Kon-Peki

30 ms·

361.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
We're on the 4th or 5th generation of mobile network standards. Each generation gets more optimized to allow for more devices, more data, more usage. You simply cannot run a worldwide mobile network with a few billion phones unless yo
362.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Why would I upgrade though Yeah, why would you? There have been how many Septembers since you got your current phone? Each one has had a new iPhone released. Next September there will be a new iPhone, and the September after that...
363.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
This being a brand-new example of how the European courts are dealing with the European Commission's fines: > The European Union General Court on Wednesday annulled a $1.7 billion antitrust penalty levied by the European Commission
364.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
A better plan would be to abandon the 2001 decimalization of the quotes and go back to base-2 fractions of dollars. Except allow the smallest quotes to be in either 1/128th or 1/256th of a dollar ($0.0078 or $0.0039). At that poi
365.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The key factor isn’t going to be the European Commission's extreme fines, it is going to be whether the Court of Justice allows such fines. The history says that they won’t.
366.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Fair enough :) I'll just point out that your standard workhorse Global 8" is easily available for $80ish. Probably even cheaper in Japan with the exchange rates.
367.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I’ve been told to stay away from any kind of sharpening that isn’t specifically for cooking knives - the angle of the blade is supposed to be different. I don’t have actual knowledge, just what I’ve been told by chefs.
368.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Giving an expensive knife to a new cook that has never cooked before will not make them a Michelin chef Pick any Michelin-rated restaurant at random and visit the kitchen. You'll find plenty of $50 knives in use. It doesn't
369.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
If you live in a reasonably large metro area that has a lot of good restaurants, there is going to be a small handful of cooking knife sharpeners. A large percentage of professional chefs can't afford/justify good quality sharpen
370.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Those are also called fire addresses, because they were assigned by the fire department rather than the postal service. 6 or 8 decades ago, the post office decided to accept them as official rather than force people to change. They have th
371.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
North Ave. and Roosevelt Rd. go from the lake to about 2/3 of the way to Iowa. The names end at the DuPage/Kane county line, though. After that, they are just IL64 and IL38. The numbering system for just about all Chicago roads
372.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Wikimedia foundation brings in $150+ million in donations per year, and it is the job of the unpaid labor to save it? No.
373.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I find that I have struck a nerve with some folks. I have no connection with the industry at all. But that doesn’t prevent me from understanding the implications. Equifax does this stuff because it is profitable. It is profitable because
374.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Stay tuned for my new app: Wildcatr It is installed on gig worker phones and monitors the offered rates. When one worker is offered abusive rates, all other workers have their future offers filtered from view for some period of time unless
375.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Nobody asked for it. But it’s part of the world we live in. And we’re all walking around oblivious to the advantages and disadvantages it gives us.
376.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
… and the usage? Most highly-paid people have no idea how much privilege this affords them. You wonder why so many businesses are nice to you? It’s because they’ve already looked you up and know you’ve got a high income and are a millionai
377.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The EU passed battery regulation last year. I’m not sure how well it will force interoperability; that may be a byproduct but it might not. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...
378.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I wasn't being sarcastic at all. When the IRS classifies some things as earned and others as unearned, they are using the definitions of those words as provided by Congress in the law that was passed. We have the liberty to assign wha
379.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> If you "love the internet archive", you should oppose the current copyright regime Trying to "change the law" by not actually changing the law and instead convincing the courts to ignore the law is delusional. And
380.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Yes absolutely I’m definitely suggesting that! Now we have a serious conundrum. If words can only have a single meaning regardless of context, surely we need some sort of centralized authority to manage this authoritative dictionary.
381.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
If you like the concept of the current boats but think it’s a bit too extreme, you might enjoy a new(ish) series called SailGP. The upcoming season will have a race in Auckland in January. I went to a race a few years ago and in 15 knot wi
382.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> I can’t remember the last time I saw someone wearing a watch other than an Apple Watch. Maybe a couple Android watches. You probably aren't actively looking. The market for sub-$150 retro-ish ("inspired" by the 1980s&#x
383.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
ASML equipment uses technology developed in US Department of Energy labs (and paid for by the US taxpayer). The license agreement says that the US government is allowed to veto their customers if the US government doesn’t like them. They
384.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> I don't understand why MSFT would want to compete in what's ultimate a low-margin, commodity business I was in a Walmart today, for the first time in years since I don’t live near one… Based on shelf space taken up, I’d estim
385.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> If you would have told me in the 1980's we would still be using x86 based chips in 2024 I would have laughed at you. In the late 1970s, Gordon Moore believed that their next ISA would last the lifetime of the company. Now, techni
386.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
A very good discussion about market efficiency with Fama and Thaler from a number of years ago (maybe a month or two before Thaler won a Nobel Prize): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM9bYOBuKF4
387.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The US Steel South Works site mentioned in this article is turning into the DARPA Quantum Proving Ground [1]. Folks who own their homes free and clear will do pretty well, even if they aren't going to be getting the high-paying jobs t
388.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
This explanation gets very hand-wavy when it comes to explaining how much the lawyers and investment bankers get paid. Think about this: how much would you pay to Bobby to avoid paying $1000 to your Uncle Sam? You are technically better of
389.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I worked at Motorola in the early 2000s and can say that this is a largely correct accounting of the company. But, I offer a viewpoint on the reason for the downfall. It was the dotcom crash. You all remember that when the iPhone first cam
390.
by Kon-Peki 2y ago
There a various attestation methods that have been used over the years. For example, some states have (or at least used to have) a drivers license that is in portrait orientation if you are under 21 and landscape orientation if you are old

More ›