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by beej71 2y ago
DOGE is planning to ax Direct File, so that'll be less efficient. And they're cutting tons of jobs, so that'll less efficient. I'm sure there are plenty of things wrong with the IRS, but DOGE's approach seems to be
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by beej71 2y ago
I want it to be true. There's really not much information out there on it or the CEO that I can find. My first question was if there's was enough retro material for a monthly.
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by beej71 2y ago
Also happened to an in-law of mine. After they got pre-approved fall bladder surgery, the insurer came back and said the surgery was "elective". They paid after a fight.
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by beej71 2y ago
Some people feel that anything different must be better. But they are unfortunately incorrect.
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by beej71 2y ago
Came to this thread to post that. Everyone should read _Propaganda_. It's public domain, found in various places.
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by beej71 2y ago
Reminds me of how a significant number of students entering our CS program don't know what a file is. Lots of them never had to knowingly interact with such a thing.
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by beej71 2y ago
Not in the US, it's not.
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by beej71 2y ago
I can only vouch for my classes (which are CS undergrad). Other instructors have other policies, but most programs have small class sizes. The campus is Oregon State University-Cascades in Bend. We're a new campus so we're looking
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by beej71 2y ago
We're not relying on them! The vandals are so harmful to our cause they're on the other side.
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by beej71 2y ago
I'm lucky enough to teach in a school that has small classes; I get to be very accessible to the students. There is some auto-grading, but most homework I grade by hand and give partial credit. But if my classes were 300 people, I coul
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by beej71 2y ago
I agree with you on vandalism, but how are the protests idiotic? And what's your suggestion for Americans saving their democracy?
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by beej71 2y ago
No, that is obviously not "just free speech". Sheesh. C'mon, man.
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by beej71 2y ago
Let this be a lesson to any foreigners thinking about visiting the United States.
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by beej71 2y ago
We had an explosion about 3 years ago. It was our fault (hot dish touching cold steel sink rim), but it still caught me by surprise. I'd known since I was a kid in the 70s that Pyrex was highly tolerant of heat changes, so I felt that
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by beej71 2y ago
This is just one reason why it's important to not talk to police. They might ask you if you were in Cityville on some particular date, and maybe you'd forgotten. So you said no. But then it comes out that there's footage of y
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by beej71 2y ago
Ad hominem.
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by beej71 2y ago
The astronauts in that clip say they have no information on who said what to whom, so it takes the wind out of the sails of the statement that everything Musk says is factual.
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by beej71 2y ago
This is an honest question, not a criticism, but how much does parallelism help? Isn't the disk a choke point?
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by beej71 2y ago
Reminds me of (I think) the PostIt note inventors saying that if they'd looked at the research ahead of time, they never would have even tried.
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by beej71 2y ago
I'd pay $100 per year to support Firefox, no problem. Most people probably wouldn't be willing to go more than $20. But I do wonder how many of us there are who would pay, and what kind of dev team that would support.
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by beej71 2y ago
The IRS rules. But tell me more
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by beej71 2y ago
Like they do with USPS. Yes, I agree.
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by beej71 2y ago
I just figure the owner of the largest garden gnome collection in the world is somehow driven to collect garden gnomes.
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by beej71 2y ago
There's too much evidence contradicting the notion that his goal is efficiency. Not sure what it actually is, but if it is efficiency, he's worse than useless and needs to be shitcanned yesterday.
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by beej71 2y ago
I do my taxes myself almost every time. And they're more complicated than average. I'm all for simplification, but it's already pretty simple to understand for almost all Americans. The only part that sucks for all Americans
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by beej71 2y ago
And after it happens let's keep filing for free.
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by beej71 2y ago
I don't know about 18F, but the shutdowns are far more widespread than that.
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by beej71 2y ago
But 18f? They've been one of the most visible streamliners of government bureaucracy we've seen.
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by beej71 2y ago
My hot take on this is that Zelensky knew going in that Trump was never going to back him after the secret Russian peace talks. So he went in hard looking for the live fight they had in order to wake up European leaders for additional suppo
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by beej71 2y ago
I should be clear, you don't need a Mastodon account to read my blog and comments. But you do need a Mastodon account if you want to reply to my Mastodon post about my blog entry and have that show up in the blog. But maybe for your bl

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