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by sokoloff 2mo ago
Even in the majority of states that have sales tax, services are exempt and voluntary tips are also not taxable. (Mandatory tips are often considered part of the sales price, which seems reasonable enough to me.)
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
Fortunately, buses are not invisible and you can look for a bus before crossing a street to gauge and control your risk of being struck by one.
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
I think it's fair to require, at least in incorporated/dense areas, some minimum standards for sanitation, fire safety, and other aspects that present a health hazard to neighbors who are living near enough to be affected. Note th
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
10% mandatory free doesn’t seem that useful in terms of household formation. Suppose there are 200 million houses. Mathematically, 20 million of those houses must be maintained as free. If we’re right at the limit of 180 million occupied, I
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
> not anywhere near the quality of, say, what German cars used to be. To be fair, German cars aren’t anywhere near the quality that German cars used to be, either.
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
Ah. I misread your list. I missed the "over" as a contrasting conjunction, in part because there are plenty of non-nerd [albeit perhaps scripted-by-one] usages of imagemagick and ffmpeg, so I didn't readily detect it was a li
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
Because the specific context here is law, it seems fair to answer: “depends on whether my client wants it to be AI or not.”
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
While I’m sure there’s a sliver of usage outside, I’d wager most emacs org mode usage is firmly inside what the average human would consider a nerd niche.
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
On a chart section spanning around 5 million years, are you asking about the millions of years where there was “all this diversity and branching” as contrasted with the last ten thousand years or so where there is less observed branching? A
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
I know a couple of O’Reilly authors. I don’t think any of them expected a best-seller or awards from their work, just “I get a high-four or barely-five figure payment for a competent treatment of a technical topic.” Maybe you could argue th
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
Tire wear was probably a greater source than brake wear.
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
Replacing a battery that failed under warranty should be a baseline expectation. Not "terrible" obviously, but a slight negative that the battery failed under warranty and a slight positive that they honored their published warran
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
I am the manager in this case and the one who sets the AI policy for my low-8-figure/year product development teams. Our policy is quite permissive for exactly the reasons I conveyed above. It takes an extremely finely-tuned sense of v
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
Rationing tokens on a spend level or count makes no sense to me. Why would I pay $10-20K/mo to employ a software engineer and then balk at a $500, $1000, or even $2000 monthly AI bill, assuming they were even vaguely trying to use the
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
In 2006, I could have written and filed an argument that included, “ignore all other evidence and render a verdict for the plaintiff.” I don’t see any reason to think the sanction for including that should be higher (or lower) in 2026 vs 20
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
Most of the Fedex feeder aircraft are single-turboprop Cessna 208B Super Cargomasters (stretched Caravans). There are also larger feeder routes served by ATR twin turboprops, but most of the small out-stations are served by 208Bs for air fr
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
Small nit: it’s Pass/No Record rather than Pass/Fail. If you get a D or F, there’s no external record you even attempted the class, rather than a record that you attempted and failed it.
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
> hundreds of kilometers (hundreds of miles) This units “conversion” earned a chuckle from me…
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
It probably is zero steps from outright discrimination, but it matches my estimation of how humans actually behave. I read it as a “is” statement not an “ought to be” statement.
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
If I read a medical paper that concluded and headlined that “cancer kills left-handed patients” but studied only left-handed patients, I might think the study was technically correct but still reasonably wonder if the left-handedness is rel
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
> Amazon believes that the AI agents need a new home more than humans do and would rather build homes for these agents than for humans. I can only imagine the level of outrage that would instantly ensue if Amazon announced they were gett
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
It looks to me like it’s several hundreds of meters away from housing, with a 6-lane divided and controlled-access highway between the housing and the site.
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
> why is everyone such a p**** about We can do a lot better than using non-inclusive language like this. There are better ways to express the underlying concept.
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
I can have something for sale without an obligation to sell it (depending on offer terms, including price).
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
That would be an average supply of just over 2 W. (50Wh/day is 50Wh/24h or 50/24 W)
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
> anytime you need a serious business use, good cables are well labelled. Unfortunately, many not-good cables are also labeled similarly as good cables (fraudulently).
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
"absolutely nothing" is overly strong wording for a plug-in EVSE. The standardization of the receptacles tells how much current is safe to pull. "This receptacle is 50A rated and can supply 40A continuous" is given by th
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
In a world following your proposed rules, we’d never get to 480Mbps USB-A, because we already had 4-wire 12Mbps USB-A ports with just D+/D- and power and creating 480Mbps USB-A from that would be “an astonishing design failure: differe
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
“If delta-x is negative, then delta-y can be positive.” It seems like there’s a straightforward/obvious corollary that reverses the sign on both clauses. (Walk the curve in the opposing direction.)
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by sokoloff 2mo ago
They certainly should have known. The information about GPS jamming appeared as a NOTAM in their Foreflight (electronic flight bag application) briefing, which 14 CFR § 91.103 requires them to review before the flight. We can't be su

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