Synchronizing tax return columns
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@asdf said in Synchronize column widths between HTML tables:
Would you seriously google that shit all by yourself instead of trusting the large company you're working for, which supposedly deals with that kind of shit all the time, and following the instructions?
If it's already happened to you before, perhaps. First time, naw, you can be forgiven for not knowing.
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Oh, so that must have been what this anonymous blank white toaster was. Nice Jeffing notification, theme!
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This is reminding me of traditional end-of-year electricity bills. "Your actual usage this year was 15% lower than predicted. We'll be paying you back what you paid too much some time next year. Your monthly fee for this year has been increased by 20% (non-negotiable) because of expected oil price and usage increases.
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@PleegWat said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
This is reminding me of traditional end-of-year electricity bills. "Your actual usage this year was 15% lower than predicted. We'll be paying you back what you paid too much some time next year. Your monthly fee for this year has been increased by 20% (non-negotiable) because of expected oil price and usage increases.
And that's why I won't ever do budget utility billing. Bill me what I actually used, and I'll worry about being the responsible person to make sure I'm good in both winter and summer.
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@izzion said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
And that's why I won't ever do budget utility billing.
It's handy for unexpected things. Which generally seem to be the kids' fault. Especially water. Ugh...
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@boomzilla said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
@izzion said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
And that's why I won't ever do budget utility billing.
It's handy for unexpected things. Which generally seem to be the kids' fault. Especially water. Ugh...
Maybe instead of just sitting on the front porch with the shotgun, you should sit outside the bathroom with a stop watch timing showers?
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@izzion Actually, it was the backyard hose that got left on for a day or so.
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@boomzilla or, like in my case, my service line was busted and the meter registered over 10,000 gallons of water that month.
Although they adjusted that bill once I sent a copy of the paperwork from the contractor saying that they dug it up and fixed it...
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@boomzilla said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
@izzion said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
And that's why I won't ever do budget utility billing.
It's handy for unexpected things. Which generally seem to be the kids' fault. Especially water. Ugh...
One time I filled my 1600 square foot basement with 12 inches of water. My water bill only went up $50 that quarter.
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@Jaime so... about 12,000 gallons, give or take?
Lucky you. My bill went up by almost $100 for less.
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My water bill is "every few years go dig a hole and replace whatever allegedly corrosion proof fitting corroded this time" and $0. Yay wells.
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@Weng said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
My water bill is "every few years go dig a hole and replace whatever allegedly corrosion proof fitting corroded this time" and $0. Yay wells.
And the extra electricity you pay to operate the pump.
Doubly so if you have a "geo-thermal" heating system that has its own dedicated pump because otherwise the water pressure in your house approximates 0 while the HVAC is running.
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@PleegWat said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
electricity bills
Where I live, you can force electrical companies to stop overestimating your energy consumption. There have been dozens of court rulings on that topic. So if your electrical company tries to pull that shit, give them a phone call and tell them that you know what they're doing is unlawful, they'll immediately adjust their estimate.
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@izzion Heh. Electric heat. Going to fix that this year, hopefully.
The well pump is no big thang - I could probably schedule it to only build pressure during off peak hours even. I have 90 gallons of above ground tankage between the pressure tanks and water heaters.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
Oh, so that must have been what this anonymous blank white toaster was.
So you were informed of an event, but given insufficient information as to what that event was?
Sounds to me like you got a nodeification.
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@Jaime said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
Also, as long as you withheld more than your total tax bill was last year, they don't assess any penalty at all.
Unless your AGI last year was more than $150,000 ($75,000 for married filing separate return), in which case it's 110% of your total tax bill last year.
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@anotherusername said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
@Jaime so... about 12,000 gallons, give or take?
Such calculations are so much easier in metric (about 160 m² area and 0.3 m height, so 48,000 litres - looks like your 12,000 gallons). How in Belgium can you remember the conversion factor between cubic feet and gallons? (And since I'm feeling generous, I won't quibble about which gallon is meant.)
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@Khudzlin said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
How in Belgium can you remember the conversion factor between cubic feet and gallons?
