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Allowing owners to choose when to install updates would address many issues. Most updates are uneventful, but I’d prefer to install them when I’m at home in my driveway rather than…

Some NCR cash registers used this trick: they shipped with all the hardware included, but jumper blocks determined what percentage of the hardware the customer had paid for. As the…

The motion picture industry’s problem isn’t piracy, it’s just that they keep targeting movies at 0.02% of the population. If they want to sell more movies they ought to target a bi…

I recently bought a SIG P320, and a week later, I started reading articles about it self discharging. =P It’s not like it happens all the time, but it seems that if the safety leve…

Jamie Dimon's "office" is a 2,500 sq. ft. apartment on Park Avenue in New York. It's paid for by the company, and he lives there with his wife during the week. It's so hypocritical…

It sounds to me like the university is using the threat of expulsion to steal or coerce you into giving over your site. I think you just got the best IRL education ever.

This is one of those games that would be great to have the source code for. I’ve seen dozens of people try to do rewrites or reverse engineer the code, but this one got further tha…

That is too bad, Teleport is how I learned a lot of the crypto APIs in Golang. It also provided me with a glimpse into part of openssh which was never very well thought out - signe…

When I did low latency everyone was offloading TCP to dedicated hardware. They would shut down every single process on the server and bind the trading trading app to the CPUs durin…

Private office with doors? I don't need an office at all, I WFH!

I'm hoping that one day ChatGTP will be advanced enough to ignore advertisements for me. Oh what will the world do if they have to go see a doctor to get an effective toenail fungu…

The problem with hashicorp IMO is that all of their pricing is apparently targeted at hedge funds and oil sheiks. I would like to buy support from them but I don’t have $30k/month …

Having your database exposed on the public internet so a third party service like this can read it directly is a very bad idea IMO. I get what your going for but the end here is so…

Deutsche Bank was one of the first places I worked at, closer to its heyday, I absolutely loved it. But it has been in decline for years, and has a lot of management issues, and fi…

I think you have that backwards - Elon never wanted Twitter, he just wanted to see his name in some headlines and make people run around pulling their hair for a bit. However he me…

The biggest issue I run into is that developers wanting to put some one liner hello world example into production. There is no monitoring or logging, nothing updates the operating …

Don't let Youtube be the golden copy of your video. They can, and often do, kill your account at any time without notice or explanation and you will have no recourse. Keep the gold…

Usenet didn't fail at all, it just went out of fashion after Google killed the usenet archive. Honestly, I think if we applied everything we've learned about http over the past thi…

This is a really awesome list - I'm proud to have seen all but two of them. But I would also note that the 70s gave us both Star Wars ('77) and Alien ('79). Of the two of them I ac…

My biggest fear about remote work is the trend will reverse and I'll be at a huge disadvantage trying to negotiate a new position. Though everything I've read seems to indicate the…

I had a boss who moved a guy from Russia to the US just so he could fire him. He was gone ten days after he arrived and all the paperwork was done. I guess that worker protections …

Write the stripe CEO, that will get routed to someone who can help. Front line support people are pretty useless except for the most routine functions.

Good luck with that ;) how are all those senators and congressmen going to watch porn with a law like that on the books?

Everybody is hoping they can cash out at pre-pandemic prices before it all comes crashing down. The real estate valuations are mostly wishful thinking at this point. Only question …

The article says IBM has laid of 5,000 and has hired 7,000 - sounds to me like typical IBM shenanigans to replace expensive employees with cheap ones. When I was there the gimmick …