jamescostian

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by jamescostian 7mo ago
I think there's more to your sibling's taxes than property taxes. The data tell the opposite story - WI property taxes are higher than TX ones, at least if we look at the medians: https://www.propertytax101.org/pro
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by jamescostian 2y ago
> with zero human checking of AI outputs It can be hard enough for humans to just look at some (already consistently passing) tests and think, "is X actually the expected behavior or should it have been Y instead?" I think you
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by jamescostian 3y ago
Many iOS users use the Messages app to send and receive text messages which can be trivially backed up to iCloud but not other cloud storage solutions. Among people who text (common in the US) I'd imagine there aren't many iPhone
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by jamescostian 3y ago
> you'd be an idiot if you don't mass apply using your resume. Everyone does it, so you have to as well. I've been on the receiving end of mass applications. If you stopped justifying your spam behind "everyone does i
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by jamescostian 3y ago
Georgia the country has about half the land of Georgia the state in the US, and Georgia the country has about half the population of Atlanta alone (even less population when compared to the entire US state of Georgia). I think that huge dif
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by jamescostian 3y ago
I think a lot of really smart people end up claiming something like "this whole system wasn't designed properly, we can do it way cleaner if we redesign it from the ground up" but it's always a trap. Incremental improvem
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by jamescostian 3y ago
Google "Section 174" to see news coverage, but here's the law: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/174
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by jamescostian 3y ago
Perhaps something that could you help is adding an H1 to the readmes like "This project is finished, not being developed", with some explanation like "Unless you found a security vulnerability, your issues and PRs may be igno
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by jamescostian 3y ago
I've seen apps break in prod where third party libraries had array accesses on indices that didn't exist, or dereferenced nil pointers, in goroutines they spawned . And those aren't the only ways to cause a panic without eve
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by jamescostian 3y ago
> This might mean you can't use TheTradeDesk and Google Adsense en-masse for example. Basically, as of today, a lot of price discovery is now automated by a majority of companies using a handful of vendors for this. IANAL but this s
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by jamescostian 3y ago
It could be your router giving it a new IP address, but the printer itself hopefully has a static MAC address. Check your router settings for static IP assignment, they may be under a section called DHCP. Over there you could give it a stat
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by jamescostian 3y ago
This isn't designed for anyone to pour their heart and soul into it. Contestants are to make a "lightweight" (their word) game. They added a ceiling (to varying degrees) not just to the payout, but also to the submissions
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by jamescostian 3y ago
1. You can just use `export type Foo = z.infer<typeof fooParser>` in one place and then import Foo everywhere else, without using z.infer everywhere else 2. Use let and modify your types as new ones become available - union them with
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by jamescostian 3y ago
Agreed that reallocating money and resources for the greater good is a good thing. That said, these are all topics that still receive lots of debate politically. That's what I mean when I say it's a human problem. You can't s
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by jamescostian 3y ago
I don't think radical technical breakthroughs will be the solutions to any of those problems. Those are human problems. There's nothing wrong solving technical problems while human problems persist. Putting programmers, data scien
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by jamescostian 4y ago
I'd argue that text has an advantage over video: speed of skipping past content you don't want. People don't talk anywhere near as fast as they skim headlines You're right about turning off your brain. But not everyone w
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by jamescostian 4y ago
Angular has had 13 semver major bumps in the past 5.5 years
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by jamescostian 4y ago
In iOS, Settings->Display & Brightness->View can be changed to Zoomed. Does that help? Android has its own mechanisms: https://www.wikihow.com/Change-the-Screen-Resolution-on-Your... Put another way, would it help
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by jamescostian 4y ago
It sounds like you have experience with the string-heavy CSS in JS. Here's some examples showing how this can be achieved using `csstype.Properties` objects: https://emotion.sh/docs/typescript I'm sure you ca
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by jamescostian 4y ago
For anyone else trying to understand how this fits in, it's either the "Inline Styles" section or the "CSS in JS" section, as long as you use typescript and follow the same rules mentioned here
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by jamescostian 4y ago
Here's the bulk of the code used to generate the code they're building: https://github.com/vercel/turbo/blob/main/crates/turbopack-c... They're building basically the same thing over
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by jamescostian 4y ago
You've repeatedly made leaps between what I've said and horrible arguments I never made, and you've never, not even once, admitted to a single good point being made by me - if I retort something, it's never "my b&qu
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by jamescostian 4y ago
I used to go to college. Nobody would spend $5 on a typical case of 24 average water bottles, that was way too much. $3 was more like it. A single reusable water bottle though? Even a cheap plastic one could run you $10, I'm sure you c
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by jamescostian 4y ago
> I disagree that the part in parentheses follows logically from the part outside the parentheses Me too, it does not! It's the reverse, the part in parentheses is what causes the larger part. Say I want water. A case of water bot
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by jamescostian 4y ago
I think you've misunderstood my position. You mention: > that poor people are buying over and over, more so than wealthier people Not only is this a line of argument I disagree with, I even explicitly said I disagreed with it in thi
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by jamescostian 4y ago
Imagine if everyone made a little more money, except for rich people who made considerably more money. Prices would go up and pretty much everyone would struggle to consume as much (or, consume things of as high quality, or perhaps as eco-f
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by jamescostian 4y ago
You're not replying to a comment saying "poor people are the biggest contributors of CO2 emissions", you're replying to a comment saying "driving people into poverty is the biggest contributor of CO2" So the th
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by jamescostian 4y ago
Docker is extremely popular and so there are plenty of reference Dockerfiles. Books and tutorials on K8S, Packer, ECS, GKR, etc all use OCI images, so docker (or something similar) is useful to have on hand. Yes, packer supports vagrant too
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by jamescostian 4y ago
Is there a reason you don't just use https://rancherdesktop.io/
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by jamescostian 4y ago
Personally, I've seen much more of the opposite - clever devs shrugging off good advice without understanding it, just thinking "it doesn't apply to me" But I think you're right about the more mid-experience develop

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