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For VHS there's the VHS-Decode project that's trying to do something similar. I don't think they work by scanning the tape itself with some custom hardware, but rather by recording…

It's worth noting that I bonds are exempt from state income tax, and you pay federal income tax at the time you redeem the bond, not at the time you get interest, so it's federal i…

You don't have to make an estimated tax payment. You can also file an extension, and when you do that you can make a payment with IRS direct pay as well. Also just because you file…

buy some I bonds from the US treasury at treasurydirect.gov. They are guaranteed to match inflation.

Then buy I-Bonds

I was never a huge caffeine user, my peak was maybe 3 or 4 cans of coke zero a day. Since I quit I've seen my level of general anxiety go down, my moods are more stabler (like less…

I love this idea! I can't tell you how many friendships I've lost in the past (or ones that could've taken off but prematurely died) from getting stuck in the "I think they don't w…

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but check out wall street raider: https://www.wallstreetraider.com/

I think people are using artstation mostly these days, although it does seem like artstation caters to a more professional crowd, and deviantart attracted more amateurs.

Just saying in this in case it will help you. For treasurydirect, you can use inspect element and change the value="" field on the password element, and paste in your password from…

No but you can use it to check news and current events, safety conditions, communicate with friends and family, and find information to help you survive better

On the contrary, I think Internet access would be even more important in that kind of situation

I think you might have just had a bad class on the topic. For what it's worth I watched Erik Olson's artistic linear perspective class lectures on New Masters Academy and it defini…

What do you do if you genuinely don't want anything? It seems like people don't believe you and keep harassing you asking for what you really want, and then get really frustrated w…

I never really understood beeminder. What's to stop someone from just lying so they don't have to pay?

Are there any group buys that could be set up? Surely there are at least 43 people in the world who want to buy that part but don't want to buy the full MOQ

While the rpi does not have as open a foundation as we would want in an ideal world, it seems like the alternatives are not much better. Do you have any alternative boards that you…

Say what you want about fossil[0], but having the issues be part of the repo would come in real handy in times like this. 0: https://fossil-scm.org

While there are still some people who treat the arcade pcbs as inherently superior to mame, the general consensus nowadays (at least for DK) is that mame plays arcade perfect. In f…

I don't want to speak for djmips, but I believe he was referring to something more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(number_format)

Another option for low DPI users is to use bitmap fonts instead of vector ones. I find blurriness of truetype fonts on low res displays to give greater visual fatigue than the jagg…

Hypothetically speaking, what would be the best way to handle voting rights and distribution of power in a domain registrant coop? Does every domain holder have the same amount vot…