Software engineer at the Nucleic Acid Observatory in Boston.
jefftk
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Careful with Caching
Boston Rents Over Time II
Two Kids Crosswise
If your goal is to clap louder, cup your lower palm and hit it with the fingers of your other hand. When I do this it’s painfully loud: not only is it much higher, where human hearing is more sensitive, but it’s also just higher energy.
Thanks! Now fixed on jefftk.com as well
Clapping Lower
Perverse Independence Incentives
Sharing the link would disclose who I was talking to, sorry!
Hiring Programmers in Academia
That’s weird, they all look fine to me...
Can you give me an example?
Room Opening
Spending Update 2022
I don’t understand your last paragraph?
February, March, June. Around here the cutoff is September 1st.
(Timing isn’t necessarily going to work out, plus I don’t think we were targeting a season)
child/spousal support works differently and is unlikely to be adjusted downward based on a decrease in income, especially in this scenario.
That’s right: as far as I know that’s the only case of means testing where we go by what you could be earning and not what you are earning. That is, it’s normally income dependent, but if the court determines you’re voluntarily underemployed they can calculate based on imputed income.
good luck buying a house
Setting aside the question of saving enough to buy the house, which is about how much you decide to keep for yourself and not whether you donate via cash or voluntarily pay reduction, the issue is that banks will see a lower income than if you were drawing your full pay. But since you can go back to full pay (plus donation) at any point, you can do this as soon as you start looking for a house, as long as you remember to.
I agree most people aren’t thinking this through.
Minimizing pre-school childcare costs this way, however, also minimizes your child’s age when school starts. I think this is probably pretty bad for them long term, and recall reading various things that showed large outcomes differences between kids born just before and after age cutoffs.
I agree, though you do also want to be prepared in case heat-induced electrical demand leads to power outages.
Some air conditioners have this functionality built-in.
All AC units dehumidify; it’s fundamental to the way they cool. They chill a small amount of air well before where you want it, and mix it in with the rest of the room air. During that chilling step, it is so cold that it can hold substantially less moisture, which condenses out. ACs evaporate this outside, or, in older models, drip it outside.
Agreed on separate blankets, but if you face them opposite directions and also crosswise their feet will be close to each others heads, which seems like it would go poorly?