Kon-Peki

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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I found an article that quoted people at the Chicago commuter rail system (Metra) saying that their rail cars should get a major rehab (which includes new windows) every 14 years. Looking at Wikipedia, the NJ Transit rail cars with the affe
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
That’s not really fair. 99.9% of the Home Depot trucks are perfectly fine. The real problem with renting a Hone Depot truck is that the reservations are based on expected availability. You made a reservation and you told them how long you
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Is it the position of DARPA that we should all choose Rust specifically? I highly doubt it, because there are a lot of defense systems for which there is no Rust compiler. But anyway. I am in charge of large C codebase that is nowhere clos
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> I never heard of one being hit by a car - I think they're too smart for that. It happens frequently enough [1] [2]. Both of those are in areas where the cats aren’t supposed to exist! > I'd say jaguars, which do neither,
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> It feels like we are in a wilderness period right now Not really. I bought a house with a lot of deferred maintenance and am replacing a lot of systems to get it back in good order. I just tell various vendors/salesfolk/ins
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Volvo Cars and Volvo Trucks split up in 1999 (but still share usage of the trademark). These trucks have nothing to do with the cars and their designers.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
You're wondering how people that get free review units prior to the general release are recommending that you buy it? Really? The iPad Pro is exactly the device that Apple wants it to be. It's not for you. Don't buy it. I
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Apple already has processes in place for background process execution on iPhones and iPads [1], including a way for the app to request additional background processing time [2]. The issue is that this system needs to be expanded to cover t
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The zucchini in the photograph are huge. I can understand that the farmers want them to grow large like that because they earn money by weight of their product. If you pick them when they are half that size or smaller, they are way easier
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Never, ever, agree to be bound by Michigan supplier law. Almost every option you have to fight abuse has been made illegal. I'm not sure how this applies to Texas, though.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
You have to be careful about doing simple aggregations when it comes to stats about acres planted. The same piece of land may get planted twice in a year, which would mean it is reported twice in those stats. In warm-winter states it may be
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Yes, the Apple logo on the back of the iPad is made of copper and acts as a heatsink. They said that in the presentation. I wonder how many people are going to get Apple-shaped burns and will get told that they're holding it wrong. Si
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
As a followup to this comment, apparently while I was typing this comment the mayor of Chicago was down in the state capital giving the legislature a list of demands that included money for a new stadium. The state senate responded by brin
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
This article mentions both Chicago and Cleveland as about to publically finance new stadiums. Time will tell, but so far neither state government is interested.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I'll buy whatever is most up to date when my 4-5 year laptop refresh cycle comes around. That will probably be an M4 or M5. As for these iPad Pros? Apple didn't show me any reason to run out and get one. Maybe the stuff in iOS
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Free legal advice you get on the internet is worth no more than what you paid for it.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Sorry, it’s been a long time and I don’t remember. I know that we were looking for places that were within a 15-20 minute walk from the Loop offices where we worked.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I think there are multiple of these kinds of buildings. The one I looked at would be considered West Loop these days.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
It was in Chicago, west of downtown
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Conventional wisdom is that only certain office buildings can be converted to housing. If you can buy the building cheap enough, conventional wisdom can be thrown out the window. I once toured a building that had been converted from an
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The most environmentally friendly thing to do is to keep your A12Z for as long as you can, ignoring the annual updates. And when the time comes that you must do a replacement, get the most up to date replacement that meets your needs. Cha
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The M4 is built on the newest, best, most expensive process node (right?). They've got to amortize out those costs, and then they could work on something cheaper and less powerful. I agree that they probably won't, and that&#x27
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Might be true in Detroit or something Not a chance. At least not for habitable housing. And by the way, the population density in metropolitan Detroit is 10th highest in the US. It's hardly the empty wasteland that people imagi
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> starting an eastern european club at my school. Wait, are you from Eastern Europe or Western Europe? If Eastern, I suggest taking some time after the semester ends and spending a few weeks in large rustbelt cities (Chicago, Cleveland,
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
A big question I have is this: If a user cannot choose their content, is the provider an "interactive computer service"? Because if the provider is not an interactive computer service, they have no Section 230 protection.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Really though, the right solution is time plus confidence. Instead of "4 days" it should be "1-8 days" or whatever. It's a half-assed reimplementation of PERT charts, which were invented in the 1950s and used s
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Quarterly Sales (year-over-year): Americas -1.4% Europe +0.7% China -8.1% Japan -12.7% Rest of Asia -17.2% People have been talking about sales dropping in China, but that appears to be the least-bad part of Asia! (What's going on with
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The only real response is that it's not the Monroney's job to tell you whether a car brand is "American" or "Not American". At this point, just about every auto manufacturer that sells vehicles in the US is a
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
You may get more interest (on HN at least) if the position was open to starting in Batavia/Aurora USA and then a transfer to Germany after 6-12 months. I know people that have started at Aldi in Batavia and then transferred to Hong Ko
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Please provide a salary range for the benefit of all interested. A few years ago I presented a paper at an analytics conference and immediately had about 10 teams reach out to schedule interviews, but all discussion ended when it came time

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