Kon-Peki

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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The article doesn't say how much the odds have improved. I'm guessing that the answer is "not enough" since the stated goal is to distribute more money to the various states. It doesn't seem like this is a smart mo
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
According to Wikipedia [0]: > The events and initial actions on Epic's lawsuit against Google were brought on the same day as Epic's suit against Apple, but Google stressed the legal situation around their case is far different
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> usually not the same employees, it’s an open question we plebs may never know The impression was that my grandfather did classified work more often than not; he probably would have been one of the crossovers if it had been the case. H
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
My grandfather worked on some aspect of the Hubble design (I was young; I think the timing would have put him at Lockheed M&S in Sunnyvale at that time). He never said anything about his work on it being classified. He used to say &qu
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
SWE has always been in a boom and bust cycle. Sometimes they love you and pay accordingly, sometimes they hate you and look for any reason to possibly get rid of you. Some of the best advice I've ever received from senior engineers wa
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Cost >$200,000. So no, this will be the first electric car for approximately 0 people.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> The carnage from everyone blindly buying tech stocks and even the SP500 (mostly propped up by the Magnificent 7) is going to be unimaginable. I share this concern, but would also like to point out that there are lots of well-run low co
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Many of those houses have required work as well. He was constantly pushing the boundaries in materials and technique, so it's not terribly surprising that 100 years later there is a lot of repair needed. But if you think you don&#
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> logically LLM's will increasingly allow individuals to free themselves from the need for attorneys. No. Not a chance. If you sue me with LLM-generated filings, I’m going to be paying a lawyer to mercilessly win , using LLMs as n
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The mountains of North Carolina had devastating floods caused by tropical storms in 1916.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Does it matter? No, it really doesn't. I'm just curious, as someone who has a few hundred books sitting around the house, plus another 20-50 checked out from the library at any one time. I don't know that I'd consider
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> I would buy one quality hardcover book per year as a birthday gift to myself Care to give an example? I assume that by quality you mean both quality construction of the book itself as well as quality content printed on the page?
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> American football fields are all the same size American American football fields are all the same size. But American Canadian football fields are all the same, different, size. And American Arena football fields are also all the same
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
This says that the primary reason is fuel economy under the likely operating conditions. I'm not an expert, but I think that this is completely wrong. Turboprops are able to produce a lot more thrust at low speeds than turbojets, whic
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Are they scaling the images so that they are the same size, or are the two dies actually the same size? It looks like the images have been scaled.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The current Sienna is severely compromised from a utility standpoint - the design team just didn't try very hard. And, again on the current model, you have to get the AWD or it is drastically underpowered for driving when loaded up
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Not very well, though (and I don't think BMW sells wagons in the US anymore). They are positioned as "cool & snobby", rather than "useful". Peak wagon was the P3 Volvo V70/XC70, built on the Ford EUCD plat
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> there is no proof that users would go to Epic and spend money without anti-steering in place The article didn't do a good job of explaining things. It does link to some legal documents, in which you see that Epic is making their
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Harvard admits 2,000 undergraduates every year, but it's actually a very large school, granting just about 10,000 degrees per year. The annual commencement ceremony in Harvard Yard only goes through the graduates school-by-school; o
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I'm really disappointed that this isn't listed on GSA Auctions. It could be one of the featured auctions, between the "scrap Lockheed Martin HC-130 Aircraft" (current bid $10,000) and "approximately 8 cords of fire
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Thanks! Figures you'd have to go to a completely different site to find the answer.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Looks like the "modern era" - post-1983ish, is about half of what it was prior to that. I clicked around on the BEA website and find that this is defined as the percentage of your after-tax money that you dedicate to savings. I w
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Mostly just BS excuse-making. The Camry, Corolla, Accord and Civic are all selling in roughly the same numbers as they did before the SUV craze. Because they are honest, dependable vehicles. You get exactly what you paid for, and they don
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Part of it is volume. You need 30-50 violins to get the same amount of sound that comes out of a single tuba. Part of it is tradition/history. Orchestral music is written with the assumption you’ll have a specific proportion of the v
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> In this case the problem is that it only carries 3kg and has almost no battery life, but the team is working on another drone that follows it around and changes the batteries when they run out We do that in America too: https:/&#
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> If you don't believe that United States law extends outside of its jurisdiction the Coast guard would like to have a word with you which enforces US maritime law around the world in international waters Do you have a specific comp
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> PS. States like Texas and Florida seem to get by fine without a state income tax. An income tax is just one of dozens of taxes that states collect. Here is Texas: https://bivisual.cpa.texas.gov/CPA/opendocnotoolba
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Will fifa hit back? In May Gianni Infantino, its boss, said it was working on a rival game that “obviously, as everything we do, will be the best”. Always be wary of claims like this.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The Itanium C and FORTRAN compilers eventually became very, very good. By then, the hardware was falling behind. Intel couldn't justify putting it on their latest process node or giving it the IPC advancements that were developed for
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
This article says it will be the first restarted nuke. But there is also a restart in process in Michigan. Will this beat the Michigan one into full operation?

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