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jcdavis

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    Comment #48734245

    I've read a looot of physiology studies about running, and the same dynamics hold true there. This is a flaw (IMO) of of the whole "Norwegian 4x4 protocol" you hear parroted around…

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    Comment #47447066

    I'll agree that "everyone" is probably an unfair characterization. But the tax benefits of depreciation are wildly touted among real estate investors. If they didn't claim deprecia…

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    Comment #47446574

    Hard to sympathize with the landlord class too much on this one. Everyone knows how depreciation schedule works and gets in to it in no small part because of that deduction benefit…

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    Comment #47172830

    Its an extremely annoying trend among a subset of the tech industry who think it makes them cool

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    Comment #47107186

    Its a wild time to be in software development. Nobody(1) actually knows what causes LLMs to do certain things, we just pray the prompt moves the probabilities the right way enough …

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    Comment #46448256

    Context: I thought it would be fun to use the github-style year visualization for my running, while also letting me get a more thorough detail of efforts (pace + HR). All data is c…

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    Comment #44790965

    Based off of my first ever forays into node performance analysis last year, JSON.stringify was one of the biggest impediments to just about everything around performant node servic…

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    Comment #44492219

    Full text: https://archive.is/5jgNR

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    Comment #43474838

    Its roughly a 2x2 block area of The Mission (not a hard boundary to participating, but almost everyone lives in it). I won't get more specific than that in case the author doesn't …

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    Comment #43474080

    I saw this and did a double-take - I live in the neighborhood and am fortunate enough to be a part of this community. Patty, Tyler, and Luke have done a tremendous job of creating …

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    Comment #42951408

    Still $3.50 at TJs in SF last week still, which is by far the cheapest around (that I'm aware of). Pretty surprised they are still that low given prices elsewhere.

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    Comment #42435760

    > it screwed up the API for C++, with many compromises The implicit presence garbage screwed up the API for many languages, not just C++ What is wild is how obviously silly it was …

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    Comment #41977321

    Yes: https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff?so...

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    Comment #41955002

    > Spotify pays around 70% of its revenue to their artists They pay 70% of revenue to rights holders . For an artist signed to a major label like Lily Allen, they'll get ~20% of tha…

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    Comment #41119421

    Fun writeup. When I went through and implement the book in rust ( https://github.com/jcdavis/rulox ), I just used Rc and never really solved the cycle issue. I'll +1 and say I high…

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    Comment #40770141

    For an absolute wild docuseries about one of these related scams, check out Telemarketers on HBO.

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    Comment #40626635

    username checks out

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    Comment #40304387

    The inverted method is an even easier way to achieve this :)

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    Comment #39531737

    Getting new prior auths every year is annoying but not exclusive to Optum, thats been the case with all the specialty pharmacies I've gotten prescriptions from.

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    Comment #39515631

    https://archive.is/D6eym

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    Comment #39480673

    And, crucially, last year 80% of VUSXX's interest was state tax exempt. Unless you specifically need the features of a savings account (eg ACH), money market funds are the way to g…

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