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It’s not that it’s unreasonable to think the word “patty” is ambiguous —it’s that it’s unreasonable to spend tax dollars on saving people from that ambiguity

n=1 but I gave this to Sonnet 5 medium effort (free model) and it had no trouble with it

It has way more character. The Ferrari basically looks fungible with every other EV.

Taxes are supposed to pay for public services. An efficient visa system is a public service. If you pay tons of taxes but don’t get a public service that’s personally very importan…

3 just seems arbitrary in practice though. In my job we share code when it makes sense and don’t when it doesn’t, and that serves us just fine

Neat read on the whole, but was fun to see how huge the author believes Estonia is: > When Estonia, for example, became independent of the Soviet Union, some 245 million square mil…

That website has some other more out-there stuff on it. (I love the tone because it’s impossible to tell how tongue-in-cheek it is) Coffee and wine glass https://www.toxel.com/tech…

My version of that is to just use a (high-end) Chromebook. The OS never gets in the way, can’t remember the last time I had to change a system setting or manually upgrade anything

Ironically the UX on Reuters and AP wasn’t hugely worse than the blogspam: * the text of the blogspam is pretty faithful to the AP article * Reuters had a fullscreen paywall * the …

If I’m understanding right, he has a side hustle as a public speaker. So the website is an ad for him.

I agree it does a pretty good job of communicating that. I think the other commenters are pointing out that doesn’t show how to efficiently get all the smaller items left of the pa…

It’s a class/geographical thing. In my early childhood in a fancy suburb of a big city, my parents and people in their social circle used mixes 0% of the time, but when we moved to…

When you’re too busy to spend the money you make, the observable effect of a pay raise is mostly the number in the account going up faster

Agreed. I work at a highly successful small company with a reputation for being grindy, and what that looks like in reality is probably 55 hours a week of largely focused productiv…

If it's 3% + $0.30, that can easily be 5-7% for smaller transactions, which are the ones where I most often get asked to pay cash.

Thanks for the correction- I did some math and my marginal rate is something like 46%, which, while it’s indeed not over 50%, still is pretty discouraging when weighing whether it’…

Counterpoint: I’m in the US and my effective income tax rate is in the mid-40s, with my marginal rate over 50%. And I’m not in one of the few states with the highest state income t…

Google turned up this Harper’s feature which is pretty good: https://courses.washington.edu/psy315/pdf/HarpersMagazine_Lu...

For what it’s worth, this seems like the fatal flaw in the OP to me. If you need input on whether something is good to do, it’s very easy for someone to reply “yes” or “sounds good…

It’s really about (a) the wording (b) the level of risk. For something that isn’t risky, I trust my reports to make reasonable decisions and wouldn’t benefit from the “I’m going to…

For what it’s worth, I just took the parent comment’s wording as metaphor.

The Idiot by Elif Batuman So funny that my face was basically fixed in a smile the entire time reading.

You should try working in a compiled language. I need good music to listen to while I wait for gcc to do its thing

I was in a similar situation in my first job: really interesting domain, colleagues I liked, but no other software engineers. It was really tough for me, so I left for a traditiona…