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by fluffyllemon 5mo ago
Many studies show that consumers spend more when using credit cards, compared to both cash and debit cards, and it's not obvious to me that the 2% will win out.
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by fluffyllemon 5mo ago
> It is a stupid game that I am forced to play You are not forced to play it. That is a just story you tell yourself. You can make a different choice.
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by fluffyllemon 9mo ago
Do folks any recommendations for automation around banking? We use a sort of "envelope system" across many accounts, and it would be helpful to have some timing to help automatically move and rebalance funds across the accounts. M
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by fluffyllemon 1y ago
How does this compare with Abseil's random library? https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/random
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Meme Etymology(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by fluffyllemon 3y ago|0 comments
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by fluffyllemon 4y ago
Check out the Open Source Peer Bonus Program: https://opensource.googleblog.com/search/label/peer%20bonus
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by fluffyllemon 4y ago
I hadn't heard of it, but I checked out a random video Watching how it comes together, there is a step (around 0:40 in this video https://youtu.be/rVfiPAlXdik ) where the cube just seems to magically form by itself. I
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A Boy and His Beans(jellybeans.lol)
2 points by fluffyllemon 4y ago|0 comments
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Rule 53: if you can think of it, someone's done it in the DNS(twitter.com)
5 points by fluffyllemon 5y ago|1 comments
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by fluffyllemon 5y ago
The answers for each day (past and future) are hard coded in the javascript source and viewable in the client, so they are quite accessible for anyone that's interested
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by fluffyllemon 5y ago
Nice! I saw two typos, I think: p.51 traction of seconds -> fraction p.24 first input input Thanks for sharing
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by fluffyllemon 8y ago
From the store page [1]: """ Compatible Android devices: Google Pixel, Google Pixel XL, Google Pixel 2, Google Pixel 2 XL, Samsung Galaxy S7, Samsung Galaxy S8. Compatible iOS devices: iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPho
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by fluffyllemon 8y ago
Ah! I had read this years ago and was recently trying to find it again, but had no luck. I find teaching children mathematics to be quite interesting, and I'm very delighted that this has crossed paths with me again.
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by fluffyllemon 9y ago
They only have one official library (python); all the language examples are just showing how to do an HTTP call to the service
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by fluffyllemon 9y ago
tosheets definitely reads from stdin: https://github.com/kren1/tosheets/blob/8a853d2ebb722c474f5bb... :)
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by fluffyllemon 9y ago
Strategy that seems to be pretty effective: click all the squares that are originally yellow
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by fluffyllemon 10y ago
By the numbers: > GVA has been able to reduce the average waiting time at security by 51% from an average of 7 minutes to 3.5 minutes. In addition, the airport has increased the number of days with satisfactory performance more than five
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by fluffyllemon 11y ago
> This bug was found with the help of American Fuzzy Lop
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by fluffyllemon 11y ago
MIT is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, largely regarded as one of the top universities in the world.
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by fluffyllemon 11y ago
For context: This is the third post in a series. The author (Jason Scott) is trying to save ~25,000 manuals, instruction booklets, and engineering notes (largely electronics related, created over the last 80 years). This is a large project,
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by fluffyllemon 11y ago
PEP 8: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#function-names >Function names should be lowercase, with words separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability.
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by fluffyllemon 12y ago
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a
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by fluffyllemon 12y ago
Mars One intends to land its first crew on Mars in 2025. http://www.mars-one.com/mission/roadmap
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by fluffyllemon 12y ago
For a function to be a linear transform it needs two properties[1]: 1. F(c1 + c2) = F(c1) + F(c2) 2. F(k*c1) = k*F(c1) Converting from Celsius->Fahrenheit (or vice versa) is does not have these properties. F(c) = 9/5 *
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by fluffyllemon 12y ago
The FSI[1] has ranked languages according to how easy it is for English speakers to learn. There are 10 languages in Category I (the easiest to learn)[2]: Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish,
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by fluffyllemon 12y ago
I would suggest checking out index funds from Vanguard (or Fidelity or Schwab). Also, you may want to post this to: http://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/ They're a very reasonable and helpful community.
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by fluffyllemon 13y ago
Utahn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demonyms_for_U.S._state...
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by fluffyllemon 13y ago
Well, there's this: "In-home Streaming You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those gam
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by fluffyllemon 13y ago
Neither the dialog nor the preview solves the problem that an undo button solves. If a dialog or preview comes up for every message you send, you just develop a new habit for sending mail (press the send button, then press the send button a
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by fluffyllemon 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid

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