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by sokoloff 5d ago
One way would be by “[reviewing] the underlying research and [deciding] which one is more correct.”
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by sokoloff 5d ago
Though you don’t directly say it, your comment strongly implies that you can’t buy fractional shares of $VFIAX. (You can, same as $FXAIX, $VTSAX, etc.)
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by sokoloff 6d ago
I think it’s never been a better time to be an at-home maker. I built 3 Voron printers because there wasn’t a way to get close to that performance at a price I would choose to pay. I hand-converted a HF mill to DRO then to 2-axis CNC. I can
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by sokoloff 7d ago
Between CBOE and OCC, that’s (exactly?) how options trading works as well, and I don’t think anyone claims that CBOE is not an exchange.
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by sokoloff 8d ago
Energy is logarithmic with magnitude, but if the underlying model is analogous to springs being loaded and suddenly released, that model is quadratic in energy with distance. The article cites 1399 detectable follow-on earthquakes. If each
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by sokoloff 10d ago
What?! Publicly traded companies are not “legally bound to return growth in share price or dividends.” There are plenty of companies who pay no dividends and have not returned growth in share price. They’re still operating and no one’s comi
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by sokoloff 10d ago
That would generate stronger agreement if the bad drivers’ struggles mostly affected them. Instead, their chaos radiates outward significantly onto those who know how to drive.
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by sokoloff 12d ago
$600K+ is around 1% of the US tech market and tends to run in clusters (so your circle is more likely to have people near you in comp than a random selection). I'm not doubting your first statement. For your second statement, I think p
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by sokoloff 12d ago
How many H1-B or non-H1-B jobs are “high 6 figures”? That’s a tiny, tiny minority of the tech employment market and one which would readily shrug off a one-time $100K expense. (That would be less than 2 months’ salary for a high-6-figure po
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by sokoloff 12d ago
I expect this would be readily learned from observation (of humans [changes in menstruation relating to puberty and during pregnancy would give a faster-acting conceptual connection] and/or of livestock). The exact mechanism might easi
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by sokoloff 14d ago
I don’t view iRacing owning the service and client software as anti-competitive. Same with CS2, Fortnite, Vallorant, etc. I’m fine with Google Workspace owning the client and the service, same with Zoom, Slack, Teams, Box, Dropbox, etc. I d
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by sokoloff 14d ago
The change interval is in the Warranty and Maintenance Guide, not in the main owner’s manual. (This is still part of the in-glovebox manuals, not a service-center manual.) One example: https://assets.sia.toyota.com/publicati
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by sokoloff 14d ago
Between reading basic diagnostics and documenting every signal and field is routine or recurring write operations that will need to happen in the field. Resetting the oil/maintenance light, recoding key fobs, resetting the battery stat
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by sokoloff 14d ago
We (mostly) restored a barn-find 1959 Mercedes 220S (Ponton) cabriolet. Manual transmission with selector on the tree (but four speed I think). Honestly, it felt different for about a half hour, then just fades into the background.
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by sokoloff 16d ago
I'm only familiar with iOS and this is the type of question that an LLM could answer better than this specific human.
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by sokoloff 16d ago
Because if I’m an iOS user and used to that and you give me a conventional Android app UX, I’m going to feel that as jank. Same as if I’m an Android user and you give me the conventional iOS experience. It’s like if I gave a swing or Gtk+ o
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by sokoloff 16d ago
My problem is I would feel entirely too curious to see what was in that ersatz time capsule I created a decade ago.
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by sokoloff 16d ago
Since school started this year, I bought both my kids TI-84 plus CE calculators. Both were being sold cheap because “no charging cable” (uses a mini-B) while I had a dozen in a box. I wish that happened a lot less as I have entirely too man
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by sokoloff 18d ago
The executive orders are ridiculous/childish/whatever-you-call-this. That aside, if they have any legal effect, I’d expect a map company to call a feature by its legal name. Should a rendering of the land bordering the Southwest c
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by sokoloff 21d ago
The Hakko desoldering gun he’s talking about is the FR-301 (or close equivalent), which is a soldering iron with a hollow tip that the gun has a vacuum pump that can suck solder out through the hollow tip. It’s not a hot air soldering stati
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by sokoloff 21d ago
In practical terms, that’s closer to stating the problem than it is to stating the solution .
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by sokoloff 22d ago
And the advantages are being enjoyed by all of us, at least in the US. If you’re the kind of person who eats food, uses toilet paper and paper towels, and lives inside a building made of lumber, insulation, HVAC, pipes, and electrical compo
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by sokoloff 24d ago
I don’t see as much difference as you seem to see here. Day 1 at FooCorp: “As part of onboarding, please set up these two accounts, both of which FooCorp operates and bears all the costs for.” Day 1 at Apple: “As part of onboarding, please
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by sokoloff 24d ago
Capital gains taxes are assessed on nominal gains not real gains. If I bought $100K of stock in 1999 and sold it in 2026 for $200K, I gained no real wealth from that transaction. What I could purchase today for $200K could have been bought
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by sokoloff 24d ago
2 and 3 are the same in my own lived experience.
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by sokoloff 25d ago
Requiring them to make a (free) Apple account doesn’t sound unreasonable. “Go to https://account.apple.com/ and make one that doesn’t use your Apple corporate email” seems like a fair and legal work instruction to me.
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by sokoloff 25d ago
I have more personally owned computers than is reasonable, but I can understand people who get issued a company laptop and use it for everything. It’s a couple hundred bucks a year to keep a personal laptop and if you’re mostly accessing cl
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by sokoloff 25d ago
Just the once... (kidding, of course) Ref: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083
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by sokoloff 25d ago
Thanks for asking for my credentials, even though you don’t seem to disagree that lots of aircraft are dispatched with imperfections, so many in fact that there’s a defined process and CFRs to cover it. Because you asked, I’ve been flying,
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by sokoloff 25d ago
> but you can't fly a plan that 'missing a part' It’s a great story, but I assure you there is a pretty high percentage of airplanes flying with missing parts and systems placarded as INOP in both military and civilian avi

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