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by dpifke 2y ago
A related bit of terminology I recently picked up[0] is "electric motor" vs. "electric machine", with the latter being preferred when the machine can function as either a motor or a generator (as is the case e.g. for mos
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by dpifke 2y ago
As a long-time Solidworks user (mostly for hobby projects) who switched to FreeCAD again recently, I highly recommend watching the tutorial videos from "MangoJelly Solutions" on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/pla
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by dpifke 2y ago
The museum at Edwards AFB in California is amazing[0], but is located on the base so you have to get prior permission to visit it as a civilian. When I was there a few years back, they were fundraising to move the museum to a more publicly
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by dpifke 2y ago
You do not want to mix your non-anonymous and anonymous traffic over the same Tor connection, especially if you don't control the bridge (first hop) to which you're connecting.
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by dpifke 2y ago
Very cool! Related: the NIST TREC (Text REtrieval Conference) has had several competitions over the years related to improving the searchability of medical data: https://www.trec-cds.org/ If you have novel ideas in this are
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by dpifke 2y ago
In the U.S., this is a still-evolving area of law, which has been raised before the Supreme Court: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/23/23-1020/302999/202... The State of Utah instructed the jury in
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by dpifke 2y ago
Yes, if you are physically working even one day in California in a given year, the Franchise Tax Board expects you to file a non-resident tax return. (How enforceable this is will depend on your other ties to the state and your personal ri
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by dpifke 2y ago
I had a beeper in high school around the same time, because it came with a voicemail box and was a lot cheaper than a separate phone line. (Around $5/month in 1992 dollars, IIRC.) It was a way to get messages from friends without my p
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by dpifke 3y ago
The app sucks, but there's a Home Assistant integration that works much better: https://github.com/sopelj/hass-ember-mug-component FWIW, my fiancée loves hers. She apparently drinks her coffee much more slowly th
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by dpifke 3y ago
Some of the cheap Chinese spy vacuums can be rooted for local-only operation: https://valetudo.cloud/
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by dpifke 3y ago
Companies with union labor also sell their employees' data to Equifax. Unions are on board with this, see e.g. https://unitedafa.org/news/2020/5/9/employment-verification-...
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by dpifke 3y ago
I somehow missed that article when it first appeared on HN[0], thanks for linking to it! Surprised to "^F FTC" the article and comments, and not find any mention of the Federal Trade Commission. Given some of their prior rulemaki
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by dpifke 3y ago
From the guidelines[0]: Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.
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by dpifke 3y ago
The past few years at DEF CON, there's been a "village" where you can practice (or watch others) defeating such schemes: https://info.defcon.org/village/?id=67
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by dpifke 3y ago
Documentation for ARC is pretty sparse. The instructions for setting it up in Exim (default MTA on Debian systems) can be found here: https://github.com/Exim/exim/blob/master/doc/doc-txt/experim
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by dpifke 3y ago
Gmail now requires mail forwarders to cryptographically attest to the original DMARC alignment of forwarded mail: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/81126?hl=en Your former university may be using mail softwar
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by dpifke 3y ago
Let's Encrypt has chosen not to support IP address in SAN: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/planned-rfc-8738-support... This is admittedly a rare use case, but is needed e.g. for setting up a DNS-over-HTTPS ser
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by dpifke 3y ago
See https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/ It's up to individual relay operators whether or not to publish contact information. For an example, see one of my relays here: https://nusenu.github.io/Or
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by dpifke 3y ago
Do you mean PGP/GPG the program(s)? PGP/GPG the file format (RFC 4880)? Or PGP/GPG's "web of trust" key distribution scheme (which may or may not include public keyservers)? Regarding the three complaints: 1.
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Who manages compliance for your outsourced compliance specialists?(pifke.org)
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by dpifke 3y ago
It's pretty settled precedent that leasing or owning tangible property in a state or county creates a tax nexus. But what form those taxes take—and the tax rate and available credits—does vary. Expect to pay property taxes (usually an
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by dpifke 3y ago
The author's gallery of poignant HN commentary on their writing is chef's kiss : https://ludic.mataroa.blog/compliments/
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by dpifke 3y ago
Muted words is a godsend, but I really wish they would allow more than 200 of them, or at least implement word stemming. It's easy to hit the 200 word limit when you have to add singular/plural/possessive/etc. forms of
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by dpifke 3y ago
Definitely longer than that. My favorite "Twitter is dying" is from 2012: https://i.insider.com/4f4f8f0d6bb3f71e5700002b
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by dpifke 3y ago
I recently had the misfortune of having to use a background check app that was mobile only ! It was a real pain to enter past employer and residence names and addresses on a mobile keyboard, but even worse when it came to dates, because th
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by dpifke 3y ago
For me, the beauty of Beancount[0] is that it's just text files in Git. There's a web UI I use for generating reports, and a Python API with which I hacked together some import/export scripts, but 99% of my interactions with
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by dpifke 3y ago
Many years ago, I screwed up my AMT calculations pretty badly, arguably because the instructions for Form 6251 suck. I was off by several thousand dollars, the difference between a big refund and a big amount due. I didn't have to hir
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by dpifke 3y ago
Those are abstract categories (accounts). Transactions get assigned to accounts, then (at tax time) accounts get assigned to forms and line numbers. Remapping a transaction to a different tax line item (e.g. if tax law changes, as it did
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by dpifke 3y ago
That's for failure to file or pay on time. The bar for a mistake (assuming you filed and paid on time) is much lower, see the next section, "Accuracy-Related Penalties," on the first link you posted: https://www.ir
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by dpifke 3y ago
They're even required to waive the penalties if you "acted with reasonable cause and good faith": https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-26/chapter-I/subchapter-A...

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