Clearly the author pulled a Slowpoke card

All banks I’ve done business supported exporting CSV or OVX files of transactions so you don’t need a third party connection into your bank account, although that is an option. It depends on region, but banks are only required to retain data for certain periods of time, and keeping a history of each transaction can be useful for budgeting or investing.

Regarding Mint, If I’m remembering correctly, it seemed like they were doing a redesign of the site and then decided to shut it down. I’d have to imagine after they got purchased, all the original devs left and maintaining each connection with each bank was a huge hassle. They probably spent so much modernizing the site and still had to maintain connections, that the operational costs outweighed the income from advertising.

If you’re dealing all in cash this makes sense, but for those with multiple bank accounts, keeping track of everything without software is burdensome. I can’t imagine copy/pasting each transaction from my banks website into a spreadsheet. Computers are better at math than humans, they should be doing the calculations, not me.

Thirding Actual, I will admit I was using Mint for way longer than I should have for convenience, and moved to Actual after Mint shut down. If you only have a few accounts, it’s not that terrible to download transactions as QFX files and import them once a month when paying the bills. I haven’t tried SimpleFin or anything automated, but that would get you even closer to the experience of Mint.

The install process should be deterministic. When you run sudo make install it should do the same thing every time you run it. If this process fails, it’s because of a missing dependency or permission issue or something like that. The failure should never be because of a statistically probability during installation that causes the installer to go off and do something wildly different.

Well if the requirements.txt is pinned to a specific version of a dependency of a dependency, you might not know or really care why that’s set. But then this becomes a nightmare and dependency hell laterif you want a newer version of some package, and that newer version requires a bunch of newer packages and loses the others. At that point you probably will toss your old file and start a new one from scratch piecing together all the requirements with like pip freeze in a new virtual environment.

Sure you could omit the versions, but then everytime you deploy, you don’t know what you’re going to get and a deployment today would be very different next week with a whole bunch of different versions of dependencies.

Yes exactly, like if I know my app needs the requests library, I will just put that in requirements.in but after compile requirements.txt will include the exact version of requests and every version of each dependency. So that every time pip install is run, all dependencies are always the same despite what happens upstream

Curious what others have to say, but my go to is to have a requirements.in with direct packages I need for the project, and then run pip-compile to generate all the dependencies with their exact version at the time so that deployments are repeatable. This works well for deployment, but if I were writing a library for others to use, I think you put the direct dependencies in setup.py

think Maxima gives answers as fractions by default, but didn’t know how that worked.

It’s likely based on the theory of continued fractions and the calculator has a limit to the maximum denominator allowed to return an approximation of the fraction.

I’m interested to see what sort of keylogger or rootkit exists on it

It’s pretty insane that they can advertise as FDIC insured while not being insured. Pretty much erodes faith in that claim which is the opposite of why FDIC exists.

How do you know the person you responded to was referring to America? there are so many pathetic countries to choose from!

Yeah I wouldn’t sacrifice the simplicity for more features, the one button buy/sell is a great mechanic.

Have you considered having a “retirement game play mode” where the goal is to achieve some goal amount of money before the couch. This could be a good way to illustrate more longer term investment strategies

This is pretty fun, good job

The administration is trying to claim that there were ceasefires and that because there were (based on their claims), the conflict timer resets so as to be with the 60 day window before Congress needs to approve the continued use of the military. So basically the new conflict that just started immediately follows the previous conflict, that started back in February, is still within the 60 day window.

IANAL too, but 4th amendment protections are different at borders, and this was at an international airport. The duress code is an interesting wrinkle, like what if he told them the code and the officers entered it into the phone, did the officer technically erase evidence then? I think Apple has some similar setting to wipe the iPhone after 10 failed attempts or something like that, so surprised this hasn’t come up before to setup precedence

“Did the toll records that you requested from the Senators, did they include the content of the phone calls?” Smith was asked.

“No,” he said. He again answered no when asked whether the toll records he had requested included the content of text messages.

Jordan, in his referral, says that that answer was misleading in light of newly released records from Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa showing that Smith had obtained the contents of 44 lawmakers’ text messages in a separate subpoena to the National Archives and Records Administration that sought the communications of various Trump advisers and aides.

Doesn’t seem like the statement Smith made was false, just that the question was too narrowly focused on toll records and Senators specifically. They should have asked if any contents of anyone’s text messages were accessed by any subpoena in the investigation, but they didn’t.

Or maybe they’re not commenting on her appearance at all and saying she owns a marina with 1,000 ships.