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by repiret 10mo ago
I use MoneyDance, which does automatic bank sync, is double-entry (although you can make single-entry transactions if you try hard enough), and is a program rather than a web service. It’s got some rough edges, but it meets my needs well e
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by repiret 11mo ago
Allegations of copyright infringement where the person making the allegation hasn't done due diligence need to be illegal and subject to civil penalty. The penalties for actual copyright infringement can be so severe that we cannot al
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by repiret 1y ago
The inflated medical bills are not malice from the medical provider, they're incentivized by the insurance system. Providers are required to have a standard price list for all their billing codes; hospitals are required to publish it
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by repiret 1y ago
Passwordless boot with a TPM means the software can control what secrets it gives out. Yeah, if you boot to a desktop operating system and auto-login as an admin user, that doesn't leave things very secure, but that's not the onl
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by repiret 1y ago
I agree that biometrics are in the same ballpark as low-entropy passwords, which means their security relies on avoiding offline attacks. My ATM card is protected by a 4-digit pin. That's perfectly secure, because the ATM network won
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by repiret 1y ago
But most people don't want to enter a password, and if you make people enter a password too much, they'll choose terrible passwords and put them on a sticky note. Windows Hello can only be done securely with a TPM. A server that
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by repiret 1y ago
I agree with all of the articles points except for the first one: TPM and Secure Boot do not reduce user choice or promote state or corporate surveillance. If you want to be able to prevent root kits you need secure boot, and if you want t
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by repiret 1y ago
There is a large adult population with undiagnosed and untreated ADHD. A generation ago that population was even higher. A bunch of them are pilots. So then the question is, if in a professional pilot and I think I might have ADHD, do I f
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by repiret 1y ago
I don't know what you mean by "home economics", but to me, that encompasses things like balancing a checkbook and making a budget and taxes and understanding how savings and debt and compound interest works how to choose when
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by repiret 1y ago
Based on my experience with county boards of supervisors and their interactions with library management and library funding decisions, the Warren County Board of Supervisors' statement that the library has poor management shouldn'
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by repiret 1y ago
There is no overflow risk. The trick works on any Abelian group. N-bit values form an Albanian group with xor where 0 is the identity and every element is its own inverse. But N-bit values also form an Abelian group under addition with o
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by repiret 1y ago
The code in the article is written in Python, whose only for loop is for-each. It is 2N XOR operations, regardless of whether you use one or two loops. I probably would have written it with a single loop, using the `enumerate` iterator ad
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by repiret 1y ago
I think A* deserves the popularity. It’s a simple variation on depth-first and breadth-first graph traversal that everyone learns in CS101, massively useful in some situations, yet for some reason isn’t a standard part of CS education. It’
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by repiret 1y ago
I think there are two interpretations of schematics. One is where the components on the schematic represent physical things, where the resistors have some inductance and some non-linearity, and some capacitance to the ground plane and so on
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by repiret 1y ago
> The pigs were assessed at approximately 205 days in age. Pigs can live up to 20 years. Would be good to test the long term effects and the effects over multiple generations. It would be good to test for those things if the concern was
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by repiret 1y ago
> Unfortunately no one bothers to install the 6-15/6-20 plugs Almost no one, but I had a 6-15R put in my kitchen. Then I imported a 3kW tea kettle from the UK, lopped off the plug, and put on a 6-15P. And now my wife doesn’t have t
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by repiret 1y ago
Veering off topic, but this letter is in a variable width font. Were there typewriters that could do that? Was this so widely distributed that it was typeset on a printing press? The letterhead and body text aren’t aligned, so if it did go
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by repiret 2y ago
> I can't think of a good reason for them I work on a product whose user interface in one place says something like “Copyright 2004-2025”. The second year there is generated from __DATE__, that way nobody has to do anything to keep
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by repiret 2y ago
Not all pilots have a commercial pilots license, without which you can’t get paid to fly at all. Early career professional pilots make surprisingly little money flying. And professional pilots of all sorts often find themselves in a hotel i
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by repiret 2y ago
It's not about morality, it's about incentives. Under the current system in the US, if you're broke and you have no insurance: 1. The ER is free to you, because they legally cannot refuse to treat you based on your ability t
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by repiret 2y ago
If you’re working with me, please don’t follow this article’s advice. Please communicate with me with direct language and with a goal to advance our project. If I have a terrible idea, or am over complicating things, just tell me. And tel
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by repiret 2y ago
More specifically, for the verb “give birth to”, the mother is the direct object and their new born child is the indirect object. The verb “deliver” can have the doctor or midwife or so on as the direct object. I am bringing this up becaus
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by repiret 2y ago
Yes. Tire wear is caused by the surface of the tire being rubbed off through contact with the road. Most tire replacements happen because too much rubber has worn off of the contact surface. While that happens some in the other direction,
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by repiret 2y ago
That says nothing about tire wear.
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by repiret 2y ago
Do you have a citation for the vehicle weight to the fourth figure? There is about a 2X variation in the weight of the vehicles I’ve owned, but even accounting for differences in tire size, I can’t come up with a 16x difference in how ofte
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by repiret 2y ago
I write a dozen checks or so a month. US banks typically do not charge someone to receive a paper check, and the only cost of writing a paper check is acquiring the piece of paper, which doesn’t need to be bought from the bank and is relat
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by repiret 2y ago
There are numerous outfits that you can go to online to order blank checks. And of the small number that I have used, all of them let me just type in my routing number and account number and other information that appears printed on the che
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by repiret 2y ago
> as it is way too dangerous. What led you to that belief? Air travel is one of the safest ways to get from here to there, and it’s widely enough used that clearly not very many people think it is too dangerous to use.
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by repiret 2y ago
While my sample size is only a couple of dozen, I have never been in an American church with a pipe organ. Keep in mind that the median American church building is only a few decades old.
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by repiret 2y ago
I disagree that reviews are easy to find. Things that look like reviews are easy to find. Actual reviews, where somebody experienced in the domain of the product carefully uses it with a critical eye and accurately reports their findings ar

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