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According to UniFi, my LG washer and dryer have each used 15.9MB in the last month. LG Dishwasher used 3.8MB. I keep all IOT devices like these on client-isolated WiFi on their own…

Ticketmasters is an excellent book about their history, some of which has been touched on in the comments here. https://www.audible.com/pd/B00B2S9K46

I like it. As someone who has interviewed over a thousand software engineers, I can tell you that even many “full stack” people couldn’t answer it satisfactorily. I quit asking “ex…

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B2B SaaS. 4% of our gross revenue goes to Azure (dev & prod). 25% of our gross revenue goes to payroll.

When 4 perfectly followed a complex prompt that I had spent hours trying (unsuccessfully) to get 3.5-turbo to follow even somewhat acceptably. Both models continue to impress me wi…

It definitely can hurt. It comes up more than you might think. Some managers see it as a distraction, flight risk, potential time theft, etc.

Avoid building it if you can. Stripe is great. The last billing system I built had a similar schema to yours. As the business grew, we got bigger customers who hated that we just p…

What about lockdown mode? I install minimal apps and I for one am excited to try this out. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/apple-expands-commitm...

Unrelated, but it reminds me of 20+ years ago, I ended up with two Amazon accounts with the same email and two different passwords. The order histories were different. I emailed th…

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octal-for-hacker-news/id130888... I have tried all of them and I dislike Octal the least. I finally bought it after years of switching between the app…

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Early on, we obsessed over this—researching every odd-looking email. Being in regulatory compliance, we had no shortage of attorneys around us, so I asked our main one about it, an…

We’re hiring remotes. What stack and what time zone are you in?