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How terrifying that a bit of nature may be near a person! Better cover it with roundup so they don't have to suffer the horror of seeing a spider

3% is typical for a HYSA (Ally, for example)

1.75 is less than the money is losing value from inflation. If that savings is in USD it's quite a bit less than inflation over the past five years.

Actually the high income households are becoming a greater and greater share of spending, referred to as the "K shaped" economy. For example, the top quintile of households account…

It won't let you use the same letters in the same order again (e.g. LEASE -> LEASED). I think that's fair.

How could race-determined discrimination be anything other than racism?

Complexity is cost.

Surely a tax would be a better incentive mechanism than a hard cap.

All according to plan if you believe that Trump is a foreign-sponsored "useful idiot".

And US loses 1-4 even with their striker.

All states require tipped workers to make at least minimum wage, that's what a minimum wage is. However, usually they can make part of that wage in tips. In theory, if they make le…

How does deep packet inspection work on encrypted traffic?

I'm reading this comment as sarcastic, you don't think that the recent infrastructure build out is a positive?

If this is happening in software engineering it would imply that Americans are moving to other, higher paid work which doesn't seem to be the case.

If the government wanted people to take holidays off they could just legislate that people can't work on those days. I doubt there is any political will to do this, though.

If at any point your counter-governmental action actually threatens to take some share of power away from the government, they will swiftly and quietly deal with you (they have abo…

Surely all of those metrics can be easily gamed by a competent software engineer.

Well, yes, China has a large number of tarrifs imposed on it from the U.S.

It surprises me that any municipality would make that legal, seems dangerous.

There is no difference, from the model's point of view, between code it wrote and code someone else wrote. It's all just context.

Analogies can provide insight without exact equivalence.

While true, that doesn't distinguish between Zig and Rust, as both allow you to manually allocate memory and create custom data structures.

Jon Gjengset has some live streams where he does agentic coding.

Yes, but in my experience Claude is much better at diagnosing issues on Linux than any other OS because it's text-native and is the best documented OS.

Where I live (major city) because of zoning there are few apartment buildings and basically 100% are only for rent, not individually owned units. So if you want to own where you li…