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What's the difference betweeen this and either Quicken or Microsoft Money?

You don't. Most academic uses are now replaced by desmos, which is also used on the SAT. It's free, it's fast, and it does most of what you need.

In a Copilot world, Notepad is now meant to render Copilot output, which LLMs do a good job of spitting out Markdown.

The stackoverflow investors (Prosus) have licensed their data to the AI companies for training. They are most likely doing fine.

We have something similar with tariffs. We pass them through to the client, and they show up as revenue and expenses like this Autodesk example.. But, we immediately deduct the tariff expense from the tariff revenue above the gross revenue line, so Gross Revenue is not affected.

Yes, it takes me 60 minutes to go 45 miles when I cross the extremes of the city. Oh noes! How far does the red line go in Boston and how long does that take?

It’s not quite true that we have no codes, but you wouldn’t come here and find some hell hole of mixed industrial and residential. Land prices really do dictate use.

For me, it was Wing Commander

Texas also has a business wealth tax, known as business personal property tax. All assets that a business owns are subject to the tax (with exemptions for farmers and ranchers...). This means that high capital factories on small plots of land also pay tax on their capital.

I've come to realize that asking an LLM to do something that a purpose-built software program can already do is a mistake. Instead, the LLM must be an agent for that computer program.

Therefore, the correct prompt is "write a python program to count the number of letters in a word, and then use it to count the number of Rs in strawberry".

On a recent Odd Lots episode, they interviewed a Canadian lentil farmer. His claim was that a family of 3 (Father, Mother, Daughter) could farm 1200 acres of lentils with time left over due to modern automation.

So I guess it would depend on the automation level of the kind of crops you’re planting.

I’ve tried to switch to Linux and Mac several times over the past 30 years. And once I get it in front of me, I’m struck with a feeling of “now what?”. All that effort and no upside.

I grew up in a world where there was broken glass bottles everywhere - in parking lots, in playgrounds, on the street. I've never seen that externality of broken glass calculated.

Man, this is so much better than many Bollywood movies that are re-dubbed. When the actors go back to the sound studio to re-record their lines, they don't match up with their lips exactly, and it can be off-putting.

It was a p2p phone and video call app that Microsoft purchased when mobile phones started to take off. Phones cannot participate in a p2p network the same way a desktop can, so it had to be re-architected to use central servers, and they never got it to work the same after that.

I hear this all the time, and I somewhat disagree. The problem is that unhealthy people do not want to pay the full amount of their risk-adjusted rate into the risk-pool. Therefore, they need healthy people to subsidize them. It makes sense that pooling a group of employees together would be uncorrelated to health status, and would therefore make a good proxy for a risk-pool.

The F35 is not meant to be a dogfighter. If it has gotten shot such that the control screen in unusable, something else has gone wrong.

We have a joint checking account. I automatically draw our investments to our joint Fidelity account.

I try to keep a balance of $50k in our checking account (it's a minimum that our bank sets to give us perks and a free safety deposit box). At the end of the month, if we over that, my partner knows that we can splurge on dining, vacations, or other stuff. If we are under that, we tighten our spending for a bit until we are back over it.

I tried all sorts of budgeting and tracking ideas, but most just weren't worth the effort.

Everyone already knows that diet and exercise are "the" solution to obesity, and yet it keeps getting worse.

When I was on Ozempic, I just didn't want the milkshake. It rewires all reward centers.

Passphrase in a bank safe deposit box.

Certain expenses will be capitalized while the film is available for release/streaming. Depreciation/amortization will be years for the life of the film. But if you scrap it right away, you can deduct those expenses immediately.

They should have fixed up Wine to run Winforms flawlessly, and it would have solved the cross-platform desktop problem.

I own a machine shop in Houston. In 1980, our best machinists were making $20-$25 an hour using manual machines. In 2019 (pre-pandemic), they were still making $25 an hour while being much more productive on CNC machines. Forget real wages - they were making the same nominal wages after 40 years.

Up until 2017, the price of a house had been creeping up, but so had the size of the median house. One you adjust for inflation and square foot, it was pretty steady.[0]

[0] https://www.supermoney.com/inflation-adjusted-home-prices/

Matt Levine had a more charitable reading of the Texas Two-Step for J&J:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-31/matt-l...

The idea here was that a bankruptcy judge could more fairly distribute $61.5 billion dollars among claimants than having them sue J&J one at a time and getting uneven awards and costing everyone more lawyer hours.

I currently have some money in an Indian mutual fund through my Schwab brokerage, WAINX. What's the difference between Inri, and just investing in an Indian mutual fund? Schwab shows 4 different India-focused equity funds from Eaton Vance, ALPS/Kotak, Matthews, and Wasatch.

Like the article says, we machine parts with tolerances in thousandths of an inch, but certain specifications like paint thickness are specified in “mils” which is also thousandths of an inch.

You want this one:

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-chemical-hunger-p...

A series of mysteries as to different features of the obesity epidemic, that could possibly narrow down the causative factors. For example, people in higher elevations tend to be thinner than those in lower elevations, so perhaps the bad chemical is flowing downriver and accumulating at lower elevations.

I'm in Houston. A "manual" machinist (non-CNC) working in my factory in 1980 could make $25 per hour. In 2020, I was still paying the same machinist $25 an hour nominally, except now he operates a CNC machinist and is vastly more productive. However, his productivity gains have been competed away both domestically and by oversees manufacturing, and via boom and bust cycles in the oil patch that reset wages.