Kon-Peki

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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Bottom line --- the typical consumer really has no idea what he is getting when he buys "American". The people selling it typically don't really know either but they will gladly tell you whatever they think you want to h
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> I guess it’s limited for trying to do any ObjC++ / C++ / Metal The last time I tried, I couldn't get it to work, except... One of the documented ways of creating compiled Metal kernels is to provide the source code as a
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Start today by learning Metal. The concepts transfer to CUDA nearly 1:1.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Oh great! M4 processor and the best OLED panels. I'm excited to spend $2000 to replace my A12Z iPad Pro that works perfectly fine! (not really)
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I think that Silver’s view of state schools is a bit rosy due to growing up as a child of a Big Ten university professor. The Big Ten schools and the UC system stand apart from all other state schools when it comes to research dollars spent
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
This guy got dollar signs in his eyes and signed the first contract they put in front of him. But even if he wanted to make sure that his land would be protected, Indiana has a massive shortage of rural lawyers [1]. Much of that shortage i
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Things would start malfunctioning. The hardware is being used for various required safety stuff. Automakers have decided that since it’s already there, they might as well use it for other things too. This is a problem that has to be fixed
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
My parents live in a very conservative area of the country that started a coal phaseout 5 years ago or so. Everyone was up in arms when they announced it, but the utility said "here's our data, these are the scenarios we've
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Boeing just finished construction on a brand-new factory for the MQ-25 refueling tanker drone; they must be anticipating building a bunch of them.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
And trading his sailboat for a pontoon boat. Probably made out of carbon fiber, with the biggest beer cooler on the river.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
It should be obvious by now that it has been years, if ever, that Satya Nadella has opened the box on a brand-new Windows machine and used it for any length of time. Back in Detroit's "Malaise Era", all of the executives rece
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Sorts like these work really well on GPUs. You would start with a single thread for the first pass and then keep spawning one-thread-per-bucket for every additional pass until done. It isn't particularly taxing on the GPU; your advan
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The author admits that they only use 3 apps on CarPlay 1. They're going to get CarPlay 2 and still only use 3 apps. What's the big deal about CarPlay 2, then? Who cares?
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I'm in a very heavy library family; we are checking out and reading a few hundred books per year between all of us. Yet we still buy a few books, and I bet that if we made an inventory of the books we currently own that are in the hous
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How to Fix Flying in the U.S.(promarket.org)
3 points by Kon-Peki 3y ago|0 comments
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
If it was me, I would be ingesting the raw filings from SEC EDGAR and using the robust xml documentation to create very accurately annotated data tables that would be fed to my LLM
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> this once extremely verdant forest island I don’t think you will have many supporters for this claim. > Nantucket! Take out your map and look at it. See what a real corner of the world it occupies; how it stands there, away off shor
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> One dealer offered him $200 less than the $2,000 he had paid. Taking such a loss would thwart his plan to rack up credit-card points buying the gold and quickly reselling it. He kept at it, and eventually found a local coin dealer near
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
At the bottom: > In complex sales there are multiple product/market fits – Users, Buyers, etc. — each with different criteria This is definitely something that you need to know, if it applies. And if it does, you should definitely
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Nice job! Balance bikes aren't even all that necessary and a lot of them are so poorly made that they aren't doing much of anything. Get a decent real bike of the appropriate size and take the pedals off of it (lower the seat so
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I don’t think the solid project is feasible. If you create a pod and give someone access to information within it, you probably have to assume that they are going to make a copy of it and that they will share this copy with others. So what’
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
There’s another thing you have to consider. The Bloomberg article was more like “based on existing case law, will you lose a lawsuit?” Bloomberg concluded that the answer was yes, you will lose the lawsuit. Nothing you’ve done will chang
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Some idiot fat-fingered his deposit info and put it under one of my email addresses. I wonder if he is patiently waiting for his notification to buy that he's never going to get.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> The core of Apple's problem at the moment is to some extent the opposite - the base M1 Macbook Airs were such a leap forward, that for many people there is no need to buy the M2 or M3 etc. I am not willing to spend this much money
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I once worked with a person whose spouse was very good at fixing important industrial machines. Such machines were way too import to worry about commercial flights and expensive hotel rooms. A typical service call meant a private jet to t
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
This stems from the intentional decision to make absentee ownership have very low carrying costs. If you build a housing unit in Hawaii, nearly anyone in the entire world is an eligible purchaser. Shift the tax distribution to favor worker
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Hawaii has the lowest property tax rates in the US. It makes it extremely cheap for a mainlander to buy property and hold it empty except for the small amount of time they visit. Combined with the high income and business taxes, they'
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Spirit bet on a return to ZIRP, and was wrong.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> The decision is understandable. There is no new Alpha or Itanium hardware and never will be. VSI is a business, and not a big one; it needs to make money. While it was maintaining v8, it continued offering hobbyist licenses for it, but
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> Much of rural America grows corn or soybeans. Not in the parts of rural America this article is focusing on. In Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, etc, where they grow ridiculous amounts of corn and soybeans, the land is way too valuable to allo

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