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jamescostian

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    Comment #47151438

    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: …

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    Comment #41296176

    > 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 …

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    Comment #39586296

    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 (commo…

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    Comment #39492161

    > 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 justify…

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    Comment #39168985

    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 compar…

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    Comment #39136946

    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 …

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    Comment #38920904

    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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    Comment #38273064

    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 v…

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    Comment #38230573

    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'…

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    Comment #38156671

    > 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 u…

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    Comment #37474754

    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 unde…

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    Comment #36952041

    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 t…

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    Comment #36458428

    1. You can just use `export type Foo = z.infer ` in one place and then import Foo everywhere else, without using z.infer everywhere else 2. Use let and modify your types as new one…

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    Comment #35426242

    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…

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    Comment #35410729

    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…

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    Comment #34603333

    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 tu…

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    Comment #33924258

    Angular has had 13 semver major bumps in the past 5.5 years

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    Comment #33612420

    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.…

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    Comment #33574022

    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/doc…

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    Comment #33573224

    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 m…

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    Comment #33415927

    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 ov…

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    Comment #33364052

    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 re…

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    Comment #33360829

    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? Eve…