afn

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Comment · 1 day ago
Easy to solve: we just need to start creating curated awesome lists of awesome repos!
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Comment · 9 months ago
Tangent: this link looks like a right-wing propaganda site; I wouldn’t trust any information there without verifying it with trusted sources.

> Thanks to the President’s decisive leadership in the face of radical left-wing obstructionism, the Department of the Treasury has now resumed normal operations.

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Comment · 2 years ago
> (Just be careful, if your regular expression matcher uses backtracking, you might get pathological behaviour. Though memoisation makes that less likely to hit by accident in practice.)

Doesn’t that exactly demonstrate why using the tool effectively requires an understanding of the implementation (or possible implementations) behind the abstraction?

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Comment · 3 years ago
I feel like I’m missing something, so perhaps there’s an aspect of corporate taxes here that I don’t understand. I would expect a write-off like this to reduce the assets of the firm on paper, perhaps having an impact on the market valuation, but don’t see how it would impact taxes.

Wouldn’t the actual expenses of production reduce tax liability immediately when they are incurred, regardless of whether or not the corporation later is able to make a profit off of the product? Or do they treat the production of a film as net-zero from a tax perspective because they had $X million in expenses and gained $X million in assets in the form of the finished film?

Comment · 3 years ago
FYI, you can rent the press tools reasonably cheaply if you’re not a plumber by trade. I rented one for $80 for a plumbing project a few years back and it was worth every penny. A million times easier & faster than sweating joints.
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Comment · 3 years ago
By default, curl interprets braces and square brackets to expand into multiple URLs (similarly to bash and other shells). You can disable this, and use literal braces & brackets in URLs, by passing ‘-g’ (‘--globoff’).

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