Remember what? I just did this:
I remember that a gallon of water weighs 8.34 lbs, but that's just because I needed to use that figure yesterday.
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@anotherusername And I did my own calculation all in my head (I checked the conversion from square feet to square metres first, just to be sure), since conversions between metric units do not involve weird factors (like how a US gallon is 231 cubic feet - seriously, ), only powers of 10 (100 for areas, 1,000 for volumes).
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@Khudzlin said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
And I did my own calculation all in my head ... like how a US gallon is 231 cubic feet - seriously,
Even in my head I know that 1,600 divided by 12,000 can't possibly be anywhere even remotely close to 231.
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@anotherusername said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
@Khudzlin said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
And I did my own calculation all in my head ... like how a US gallon is 231 cubic feet - seriously,
Even in my head I know that 1,600 divided by 12,000 can't possibly be anywhere even remotely close to 231.
That's because I messed up. After rechecking, a US gallon is 231 cubic inches (and 1,600 x 1,728 / 12,000 is close to 231). Anyway, 231 is a really stupid conversion factor (unlike 12). I mean, it's 3x7x11 (instead of nice product of 2's, 3's and 5's).
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@Khudzlin that's because the people who came up with "gallons" and "feet" never got their heads together and said "hey let's make it so that it's really easy to convert from gallons to cubic feet".
And it really only matters when you're trying to do the calculation in your head. At which point you can probably just say that 2 cubic feet is 15 gallons and that's close enough.
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@anotherusername said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
@Khudzlin that's because the people who came up with "gallons" and "feet" never got their heads together and said "hey let's make it so that it's really easy to convert from gallons to cubic feet".
So you mean: because they were morons and chose a moronic design and it's poor UX and UI and it all works in a completely wrong way and it was probably open source?
Filed under: yeah, I know I'm a pretty poor impressionist. I mean, it's a poor impression!
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@anotherusername The fact that it's a whole number (which is not true for british gallons, by the way) suggests some degree of choosing a factor. As for "hey let's make it so that it's really easy to convert from unit1 to unit2", that's exactly how the metric system was designed (along with a desire to standardize units).
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@Khudzlin said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
The fact that it's a whole number
It's not; it's just very close to a whole number. And that's only by a happy accident.
@Khudzlin said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
As for "hey let's make it so that it's really easy to convert from unit1 to unit2", that's exactly how the metric system was designed (along with a desire to standardize units).
I'm aware. Clearly, it doesn't bother us half as much as it clearly bothered those blokes.
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@anotherusername said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
@Khudzlin said in Synchronizing tax return columns:
The fact that it's a whole number
It's not; it's just very close to a whole number. And that's only by a happy accident.
It is. A US gallon is defined as 231 cubic inches. Here's what Wikipedia says about it (you can find a link to the relevant NIST document at the bottom of the article on the gallon).
The wine, fluid, or liquid gallon has been the standard US gallon since the early 19th century. The wine gallon, which some sources relate to the volume occupied by eight medieval merchant pounds of wine, was at one time defined as the volume of a cylinder 6 inches deep and 7 inches in diameter, i.e. 6 in × (3 1⁄2 in)² × π ≈ 230.907 06 cubic inches. It had been redefined during the reign of Queen Anne, in 1706, as 231 cubic inches exactly, which is the result of the earlier definition with π approximated to 22⁄7. Although the wine gallon had been used for centuries for import duty purposes there was no legal standard of it in the Exchequer and a smaller gallon (224 cu in) was actually in use, so this statute became necessary. It remains the US definition today.
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@Khudzlin well, I guess I stand corrected. Google said a gallon was 231.001 cubic inches, so apparently they have some floating point issues going on.
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@anotherusername Actually, the previous definition would have resulted in an opposite-direction error (231 being an overestimation): the volume of a cylinder 6 in deep and 7 in in diameter is about 230.907 cu in. It's only when someone decided to use 22/7 as an approximation for π (a pretty good one, the error is only about 1 in 5,000) that the conversion factor became a whole number.