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For VHS there's the VHS-Decode project that's trying to do something similar. I don't think they work by scanning the tape itself with some custom hardware, but rather by recording some kind of internal RF drum head signal inside the VCR itself. Then they have a software stack to decode the VHS signal into actual video. Looks pretty cool, but I've never used it.

https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode

It's worth noting that I bonds are exempt from state income tax, and you pay federal income tax at the time you redeem the bond, not at the time you get interest, so it's federal income tax deferred. You could potentially hold onto the I bond for up to 30 years before being forced to redeem, so you could wait until you're in a lower tax bracket, which makes it better.

You don't have to make an estimated tax payment. You can also file an extension, and when you do that you can make a payment with IRS direct pay as well. Also just because you filed for an extension, that doesn't mean you have to file your tax return later, so you can just file your tax return when you would regularly payment. You can file for an extension much later than Jan 15th, I think the deadline is sometime in April.

buy some I bonds from the US treasury at treasurydirect.gov. They are guaranteed to match inflation.

Then buy I-Bonds

I was never a huge caffeine user, my peak was maybe 3 or 4 cans of coke zero a day. Since I quit I've seen my level of general anxiety go down, my moods are more stabler (like less feelings of irritability, stress, feeling overwhelmed), and I feel like my sleep has improved. I haven't noticed any real change in my performance after quitting. Maybe I don't feel as "sharp", but I'm still getting the same amount of things done at the same quality as before.

One thing to note is that once you quit you will not be able to really use caffeine effectively at the same level you are currently using it.

I recently had some caffeine, and after being off it for so long, it was actually very unpleasant. I felt like a cpu that got overclocked and was overheating. It didn't really make me any more productive, it just made feel like wow I'm really up right now, too far up and I want to be back to normal, but I can't until the caffeine passes through my system. And just that feeling of being trapped in the "high" and being unable to get out was very disturbing to me personally.

I love this idea! I can't tell you how many friendships I've lost in the past (or ones that could've taken off but prematurely died) from getting stuck in the "I think they don't want to talk to me"/"They think I don't want to talk to them" cycle. Then you end up with neither person initiating contact, and the whole thing just kind of ends. Many if not most people these days don't want to initiate, including me, so if you wait on them to reach out to you, they simply never will, even if they want to talk to you, or would enjoy a conversation.

I've been making steps toward being the person who initiates all contact, and so far it seems to work better than my previous strategies of "never initiating contact", and "initiating 50% of contacts and assuming they're not interested if they don't initiate". The only problem is I'm really not a natural at reaching out, so if left to my own devices I wouldn't do it often enough to maintain the relationship. I like OP's idea of externalizing it with a tool, that makes it a lot easier to maintain the kind of consistency needed to grow a relationship.

To all those saying this is forced or inhuman or robotic or whatever... Listen it would be great to have some kind of easy natural friendship where both people would do half the work, think of each other regularly and reach out in an easy non forced manner, but in my life experience that kind of relationship seems to be very hard to find, if not impossible.

In the real world it seems to me like the choices are be lonely and alone, or to do all the work (especially in initiating). In the past I chose to be lonely and alone, maybe holding out for that kind of unicorn, ideal friendship that people in this thread are talking about. I don't think it was a good choice. I switched, I'm doing the other approach and now I have people I can talk to. I do feel kind of resentful for having to put in way more effort initiating than the other person in these relationships, but it beats being alone and lonely, so I'd still say it's a net positive overall.

Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but check out wall street raider: https://www.wallstreetraider.com/

I think people are using artstation mostly these days, although it does seem like artstation caters to a more professional crowd, and deviantart attracted more amateurs.

Just saying in this in case it will help you. For treasurydirect, you can use inspect element and change the value="" field on the password element, and paste in your password from your password manager. It's not as convenient as autofill from your password manager, but it sure beats using the graphical keyboard.

No but you can use it to check news and current events, safety conditions, communicate with friends and family, and find information to help you survive better

On the contrary, I think Internet access would be even more important in that kind of situation

I think you might have just had a bad class on the topic. For what it's worth I watched Erik Olson's artistic linear perspective class lectures on New Masters Academy and it definitely didn't teach perspective working the way you describe.

https://www.nma.art/courses/a-complete-guide-to-perspective-...

The first lesson is free to watch too: https://www.nma.art/videolessons/perspective-1-an-introducti...

What do you do if you genuinely don't want anything?

