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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.

> 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.

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 automatical…

How does this compare with Abseil's random library? https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/random

Check out the Open Source Peer Bonus Program: https://opensource.googleblog.com/search/label/peer%20bonus

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…

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

Nice! I saw two typos, I think: p.51 traction of seconds -> fraction p.24 first input input Thanks for sharing

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 devi…

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 t…

They only have one official library (python); all the language examples are just showing how to do an HTTP call to the service

tosheets definitely reads from stdin: https://github.com/kren1/tosheets/blob/8a853d2ebb722c474f5bb... :)

Strategy that seems to be pretty effective: click all the squares that are originally yellow

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 nu…

> This bug was found with the help of American Fuzzy Lop

MIT is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, largely regarded as one of the top universities in the world.

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 relate…

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.

"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…

Mars One intends to land its first crew on Mars in 2025. http://www.mars-one.com/mission/roadmap

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 n…

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,…