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I am doomed, I guess. I didn't detect that. I thought this was sincere expression from an actual person, but an actual person who is also running for office and thus needs to tweak his writing accordingly. Although I did note that it w
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The "required login" pattern is particularly a problem. I seem to have namesakes around the US and UK that use my email address as their own when signing up for various services (mobile phone services, Shopify, Uber, various banks
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I have some sort of old flat screen TV, which I bought before there were "smart" TVs. But I don't have cable or over-the-air reception. Instead I have a Roku soundbar with Netflix, Apple TV+, and Youtube apps (plus some other
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"I just enjoy not trying to always be well curated, or careful with every detail of my life." I agree with the author. I like to keep my tastes somewhat "peasant" so that I never have to fuss to enjoy my coffee (or food,
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Why I Love Cheap Coffee(alieniloquy.bearblog.dev)
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"The researchers say that the findings could lead to new understanding of or treatments for conditions where the brain's body maps have gone askew, such as schizophrenia or the sensation of 'phantom limbs' experienced by
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It reminds me of this: Every time Yahoo sneaks into the tech news, somebody posts a comment along the lines of: "TIL Yahoo still exists" or "What? There's still a Yahoo?". It's almost like there's a bot th
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I found a very comfortable position, but it depends on a reading app that supports continuous scroll (fortunately, both the Kindle app and the Apple Books app have this setting). I lie down with my head slightly propped up on a pillow and t
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>it probably helps increase click-through rates which ultimately boosts Apple’s revenue in its ads business I assume that means it increases the number of times users install the wrong app (possibly with serious consequences)?
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I appreciated the role of a maintainer when I created a PR to add a new feature to a large, complex (and for some companies, critical) open source project 8 years ago. As it turns out, the things I didn't understand about that project
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Way, way back in 2003 or thereabouts, I had to add an "open this report in Excel" function to an existing product. But first I had to figure out how to convert the report to Excel format (with freeze panes, etc.). I found Apache P
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A few weeks ago, with 18 Developer Beta selected. 18.7.3 was offered to me. But not now.
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>Of course I would strongly prefer to not be a presidential system at all. Having grown up in the US and having blinders on, I always thought all those parliamentary systems seemed unstable and sometimes comical. But now I see the value
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OK, I had iOS 18 beta selected. I turned that off and IOS 26.2 magically reappeared as an offering. I guess since 18.7.3 is not going to be offered to me, I must install 26.2.
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Odd, I have an iPhone 11 on 18.6.2 and the Software Update page offers me nothing, just says "iOS is up to date". A few weeks ago it was offering me iOS 26, but not anymore.
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I was going post exactly this! He was talking about those engineers that really exemplified, from his point of view, good engineers. And dealing with engineering managers that didn't see much use in such activity might be part of &quot
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Lately I've found that cafes (and also some very popular restaurants) blast music at rock concert levels of volume. That seems to be a requirement to compete, for some reason. I waited at a cafe last year while my partner was at a meet
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This can work with the way you think as well. Many years ago, I had a technical manager who never felt any pressure to be the first to come up with the answer to a question or the solution to some problem. If I was having a technical conver
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I am lucky that most of my career happened before linkedin/X, so I never developed the urge or the instinct to broadcast my supposed successes to my network's timelines. In my 20s, I wasn't immune to the need to promote mysel
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CNN has an article claiming that the botched redaction work is the fault of the Virgin Islands’ attorney general’s office, not the Justice Department. From https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/23/politics/epstein-
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Back in 1994, Perl was an amazing thing to me (as someone who was accustomed to mainframe scripting languages up to that point), and it helped make me very productive. But it sometimes would seem like the epitome of "Write once, read n
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The exchange on https://github.com/zigbook/zigbook/issues/4 ? If so, your botdar is better than mine. While the project owner doesn't understand the issue at first, they seem to get it in the end. The exc
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>Those that succeed in making this transition are going to need to accept that they are businessmen just as much as they are engineers. Assuming this essay is prophetic: I'm glad I am no longer a professional programmer. I never wan
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Sorry for being dense. What are GCCs and NCGs? I guess GCC night be Global Capability Center?
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>First-generation antihistamines include medications such as diphenhydramine (Benadryl), brompheniramine, doxylamine, chlorpheniramine, hydroxyzine, and promethazine. >First-generation antihistamines have a longer onset and shorter du
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There are times where it is reasonable, especially for bug fixes where there is a test to explicitly check that the bug is fixed. In that case, I might check out the code, revert the fix, and ensure that the test fails. There have been a fe
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>you get lucky and they happen to ask the questions you’ve just brushed up on or you get lucky and see the answer quickly for some reason My experience exactly! I've been lucky in most of my interviews that I was asked about things
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I don't know, but I have the exact same issue. White text on a black background actually hurts my eyes after a paragraph of reading, and then when I look away I see those grey bands across my vision for the next 20 seconds. As soon as
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Ahh.. got it. My old employer also had Tandems in the 1980s, but I didn’t know about the NonStop name.
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I personally thought the AS/400 was midrange. That's how a co-worker characterized it when he left us to work on OS/400 development (way back in the 1980s). IBM's own "History of AS/400" web page sort of i

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