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If you are a KDE user Karousel[1] a Kwin script is an easy way to try out a scrolling style.

1. https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel

Since a recipe can be for multiple services, the ability to scale a recipe down would be helpful.

Any plans to add the ability to have waiver/release forms for an event that need to be signed?

Reference please. I'm not aware of any state or federal law that prohibits mixed gender children from sharing a room in a private residence (foster care and other institutional situations do have regulations).

Mt Aggie, a synthetic ski slope is the only one in Texas I know of.

From webster - relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts

So it is more the opposite of specific than objective. I think your confusion comes from colleges using holistic to mean they looks at things beyond beyond objective measurements like test scores and GPA

After verifying that the person isn't just venting and looking for empathy, I'll put in my plug for learning about the transtheoretical model of change [1]. Step one is determining whether the person even sees a problem. If they don't, you can ask questions about what would things look like if there was a problem. But there is no point in giving advice until the preparation or action stages. Before that your best avenue is asking the right questions (see motivational interviewing [2]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transtheoretical_model [2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational_interviewing

That's simply not true. If you did not pay into Social Security for at least 40 quarter, the only way you can get retirement Social Security is through marriage (spouse benefit or survivor benefit). You can qualify for both benefits even if you're divorced if you were married at least 10 years. I'm ignoring disability benefits for the moment.

For those who qualify for Social Security the minimum benefit for 2024 is $50.90/mo (10 yrs of work) and $1,066.50 for 30 years of work [1].

[1] https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/ProgData/tableForm.html

I have to agree. When I was working with a carpenter union, one of their big problems was that members would see their pension balance get large at which point they would stop working long enough to trigger emergency access to the pension and then withdraw the money to buy a truck or other expensive item they wanted. As a result, even though the union had a pretty good pension system, many of their members were sabotaging their retirements.

If you transfer within the state system probably 95% to 100% of the credits will transfer depending on how careful you are in your choices. If you transfer to another state's system you can probably get 70% to 90% of the credits to transfer. Some state systems are more compatible than others. If you are going to a private school the percentages are typically much worse 20% to 50%. There are a few like USC which do a lot better.

In the eighties it was completely nonstandardized and depended heavily on each person you talked with. You would typically visit with a company for the day while they passed you around from person to person. One might have you code something on a whiteboard. Another might ask you a brain teaser. Someone would go through the experience on your resume. And another might ask you something like "how would you figure out the number of pixels needed to make this wall indistinguishable from a picture (i.e., retina display)" just to see how you think. Lunch was often where team fit was assessed.

It used to be that if you sold one house and bought another for same price then there would be no appreciation taxes, but that stopped a few(?) years ago.

In the US from 1964 to 1997 you could upgrade your home (i.e., buy one equal or more expensive) and avoid capital gains taxes and after age 55, you could downsize once and not pay capital gains taxes.

From 1997, we've had the current regime of $250K/single, $500K/couple exclusion if you lived there 2 of the previous 5 years from the sale.

We let our 3 kids choose between homeschool and private school. As a result they tended to bounce back and forth between the systems depending on their priorities. By the time they reached 4th grade I was mostly a coach when they chose homeschooling. I would let them know the things they needed to learn and help them find curriculum. And when they got stuck on something they would come to me for help, but in general they were responsible for themselves. Mostly they would only do schoolwork for 3 hours a day or so.

They had no problems reintegrating into regular school when they chose to do so. Our youngest stayed on the homeschool track the longest (from 7th grade because they got involved in competitive Call of Duty. So they ended up doing the homeschool->community college->GaTech track.

But it boggles my mind how people can assume, with a straight face, that they are equipped to educate their child alone - something which is normally a profession for which you have to study O(years) (and even then most people aren’t really good at). What gives parents this confidence? And what gives parents the right to squander the future of their children on a whim?

There are awesome resources to educate you kid on just about anything. The real distinguishing attribute on whether a parent can be a good educator is whether their children can spin them up emotionally. If a parent can't stay calm when their child is pushing their buttons homeschooling probably won't work. And then secondarily, a parent should know when they are over their head and need to bring in assistance. Not every parent is equipped to help their children learn calculus and other advanced courses.

Over 40% of marriages in Hawaii are interracial and around 15% of new marriages nationwide are [1]. And this is 10 year old data. I'm sure it's more now.

[1] https://www.staradvertiser.com/2012/02/16/breaking-news/hawa...

Like everything else in schooling, the social gap is highly child dependent. Our kids were a mix of home-school and private schools and the kid who did the most homeschooling was the most socially adept.

Here in Hawaii the electric company is installing smart meters so they can charge different rates during the day evening and night. So your solar production during the day will credit you at the day rate, then your usage in the evening charges you at the evening rates (about triple the day rate). And then late night usage is about double the day rate.