It seems like people don't believe you and keep harassing you asking for what you really want, and then get really frustrated when you keep saying "No, really I don't want anything". Then they either respect your wishes and don't get anything, but seem to harbor some kind of resentment against you in their heart, or they get some random garbage you don't want and call you ungrateful when you don't like it.

Really the greatest gift of all would be some kind of exemption from this custom so I don't have to go through this twice a year.

I never really understood beeminder. What's to stop someone from just lying so they don't have to pay?

Are there any group buys that could be set up? Surely there are at least 43 people in the world who want to buy that part but don't want to buy the full MOQ

While the rpi does not have as open a foundation as we would want in an ideal world, it seems like the alternatives are not much better. Do you have any alternative boards that you would recommend to the hacker community?

Say what you want about fossil[0], but having the issues be part of the repo would come in real handy in times like this.

0: https://fossil-scm.org

While there are still some people who treat the arcade pcbs as inherently superior to mame, the general consensus nowadays (at least for DK) is that mame plays arcade perfect.

In fact TG has a separate leader board to track the mame high scores. Which is one of the most frustrating things about this whole affair... if Billy really wanted to use mame he could have just submitted his score under the mame category instead of lying and submitting it under the arcade hardware category!

I don't want to speak for djmips, but I believe he was referring to something more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(number_format)

Another option for low DPI users is to use bitmap fonts instead of vector ones. I find blurriness of truetype fonts on low res displays to give greater visual fatigue than the jagged edges of misc-fixed or terminus.

Hypothetically speaking, what would be the best way to handle voting rights and distribution of power in a domain registrant coop?

Does every domain holder have the same amount voting power, like in a democracy, or do large orgs like Mozilla or Wikimedia get proportionally more votes like large shareholders in corporations do? And if we allocate votes based on stakes invested, what would stop someone from buying their way in and taking over the same way it happened with PIR?

C'mon, jitsi is just as good/bad a name as slack, discord, webex, bluejeans, skype, zoom, or any other video conference system name.

I can't listen to music at all when I'm designing the code, and I find it very distracting. Designing interfaces/APIs/etc is a higher bandwidth activity for me, and requires more focus, so music is a distraction.

But when I'm implementing the design, I find music very helpful. Just turning the code from design to actual code takes less focus from me, so I can end up getting distracted by other things in my environment if I don't have something else that can "fill up" the remaining amount of mental attention bandwidth. Also podcasts work even better than music for this.

I really don't like your story. The junior is clearly behaving immaturely and inappropriately by CCing others and not using an appropriate tone, but your response is to... retaliate by doing the exact same thing to him? What lesson is the junior supposed to learn here? That acting that way is A-OK as long as you have seniority and are factually correct? At least the junior has the "excuse" of being a junior, but really as a more senior person you should have known better.

Surely there must have been a better way for you to handle this situation.

I don't understand the reason for the facial expressions. Isn't everyone just going to be neutral 99% of the time when they are just working by themselves on the computer?

How can we differentiate between this agent making these postings as an official part of their FBI duties, or making these posts for their own reasons? I know that the screenshots imply that they made these posts while performing their duties, but well I'm at work right now when I'm making this HN comment, and that doesn't mean that my employer instructed me to make this comment.

Is this sanctioned forum sliding, or just a bored government employee shitposting when they're supposed to be working?

Maybe it's cheaper to transport raisins than grapes? They are smaller so you could fit more of them on a truck. Also they are already dried out, so they may be less sensitive to shipping conditions.

Only partially. If you fund your HSA outside of your company's payroll system you can deduct your contribution amount from your MAGI for income tax purposes, but you still have to pay FICA taxes (social security and medicare) on that income.

If you have your HSA contributions made through your company's payroll department, then you don't have to pay FICA taxes on it.

In our case it's a hardware h264 encoder in an embedded product, so our method wouldn't be any of any use for you in a more general case. We sussed out an undocumented debug api to get the chip to dma the motion vectors to a debug buffer, and then we can extract and use them. I think those apis are originally intended to be used if a customer is having issues with the product so that the vendor engineers can help troubleshoot.

We were originally looking at analyzing the h264 bitstream in software and getting the vectors out that way. Honestly I don't think that would be extraordinarily difficult, there's already code in ffmpeg to draw the motion vectors as arrows on the decoded frame, so that would be a good place to look if there aren't any preexisting apis or tools to extract them.

Good luck!