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and just one day after writing how the job market is screwed:

mfioretti.substack.com/p/jobs-

I found another proof that it is:

"The mystery of the cover letter - Why do recruiters still ask for them?"

economist.com/business/2024/09

:

printer timebombs

perpetual in

, since 2010

high frequency trading, always stupid

6 tons of stuff per year to not be in

and much more in today's Almanac of

stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-thi

First pagers, now walkie-talkies???

Morals and ethics aside, I'm not going to buy anything from , not even pearls or grapefruits, simply on the ground that they may explode on me someday:

wired.com/story/walkie-talkie-

Exploding *PAGERS*, you say?

That's so old news.

Walkie-talkies is where it's at, today.

What next? Toasters?

Unbelievable, really:

wired.com/story/walkie-talkie-

The MANY names of colors

devastation in developing countries

cars that will never happen

who cannot be angry

and much more, in today's Almanac:

stop.zona-m.net/2024/09/on-thi

@feloneouscat ask that guy, not me. Me, I just love the principle. Current web development environments, libraries, tools, whatever... are embarrasingly overbuilt

This guy is nuts, but the good kind of nuts:

"Excluding national government laboratories, the home time lab of THIS SINGLE MAN now has the most accurate clock in the world":

leapsecond.com/

Kudos to every effot to bring a decent Web back:

"The thing is, HTML never went anywhere. It’s still here, albeit buried and abstracted under further layers of inaccessible, hostile, or complicated cruft. We need to make it the default again, where the dynamic overlays are additive, not essential."

rubenerd.com/the-promise-of-ht

PAGERS???

I can't believe what I'm seeing. Pagers, the tiny boxes from the 1990s that buzz and show a phone number when the owner of that number wants to talk with you?

THOSE pagers?

(yes, I'm weird. But right now what really freaks me out is that pagers were used so much, not the attack itself)

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This insanity has to be stopped. So many smart people have great ideas that will likely never pass Congress. I’m lately thinking the easiest answer might be prosecuting the parents.

tribune.com.pk/story/2496833/f

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Why don't ALL worldwide already use SWAPPABLE batteries to decrease recharging time AND the need for ubiquitous charging points is beyond me, really:

reddit.com/r/toolgifs/comments

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