jasonpeacock

A 1C serving is 230 calories, it has 16g of sugar of which is 13g _added_ sugar (the 3rd ingredient is cane sugar). That's _3 teaspoons_ of sugar you're eating before bed (and is 27% of your…

Nothing new to see here... Any of these steps could do the same to your system, and it's been the "standard" for 30+ years: ./configure make sudo make install Or l…

My dream (ha!) is for medical science to advance enough for routine, safe, "deep sedation" for travel. I arrive at the station/terminal/depot, get put to sleep and loaded into a po…

A similar approach I've heard (but never brave enough to do) is when you get a new car, intentionally scratch the paint yourself. Then you won't be as concerned about the inevitable dings an…

Their response when I was appealing to them for help in fixing an org problem: > I know it's my job to be a leader but it's too much work because the org is dysfunctional, so I'm onl…

The article talks about installing Python packages for development, but if you find yourself using `pip` to install Python tools/scripts then you should use `pipx` - it will properly sandbox th…

Marriage advice: You can love many people, but you can only live with a few.

The landlord can move into the property themselves, sell the property, or make the property more appealing to rent. There is plenty the landlord can control. What this tax does is say the landlord can…

On OSX, Soulver is great: https://soulver.app/ Very useful for building worksheets and exploring formulas.

"<your payment processor/financial institution> can completely ruin your N-figure business in one minute" Fixed that for you. This isn't a Stripe problem, it's a "y…

I'm an introvert, I definitely don't travel just for the people - that sounds like hell. But I do love eating, and that's one of the reasons I travel. Go eat street food, eat fancy food…

> There’s a lot of collaboration and spontaneous connection that happens in hallways and kitchenettes If your business success is predicated on random encounters, then your business success is just…

I've got mine. It's exactly what was promised, and fun to play :)

I pay for Neeva: https://neeva.com/ I started using it as a Beta product, and then continued with a paid subscription. You can bump search sources up/down so filter out website y…

Gas heat still needs electricity to work.

`history merge` can be run manually in Fish to force the current session to pickup the global history, or you can use a small plugin to do it automatically: https://github.com/2m/…

There's an about/announcement video too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj3GLMvqNZo

Prime Air was not shut down: https://www.amazon.jobs/en/team/prime-air

The field of science (math) that studies this (and applies it) is called "Operations Research"[0] and it's about optimization & planning. About 30yrs ago they started applying it to…

IMO, that's perfectly OK and is not "multitasking" - it's "context switching", and it's what all productive people do. Always have a list of things to work on, sorte…

You're assuming that your'e still getting/keeping that bonus after being fired. There's no way they are just giving you 6 figures in cash and hoping that you'll stick around -…

The fancy new X1 credit card is issued by Coastal Community Bank, a local bank in WA state. It seems an odd pairing, that a "revolutionary" new credit card aimed at techies is partnered with…

One issue that Mosh doesn't handle well bad lag/high latency. It's great for automatically reconnecting if you have a flaky connection, but it actually makes a slow connection into a wo…

And if don't think he'll fire you on whim tomorrow.

I had to go figure out what Proton is: "Proton is a tool for use with the Steam client which allows games which are exclusive to Windows to run on the Linux operating system. It uses Wine to faci…

Heh, Amazon tried this back in 2000 and it was very bad for customer trust: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2588337/amazon-apologi... …

It's different when old things require ongoing support. Your old mixer will keep working without ongoing support, but software generally requires continued updates for security patches, bug fixes…

Really, it's "<animal> Found to be Smarter Than We Think" - humans are quite arrogant thinking we're the only smart animals.

More importantly, do you have instructions and descriptions of everything? Sure, my wife could access my accounts, but she'll be lost - which are important? which can be ignored? What do you do o…