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HamsterRage,

Give credit to George Carlin for that one.

HamsterRage,

The wording of this borderline deceptive. OAS has a reasonable threshold at which the clawback starts, and by the time you get to the top end, the clawback is very close to 100% of the benefit. So those seniors up near $134K are getting like $20/month. It’s not nothing, but it’s not worth all the angst here.

The $179K threshold is for those who deferred the benefit, so they’ve had years of zero benefit earlier on. Which is a gamble that you’ll live long enough to make up the difference.

Also, remember that these numbers are all AFTER the benefit is included. So a senior at the lower cutoff is actually making $73K before the benefit.

Also, also, remember that all of these amounts are taxed as income. So that senior at $73K pre-benefit is going to be taxed at the highest rate for the benefit.

Even so, it would still have made more sense to give additional benefits through GIS instead of OAS.

HamsterRage,

it’s worth talking about who needs benefits, versus who is getting them.

It’s hard to mess with this stuff and take things away because these amounts are part of people’s retirement planning. People and the upper cut-off probably wouldn’t care because they get so little, but if you start messing with the low end of the clawback range, then you start to cause problems.

HamsterRage,

In this case you could view a swap partition as a safety net. Put 20-30GB in a swap partition in case something goes wrong. You won’t miss the disk space.

HamsterRage,

Try living in Canada. Pretty much all the providers charge $15/day for roaming! No monthly plans available.

HamsterRage,

It doesn’t have to be BYOD. The firm might willing to procure a specific machine for her. Or she might have enough clout to make them get her what she wants.

HamsterRage,

To me, as a non-American, the most baffling thing is that everyone in the States just assumes, and accepts, that these appointed justices are going to rule according to some political bias.

That’s not the way it works in the rest of the free world. Judges are, by definition, trusted to be impartial interpreters of the law/constitution. That’s their role.

I live in Canada, and I’m vaguely familiar with some of the names of our Supreme Court justices, but I certainly don’t know their political leanings, nor do I care. Nor does any Canadian I know. That’s the way it’s supposed to be.

So as far as I can see, the problem isn’t that SCOTUS is stacked with Republicans, nor that it can be. The problem is that everyone seems to assume that this is the way it should be.

HamsterRage,

And yet I never see any mention of this anywhere. Even here, it seems that Biden is more concerned about whether the court can administer justice because it is so much out of balance. No mention, though, that the “balance” shouldn’t even be a factor.

SCOTUS justices are appointed for life because it’s supposed to put them above political considerations. No politician can influence them by threatening removal. Yet, there you are, SCOTUS is just as political as the other two branches.

HamsterRage,

TIL: Button batteries have a bitter coating.

HamsterRage,

“Row headers” seems wrong to me. Maybe “row labels”?

HamsterRage,

FORTRAN IV was the first language I learned to program in. Punch cards!!!

HamsterRage,

Canadian providers all charge about $15 a day to “roam like home”. For about $20 I can buy a 30 day 5GB data only plan for Europe. Getting a European phone number doubles the cost as most of those plans have much more data as well. You can buy the plans before you leave, download and install the eSIM so you’re ready to go when you arrive.

The wife and I both bought Pixel 7’s this year as they support eSIM. We’re in England right now. Our cost roaming would have been $600+. Only one of us needed a local phone number, and the has just data, and the cost was maybe $70.

HamsterRage,

Rogers won’t let you use wifi calling to avoid the roaming charges. I’ve tried.

What are some FOSS programs that you think are a far better user experience than their counterparts? (sh.itjust.works)

I used Plex for my home media for almost a year, then it stopped playing nice for reasons I gave up on diagnosing. While looking at alternatives, I found Jellyfin which is much more responsive, IMO, and the UI is much nicer as well....

HamsterRage,

I never expected to see a compiler in this list, at least not in 2023.

Back in 1988 I realized how rubbish Microsoft was when I discovered Borland’s Turbo Pascal and Turbo C compilers. I’d previously used the MS compilers and they were multipass, multi-minutes to finish a compile. The Borland ones were single pass and FAST.

Back then, compile times could be huge, and everyone was publishing benchmarks on compiled program performance, which mattered on the hardware of the day. I never even think about that stuff these days.

Does "Selfhosted" mean you actually have a server at home?

I’m trying to better understand hosting a Lemmy Instance. Lurking discussions it seems like some people are hosting from the Cloud or VPS. My understanding is that it’s better to futureproof by running your own home server so that you have the data and the top most control of hardware, software etc. My understanding is that...

HamsterRage,

Well, there are specific hardware configurations that are designed to be servers. They probably don’t have graphics cards but do have multiple CPUs, and are often configured to run many active processes at the same time.

But for the most part, “server” is more related to the OS configuration. No GUI, strip out all the software you don’t need, like browsers, and leave just the software you need to do the job that the server is going to do.

As to updates, this also becomes much simpler since you don’t have a lot of the crap that has vulnerabilities. I helped manage comuter department with about 30 servers, many of which were running Windows (gag!). One of the jobs was to go through the huge list of Microsoft patches every few months. The vast majority of which, “require a user to browse to a certain website” in order to activate. Since we simply didn’t have anyone using browsers on them, we could ignore those patches until we did a big “catch up” patch once a year or so.

