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People care less about the dollar value than about reconciling. If there is some external system they should match, they really want it to match exactly.

Peak inflation in Argentina was 20262.80%. So, not as much margin as one might think.

> A shocking number of people ... are unaware of how many decimal points of accuracy their local tax code requires to calculate A shocking number of people who create tax codes hav…

My cat is an indoor cat. It wears a tracker. Cats escape, sometimes. This way we get an alert if he manages to get out.

I think many of the dating sites started that way. That's why they were better in the beginning. But eventually, they go public, or get acquired, and end up getting run by people w…

All 10 million of them?

Looks like that is still invitation only.

The problem with leet code is what it really measures is how long you have spent on leetcode. Yes, you can solve the problems if you have experience, but you are not going to look …

This was great science. Hypothesis, test, and attempted confirmation. Too bad it's not superconducting, but the process worked the way it is supposed to.

It's the people. If you shop for "fun", then you probably like sales. It's a game. If, however, you don't like to shop, and you do it solely to acquire things, you probably don't l…

Why replace? So you don't have downtime. If it breaks now, everything may be off until they replace the system. That could be months of no classes, which would be much worse than s…

Funny how things come around again and again. Fortran had basically the same bug, fifty years ago. https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/254921

It says "tumors", what about cancers that do not involve tumors, like Leukemia.

I didn't even know that was a thing! Cool. Reminds me of the ascii art video codecs!

Nothing shows this like the switch from showing recommended books/products to showing ads. Ads generate more revenue today, but I can't find good books to buy an Amazon, so I go el…

You are correct, but bear in mind how much those keyboards cost. This is why you don't see their equivalent today.

If midjourney could count fingers, I'd be thrilled!

Going outside. Meeting with friends. Reading a good book.

The best software engineers in the world are generating it. It pays better than google.

I have an undergrad friend. Learning this last semester. It's still taught, and it's still not used.

insurance

> You just append ‘reply in json with this format’ and it does a really good job. It does an ok job. Except when it doesn't. Definitely misses a lot of the time, sometimes on promp…

I'm thinking of getting an apple watch with the cell phone. It's not usable for web surfing and other addictions, but it still has phone, messages, and maps, which are what I reall…

They literally warn you every time you log in that the results may not be accurate.

Well, they are already collecting covid DNA from wastewater: https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater#3925188384-9... And they are looking for one person, who has interestin…