This mostly solves the retail/wholesale/base rate problem.

Don't forget the opportunity cost of that $200K of equity. If that money invested earned 5%/yr on average that is another $10K/yr bringing your $700/mo to $1,533/mo. If you sell at $450K after 30 years, that mostly just makes up for that opportunity cost (30yrs at 5% would be 432K).

California's AB-5 [1] is one issue. It basically says the independent contractors that are working on your core business are employees not independent contractors. This makes California companies very hesitant to use one person shops.

[1] https://www.ftb.ca.gov/file/business/industries/worker-class...

Hawaii triples the property taxes for non owner occupied residences over $1 mil.

From [1] we can see that home ownership had a run-up to 2008 as interest rates dropped and credit loosened, especially for younger people. When credit tightened home ownership took a major dive.

[1] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2018/08/homeownership...

Artificial wombs would take care of the risk to women issue. Then it just becomes a societal values question.

40 plus years ago my first programming gigs were for financial institutions creating projections for mortgages and savings plans for IRAs on an Apple II. They paid me an eye watering $50/hr which was an incredible rush for a high school student.

After grad school my first job involved building the equivalent of the WOPR (WarGames ref). The AI was written in lisp, the interface was written in C++ using Interviews/X-Windows, all the simulations were written in Fortran and ADA was used to glue all the pieces together. Except for the simulation code it was all written by a team of 3 of us.

Greenfield projects were truly greenfield. You had to invent almost everything you needed. If you wanted a dictionary data structure you built it yourself. Over the network communication meant having to develop your own TCP/UDP protocols. Imagine doing leetcode problems in C++ without any libraries or templates.

Memory bugs were the bane of your existence. There were almost no tooling for debugging other than gdb. Testing was very manual and regressions were common. Source control was originally at the file level with SCCS/RCS and when CVS came out it was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Death marches were sometimes a thing. I remember one 6 week period of 90 hours a week. While it wasn't healthy, it was easy because we were exploring new frontiers and every day was a dopamine rush. You had to fight with yourself to maintain a decent WLB.

Like now, there were always battles around what new technology would be the winner. For example in networking we had Ethernet, token ring, fddi, appletalk, netware and a few others all vying to become the standard.

Working from home meant dialup into a command line environment. So every developer knew how to use vi or emacs or both.

The biggest difference today is you stand on top of all this technology and processes which have matured over the years. This means a developer today is MUCH more powerful. But if they didn't live through it, much of that mature technology and processes are just a given without deep understanding, which most of the time is fine, but once in while can be a problem.

This is already the case. You can only depreciate the building value not the land portion. So single family homes have much lower depreciation since most of the value is typically in the land vs an apartment which is the opposite.

Had a 20 year career in artificial intelligence and security, then in 2003 started my own financial planning business working from home. While I continue my tech habit as a hobby, the greater home involvement and greater connection to people has never had me second guessing the change.

Our 3 kids have gone in and out of homeschool at all different ages. We generally left the choice up to them. Our youngest decided to homeschool through high school and is studying computer science at Georgia Tech now.

In the lower grades, the biggest issue is the parent/child dynamics. When things are going badly, do they spin each other up or can the parent keep things calm. If you spin each other up, homeschool is not for you.

In the higher grades, parents need to know their limitations and bring in experts when needed.

Personally, I adored homeschooling my children.

HN adjacent :-). Here are two my daughter produced last year.

https://katherinejacobs.bandcamp.com/album/the-ocean-single

https://katherinejacobs.bandcamp.com/album/youre-gonna-regre...

On my iPhone 12 mini the demo took 13 seconds to show me something besides a blank screen. On my desktop it was around 3 seconds and cpu usage went through the roof.

Long ago, before goodrx and when my family did not have any drug coverage I learned the magic incantation "Is that the best price you can find?". I was always amazed that they would then spend a few minutes on their computers and find a price 50% to 80% cheaper than the original price they quoted me.

Actually the bulk of generation is from oil with 25% or so from renewables [1]. So our power prices is heavily influenced by oil prices.

Each island is also its own isolated electric grid, so reliability is not great and shifting renewables to other islands isn't possible currently. Unfortunately, the ocean is deep between the islands and connecting them would probably cost close to a billion dollars all in. A bit of a stretch for our small state.

[1] https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/about-us/power-facts

Location based pay for "in-person" jobs makes sense. You are trying to convince a person to live and work in a specific locale and the requires different amounts of money depending on the location. But for jobs which are fully remote, the pay should be the same regardless of where you live.

If a person wants to live in Thailand so they can save more of their paycheck vs living in NYC where they could enjoy city life, that is a tradeoff for the employee to make and the employer should not care.