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A direct attack on me filing my taxes literally the last minute.


Many of the RTOs described in TFA already have extended hours on April 15 where you can drop it off up to midnight, and it would be post marked as the 15th even though the postmark stamping would be after midnight.


Last year I was hit with a failure-to-pay penalty, even though I mailed the check on the deadline. When I spoke to an IRS agent, they claimed that the payment needed to be received, not postmarked, by April 15. Never heard of that before. He was kind enough to remove the penalty because it was a first time offense.

Since then, I pay electronically. Never again.


from the IRS (https://www.irs.gov/filing/individuals/when-to-file)

Your return is considered filed on time if your envelope is properly addressed, postmarked and deposited in the mail by the due date.


It's strange to me that they list them in that order... making me think they meant "addressed, stamped, and deposited", since postmarking clearly occurs later, after the others.


The IRS agent did not know the law (unlikely) or was just messing with you (likely)


E-file. Pay online.


I don't believe that there is a way to do that without third-party software?


What about Free File Fillable Forms?


Not everyone qualifies. Thanks to tax software company lobbying.


https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/free_file_fillable_forms_use... says "Free File Fillable Forms has no age, income or residency restrictions".


IIRC if you have other than some basic income types, you cannot use it though.


That's also third party (run by "Free File Alliance, LLC").


You can also use specific DHL, FedEx, and UPS services: https://www.irs.gov/filing/private-delivery-services-pds


The LoongArch initiative made sense before Risc-V, when RMS was using it, etc. Now it makes more sense to put more wood behind one arrow.


30 minutes is enough? I hope this person doesn't complain about "flow state" when I interrupt him by dropping by at his desk then!


You really need to shut this down dude. If HTMX becomes famous for having overbearing advocates that's a really bad look. Look at what happened with Rust.


"What happened to Rust" is that it got a lot of coverage for being good, then a few people were annoying about how good it is, and now a large number of other people have become annoying in their complaints about how annoying the first group was. Meanwhile, Rust & its community remain unaffected; adoption continues to grow, and Rust now used in the kernel, Windows, Android, AWS infra, etc.

The problem you've encountered is that people are annoying. I'm afraid that's not specific to any one technology or community. Fortunately, annoying blog posts are easily ignored and would never stop a useful tool from being adopted anyway.


Rust is doing great.


Please don't try to game the algorithm here.


The trick to gaming the algorithm here is to post interesting original content that software-focused people like to read

Don't tell the mods!


Broadly true, but I think we can let the hardware-focused people in now and again, even if they do make an awful noise as they drag their knuckles along the floor :)


Or do, so that weaknesses can be identified and fixed.


> When you tap one of those fields it bounces you to a contact card.

They've changed that behavior a few versions ago: https://i.imgur.com/J965L1Z.png


The real answer is this: https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/1efubql/im_...

Not only nobody reads them, but Apple forces you to translate them into languages even less than nobody read. It'd be an improvement if they only required English text.


Meanwhile I see the most bizarre changelogs that I don't understand why Apple approves.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/chime-mobile-banking/id8362152...

"Choose your own update notes adventure! Pick only one: A, B, or C.

A. The holidays are coming up and we've been busy planning a celebration of bug bashes and performance enhancements, so get merry and smash that update button.

B. Shorter days, longer nights, colder temps. You know what helps the Winter blues?

Instant gratification. Tap update, watch that progress bar fill up, and feel the dopamine flow.

C. Whoever made up the mistletoe thing was crazy. You know what's not? Updating your app."

This... also serves no useful purpose.


Web browsing wasn't a particular strength of it. I remember the N900's browser came with a version of Gecko around a year old by the time. Flash support was a downside. And of course, contemporary iPhones ran circles around it in smoothness.


I seem to recall they received criticism for going with gecko when the rest of the industry was getting behind WebKit.


Buddy, just buy a replacement battery https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=BL-5J


I looked, but TBH, not sure what to make of "genuine" and "OEM" claims for a battery for a 16–year-old device (or 10-year-old if you count compatible Lumias). Descriptions usually do not mention manufacture dates either.


> not sure what to make of "genuine" and "OEM" claims for a battery for a 16–year-old device

They're lies, but the batteries work. There were Chinese lines manufacturing knockoff BL-5Js, and there may still be one or two, or just a bunch of crates filled with old ones. Source: still use an N900, but just for podcasts.

> 10-year-old if you count compatible Lumias

Worse, those Lumia BL-5Js aren't actually compatible. The slots cut into the battery aren't wide enough to fit into the N900. Unless you're willing to cut apart the battery itself, they're useless.


In the industry, we call this the "fuck off article design" (I gave up reading midway through the post.)


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