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There was a coding horror story I read some years ago where a developer bragged that he improved performance by artificially increasing iterations on some critical path in an app and then lowering the iterations occasionally while bragging to management about squeezing out more performance.

Kind of reminds me of that, but with more smoke and mirrors

You can sell your primary residence and be exempt from capital gains taxes on the first $250,000 if you're single and $500,000 if married filing jointly.

In addition to the $250,000 (or $500,000 for a couple) exemption, you can also subtract your full cost basis in the property from the sales price. Your cost basis is calculated by starting with the price you paid for the home, and then adding purchase expenses, such as closing costs, title insurance, and any settlement fees.

Also, most (if not all) states do not tax your primary residence unless you go past the federal exemptions.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/06/capitalgainhomes...

It has them. It just lacks some of the features

Swiping feels a bit more accurate than Gboard overall. I'm not seeing a way to add a word to the dictionary. Am I missing something?

The United States did not win the invasion of Canada during the revolutionary war.

I work for an org that makes research software for chemistry and other branches of science and it's definitely hit us in sales. No one wants to spend money if they don't know if they're going to get or keep the grants they petitioned for.

> Gets wrecked by horse archers. That ends up being typical for Romans

I don't think the Western Romans ever really learned from it did they? The Huns ended up wreaking them pretty hard.

I know the Eastern Romans did learn at some point out of necessity by creating their own professional units and hiring mercs.

My parents live in Ohio and rotate wheat/soy/corn every year as do their neighbors

Herbicide: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picloram

Yes https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260423-00/?p=11...

That's really cool! If I'm up near Calgary in the future I'm definitely checking that out. I miss the penguin march they would do here, but I understand why they stopped

Cincinnati Zoo? I saw them perform their march the other year. I think they stopped because the flock was getting too old

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2024/01/08/cincinnati-...

The movie Casino was loosely based on him. Worth a watch, but also actually looking the real guy up.

Plenty of small birds do not nest in tree cavities. Chipping sparrows[1] for example do not and are of similar size. Hummingbirds also do not. Meanwhile, owls live in nest cavities and most are larger than songbirds.

That said, the going theory about why some birds choose to nest in cavities is lower mortality rate in their young. Birds who nest in boxes typically have more babies per clutch than those that do not so perhaps that's it? I take that more as no one really knows why one species does while another of similar size does not.

Another random observation is most large birds walk and smaller birds hop. That's not always true either, since blue jays hop and crows will walk and sometimes hop. Hummingbirds cannot do either and just shuffle side to side on perches.

I guess I'm trying to say there's exceptions to the rules in bird behavior, but they're more outliers.

[1] https://brighamstephen.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018...

Surprisingly, we didn't really teach him most words and it was through context like yours. Teaching him mostly seems to backfire (i.e. "You want me to say that? Well I'm going to refuse to do it!"). The only one we might have taught him was "peek-a-boo", but even that has context, since he'll say it when we cover his head or we try to hide from him. Sometimes he'll hide behind my laptop, poke his head out and say it when he's trying to get my attention.

I guess I did teach him to say "yeah!". It became his alternative to express any excitable emotion instead of screaming. Usually comes with a little head bob at the same time for additional cuteness. He heard the song "Mi Gente" in a commercial once and when they say "yeah yeah yeah", out of nowhere he I hear him respond back with a "yeah!".

The first thing he learned was his name, "Willy", and for the longest time I thought he would just be a Pokemon...forever saying his name with different intonations depending on what he was trying to imply. I think he picked that up within his first year or so. Then he learned a few more. After 6 years he might be up to 12-16 now. Could be more, but he says a lot of gibberish that hasn't formed into words quite yet.

Perhaps my favorite is when he says he's a "good boy" and he just did something bad. Little jerk knows exactly what he's saying, but we love him anyways.

I can't really get him to do tricks yet, other than spinning in a circle. He's highly treat motivated, so anything that results in getting food will usually work if you keep at it. I'm trying to get him to try on a flight harness so we can take him out and about with us more often. He likes people, but he could be more socialized.

Guessing you have a green cheek as well? We have a cinnamon variation. I think they're a bit odd, but that could be GCCs in general as we've only had 1 and a budgie.

I would agree with that in most cases. They treat them like their personal house, unless the owner decides to reinforce their use as a form of punishment. Not really any different than building a dog house for a dog.

