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People care less about the dollar value than about reconciling. If there is some external system they should match, they really want it to match exactly.

Peak inflation in Argentina was 20262.80%.

So, not as much margin as one might think.

A shocking number of people ... are unaware of how many decimal points of accuracy their local tax code requires to calculate

A shocking number of people who create tax codes have no idea how many decimal places they are using.

It's probably better now, but I recall having to reverse engineer the tax tables to figure out how many decimal points of accuracy were used, and what rounding rules were used, so we could match their numbers.

These numbers would change from year to year, with no change in the underlying tax codes.

My cat is an indoor cat. It wears a tracker. Cats escape, sometimes. This way we get an alert if he manages to get out.

I think many of the dating sites started that way. That's why they were better in the beginning. But eventually, they go public, or get acquired, and end up getting run by people who are bottom line focused.

All 10 million of them?

Looks like that is still invitation only.

The problem with leet code is what it really measures is how long you have spent on leetcode. Yes, you can solve the problems if you have experience, but you are not going to look as good as someone who had done that specific problem on leetcode and could just write down the optimal answer.

This was great science. Hypothesis, test, and attempted confirmation. Too bad it's not superconducting, but the process worked the way it is supposed to.

It's the people. If you shop for "fun", then you probably like sales. It's a game.

If, however, you don't like to shop, and you do it solely to acquire things, you probably don't like sales.

Very clearly, Ron Johnson was in the latter category, while JC Penney shoppers were in the former.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/j-c-penney-apologize...

Why replace? So you don't have downtime. If it breaks now, everything may be off until they replace the system. That could be months of no classes, which would be much worse than spending money to replace.

If you start now, and finish before it breaks, you don't have to have downtime.

Funny how things come around again and again.

Fortran had basically the same bug, fifty years ago. https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/254921

It says "tumors", what about cancers that do not involve tumors, like Leukemia.

I didn't even know that was a thing! Cool.

Reminds me of the ascii art video codecs!

Nothing shows this like the switch from showing recommended books/products to showing ads.

Ads generate more revenue today, but I can't find good books to buy an Amazon, so I go elsewhere.

It's clear which is better for the customer (and for Amazon long term), but they can't give up on the revenue stream, even if it will eventually kill them (since it drives their customers to other platforms, and provides a place for competitors to grow).

You are correct, but bear in mind how much those keyboards cost. This is why you don't see their equivalent today.

If midjourney could count fingers, I'd be thrilled!

Going outside.

Meeting with friends.

Reading a good book.

The best software engineers in the world are generating it.

It pays better than google.

I have an undergrad friend. Learning this last semester. It's still taught, and it's still not used.

insurance

You just append ‘reply in json with this format’ and it does a really good job.

It does an ok job. Except when it doesn't. Definitely misses a lot of the time, sometimes on prompts that succeeded on previous runs.

I'm thinking of getting an apple watch with the cell phone. It's not usable for web surfing and other addictions, but it still has phone, messages, and maps, which are what I really can't do without.

Anyone tried this?

They literally warn you every time you log in that the results may not be accurate.

Well, they are already collecting covid DNA from wastewater: https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-wastewater#3925188384-9...

And they are looking for one person, who has interesting characteristic, from a covid perspective:

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/healthcare/2023/06/08/co...

You are correct. Grabbing a random issue of BYTE from the internet archive, and finding a listing, I get the code below. There were some minor errors I fixed, like 3 -> }. Main issue was loss of whitespace, so not good for python :-). But the whole was amazingly quick. Getting code from a print magazine from 35 years ago into editable form in a couple of minutes.

https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1987-04/page/n151/...

{$K-}{ turn of checking for stack overf low }

program interrupttest;

type IoProcess = *integer :

var count: integer:

var timerhandler: IoProcess;

... {definitions of NewIoProcess and IoAttach }

procedure incrementer:

begin

count:=succ (count ) :

end;

begin

timerhandler:=NewIoProcess(Ofs(incrementer).1000):

count:=0;

ioAttach ($1C, timerhondler); | attach himerhondleich" user |

while true do

timer interrupt ( 1Ch )

begin

writeln (count );

Delay (100);

{ delay 100 milliseconds}

end; end.

I just pick up a five pound weight and step on the scale, then put it down and step off. Step on again, and get he correct weight.

Annoying, but it works.

My favorite bad translation was a Philip Jose Farmer novel where all measurements were given in Imperial and Metric units. As in:

"It was about 1000 feet, or 304.88 meters". "He was 6 feet tall, or 182.88" meters."

Every single measurement, converted with two or three decimal places. It got old fast.

Everyone wants the system that is least unfair to their group.

Paywalled. And the title sounds like clickbait.