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This is an ad for Esri

The questions were meant to be rhetorical questions, but did get plenty of informative answers that using jumper cables with a 12V car battery is unlikely to result in accidental death.

Any article/video that says N number of people died doing X should provide some context about how many people do X, how many people die doing Y, which is similar to X.

Is 34, about 6 per year, a lot? How many people do fractal wood burning? How many people are electrocuted using jumper cables on cars each year?

For those of us not from Texas, this article informs us that Travis County, which covers Austin, charges ~2.5% annual property tax on personal property owned by businesses.

Bird owns personal property (scooters) worth about $6M in Travis County.

This video could have been a tweet

Enjoying the serendipity of finding the right tool at the right time: https://twitter.com/xn/status/1528845032438083584

Apparently he's not the thought sending type of mentalist.

My goal was to encourage those enthusiastic about NFTs to focus some of their energy on solving actual problems.

I certainly didn't evaluate whether the trade-offs between an NFT-based counterfeit-resistant ticketing solution would make it better than a centralized one, but it's at least conceivable that making use of a public-access transaction processing network that also maintains state about current ownership could make the overall costs lower than a solution built upon more traditional payment rails and state-management applications.

I don't know what's legally binding in your jurisdiction, but in the US, scribbling on a PDF will suffice for most purposes. xournal++ is a free tool that will support this.

Sunshine Math is a great set of math problems for grades K - 8. I couldn't find a publisher, but PDFs of scanned copies are available online.

When working with large csv files, you're better off importing the file into a sqlite database if you want to perform more than one query.

Knowing the import is happening behind the scenes is useful when you hit performance problems with the tool.

Thanks for sharing. Looks like gromit-mpx fixes one of the longstanding bugs in gromit in which new strokes often cause a line across the screen (from the end of the last stroke?).

If you add confidence interval estimates to each task and a way of inputting the amount of time you can allocate to grit-managed tasks, you could calculate estimated task completion dates: https://www.liquidplanner.com/support/articles/statistically...

I've been happy with the quality of the Logitech 4K Pro sold by Apple. Works great out of the box with linux.

I don't understand why the journalist didn't contact the manufacturers to confirm that the products were authentic.

Our kids liked the Robot Turtles board game. The kids are the programmers, playing cards to give instructions. The parent is the computer, executing the instructions (while making silly sound effects).

Visidata (http://visidata.org/) is my tool of choice these days.

Kofola also owns Vinea, which is a much better soft drink.

If you use a confidence-interval estimates, you can choose how wide to make the confidence interval. I use 80% confidence intervals because that's what supported by the project management tool I use. 10% of the time, the project should take more than the high estimate (and 10%, less than the low estimate).

If you use a 99.9% confidence interval and miss the high estimate, then you're probably over-confident. (And your estimate was probably too wide to be meaningful.)

I use ranged estimates with LiquidPlanner. I send a project plan showing the estimates and expected completion date. If the estimates are wide, I explain that I can make them narrower by spending more (billable) time doing research.

Here's an example for a small project with a new potential client I met with for about 20 minutes: https://gist.github.com/bc2f83544b210f81715c4f4175fca985

Estimates are fairly wide because I haven't seen any of their code, just a brief screenshare and a description of the work they would like completed.

In most cases, that charge isn't passed on to the buyer/donor. When it is, it should be made explicit.

Nonprofits sometimes make it an option, e.g. "Add 3% to your donation to help offset credit card processing fees".

Is the donor charged a different amount based on whether they pay through Stripe or Paypal?

If I go to donate $5 at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/xn, it looks like I'll be $5 if I pay through Stripe with a credit card, and $5.45 if I pay using PayPal:

https://gist.github.com/cwarden/4df8d8a5df0ff010e39d810f58ec...

If you want a free, fast, and not so beautiful way to accept a fixed amount with a Stripe account, here's a simple application with a Deploy to Heroku button: https://github.com/cwarden/pay

I bought tickets to the San Diego show on the Vitalogy tour from ETM. They went out of business in 2000: http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jun/20/business/fi-42758

The Opendoor model doesn't seem much different than how relocation companies work apart from more directly marketing to homeowners rather than corporate HR departments.

All new job listing sites should follow the lead of AngelList and StackOverflow, and include a salary field.

I like tpp (http://www.ngolde.de/tpp.html). Syntax is easy to learn. It can simulate shell interaction and you can shell out from within the presentation.

And it's been feature complete for a long time. I just tried viewing a short presentation I have at BayLISA nine years ago (https://gist.github.com/cwarden/1349583), and it looks fine.

The calculator won't let you enter an Estimated Ending Price lower than the Current Home Price.

Sounds like a good way to hedge against declines in your overvalued property without having to move.

"If you don't sell, you can buy back Point’s stake at any time during the term at the then current appraised property value."

GA would probably be a more appropriate description.