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Many studies show that consumers spend more when using credit cards, compared to both cash and debit cards, and it's not obvious to me that the 2% will win out.

> It is a stupid game that I am forced to play

You are not forced to play it. That is a just story you tell yourself. You can make a different choice.

Do folks any recommendations for automation around banking? We use a sort of "envelope system" across many accounts, and it would be helpful to have some timing to help automatically move and rebalance funds across the accounts.

My bank has some very limited options to move specific amounts of money on a weekly schedule, but I'm looking for something more powerful then that.

Should I look at like ~Stripe~ Plaid or something? Or are there more pre built tools?

How does this compare with Abseil's random library? https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/random

Check out the Open Source Peer Bonus Program: https://opensource.googleblog.com/search/label/peer%20bonus

I hadn't heard of it, but I checked out a random video Watching how it comes together, there is a step (around 0:40 in this video https://youtu.be/rVfiPAlXdik) where the cube just seems to magically form by itself. It's really neat

The answers for each day (past and future) are hard coded in the javascript source and viewable in the client, so they are quite accessible for anyone that's interested

Nice!

I saw two typos, I think:

p.51 traction of seconds -> fraction

p.24 first input input

Thanks for sharing

From the store page [1]:

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And the support page [2]:

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[2] https://support.google.com/googleclips/answer/7545354?hl=en&...

Ah! I had read this years ago and was recently trying to find it again, but had no luck. I find teaching children mathematics to be quite interesting, and I'm very delighted that this has crossed paths with me again.

They only have one official library (python); all the language examples are just showing how to do an HTTP call to the service

tosheets definitely reads from stdin: https://github.com/kren1/tosheets/blob/8a853d2ebb722c474f5bb... :)

Strategy that seems to be pretty effective: click all the squares that are originally yellow

By the numbers:

> GVA has been able to reduce the average waiting time at security by 51% from an average of 7 minutes to 3.5 minutes. In addition, the airport has increased the number of days with satisfactory performance more than five times (from 54 days in 2014 to 297 days in 2015).

> the airport aims for 85% of all passengers experiencing less than seven minutes of waiting time in the security process and that no passengers are allowed to wait more than 20 minutes. """

> This bug was found with the help of American Fuzzy Lop

MIT is the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, largely regarded as one of the top universities in the world.

For context:

This is the third post in a series. The author (Jason Scott) is trying to save ~25,000 manuals, instruction booklets, and engineering notes (largely electronics related, created over the last 80 years). This is a large project, the company which owns the manuals currently is going out of business, and all the manuals will be thrown away very soon (re: tomorrow).

First post: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4711 Second post: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4683

PEP 8: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#function-names

>Function names should be lowercase, with words separated by underscores as necessary to improve readability.

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -Charles Babbage

Mars One intends to land its first crew on Mars in 2025. http://www.mars-one.com/mission/roadmap

For a function to be a linear transform it needs two properties[1]:

  1. F(c1 + c2) = F(c1) + F(c2)
  2. F(k*c1) = k*F(c1)

Converting from Celsius->Fahrenheit (or vice versa) is does not have these properties.

  F(c) = 9/5 * c + 32

  F(c1 + c2) = 9/5 * (c1 + c2) + 32
  F(c1) + F(c2) = (9/5 * c1 + 32) + (9/5 * c2 + 32) = 9/5 * (c1 + c2) + 64

  F(k*c1) = 9/5 * (k*c1) + 32
  k*F(c1) = k * (9/5 * c1 + 32) = 9/5 * (k*c1) + k*32

Admittedly, I'm not entirely sure why being a non-linear transform gets the OP so riled up.

[1]http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LinearTransformation.html

The FSI[1] has ranked languages according to how easy it is for English speakers to learn. There are 10 languages in Category I (the easiest to learn)[2]:

Afrikaans, Danish, Dutch, French, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish

[1] http://www.state.gov/m/fsi/

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20071014005901/http://www.nvtc.go...

I would suggest checking out index funds from Vanguard (or Fidelity or Schwab).

Also, you may want to post this to: http://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/

They're a very reasonable and helpful community.

Utahn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_demonyms_for_U.S._state...

Well, there's this:

"In-home Streaming

You can play all your Windows and Mac games on your SteamOS machine, too. Just turn on your existing computer and run Steam as you always have - then your SteamOS machine can stream those games over your home network straight to your TV!"

http://store.steampowered.com/livingroom/SteamOS/

Neither the dialog nor the preview solves the problem that an undo button solves.

If a dialog or preview comes up for every message you send, you just develop a new habit for sending mail (press the send button, then press the send button again on the dialog / preview). If anything, it just creates more of a hassle for the user.

The undo button is for that 'Oh crap!' moment, when your auto-pilot lead you astray.

For the lazy: http://adblockplus.org/en/

For those interested, NIST (National Institue of Standards and Technoology) announced a competition to find candidates for the SHA-3 algorithm back in November 2007:

"NIST also plans to host a final SHA-3 Candidate Conference in the spring of 2012 to discuss the public feedback on these candidates, and select the SHA-3 winner later in 2012." [http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/sha-3/Round3/index.html]

The final SHA-3 Candidate Conference was held March 22-23, so they should be picking the winner any day now.

I know Autopy is cross platform, and I'm pretty sure PyMouse is too. Not sure about Dogtail.