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Can you please get that app's name? It sounds like something that would immensley help me. I'm hard of hearing and something like this would be amazing to have handy when I can't w…

Not sure of your location but if you are mailing materials like this in the USA it's really cheap. USPS Media Mail. https://about.usps.com/notices/not121/not121_tech.htm I've used …

It seems like this disconnect is something that riles you up. Context is key and the weaponization of cyberspace by Nation State actors is being defined as we go along. It's gettin…

I thought this was a joke or something but after googling it you aren't joking.... Wow... https://architectureau.com/articles/worlds-tallest-hybrid-ti... Hell of a bet on building …

I was in a similar rut. Not just professionally but academically as well for most of my life. Motivation had to be forced to do more than just enough to blend into the crowd. It to…

Full disclosure, I work for Walmart in IT and specifically several components for the Online Grocery product. Ask and ye shall receive. Buzzfeed's Tasty and Walmart have an integra…

Target of the article and target audience is Indian based but it isn't like they are the only country with varying degrees of this crap going on. I wonder how bad will it get befor…

Go give Moneyland a listen or read. It isn't just a new phenomenon and it's going to get worse. With enough money you can dine a la carte to whatever gives you the best options. UK…

Found a non-paywalled version of the paper. https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/about-dev.illinoisstate.edu/di... I would guess this is the controversial part of the paper. "Further, we …

Public education differs pretty widely from state to state. However, there has been a general trend to start allowing charter schools to exist and for them to allow for enrollment …

Give Moneyland a read/listen to if you want to go down a rabbit hole about how hard money is to track once it enters an offshore bank account. We really have an international finan…

No joke. My team has three branches: * Sunnyvale, CA * Bentonville, AR * Bangalore, India We regularly will gossip about best/worst aspects of each of them. My mind is blown at how…

In principle it should be but in this case the devil was in the details. Take the Quadratic Expression forms o Standard Form: ax^2 + bx + c o Factored Form: a(x – r1)(x – r2) o Ver…

``` If it wasn't bad enough that the politicians feel the need to change things up regularly, you have the well known problems of the morally bankrupt textbook and calculator indus…

https://www.americanprairie.org/ Worth going check out what they are doing at trying to reset how the prairie was. We lost such a treasured natural wonder when we destroyed the flo…

That's a suspiciously precise description...

Two books that dived well into this subject. Unlike this article they have a bit more meat to their research. I would recommend giving them a read before getting your pitchforks on…

Are you me or a fellow worker at my office? \s Seriously, that kinda bs is time consuming and soul deadening.

Something like this might be what you want. Hangs on the window and is solar powered. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Solar-Sun-Powered-Power-Window-Fa...

(Unless your manager makes drive-by commits of py2-only code, months after you all agreed that all new code should be py3-compatible, and then leaves town for a multi-week vacation…

Yep. If you do want to hear some 'crisis' worthy numbers in a similar vein as this article I highly recommend giving "Moneyland" a chance. That's where the money laundering gets bu…

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34964830-automating-ineq... Same boat. I live in town that shows up in US News best places to live. I make bank doing interesting work. Got a wi…

* Vagrant/Terraform/Pretty much all of Hashicorp's stuff. * Ubuntu with an occasional centos instance * Prometheus/Jaeger because I got tired of not knowing why/when stuff broke. *…