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In the USA is it now illegal for vendors to email statements as PDF attachments?
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by cagey 3y ago
"The term Axis of Resistance [...] is a label used by pro-Iranian commentators to refer to an informal anti-Israeli and anti-Western political and military coalition led by the Iranian government. It includes the Syrian Arab Republic
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by cagey 3y ago
$ V=nada echo "x${V}x" xx
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by cagey 3y ago
Reading this thread reminded me to check my Pixel 5 (primary phone, purchased new just over 3 years ago) for updates. And to my surprise, there was a Android Security Update available which, now that it has been downloaded and installed, i
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by cagey 3y ago
> ... appealing to popularity and cult of personalities are sins I didn't imagine the programming area will suffer from, yet it happens every day. Try criticizing one of Python's many obvious pitfalls [...] and you'll be b
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by cagey 3y ago
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World by Harry Browne
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by cagey 3y ago
At least one of "those document scanner apps on my phone" immediately uploads scan-generated PDF to a user-designated folder in Google Drive: Genius Scan (on Android), one-time payment "Enterprise" version. Source: happy
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by cagey 3y ago
Seinfeld: Kramer’s Japanese guests sleep in drawers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvZfb5t8DnA
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by cagey 3y ago
I'm not familiar with European prepaid debit cards, but they sound similar to what in the USA we call "gift cards": the latter are "preloaded" with a certain dollar amount which the holder of the card can spend in t
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by cagey 3y ago
> I’m at a FinTech and some of the merchants we’re in the same orbit with are actively moving to replace credit [...] card payments with FedNow instant payments. What is the benefit to the consumer of using FedNow instead of a credit car
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by cagey 3y ago
Unlikely IMO. According to my limited research, FedNow competes with ACH and other direct payment systems (e.g. Zelle), while credit cards are loan-based.
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by cagey 3y ago
I don't know if this meets the "recently" criteria, but: Bought 22.11: Both sides used a RE Agent. Locked 30 yr fixed rate mortgage at the then-highest rate in at least a decade (7.375%). Put 20% down. The house we bought
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by cagey 3y ago
I liken Jira to a fire hydrant and each and every PM and every level of (mostly completely useless) management to a small dog that is congenitally compelled to "lift its leg on [Jira]" by "customizing" it in some way, so
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by cagey 3y ago
Genius Scan Enterprise is a non-subscription "pay-up-front" scanning app that I've used (on Android) for at least 3 years with complete satisfaction. Current price 25USD but I recall paying noticeably less (I share the app w
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by cagey 3y ago
Recently I needed to replace my car's battery (size 24F; I opted to upgrade to an AGM battery). In my town of 45,000 (medium-small?) there is one Walmart superstore (sans auto shop), a bunch of chain auto parts stores, and some non-ch
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by cagey 3y ago
> And [Boomers] have enormous needs. I extrapolate this to be saying "Compared to other named generations, Boomers have much higher per capita needs". How so? Or are you rather saying the size of the Boomer generation, being e
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by cagey 3y ago
A repurposed HP Pavillion TP01-0066 Desktop w/Ryzen 3700X, 256GB NVME SSD and 32GB RAM, with 5x USB 3.0 HDD's attached for mass storage and onsite backup using dirvish[1] and rdfind[2]. It has a fan but is usually silent. [1] ht
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by cagey 3y ago
Sadly, Strawberry Perl remains stuck on Perl 5.32.1.1 "Released: Jan 24 2021" https://strawberryperl.com/
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Ditto! In perhaps 1974 my parents acquired a used recent-edition (1972?) World Book encyclopedia set for my sister and I to leverage in our pre-college studies, and until perhaps 1980 that was by far my most-read (set of) books. I fondly
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by cagey 3y ago
> my local libraries wifi is what helped me stay in touch with my parents when my phone data was shut off for nonpayment. After today seeing 4 (customer-less) kiosks scattered across my medium-sized AZ town attempting to give away free c
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by cagey 3y ago
Given the article's title, I didn't expect to find the following within: Public transit is now the cause of the reforming classes, and the car their villain. The car is the consumer economy on wheels: atomizing, co
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by cagey 3y ago
During COVID while I was WFH full time, I had a corporate IT-owned laptop whose primary purpose seemed to be to receive massive quantities of security updates and new security software installs, and reboot (it felt like!) every few hours, a
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by cagey 3y ago
CA state elected lawmakers clearly wanted the utility companies to be the face of this policy which they created. As can be seen in this thread, a significant portion of those reading about this have a standing grudge against PG&E et.
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by cagey 3y ago
Yes, as linked in the article, the article describes changes *mandated* by CA AB 205[1] which was signed by the CA Gov on June 30, 2022. Search the bill text for "income". "The bill would require the fixed charge to be estab
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by cagey 3y ago
Yeah, this happened to me (late 2021): was laid off, had at least one Sr. Director in an adjacent silo spinning up the process of lateral'ing me into his org, but HR confirmed that I would have to pro-rata repay severance should I resu
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by cagey 4y ago
> If the fed loses appetite or ability to continue increasing interest rates How does the Fed lose the ability to increase (or decrease) interest rates? I was under the impression that (ignoring the consequences of doing so), they can
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by cagey 4y ago
https://www.sitejabber.com/ might be such a place. I left one review there a few months ago. I doubt it will gain network effect critical mass, and if it does, the companies being reviewed will almost certainly subvert it
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by cagey 4y ago
It seems like outsourcing phone support to overseas call centers is a race to the bottom: if you answer calls onshore, your higher costs inhibit your ability to compete on price, so eventually every company (at least, those that offer any n
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by cagey 4y ago
For at least the past 7 years I've installed 'Git for Windows'[1] on every Windows PC I use. Git for Windows comes with bash (my primary shell on Windows) plus a full suite of *nix utilities including Perl, awk, sed, pdftote
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by cagey 4y ago
HVAC: https://www.youtube.com/@acservicetechchannel "repairing neglected power equipment": https://www.youtube.com/@jcondon1

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