If you're referring to keeping parrots in cages outside of their natural habitats, that ship sailed when they were brought to non native locations. I'm being hyperbolic, but I assume you don't want them to be released in the wild and die, right?

We have some feral colonies set up in places like Miami and San Francisco, but not all species thrive in warm locations.

That said, my palm sized green cheek conure is rarely in his extremely large cage (it's 4 by 4 feet). Door is always open unless he's sleeping or we're out of the house. Usually he's with me on my shoulder when I'm working during the day and gives his "2 cents" when I'm in meetings.

Most parrots kept as pets prefer it locked for security reasons. He'll get anxious if it's not when he's trying to sleep.

I've seen a lot of terrible bird owners, but I also know plenty that enrich their bird's lives. My little conure has a surprisingly extensive vocabulary for a species not known for speaking.

He says "poo" when when he has to poop, "what's up?" when he greets anyone, "whatcha doing", "<his name>", "yeah!" (mimicking Little Jon), "stop" (when he doesn't like what we're doing), "good boy", "Love you" and a few others I can't recall off the top of my head.

Was he picking up the phone and telling them to call him back on the other number?

It's actually the newest carrier in the Navy

We already have 23/6 trading with index futures. The S&P500 (ES), NASDAQ 100 (NQ), DOW (YM) will sometimes gap up or down on open just to match overnight trading.

American robins come to my bird feeder quite often, but it's really for the peanuts (protein) and berries. The seeds themselves are deshelled, so they do occasionally take a sunflower chip. Shelless seeds have the side effect of attracting birds that don't normally visit feeders.

It's kind of cute: I'll see my resident robin observing the other local birds at the feeder and decide that he/she needs to get in on that too. They're smarter than they appear.

You're are correct though in that I've never need them take a seed that has a shell. I'm not sure their beaks are made to crack them open.

Birds like cardinals, chickadees, titmice and nuthatches do find insects for their young (protein), but primarily eat seeds the rest of the year. I'll still see them come to the feeder when they have babies, but it's for the high protein seeds like sunflower and also peanut pieces.

Funny enough, some birds, such as American goldfinches, don't feed their offspring insects at all to discourage brood parasites like cowbirds. Cowbird nestlings need insect protein to survive and if a cowbird lays eggs in a goldfinch nest, that bird is doomed.

If you really want to watch them up close, look for a feeder with a camera. If you're lucky you'll get some great video of them deciding what to eat and what to feed their young.

I love electronic renditions of classical music. Trance does this often (Tiesto, Armin van Buuren, William Orbit, Ferry Corsten and others) and it's some of the best work they put out. To me, it's like a natural progression from classical minimalism, such as Phillip Glass or Max Richter.

I've played the violin since I was a kid (only for fun now). I can find something I love about almost any musical genre and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

BT is a trance dj that's classically trained: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT_(musician) and Armin van Buuren has classically trained parents

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6yFanGv_ReU

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S1YwlPH_o50

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j2fNloJAge0 (same chord progression as la folia https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7v8zxoEoA_Q)

La folia itself has been "remixed" many times by both classical and modern composers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folia

Coincidentally, FDR's predecesor was an engineer and we know how that presidency went (not that it was entirely his fault, but he didn't make things better either)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover#Mining_engineer

I used to love Opera, until they dropped the Presto Engine for Chromium's and sold off the company. These days, Vivaldi is more like Opera than current Opera since the founder is the former co-founder of Opera.

Honestly, the best way to cook is with grams. Throw everything into the same pot on a scale and keep zeroing it out. Way less mess to clean up. All the top baking recipes tend to already be in grams, but there's plenty of others out there that are not

Also a great use for LLMs. I'll tell it to convert recipes from volume to grams by estimating density. It's surprisingly accurate

Texas Instruments calculators in high school. Gave me something to do when I was bored in class.

I understand where you're coming from, but how is it different than parents telling kids that Santa is watching them?

We hire juniors through a 2 year internal training program. Mostly recent college grads. If she doesn't mind moving to Ohio, feel free to reach out.

Sure they do:

https://nginx.org/en/docs/quic.html

https://apisix.apache.org/docs/apisix/http3/

Funny enough, so does my green cheek conure (small parrot about the side of a fist). Their beaks are made from keratin, like our nails, so it's conductive when touching the screen.

The hiss of the bombs gets him a bit angry though. Parrots hiss and it kind of sounds like that.