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My new job was a recruiter cold message on LinkedIn. This was pretty novel as all my previous jobs (~17 years worth) were referrals of some sort.

It's not free to design or sell, even if the audio parts used "have the capability". If Apple thought they'd sell more phones, they'd do it. Back when I was fighting the good fight…

Spoiler! Author is a mechanical engineer.

There's a graveyard of phones that thought there was a market for a wider variety of form factors. This is a variation on that theme. To put it another way, if you were running a m…

Ugh, this has always been a terrible idea - apparently a vanity project by people who know nothing about how manufacturing works. Every piece they make modular adds cost - cost of …

There's worse problems at a lower level - hardware caches on the disk do not really guarantee flushes are honored either. There's a discussion of this here - honoring writes is an …

Pope discovered to be Catholic. Now if the NSA had spied on Smokey Bear...

that was my impression of it as well, a very senior employee retention scheme.

very gibsonian profession