Kon-Peki

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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> weather models missed the rapid intensification of hurricane Otis last year Which happened because there was very little data to feed into the models. AI isn't going to help with this. The Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico have
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> To take away the ability to write for yourself is to take away the ability to think for yourself. She writes that as if this is a bad thing (from Google's point of view). Just think of how much more effective advertising will be!
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Hertz top management were a couple of finance bros from private equity. They appointed a Goldman CFO as CEO, one with no background in automotive/transport industry. The whole Tesla bet appeared to be part of an executive fever dr
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Oh wow, I will have to look that up! Thank you!
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
All major competitions will be in temporary pools from now on. It’s a major spectator sport with growing popularity, but as seen in 2008, 2012, 2016, etc purpose-built facilities for that crowd size are failures. Paris is swimming in a rug
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I've been dual-booting it on a MBP and it's great. I use it for embedded Rust development and haven't had a single problem - it could be used in a production environment, even with all the dongles you need since the MBP is U
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> In 1919, the US Army ran a truck convoy from Washington DC to San Francisco. It took them 56 (!) travel days, driving 10 1/4 hours per day. They used the Lincoln Highway, which wasn't fully paved until the 1930s. In 1919, it
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The older parts of Houston have massive oak trees that provide a lot of shade (and acorns the size of walnuts). But the older houses aren't large enough for modern Houstonians (roll your eyes here); when you tear it down to build a Mc
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The powerhouse swimming nations (USA, China, Australia, Canada, UK, etc) are so far ahead of everyone else it isn't even close anymore. My niece was not fast enough to be invited to the trials this year (missed by .03 seconds in her fa
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Discussion of the original announcement of the deal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674413
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2U bankrupt 3 yrs after buying edX from Harvard, MIT for $800M(thecrimson.com)
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Swaney’s success— if you can call it that — wasn’t appreciated by many, who saw her effort as a mockery of the Games. But that sentiment was hardly unanimous. Cassie Sharpe, the skier above who walked away with the Gold, was fine with
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
You know, there is a technical definition of a recession, and even if someone were to memorize that definition, they’d have to understand some concepts to really know what it means. At least 90% of American adults can do this. But nobody t
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Never sell your bitcoin That is a very elegant alternative to the Lightning protocol.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I know that I've had plenty of situations where I know kind of what I'm looking for but I can't describe it and run 10-20 searches trying to figure out what to type to get the result I'm looking for. I bet that most peo
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Even if the demo was 100% correct, I don't even understand why it would have been impressive. "Traditional" search engines will give you this answer instantly. Isn't the point to do this stuff better? To do things a n
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
At the time of me writing this, none of the comments address the real issue here. The guy who swallowed a 5cm chicken bone was asking for 12 of his fellow citizens to take a look at the facts and decide whether it was reasonable to expect
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> If you were a resident of Illinois during the applicable period, you will receive ten shares of the Net Settlement Fund. If you were a resident of California, New York, or Virginia, you will receive five shares of the Net Settlement Fu
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The FAQ in the above link: > A court authorized the Notice to let you know about the proposed class action Settlement with the Defendants. If you received Notice by U.S. Mail or email, Clearview has identified you as an individual residi
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Both of them? At the time where you need a timer?
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> they simply don't know I don't think they know. The candidates are worried about the job that they are campaigning for. There is some manager or whatever that is worried about the details and their job is to win the campaig
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> gross cooking hands I cook a lot and totally get this feeling, but honestly your cooking hands probably aren't gross. And if they are you're probably doing something wrong, in which case some cooking classes will be both ver
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
It's totally out of hand. Both political parties maintain databases with contact info of everyone they can (it's really hard to say for sure if someone is truly with one party or the other, so collect info on everyone and assign p
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Middle-class people on the PWCs and skiboats will do exactly the same thing to that pod of dolphins. The desire for speed and noise is not limited to those with excess income. On the other hand, those with excess economic security often ha
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The YouTube link was broken (for me, at least). This is it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVHPYb3t098
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
What is the backstory to that monument? Here is another: https://chicagostudies.uchicago.edu/back-yards/back-yards-un...
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The postal service routing system developed into a highly fault-tolerant system, by necessity. You may intentionally omit required information, but the system doesn't know that. It could also have been obscured, damaged, etc. The ma
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I live in an area where houses didn't get addresses unless they were inside a city. The fire services developed an addressing scheme that encoded location and used that. Eventually the postal service adopted it as official in the 196
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I am still what I would classify as “learning rust” and have yet to do anything very complicated with rust (have been doing large-scale C/C++ professionally for nearly 20 years). Conceptually, the borrow checker and lifetimes are no bi
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
It looks like they've "automated" the easy part, and the rest is all done by hand. And really, an entire neighborhood with only 4 floor plans to choose from? Welp, this is clearly not for me.

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