nerdponx

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by nerdponx 2y ago
The "I don't mind, I have nothing to hide" people are cheering this on. They don't know or care about any of the things you just said.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
They do truly believe it, but only when a Republican is the sitting president.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The 1040 is already really easy to fill out for most people. But you can't just go on the IRS website e-file using the W2 that the IRS already received.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Reforming the tax code and eliminating loopholes is orthogonal to making it easier to file. Closing loopholes doesn't hurt Intuit and H&R Block.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I made the mistake of reading it with my baby kid sleeping in the next room. I am not normally religious, but I'm probably going to say at least a few prayers before bed tonight.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
There's nothing moral about it. The profitability of the tax prep industry depends on taxes being hard to file. Lack of official free e-file is regulatory capture. Any associated blather about making taxes cumbersome to keep people mis
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by nerdponx 2y ago
And in the meantime the real physical buttons that last for millions of presses have been replaced with finicky touch buttons that don't work when there's a drop of moisture on the screen, and the whole panel dies after 2 years (o
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Jepsen (of database benchmark fame) does paid consulting work.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Because in SQL whitespace is already used for all manner of special syntax. That said, generating SQL from s-expressions can be a very pleasant experience.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Most of that additional syntax surface area would also benefit from trailing commas. For example, `SELECT * EXCLUDE (a, b, ...)`, or even `FROM a, b, ...`.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It's also possible that they don't actually know the difference, or was even asked to change it by an editor to make it sound more trendy. Skepticism of even good journalism is healthy. Gell-Mann amnesia and all.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
2nd paragraph: > A linear program is a mathematical model that defines some number of variables, linear constraints, and a linear objective function. When some variables are forced to be integer (ILPs), you can solve a lot of useful prob
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It's clearly more than an interesting tech blog post written by one of the data guys in their spare time. It's an "initiative". That said, this doesn't seem like completely superfluous "fat" like what Mozi
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The current president is pushing constitutional boundaries everywhere. I expect that we will see a big test of federal versus state authority soon.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The title I think gets the point across!
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I see it as the natural extension of the Chomsky "manufacturing consent" propaganda model. The people in key positions of power and authority know who their masters are, and everyone below them falls into line.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
That's a great point as well. "They've been doing it to us for decades, what's happening now isn't any worse". The Project 2025 document is really interesting along those lines as well. It's close to 1000
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I don't know why you're being downvoted. > 1. Most Trump supporters do not think that there is a problem. Talk to any conservative -- even people who are/were skeptical of Trump -- or browse any conservative-leaning social
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> I bet you can figure out a way to tell me your SaaS price, in ballpark terms, and what it depends upon... They can't if the price is arbitrary and subject to negotiation, like a car at a dealership. Not saying that happens everywh
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> Biggest factor is age, and even then, difference between 20yo and 35yo driver is 38%. That's because age is both observable and strongly predictive of risk.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Meanwhile every time I am expecting a package via USPS or DHL, without fail, I get a scam text message about my incoming package. I never get them when I am not expecting a package. This is using a variety of devices, web shops, etc. Some
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Nobody needs anything ever but sometimes things are useful.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Lest we forget that this stream-of-consciousness confusion was state of the art just a few years ago. It makes sense if you think about it: a small model's "internal state" isn't rich enough to keep track of whatever it
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> you can't expect people at large to engage with nonhumans NPCs are a big component of a lot of video games. Imagine an Elder Scrolls game with no NPCs. A social media platform filled with AI agents pretending to be your friends is
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by nerdponx 2y ago
You can use it, but you're swimming upstream if you do. Fewer buyers, fewer sellers of things you might want to buy.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I am definitely not talking about a full copy of the data here. I more head in mind a small but representative sample, enough to run and exercise units of code with confidence.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
This is probably the Matrix they meant: https://matrix.org/
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Mocking out a repository is IMO a lot less bad than mocking out an actual database connection. That's probably one of the biggest arguments in favor of the repository pattern: the ability to replace the repository with a test double of
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by nerdponx 2y ago
There was a huge corporate profit boom as well.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
What I've done is make a clone of the real database, with a sample of data that has enough variety/size to test whatever it is you need to test, but no bigger. It definitely takes some thinking, planning, and writing of code, but

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