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by dpifke 3y ago
With Beancount, I use metadata tags in my chart of accounts for the tax form and line number, e.g. 2017-01-01 open Expenses:GA:Insurance USD tax_form: "1040 Schedule C" tax_line: "15" tax_description: &qu
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by dpifke 3y ago
If you don't care what games you watch, an HD antenna isn't a bad deal. Unfortunately, where we're located (South Dakota), there isn't a "local" team, so it's pretty random which games are broadcast by our
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by dpifke 3y ago
$350/year for Sunday Ticket with YouTube TV included vs. $450/year for just Sunday Ticket, delivered via regular YouTube it seems. YouTube TV is required—not included—with the $350/year plan. So it's either $350/y
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by dpifke 3y ago
Yes.
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by dpifke 3y ago
Instead of picking a different name for your table, you can quote the table name in double quotes. ("user" is what got me in the habit of doing this unconditionally, to the point where SQL with bare table/column names looks w
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by dpifke 3y ago
You could bind it to a Compose key sequence, e.g. "Compose+Space Space". (Analogous to em-dash, which is "Compose-Hyphen Hyphen".) But it's still an extra keystroke. And I worry that I'd cause problems editin
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by dpifke 3y ago
Then I realized that the 1st sentence was missing the extra space after the 2nd period, and then M-e jumped to the end of the first sentence. Yeah, my comment rendered as HTML, which stripped the double-space from the original text I ente
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by dpifke 3y ago
I still use double-space after sentences because I like semantically distinguishing end-of-sentence from mid-sentence abbreviations. i.e. if point is at the beginning of "This is Mr. Smith's hat. It is green." I want next-s
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by dpifke 3y ago
Another option is to use something like ws-butler[0], which only deletes trailing whitespace on lines you've edited. This way you don't create spurious diffs on version controlled files, which confuse code reviewers and `git blam
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by dpifke 3y ago
Depends on the sender. Using fake opt-out links to build lists of verified addresses is a trick almost as old as spam itself. But services like SendGrid actually honor unsubscribes, and I believe monitor the unsubscribe rates of their cus
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by dpifke 3y ago
You're right, it appears Google's new policy is to make the List-Unsubscribe header mandatory, and require certain semantics[0] for the URL it contains, so that they can issue unsubscribe requests on behalf of users in an automate
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by dpifke 3y ago
One-click unsubscribe (no action beyond "visiting a single internet web page") is required under U.S. law: https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-C... It's illegal to requir
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by dpifke 3y ago
Who's administering your HSA that you have to provide specially-formatted receipts?! Every HSA I've had[0], I just reimbursed myself for eligible expenses[1] by transferring from the HSA to my regular bank account. That amount th
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by dpifke 3y ago
FTA: “We’re pleased to report that our spacecraft is healthy across all systems. It was originally designed for a full year on orbit if needed,” Varda Space wrote on X. “We look forward to continuing to collaborate w/ our gov partners
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by dpifke 3y ago
Since in a lot of places, meth is easier than pseudoephedrine to obtain, the solution is to simply to go in the other direction and synthesize the latter from the former: https://improbable.com/airchives/paperair/v
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by dpifke 3y ago
The list of fixes: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1700789411279966339
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by dpifke 3y ago
I see: September 8, 2023 UPGRADES AHEAD OF STARSHIP’S SECOND FLIGHT TEST The first flight test of a fully integrated Starship and Super Heavy was a critical step in advancing the capabilities of the most powerful launch system ever dev
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by dpifke 3y ago
SpaceX's response: https://www.spacex.com/updates/index.html Sounds like they've already implemented most of the fixes.
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by dpifke 3y ago
It's been years since I've seen a landline, but as of a ~decade ago you could still dial "rotary" by tapping the receiver hook with the correct spacing. (1 click to dial a "1," 2 clicks to dial a "2,&quot
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by dpifke 3y ago
That's a quote from Schenck v. United States which was decided in 1919, and overturned by Bandenburg v. Ohio in 1969. It's by no means the law (it came 150 years after the law was written), and it was never a particularly good an
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by dpifke 3y ago
According to CBP, there were about 100,000 "encounters" on the southern border this past June, which is a 42% decline from the month before and the lowest since February, 2021: https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/nat
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by dpifke 3y ago
> Historically, Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc were very office-centric. What's ironic about this, is that when I worked at Google in Mountain View about ten years ago, easily 80-90% of my meetings were via video conference. Even fo
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by dpifke 3y ago
Your story sounded vaguely familiar to me, so I just looked in my email archive, and it appears I did the same thing around the beginning of 2021, when Experian also automatically signed me up for "CreditWorks" after I disputed fr
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by dpifke 3y ago
I have never gotten a response to an SES spam report. A quick search turns up 50 or so in my sent mail folder within the past year or two. 3 of the most recent 5 reports are all the same message content (likely the same sender, although pos
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by dpifke 3y ago
I guess I find the name collision with Google X—quoting the guidelines again—to be "too common to be interesting." But one man's pithy is another's snarky, so to each their own.
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by dpifke 3y ago
Low-effort comments are against the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It's possible to voice disinterest in a thoughtful and substantive way. The GP comment (and arguably your reply) does
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by dpifke 3y ago
I route all of my traffic (especially laptop/mobile, where I'm sometimes connecting to sketchy networks) over a Wireguard VPN to a server I control. Also comes in handy when traveling, for services like Netflix that geoblock you b
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by dpifke 3y ago
It's behind my firewall/VPN (not publicly accessible). The official instructions use nginx as a reverse proxy. If you don't want to set up something like Wireguard, you can use HTTP basic authentication[0] to make it inacces
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by dpifke 3y ago
Looks like it's still reproducible. I just tried artificially lowering the MTU on the interface of a bastion host in a datacenter, with only one router between it and a major IX (no middleboxes), and running apt-get against the Fastly
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by dpifke 3y ago
Fastly is the only official PyPI mirror, and I was once asked by a client to figure out why PyPI downloads weren't working, on a host that otherwise seemed to have good connectivity (downloads of similarly-sized files from non-Fastly s

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