Our Unix servers, HP-UX or AIX, simply didn’t have the same kind of patches coming out. Some of them ran for years without a reboot.

HamsterRage,

Kotlin is a very easy transition, and it sorts out a ton of issues that you find in Java. Certainly easier than moving to Rust.

Looking for a kanban-ish thing for around the house / chores

I want to be able to keep track of certain things I (or more accurately, we as a family) need to do. E.g. paint the shed, call the people to clean the roof, pack bags for vacation, etc. It will just be shared between me and my partner. My partner is not super technical but is relatively open-minded to me wanting to do things...

HamsterRage,

Kanban is probably way overkill as a model for what you want. The key about Kanban is control of WIP/Queues at various stages and pulling items through the workflow. With a simple ToDo/WIP/Done workflow, you’re probably going to find any Kanban apps are too complicated for what you get out of them.

A different kind of programming workflow paradigm

Over 10 years ago, I had this sort of a prediction that, with the massive adoption of a dynamic language like javascript on both client/server sides and test-driven development gaining a lot of ground, the future of programming would be dynamic and “feedback-driven”. As in, you would immediately see the results of your code...

HamsterRage,

I’m not sure that what developers really, really need is faster programming cycles. Most teams could benefit more by controlling the process - from idea to deployed. How much technical debt is incurred because users/customers can’t prioritize features or give accurate requirements, there’s way too much WIP, features are huge, releases are huge and infrequent and the feedback cycles are far too long.

So yeah, as programmers it’s always cool to look at ways to program faster, but what’s the point in programming stuff nobody needs faster? Or programming the wrong things faster?

I’d be willing to be that if you asked any team, “What are the biggest impediments to delivering value to your users faster?”, the answer would be that you can’t cut code fast enough.

What's a 'dirty word' that you hate hearing when it's used to describe something or someone?

I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what...

HamsterRage,

Calling customers, “guests”. A customer is someone with a business relationship with someone/something else. They’re exchanging money for goods and services and have a right to expect certain value for their money.

A guest is something else entirely. A guest has no implicit right to expect a certain any particular level or quality of services. They are dependent on the magnamity of the “host”.

Calling a customer a “guest” robs them of status.

HamsterRage,

This is the ONE

HamsterRage,

That’s what I thought until I got that one. Then I realized what I had been missing all along. Marketing? Nope. Just sharing what I found to be good.

HamsterRage,

Every time I go back to Java I feel sad.

HamsterRage,

I always feel this way about tailgaters. They don’t seem to realize that they have given up all the power to the person they are tailgating.

HamsterRage,

Both of these are premium examples of book series that start out amazing and then start cicling the drain in book two. Add in “Ender’s Game” for the trifecta.

I expect downvotes.

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8 healthy habits linked to living decades longer: A study of more than 700,000 people found that adopting eight healthy habits by age 40 could extend life expectancy by more than two decades. https://archive.is/nxwDC

#science #health #habits #lifestyle

HamsterRage,

I love how not being a heroin addict is counted as a “healthy habit”. 😀

HamsterRage,

I dunno. The title was “Are there really no viable alternatives to PhotoShop on Linux?”. I think it’s fair to say, “There’s GIMP”. It’s viable. People use it successfully and happily. 'Nuff said.

HamsterRage,

The last rPi I bought was all of $40. I thought it was a bargain for the specs.

HamsterRage,

Not me 😭

HamsterRage,

I just installed it and I’m very impressed. The widgets are especially cool.

HamsterRage,

Very often the copyright holders of the content have different distribution arrangements for different countries/regions. If you can get the content from some other region, then your local content provider isn’t getting whatever fees/and revenue they would get from you.

HamsterRage,

I always thought Timothy Zahn was an above average author, and to wrote more than a dozen of them.

HamsterRage,

They’ve found the best way to reduce the threat of Russia without committing troops.

HamsterRage,

My blog is hosted on GitHub pages and it supports Jekyll. I use the MinimalMistakes template.

Why do people hate Manjaro and how to replicate Manjaro sway in arch or arco?

Pretty much the title. Where’s the hate towards Manjaro coming from? I was pretty much a Ubuntu/Fedora user for years but never got too technical. Used almost always gnome, but recently got interested in tiling wm and have done some searches and stumbled upon the Manjaro Sway edition and everything works quite well, but I keep...

HamsterRage,

I don’t get it either. I’ve been using it on some older laptops because I wanted something lighter weight. It works well for me.

HamsterRage,

I retired now, but I still write code for my blog. I totally prefer to write with Kotlin. Java just feels clunky to me now.

HamsterRage,

I wonder. There could only be one r/something, so if the mod was bad you were stuck. But there’s nothing to stop someone starting up another “something” community on another instance, if the mods suck in the first.

So maybe power mods will wither away in the Fediverse.

HamsterRage,

My Pixel 7 has a call screening function. It asks the caller to identify themselves and why they are calling and shows the dialogue on the screen. Very cool.

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