Kon-Peki

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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
There's a movement to enshrine the right to grow your own food that is slowly spreading - two states so far, but 3-4 other states are very close. How about working on it in your state? https://ij.org/press-release&#x2F
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I think that the issue is less "passive investing" than "massive participation in defined contribution retirement plans," combined with the ultra-rare (ish) constituent change of the S&P 500. Once a company gets in,
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> To fix that, the Itanium has the option to do a speculative load, which may or may not succeed at a later point. So you can do a load from a dubious pointer, then check if the pointer is fine (e.g. is it in bounds? Is it a null pointer
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I feel like Lexus styling is awful, but to be honest I’m not sure that a Century Gazoo Racing Meister of Nurburgring edition SUV is going to much better.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The US Congress is working on some special tax legislation related to Taiwan. It’s part of the same package that will delay Section 174 from going into effect (retroactively???). It’s a bipartisan deal so there is a greater-than-zero chan
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The silicon required to implement SMT takes up space, and Intel clearly thinks that they have a better use for it: The P-core tile is on the smallest, most expensive node, right? So Intel is probably getting more P-core tiles per wafer by
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> For their part, apparel makers are eager to work with the company, which has a reputation for paying its invoices more frequently and promptly than is industry standard. Welp, there you have it. "Don't screw the suppliers&qu
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Yeah, people need to understand that their cars have been rolling computers for a really long time. If you live in a wealthy country, the chance that any car you are still driving isn't highly computerized is very low. For the past
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I wouldn’t take them seriously, except that SpaceX has a full decade of very reliable launch services at a fraction of the cost. You might ask how they did that, and SpaceX says “here are some examples”. It’s not just reusing rockets.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> It got there by challenging conventional wisdom, she adds. Most launchpad air conditioning systems, for instance, cost nearly half a million dollars, but SpaceX execs wondered why it cost so much more to cool an area the size of a conf
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Just so everyone is aware, you don’t have to buy shredded US currency. If you go to the museum inside your local (local?) Federal Reserve branch, they give you a bag of it for free. I recommend going, if you’re ever in the vicinity of one.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
You would have liked the Apple Power Mac towers during the PowerPC days https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G5#/media/File%3AA...
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
According to that site, an Airbus had a cargo fire today and two days ago another Airbus had an engine fire. Also two days ago an Airbus had a brake failure.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I’ve got one too and have been generally happy with it, though I print a lot more than you do. Some issues: Mine must be connected to the network via Ethernet; if I use Wi-Fi it disappears from the network after about 5-10 minutes (goes to
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> There are multiple stalls in my town that have 15-20 apple varieties I just checked the websites of about half a dozen orchards within a reasonable driving distance from me, and they all had a range of 30-40 varieties. Not all will b
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
https://www.roomandboard.com/catalog/living/sofas-and-lovese... Not the cheapest, but in your range. They don't skimp on the quality and will tell you exactly which shop built it (most of their sofas are fro
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I don't have much knowledge about robot conversion, but it wouldn't surprise me at all. When you've got a country that has been industrialized for a really long time, old equipment is going to be available and may be a viabl
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The more rural you get, the more likely it is that the fire trucks have been purchased secondhand from urban fire departments that can afford to buy new equipment prior to the existing equipment literally falling apart (I've got an ext
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
If you’re going to do that, you might as well limit yourself to the 3.6R - it includes the “heavy duty” version of the transmission.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
This young lady may or may not have destroyed her career prospects. I have no idea. But, if the outcome is that all employers need to think about whether their firings/layoffs are broadcast for everyone to see and critique, I’d say th
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I think living in one country and working in another is a blind spot not envisioned in the treaty. Someone who is from country A but both lives and works in country B has much less risk from encountering a grumpy border agent. I've kn
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
There's an entire refurbishment industry keeping them going. I know that this article said that you could order machine tools from Japan in the 1980s and get them in a few weeks. But that's not the case anymore. People buy some p
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Or just require CS students to take at least one lab science course. I started in the engineering program and switched to CS, but by then had already taken lab-based chemistry and physics. Those courses taught me more about “debugging” th
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
That building is 100+ years old and was built to house the biggest, heaviest printing presses available. Extremely thick concrete and masonry, and there are no windows that open to any space with equipment. The problem is air circulation
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
When the car is stopped and trying to warm the battery so it can begin fast charging, the wind makes the vehicle surface dissipate heat better. Which you don't want. But... batteries are fairly insulated so wind chill probably has a
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
In the old days, they used to say that if you let your tank get too low in the winter, you could end up with moisture in the tank. It's probably been a while since that was actually true. It seems that fewer and fewer people actually
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
To be clear, when this problem was happening in Chicago, the temperature was a lot colder than Oslo. Like -30°C with a wind chill approaching -50°C. That's not "cold weather", that's "insanely cold weather"
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The DMA can't obliterate ratified intellectual property treaties between all the various nations. So yes, Apple is going to collect their commissions. Maybe we'll get lucky and there will be additional legislation and/or lit
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
You don't have to even coach. Just go to the practices/games. My daughter plays hockey. The boring parents sit in the workspace area, on their computers, doing work. The rest hang out in the bar area that looks out over the ice
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Section 174 removed in new Senate tax agreement(nbcnews.com)
6 points by Kon-Peki 3y ago|3 comments

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