jimlawruk

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by jimlawruk 4mo ago
> The number of spoken words uttered by the average person fell by 28% between 2005 and 2019 This effect started well before Airods and even smart phones became ubiquitous. The airpods were released in Dec of 2016. Before Blackberries
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by jimlawruk 5mo ago
So then the person who uses public information is actually the bigger fool than someone who uses no information whatsoever and just picks a side of the bet. If insiders know that a volcano is going to erupt and offers a 50/50 payout, p
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by jimlawruk 5mo ago
Isn't there a 50% chance you are betting on the "insider" side of it?
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by jimlawruk 5mo ago
I work with an Oracle database like this. In the old days, there was a 30 character limit on column names, so you end up with conventions like no vowels. The limit no longer exists today, but the DBA continues to enforce the limit on new co
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Show HN: Boston Marathon Course Map with T and Rail Stations(lawruk.com)
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by jimlawruk 9mo ago
https://www.lawruk.com/ - Main Site. I have maintained this domain for about 25 years when I first learned HTML back in college. https://aldi-prices.lawruk.com/ - A more reecent grocery prices side projec
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by jimlawruk 9mo ago
Our plugin hybrid has both a gas side on the left and electric side on the right. The electric side on the right is helpful in the US to allow parking curbside and charging the vehicle.
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by jimlawruk 9mo ago
Here is an web app that tracks the grocery prices of my shopping at Aldi. It is meant to track grocery price inflation over time. It is obviously limited and incomplete since it is just based on my haphazard Aldi shopping. It includes a &q
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by jimlawruk 10mo ago
If you look at the chart at the bottom comparing Dec 99 to today.... > during the internet bubble of 1998-2000, the p/e ratios were much higher That is true, the current players are more profitable, but the weight in SPX percentages
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
Thanks. Updated link to the home page. Didn't realize my SPA generated Urls don't work. Sigh.
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
I have been haphazardly tracking my grocery prices at Aldi since 2022. My lowest price was $1.12 per dozen in Nov 2023, my highest was $5.97 in Feb 2025. Last recorded price in September was $2.71. https://aldi-prices.lawruk.com
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
Here is my personal project that tracks my Aldi grocery prices of products over time. My rule for the project is, all code must be done by the Copilot agent within VSCode. I did hand type the Git commits. https://aldi-prices.lawr
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
If you include local governments, then the education spending percentage gets higher, but still nothing close to healthcare.
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
π-thon is finally here
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
This sets up the other quote from the movie: Michael Burry: “I may be early but I’m not wrong”. Investor guy: “It’s the same thing! It's the same thing, Mike!”
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
From the Big Short: Lawrence Fields: "Actually, no one can see a bubble. That's what makes it a bubble." Michael Burry: "That's dumb, Lawrence. There are always markers."
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
This appears to be the OP / Workleap's editor config. https://github.com/workleap/wl-dotnet-codingstandards/blob/m...
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
Fiber is also beneficial for the "good" gut bacteria, as it feeds on fiber. Fiber also binds to your LDL "bad" cholesterol in the digestive system and helps to eliminate it.
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
Great job. The website is well done, too. I had a streak of about 400+ days several years ago which I ended the day after a marathon. Today I take off when I am sick or the day after a long race. The morning coffee doesn't taste righ
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
> The point is to force landowners to develop their land. The point is to ensure landowners don't sit on land. If taxes go up on your vacation home that you spend two weeks a year in, you will be incentivized to sell it or rent it o
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
> land value tax is a regressive tax on middle class homeowner Not if you make the tax progressive. The first 200K could be tax free, for example. Primary residences pay a lower % of the value than 2nd and 3rd homes. I bet there are a to
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
I have a notebook that I bring on vacations or weekend trips to jot down occasional bouts of inspiration. A few of those pages contain designs of pet projects that may or may not get implemented later. It can be fun to sit on the beach an
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
> building something revenue-generating "a pound saved is a pound earned"
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
So does this law apply to other confidentiality protections like attorney client privilege, or just the confessional seal? If you confess to a lawyer, does the lawyer have to report you?
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
The McDonalds price increases definitely seemed to far outpace the CPI. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-mcdonalds-price-inf... https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
This is where locals have an advantage. My friend lives in CO and knows a bunch of fantastic hikes that maybe are not in a NP or that tourists don't know about yet.
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
Yes, a Garmin. My sleep score and HRV is way off if I run in the evening. It is shocking, actually.
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by jimlawruk 1y ago
This became more of an issue when I got older. I used to run in the evenings and get away with it. Now in my 40s, I have to run in the morning. If I run at night, I wake up feeling tired and not well rested.
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by jimlawruk 2y ago
Author lives in Northern California. Not the DC area. So was the cost double for just one month? What were the rates? Guessing around $ 0.30 /KHW and $2.25/therm? What was the heat pump HSPF?
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by jimlawruk 2y ago
> Catching these clumps early while still in minute quantities can enable effective intervention I wonder what interventions they mean here. Drugs, lifestyle changes?

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