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Most SO answers were non-answers or word salads. Thankfully one of you added an answer explaining that the cursor is already straight given that it must be visible from the graphics coordinate origin (upper left) and is 45 degrees wide. https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/149837/45927
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And if I'm not wrong, it still applies to today's Mac interface. The cursor still has a white outline all around.
Yup. You can even customise both the inner and outer colours as an accessibility feature!
A lot of the accessibility features are actually neat even to those without the need for them.
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I think the basic thing about taxes that is least understood is the difference between gross income and taxable income (the latter is the amount that tax brackets apply to). A close second is the difference between tax liability, and refund/balance due on the tax return.
Just try to convince the average person that “getting a big refund” is a bad thing, since it means you gave the U.S. government an interest free loan.
The real question is: Why does Windows cursor look "imperfect"? https://mspoweruser.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/windows-c...
Because Windows is made with poor attention to details and in a tasteless manner. For instance, when Windows XP came out, I remember clearly how some stock icons weren't properly aligned on the same baseline (it was corrected in some later SP).
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This was my first reaction as well, but checking how I actually use a mouse I don't think it makes sense. Curious if it's jut me though. For starters for normal desktop usage like >95% of the time the thing I want to click on isn't under the mouse yet so it doesn't obscure anything. Instead I move the mouse to it and by the time the mouse is there I don't care what is under it anymore because the decision to click it…
This might be true today but on the lower resolution screens of the 80s, the mouse pointer was relatively bigger than it is today.
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I think the basic thing about taxes that is least understood is the difference between gross income and taxable income (the latter is the amount that tax brackets apply to). A close second is the difference between tax liability, and refund/balance due on the tax return.
Just try to convince the average person that “getting a big refund” is a bad thing, since it means you gave the U.S. government an interest free loan.
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Just try to convince the average person that “getting a big refund” is a bad thing, since it means you gave the U.S. government an interest free loan.
Oh yes, that's another fun one! Your yearly tax return should be as close to 0 as possible, otherwise you're either over- or under-withholding. Then again, I met some people that use it as a kind of piggy bank because they wouldn't be disciplined enough to save up for bigger purchases otherwise and... well, I can't even, but if it works for them, there are worse things to spend money on.
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Just try to convince the average person that “getting a big refund” is a bad thing, since it means you gave the U.S. government an interest free loan.
(Not from the US) Why is it a good thing to lend for free to the US gov ? Because the regional banks aren’t that stable ?
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Oh yes, that's another fun one! Your yearly tax return should be as close to 0 as possible, otherwise you're either over- or under-withholding. Then again, I met some people that use it as a kind of piggy bank because they wouldn't be disciplined enough to save up for bigger purchases otherwise and... well, I can't even, but if it works for them, there are worse things to spend money on.
I have income from multiple sources and they are not aware of each other. For example, they will all keep paying social security even when I’ve exceeded the max deduction. It is far too complicated to correct the finance departments of multiple companies. I just reconcile it all at the end of the year and get a refund. Got a better strategy I can use?
I wouldn't say this is a better strategy, but you can definitely min/max this even if your income is not stable by extrapolating out your expected income and expected witholding a few times a year and adjusting your W-4 based on your calculations.
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> since the times of single-digit Windows. Do you mean 15 years ago with windows 7, or 30 years ago with windows 3?
Arguably, the last date of the "times of single-digit Windows" would be one day before the release of Win 10, which was on 2015-07-29. Didn't Win 8 have fewer options for adapting the UI compared to previous versions of Windows?
Decimalized? Rational number Windows?