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by pfranz 4y ago
There is no rub. Here[1] are 2010 numbers from the IRS showing 42% of Americans used 1040A or EZ. Many more /could have/. Since 2010 the standard deduction has gone up and there's no reason for a lot of people to itemize. In
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by pfranz 4y ago
Any time this comes up, its good to bring up California's 2005 pilot program; ReadyReturn. "When the FTB launched the ReadyReturn website, Intuit sued and lobbied California legislators to kill the program." https:/&#x2
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by pfranz 4y ago
I think what you experienced is a shift in philosophy at Apple and rot by low maintenance. In the early 2000s Apple's approach seemed to be having your computer be "the hub" and things could sync or stream from your computer
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by pfranz 4y ago
That's always been true, both with computers, tablets, and phones. Old versions of the OS don't support newer hardware. Often, hardware used to ship with a specially patched version of the OS and would be supported by the mainline
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by pfranz 4y ago
My school years are pretty far behind me. Sure, math classes would be handwritten, but in college that's not a large number of people or a large number of classes. It's also mostly numbers. So I'm not sure how it applies to c
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by pfranz 4y ago
From what I've seen, at least from 2000 forward in the US it was mostly expected that assignments would be typed and printed in high school/college. A lot of the length requirements specified it (times new roman, size 12, single s
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by pfranz 4y ago
Sure, but does the improved speed increase learning and retention speed? There's additional time spent to learn and master cursive. If that's the only purpose, would that time be better spent elsewhere? From the Boomers, Gen-X, an
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by pfranz 4y ago
Are there Bluetooth headphones that are better? My understanding is that it's a limitation in the Bluetooth spec. I've heard talk of Apple wanting to do their own thing specifically because of things like this.
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by pfranz 4y ago
I do think it's worth noting for kids in the US there is no "renewal." Each time it's considered a new application.
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by pfranz 4y ago
Out of the ones you list CMake is the only one I've authored and maintained and I still end up having to understand and troubleshoot Makefiles. Depending on the size of the project and the needs I try and use the fewest number of abstr
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by pfranz 4y ago
In the US, I've generally avoided debit cards (but still would recommend them to people who aren't good at budgeting) because while disputes are settled you're missing the money. My brief experience in other European countrie
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by pfranz 4y ago
> Self-service tax prep is in a much better place than it was 15 years ago because of the efforts of those private companies. I guess, if you're only looking at the US. My understanding of the history is very different. In 2001-2002
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by pfranz 4y ago
A lot of professional software has a hard plateau. One problem is that FCP 7 stopped working with macOS High Sierra. Even if the software plateaus, they need to keep up with the incremental changes around them; newer codecs, integrations (s
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by pfranz 4y ago
I think that's where the fracturing comes in. For whatever reason, distros will ship with the new thing. The past 2 or 3 places I've worked adopted MATE (a continuation of GNOME 2). And, of course, there was instability at these p
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by pfranz 4y ago
I've heard "exporting water" used as shorthand for the issue quite often. Sure, the water is still there, but it is still taking a large amount of potable water and making it non-potable. You're still diverting that wate
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by pfranz 4y ago
I feel like I'm willing to "rent" things that cost less than $500 all the time. I'm probably unique, but I hate maintaining a printer. When my laser printer died early in covid and supply for new printers was messed up d
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by pfranz 4y ago
I imagine the context for something like was they put in place blanket regulations for food safety; kitchen must have a drain to make it easier to clean, water must be hot enough to sanitize, must be inspected periodically, food must be tes
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by pfranz 4y ago
Do you have any resources? When I've tried repacking and vacu-sealing bulk meats it seemed like a huge waste in time, plastic, and counter space.
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by pfranz 4y ago
I've found recipe books to be the antithesis to meal planning and time/money optimization. To me, "meal planning" is having staples at home--not sitting down on Sunday to write out 7-days worth of meals, going to multipl
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by pfranz 4y ago
The short answer is that they're only showing meshes that are deforming. Teeth are rigid and would be put back in based off the jaw and skull position. If memory serves, eyeball position tracking isn't great with this approach, it
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by pfranz 4y ago
It also shows people just want to pay for a single piece of content--not an ongoing relationship. I want to buy a magazine or two off the newsstand before I sign up for a subscription.
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by pfranz 4y ago
I get what you're saying, but at 29 what would I have done with life insurance? I had no spouse or children. It seemed like all they were asking is a way to opt out.
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by pfranz 4y ago
Which means I leave the app Offloaded when I'm not using it and may not go through the friction to reinstall when I need a ride. Another comment here pointed out you can change it under the obvious /s location: Settings > Priva
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by pfranz 4y ago
My wish/dream has been that realistic tech is so mature they're no longer spectacles. I felt "tentpole" movies were getting there before Marvel kicked off. Instead the focus is either on story or stylization. I love that
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by pfranz 4y ago
Maybe my use-cases are too basic? I appreciate a good diff gui, but really like vimdiff more than almost all of the ones I've seen. For folders `diff -qr one/ two/` does everything I feel like I need. I love just filtering th
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by pfranz 4y ago
While it's true I often end up needing something like selenium, it's way more heavy handed and I usually reach for it last. It doesn't scale as well, harder to troubleshoot IMHO, and more libraries and dependencies to deal wi
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by pfranz 4y ago
I end up needing to do something like this every few years. Even when I use Python at my day job every day, it's easy to miss changing best practices when it's slightly outside your domain. So, like I did with this article, skim i
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by pfranz 4y ago
For personal projects I generally follow the steps this blog lays out; start with the light and low-level APIs and work my way up as needed. I do usually skip over sending raw sockets when I start, but I think knowing them is worthwhile for
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by pfranz 4y ago
Thankfully, more and more drug stores seem to carry DE blades. Thanks to your comment I googled around a bit and found a cover: https://getrockwell.com/products/rockwell-genuine-leather-sh...
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by pfranz 4y ago
I've looked around a lot, but find traveling with safety razors to be surprisingly annoying. I cant really find anything that will clip or wrap around the top like I can for cartridge razors. The other problem is flying with them. Sinc

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