages, and Hamas has previously claimed they would abide by any ruling of the court. I find it unlikely though that they will comply…

Apple should buy one of the local EV companies like Lucid or Rivian, it would save them years of R&D on the hardware, give them valuable automotive guidance on the software and how…

“Gladius” was also the common Roman slang word for “penis”, so much so that the accompanying Latin word for a sword holder or scabbard, “vagina”, became the standard English word f…

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The Apple app store is a disaster for making a living as an indie. People can't find the apps so sales are low, market rate prices are also low. The only way to make a living is to…

The gene that causes sickle cell anaemia actually provides partial immunity to malaria, which is why this gene has not been bred out of the population over time.

I missed the old Mac calculator desk accessory so much I wrote a new version of it for current Macs (you can buy it if you want at CalculatorDA.com but I wrote it for my own nostal…

“There are not a lot of photos of Icons of Filth. Apparently they encouraged people not to take them because there were animal products used in the processing of film.” LOL I suppo…

Although the user should have been polite, I totally understand being annoyed that the manual was intercepted and thrown out. Users who actually read manuals are like gold. They wa…

I find this kind of domain name reuse unsettling: for years, Kagi.com was the address of a payment service for shareware authors. Man those were the days. Lots of people were perfe…

If you pull new ethernet, make it cat 6 or better. Times change. I'm not using ethernet beyond the switch room, I threw money at the problem and got a 3 pack of those wi-fi 6 Nest …

It's really annoying as Japan has lots of wonderful vintage secondhand synthesizers for sale, but being domestic market models they often have non-switching power supplies that req…

Except people just hearing about Fig now can't sign up.

Acquihires generally get a better comp deal than hires, they just don't tend to make much off the acquisition deal unless they are high up. If their comp includes accelerated vesti…

Yeah, now I see it. Banning signups just when they get an inrush like this seems a boneheaded move. You never know who you can upsell on AWS later. brew remove fig