Gods, I hated being on call. It was never part of our job description, but one day about a year after we were all hired, we were suddenly “on call” without any training for it.

No extra pay or benefits. Work a 12 hour day from being on call? Better show up tomorrow, same time.

What’s are the duties? Never explained. You must have a phone, and snooze the alarm within 1 minute, that’s all we knew. Can you drink? Can you go to the grocery store? Can you be 45 minutes away from an Internet connection? We were never told.

I got in trouble multiple times for not having reception inside the building. I asked for a company phone, and was denied.

How do you fix an issue? We had no idea how the IBM cloud infrastructure worked, so just struggle and hammer the snooze. I only ever fixed issues through my existing Linux knowledge, but all my coworkers only had Windows experience. Towards the end of that job, you could fix most calls by typing killall minerd (the cloud was super hacked).

I must disagree. For example, the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act entitles you to use aftermarket parts in your product without invalidating your warranty, as long as the aftermarket parts don’t cause damage. I agree with the spirit of this law, and I believe software should be considered a “part” in this context.

It’s for a household of 1, in Milwaukee. I could do it here if I cooked every meal and ate meat at most twice a week.

A person poor enough to qualify for this probably doesn’t have time to shop properly and cook for every meal, and probably doesn’t have a full kitchen.

SNAP pays out almost nothing already. You can’t eat on $292 per month, especially if you’re poor enough that you actually qualify for SNAP.

It’s based in China, not Taiwan. (They are different countries, IMO.)

The /s at the end means he was being sarcastic.

But truthfully, there are some places (such as isolated bubbles on Facebook, I would expect) where people honestly believe that opposition to Israel is based on antisemitism, being unaware of the genocide.

The Logitech F310 (wired) and F710 (wireless) are ok. The F710 has a big 2xAA battery compartment which is uncomfortable for some.

Save your receipt, because Logitech’s warranty is better than their construction. I destroyed my first F710’s control pad on my second play of Crosscode, but they sent me a new one.

Do not use either one to operate a manned submarine.

Those are pretty nice specs. I would buy one right now if I didn’t have a Deck already, and if it didn’t come with a Windows tax.

I love that these have borders around the buttons. I wish more interfaces would do that. It used to be standard.

This is an attic insulation issue. If your attic was insulated enough, you would have snow on the roof.

The heat transfer out the roof is dependent only on the indoor temperature, the outdoor temperature, and the attic’s insulation. None of those parameters depend on whether or not you are running a server farm (unless the server farm is so powerful that it increases the indoor temperature to uncomfortable levels, and prevents the furnace from even running.

‘strong probability’ Mike Johnson ‘doesn’t survive the night’

In Minecraft

Before LLMs, the bots often reposted years-old posts from the same board. Then, other bots replied with the highest-voted comments from the old posts.

I agree about blanket statements and calls for death, but it looks to me like this meme is just calling cops trash.

I bypass this using Firefox’s “reader view”. The button to toggle it is at the right edge of the address bar. It removes many annoyances from badly designed news sites.

Yeah, try pressing Alt+[PrintScreen, F] to invoke the OOM killer. It kills the memory-hoggingest process, usually the web browser.

Fedora documentation says this sysrq functionality may be disabled by default. You can enable it once by typing at a terminal: echo 1 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq or permanently with echo 'kernel.sysrq = 1' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/90-sysrq.conf

If it turns out that memory overconsumption is the problem, you can sometimes fix this lag by disabling swap. 16GB is easily enough RAM to do all normal desktop things.

The US Food and Drug Administration has said it’s taking the issue seriously

And yet, it keeps happening. The Hux family from this story had to sue the manufacturer to get anything. So many people were harmed and probably never even got informed about the recall. Plenty of other harmful products will injure people and go undetected.

The FDA has no teeth, and it’s not getting any better in the next 4 years.

This idea has been around longer than RFK Jr. has been relevant in politics. These ads are illegal in most of the civilized world.

The more I read about him, the more my opinion solidifies that his position is simply: be against all of mainstream medicine.

Elon Musk did not tweet this. This screenshot is a forgery.

Things that terrify me:

• 1. The US government in 2025
• 2. The US government in 2024
• 3. The risk that my health insurance company won’t cover something important.
• …
• 341. My DM’s cat, who thinks playtime means claws out.

“Luigi Mangione” is not on the list.

“Being killed by a Luigi Mangione copycat” is not on the list.

TLDR: They sent information through a fiber-optic cable using fewer photons per bit than before.

They only transmitted information, not any non-photon particles. They didn’t exceed the speed of light, or exceed the speed of light through fiber-optic cable.