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by gbear605 2y ago
It’s the service provider. You can file directly (paper forms, some states digital forms) with your state for free, but TurboTax et al charge you for it.
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by gbear605 2y ago
+1 I recently upgraded from a 2019 Intel Mac to a similarly-specced M3 Mac, and it really is night and day. My battery life is more than doubled - I can run IntelliJ and multiple Docker containers on battery for more than my whole work day,
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by gbear605 2y ago
Deaths per trip is a bad comparison. As you can see from those numbers, Americans take about 1000 car trips per year and many fewer plane trips (hard to get exact numbers based on that since it’s global and planes can have dozens-hundreds o
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by gbear605 2y ago
More realistically, a car manufacturer could make an EV that is basically a vintage car but made to modern standards. Obviously you can’t make the exact same car if you want to have things like crumple zones, but a lot of the changes to car
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by gbear605 2y ago
If you’re talking about the new autocompletion AI that they added a few months ago, you should be able to turn that off in the settings.
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by gbear605 3y ago
Check out GraalPy! It’s like Jython but it’s on Python 3 and supported by Oracle. My company is still using Jython, but we’re finally tearing out our Jython implementation and replacing it with GraalPy since it’s much more performant and it
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by gbear605 3y ago
The censorship is about not getting sued or regulated
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by gbear605 3y ago
It has a large standard library compared to something like C or C++, but it’s small compared to a lot of more recent languages. Intentionally so, since they wanted to be able to create smaller binaries.
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by gbear605 3y ago
I book flights with Google Flights and other options (Kayak, my credit card’s travel portal, airlines directly), and Google Flights is kind of mid. It’s annoying that Google pushes it to the #1 result for lots of searches that it shouldn’t
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by gbear605 3y ago
I didn’t go to Oxford, but going to your graduation ceremony isn’t usually a requirement for possessing a BA. The university just mails your diploma to you.
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by gbear605 3y ago
Most Macs sold are Macbooks that also have batteries
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by gbear605 3y ago
Quorn’s also widely available in the US
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by gbear605 3y ago
There are Qt bindings for Java, but I’m not familiar with them
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by gbear605 3y ago
You say that, but I can look at actual costs spent by my company over the last two years and it’s mostly in ECS/EC2 and RDS.
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by gbear605 3y ago
It’s somewhat more complex than that because Metaculus weights its aggregates by how accurate predictors have been in the past. Definitely not perfect though, and the efficient market hypothesis isn’t relevant at all.
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by gbear605 3y ago
I’ve been in Europe a lot recently, and the running joke has been how much worse the toilets in Europe are than in the US. Even worse, the pay toilets seem to be of consistently worse quality than the free toilets in Europe!
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by gbear605 3y ago
I can’t speak for Romania, but if the outcome of any mistake is that you get shutdown, there’s an implicit cap on how much you can get punished.
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by gbear605 3y ago
That link works perfectly on any iOS browser
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by gbear605 3y ago
I absolutely love Beeminder - I use it daily - but they’re not a good example of what an average startup is going for. They have a small but dedicated group of users, not a massive user base that they can later monetize. That makes enough r
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by gbear605 3y ago
Duolingo and spaced repetition flashcards serve different purposes. Flashcards can’t teach you grammar or pronunciation, while Duolingo does a bad job at actually teaching you a large set of vocabulary. Using both of them is probably a good
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by gbear605 3y ago
Maven’s added incremental builds as a full feature in recent versions and it seems to work pretty well.
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by gbear605 3y ago
Another big factor is that devs know that startups can (and, as in this case, will) go out of business, so they’d rather go with an FOSS offering that can’t just disappear with two months to transition off of the platform.
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by gbear605 3y ago
I’ve tried lots of different languages, and for building actual large applications I just prefer Java. The language has changed a lot in the last ten years to be more agile and enjoyable to use.
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by gbear605 3y ago
The EU is forcing Apple to allow third party app stores by April. As for the US issue, law cases like this are unique and have to be dealt with individually. https://9to5mac.com/2023/12/18/third-party-app-stor
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by gbear605 3y ago
My experience is that Chrome winds up being consistently slower than Firefox, and I’ve gotten multiple friends (who aren’t techies) to switch because they’ve tried it out and agreed that it was more performant.
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by gbear605 3y ago
They also check for your being legally allowed into the UK. If you don’t have a visa, they don’t let you through.
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by gbear605 3y ago
My friends have been enjoying sharing their results in this one with each other over the last few days, so I see the value. An unlimited mode would be nice, but I think I’d grow bored of that a lot sooner.
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by gbear605 3y ago
They used to happen all the time with Mac OS 9 and earlier, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen them with OSX/macOS.
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by gbear605 3y ago
The SEC is largely self-funded by fees on banks, no need for tax dollars.
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Front end devs don't understand accessibility(gomakethings.com)
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