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Or just write a good covering letter and email it to yourself.

Completely agree, we can be edgy without being insensitive.

I have nystagmus (rapid, uncontrollable, rhythmic eye movements), so I couldn't see anything at first, just lots of small dots. I had to zoom in (Mac accessibility tool) but then I…

This is why the only Apple device I'll buy is a MacBook Pro, and even then if they wall it off as badly as their other products I'll reconsider.

It's a great move by the Verge but I agree with the article that it doesn't go far enough. Why not offer a premium ad-free tier? For me, viewing web ads is non negotiable (print ad…

Sneaky paywall hidden below the fold.

I've experienced this for over a decade. If I like the music I'm renting, I buy the CD and rip it to FLAC.

Very well said. Just to add I have problems with my eyesight and the company I work at makes zero effort to accommodate this. It took me a while to be sure as I don't want to exagg…

Nauseating mode is the default, you'll have to pay extra for a tolerable personality. ;) Seriously though, I'm sure it's an improvement but having used the existing voice chat I th…

By the time I was born Mickey Mouse was so embedded in popular culture that it would be unreasonable to expect me to avoid the character. I certainly won't be telling my daughter t…

One thing that really grates with this high percentage tip system is that it sucks the authenticity out of the relationship. I don't want someone pretending they're my friend when …

One example: it now refuses to summarise books that it trained on. Soon after trying GPT-4 I could get it to summarise Evans DDD chapter by chapter. Not anymore. Not a surprise, bu…

Much as I thoroughly oppose Brexit it's worth pointing out that other EU countries also made excersing the right to travel with a spouse difficult. Before Brexit I gave up trying t…

The last four companies I worked at have spent a fortune on SaaS, not just AWS but a host of providers for observability, management etc. They've all used Terraform extensively but…

Yes, and also StackOverflow is massively impacted by ChatGPT. Many developers are already using the latter in place of SO. It makes sense for them to try and keep those developers …

Generally agree although there's a case for "taking a different tack".

I seem to remember some tapes were designed to load faster or otherwise decrease the margin of error when reading the tones, such that it wouldn't easily survive the degradation of…

It was endlessly patient until they introduced rate limiting. :)

The problem is, people assume the tools they use are correct 100% of the time. An early example: http://files.righto.com/calculator/sinclair_scientific_simul... (see Bugs and limit…

Are mathematics students allowed to use calculators, or did they ban those too?

> But why do you think legislation should be the one forcing that choice on everyone, rather than the market allowing consumers to choose? I see a lot of debate about market forces…

Thankfully their UX is awful, which prompted me to switch to 1Password. It feels like they're milking a cash cow rather than trying to improve the product.

Looks good, are they going to offer a hosted model? I couldn't find pricing on their website, just an email sign-up. Airtable's pricing just didn't work for me as an individual use…

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