Kon-Peki

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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
I think the goal is to create bipartisan support for wholesale elimination of various parts of the federal government. If my choice is between having the taxes I’ve paid weaponized against me or eliminating that agency and a reduction in my
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Here is essentially the same chart but with 10x more information. Unlike the original chart, it also shows stock returns without dividend reinvestment. And that isn’t pretty :) https://www.crsp.org/wp-content/upload
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
> 95%+ of North American intercity trains run on freight tracks, which are not designed to be as "smooth". All over the US, the tracks are being upgraded to 110mph standards. It just a slow process: 5 miles here, 20 miles ther
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
> And voilà! Come on, if you're going to spell "voilà" correctly, you might as well use it correctly too. "Et voilà!", not "And voilà!" :)
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Nice website! Thanks! I found that the ship went through the Tsugaru Strait, so this is the appropriate great circle: http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=hkd-LZC
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Thank you for the link to the actual text! So, the NYT asked for this back in January and the court said no, but asked OpenAI if there was a way to accomplish the preservation goal in a privacy-preserving manner. OpenAI refused to engage f
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
> The Morning Midas had departed Yantai, China on May 26 and was heading to Lázaro Cárdenas, Mexico What is it doing 300 miles south of Adak, Alaska? (Yes I understand the curvature of the earth vs map projections causes the shortest rou
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Well since this is about the web site redesign, I’ll leave my opinions on the language to myself and just say that I like the color gradients and how the trail of color coming off of the mascot bird acts as a separator as you scroll down th
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Lots of chips have prop65 warnings and/or a statement that they cannot be sold in California. It doesn’t seem to have hurt sales. If you’re wondering, it has to do with the temperature of the oil that they are cooked in. In the same
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Toyota had announced a 3-row EV to begin production this year, in Kentucky. Who knows if it will be delayed or cancelled. If you go read the CEO section of the earnings call transcripts from last year, you’ll get an idea of what near(ish)
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
TLDR - they are “integrating” Claude Sonnect into XCode. That must mean that XCode will be able to connect to an external service. Will it be standardized? Will it allow you to choose specific models? Will it allow you to choose a diffe
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
The human summarization is that the author wants to create an urgency for you and I to pay money for the privilege of making someone else a billionaire. It’s ludicrous. If you follow his directions, you make it easier for people to catch u
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Cooperative/self-serve? What does that mean?
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
The first photo in the article (turbines with a sailboat) is very well chosen! Stealing others’ wind (or making it “dirty”) is a well-known and well-used tactic in sailboat racing. It is very effective. One explanation of tactics: https:&
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Illinois lawmakers pass bill to establish direct admissions program(highereddive.com)
5 points by Kon-Peki 1y ago|1 comments
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What good is writing anyway?(news.harvard.edu)
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
> With the guarantee that Clinton will continue to run for another two decades, Constellation is also evaluating strategies to extend the plant’s existing early site permit or seek a new construction permit from the Nuclear Regulatory Co
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
That’s not at all how it would work. The cat is out of the bag in terms of people passing around models that are “illegal” in your scenario, though such models would disappear from places like Huggingface. Running a commercial service that
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
That’s fine and all, but if this is the direction they’re taking, why not just call it AppleOS 26 across all platforms? Even if each platform gets a “specialized” version. Part of me wonders if this is related to the EU CRA. It mandates s
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
This is a thing that predates DEI/wokeism and is pushed by a guy that is clearly a very good salesman. It’s really quite genius in that all the decision-making comes from people so far removed from the consequences of their actions tha
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
> optical sound cable You’re probably talking about TosLink cables (what else could you be talking about?). They have the bandwidth to carry two channels of uncompressed digital audio. Which is what they were designed for. If you’re usi
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Hopefully some of that cash goes to figuring out the proper oil viscosity. I’ve heard there’s been somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 engine failures so far: https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2025/RCRIT-25V274
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
> Looking at the data, Duke’s per-undergraduate donation rate (about 4.9 pounds) is comparable to that at other wealthy private universities like Princeton (7.6 pounds) and Georgetown (6.1 pounds). Duke actually outperforms some schools
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
You’re holding them wrong. An 8088 package should be able to emulate a whisk about a million times better than an i9.
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
> Again, it was a plurality of Americans, not a majority, who voted for Trump. And, again, polls increasingly show a majority of Americans disapproving of what Trump is doing. People who are eligible to vote but do not are giving an impl
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Start learning now?!? Too late! My employer already requires 10 years of vibe-coding experience. I’m starting a vibe-coding school that will offer vibe-coding certificates to prove your ability to employers. Soon, such certificates will
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Note that this ruling also has tentatively granted the request to pierce the corporate veil and given the defendants 90 days to convince her otherwise.
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
The goal is to improve things for the Rust ecosystem; they are using this project as a vehicle for doing that. Improvements that benefit only this piece of software are great, but not worth paying money for.
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Interlibrary loans are one of the things that the Trump cuts will kill. Typically, a public library is legally prevented from spending tax dollars to provide services outside the taxing area. This is a pretty reasonable limitation, but it
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
I doubt 3000 feet is tall enough. But there are plenty of cities that already experience this: https://iso.500px.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/cloudchicag...

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