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by CivBase 5y ago
This PC only has a a 550 Watt PSU. For context, NVIDIA recommends a PSU capable of delivering at least 750 Watts for an RTX 3080. Is this one just not efficient enough? I don't see any 80+ badges, but it's a pre-built so I would
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by CivBase 5y ago
Between this and the Steam Deck, there sure is a lot of new techcoming out that I wish I had a good excuse to buy.
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by CivBase 5y ago
> Spreadsheets are poor man's MapReduce. Yes. Emphasis on "poor man's". Excel is mediocre at many things, but it's highly accessible so people use it anyways. That can be good or bad depending on the situation. N
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by CivBase 5y ago
I think you missed my point. Yes, Excel is a very powerful tool and I would never argue otherwise. I definitely wouldn't argue against using it altogether. But I have come to loathe it because of how often it is misused. Sure, any tool
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by CivBase 5y ago
I hate Excel, not because it's a bad program but because in my experience people misuse it more often than not. Excel excels at creating spreadsheets. Spreadsheets are pretty reports used to report tabular data. Excel is capable of s
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by CivBase 5y ago
> Everyone should pitch in to have one system. Are there any financial incentives for this? Even if a technical solution exists, are there incentives for EV manufacturers to support it? This is one of the big things I'm looking for
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by CivBase 5y ago
As someone in the USs midwest, EVs are a really tough sell for me. Charging is slow in the best case scenario, charging stations are few and far between, there are few "affordable" options, and it's unclear how well current m
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by CivBase 5y ago
> The challenge the NSA has is it possesses 2 separate missions that are often in direct conflict: secure the communications of the United States, and to collect, eavesdrop, and compromise the communications of other countries. I don&#x2
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by CivBase 5y ago
I complemented Google for how they handled a similar situation in the comments of a HN article from a few weeks ago[0]. In that case, they reassigned their head of diversity in light of his former antisemitic statements which had been recen
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by CivBase 5y ago
> I don't think they have any real plans to produce and support hardware long term. With Valve's track record, I absolutely believe they have limited plans for production in the long term. But their long-term hardware support
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by CivBase 5y ago
I'm starting to think universities need to offer (and maybe require) classes about distribution and licensing as part of ComSci/Eng tracks.
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by CivBase 5y ago
> The problem is: de-programming all the propaganda takes an immense amount of time - months, sometimes years of effort. I just said "I've convinced a half dozen people to get vaccinated". General availability for the vac
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by CivBase 5y ago
You'll find a lot of success if you take the time to hear them out and don't treat them like their thoughts on the matter are ridiculous from the start. I've convinced a half dozen people to get vaccinated and was unable to
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by CivBase 5y ago
Looks to me like the problem is not the content of the patches, but the way they are submitted as many small patches all from the company. I suspect the maintainers wouldn't be as concerned if all of the contributes were independent (
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by CivBase 5y ago
> The cost of games has been $60 for what, 15 years? Not really. $60 is an introductory price, but most games at that price launch with at least one $80+ special edition and are supplemented with $40+ of post-launch content with much hi
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by CivBase 5y ago
You're talking about FLoC as an alternative to third party cookies, but major browsers had already done away with those before the rollout of FLoC. If getting rid of third party cookies was two steps forward, FLoC is one step back. W
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by CivBase 5y ago
StarLink has already rolled out.
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by CivBase 5y ago
I appreciate the information. I did not have an opinion on the matter until you provided context that the subsidies were specifically for StarLink.
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by CivBase 5y ago
Who replaced those parts for you and what sort of hell did they have to put up with to facilitate those repairs? And how viable are those same repairs for a modern MacBook in comparison? Apple's goal (same with other manufacturers lik
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by CivBase 5y ago
> The problem with modern large farmers is the same as with richer tesla owners... you buy a car/tractor with 5y warranty, you service it at a dealer (to keep your warranty), and after 5y, you trade it in for a new one. I don't
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by CivBase 5y ago
Are you suggesting $1.8M for expansion of Starlink to deliver broadband to rural America is not a net win? As someone in the midwest US, Starlink is the first realistic opportunity for many people I know to access broadband internet. My
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by CivBase 5y ago
> Farmers do not want to pay for anything. [...] They do not want to pay anymore than they have to for anything. Who wants to pay more than they have to for anything? Who wants to pay for anything at all? How does a desire to save mone
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by CivBase 5y ago
I actually think this was handled well. I'm normally against taking punitive action against employees for old social media content. People make mistakes and they should be allowed to grow and improve without being held permanently acc
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by CivBase 5y ago
The question was basically "If you have a fixed pool of employees at fixed compensation-per-output (ie fixed net expenses) and a fixed product throughput with fixed values (ie fixed net revenue), why does it matter who makes what produ
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by CivBase 5y ago
I must have misunderstood your point. I thought you were arguing that manufacturers who produces a variety of products with plants in the US and Taiwan can only afford to make their expensive products in the US because only those products
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by CivBase 5y ago
> I’m not surprised that manufacturing thousands of extremely expensive phones in the US is possible. I would be a lot more surprised if they had managed to manufacture millions of reasonably priced phones in the US. I'm pretty naiv
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by CivBase 5y ago
Maybe. But the denser the population, the fewer vehicles there are per capita. Plus the midwest gets an immense amount of through traffic as it's impossible to get from one side of the US to the other without passing through here. Th
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by CivBase 5y ago
> The top 10 percent of American drinkers - 24 million adults over age 18 - consume, on average, [...] 10 drinks per day. What counts as an "American drinker"? Apparently only 24M of our 330M population. That's 7% of the
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by CivBase 5y ago
Thank you! That's the big piece of info I was looking for. I can't believe I missed that.
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by CivBase 5y ago
I'm bothered that this article appears to advocate for more of these crossings without including any useful information on the subject. It's making an argument with no data to back it up and few details about how these crossings

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