This week’s newsletter from Singapore! There’s not going to be a corruption trial involving a former Cabinet minister after all, and wow, the East-West Line has really gone doooowwwwnnnn…
Denise Prudhomme's bosses at Wells Fargo insisted that the in-person camaraderie of their offices warranted a mandatory return-to-office policy, but when she died at her desk in her Tempe, AZ office, no one noticed for four days.
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#LivingBlindfully Transcript, Living Blindfully episode 304, stay fit with Achilles, improve your financial literacy with Penny Forward, and when screen readers duplicate OS functions - livingblindfully.com/lb0304tra…
Ever edit a PDF in MacOS Preview and have it mysteriously go password protected, effectively locking you out?
It's been a bug for at least two years, and the workaround I've found is to edit the PDF in Chrome instead – which you can still do even after the MacOS password has been inflicted on it. Which I have many questions about.
@ben it's caused by "I want to install a package but not reboot". And then the need to unlock because I need to patch live to test the shit I'm working on.
Maybe instead I should have reinstalled Workstation. Would have save me so much trouble.
#ЛистаяДневники обнаружил, что самая старшая кошка (та, что сейчас не видит) была подобрана в этот день в 2007-ом году прямо под окном, куда она пришла орать и требовать спасения. Собственно, вот. #кошки
Unfortunately, my current role is impacted by Amazon's move to mandatory co-location for teams, and my family is far too settled in Brooklyn to move away now. So after 7 years at Amazon, I'm starting the search.
I'm looking for a new role as a Front-end engineer/Design technologist/UX Engineer. I like design systems. And CSS. And accessibility. Love those things.
Experience: Amazon · Education: Lansing Community College · Location: Brooklyn · 299 connections on LinkedIn. View Heather Buchel’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.
Ok, the bots are officially better at those CAPTCHA images than me, with a large margin. Clearly, they know where that motorcycle stops and consequently which squares should be checked - I don’t.
I don't know that throwing soup at a famous painting, knowing it's behind glass and will be perfectly safe, is a super effective form of climate protest.
But it is sinister how many liberals will laugh and say they had it coming when they get 2 years in prison for something they acknowledge was trivial.
America is so anti-poor that it’s the only place where a mayor will argue it’s completely justified to shoot someone in the head for evading a $2.90 fare only for us to find out two days later that the mayor was stealing literally a million times that amount.
From Wired: "If you step into the headquarters of the Internet Archive on a Friday after lunch, when it offers public tours, chances are you’ll be greeted by its founder and merriest cheerleader, Brewster Kahle." 📖 ➡️ wired.com/story/internet-archi…
@federicomena I went there once, visited the place a bit, but didn't bathe in there… Don't remember if it was closed on that day, or if it was just because I hate having fun 🤔
I woke up really hungry so in my quest to make everyone as hungry as I am, we're going to talk about food.
Does reading make you hungry? Have you read a particular good description of food or cooking in a c-novel* that made you salivate? Or perhaps you've read something that sounds absolutely atrocious (which makes you want to try it for Science). Did anything you read inspire you to cook, or seek that dish out?
Share them and let's make everyone hungry!
*feel free to very loosely interpret c-novel here for Discussion Friday, e.g., Chinese web-novels, Chinese novels, Chinese novellas/short stories, other language novels translated into Chinese, novels by Chinese (nationality or diaspora) published in non-Chinese language
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