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Looks like a solution is on the way to the tax problems of Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 174: As at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44226145 with Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in…

In computing such as on Microsoft Windows, with several, especially 10 or more, windows (visible, not minimized) need a way to arrange them in a productive way. So, wrote some code to do that. In simple terms, the…

At Elon Musk's Web site X, just saw their invitation to try their AI software: Grok 3 is here. Try it for free. The world's smartest AI, Grok 3, is now available on X and iOS. Tap below to try. There is a lot on the…

A problem, a solution that is at least partially complete, some documentation of the solution, and a question -- is there more to the problem and more needed for a complete solution? The situation and problem: Received…

This year Mystik Dan won the 2024 Kentucky Derby with a winning time 2:03.24. Secretariat won the 1973 Derby in 1:59.4 and that was a new Derby record and, from some fast Google searching, still stands. So, the…

Question: Roasting cooking pork shoulder for BBQ and want to know when it will be done. Why Care: The usual approach to cooking BBQ is "low and slow". So, with oven temperature of 210 F (which is "low") the cooking time…

With Web site code running as intended, going live is on the way. (1) What are some ballpark figures of ad revenue in dollars per Web page? What are the main causes of higher/lower per page revenue? (2) What data does…

My opinion: The user interface (UI) example of Hacker News (HN) is in strong contrast to the UI in many millions of Web sites, sites where some common UI design ideas are causing many users to become angry and leave.…

Yes, I know: Most Web sites are intended to make money. Okay. But some now common Web site user interface (UI) practices have me leaving the site, in particular, resulting in the Web site producer (publisher) making…

It sounds like in the space we live in it is possible in principle to have a sphere with circumference 1 foot and diameter 1000 miles.

As a first test, at Microsoft's Bing feature Chat I gave two questions: (1) My first question asked for a solution to y'(t) = k y(t) (b - y(t)) Right away Chat noticed that this was calculus and would involve…

At Microsoft's Bing feature Chat I gave two questions: (1) My first question asked for a solution to y'(t) = k y(t) (b - y(t)) Right away Chat noticed that this was calculus and would involve exponential growth. Then it…

Yup, early in my career and doing my own cooking, I wanted some beef stew. Then for some decades, over and over, I followed supposedly some of the best recipes from supposedly some of the best qualified cooks, followed…

Need some ideas for a Xmas gift for a 7th Grade Boy, US Middle Class!!!!

Was developing some notes on calculus for a nephew, derived Taylor series, and just as an example wrote some code for editor KEdit, with 1000 decimal digit precision, to calculate natural log base e to 36 decimal…

Below we have output and code for the Google lake volume puzzle.