Kon-Peki

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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Sure, for very heavy trucks. But the Cybertruck is not even close to being heavy enough to qualify. I live in an area where the Cybertruck is heavy enough that the annual registration fees will be 2-3x higher than a regular car. But the
902.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
At this time of year? There's a lot of snowbird-targeted stuff available in Arizona, Florida, Alabama, Texas, etc. You rent a house or condo for a few months. There are plenty of little towns on the ocean where the beach, grocery sto
903.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Management. Chew up the grinders and spit them out when there is no flavor left. There's an endless supply; they extoll the virtues of the grind to the next generation, all the way until they've been spit out. But nobody listen
904.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Don't let nostalgia get in the way of opportunity. The Coliseum and Arena should be torn down as soon as contractually possible, replaced with a dense, walkable, mixed-use neighborhood with improved BART and Amtrak access (maybe a str
905.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Learn! You aren't hiring people to learn. They must know everything they will ever need on day 1. (Forget what it says about your company - you only do things that people at other companies have been doing for years...) I once got r
906.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
If 6-30% are failing year after year after year, you can't blame the interview process. You could blame the leadership failure that didn't fix the interview process, though.
907.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
But that doesn’t really matter. They sent out a press release after Kitty Hawk; newspapers refused to publish it. Some instead published articles making fun of them. Nobody believed them until 1908ish, when they flew over crowds in France
908.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I just have a nagging feeling that the M3 Pro exists to salvage poor 3nm yield, whereas the M1 and M2 Pro could shine because of good 5nm yield.
909.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> In her debut song, "Betrayed by this Town," Indiana sings about being heartbroken, wandering alone in the streets, and wanting to tear down a town full of "shattered hopes and silent screams." Huh. By any chance di
910.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> it makes it not function as a truck for myself. No, you use a truck to accomplish tasks for which vehicles don't get named "truck". That's perfectly fine; you can and should do whatever you want with the vehicles t
911.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Yes, it is the Northern Indiana Commuter Train District. Inside Chicago, they run on Metra track. To avoid competition with Metra, they do not allow boarding on "inbound" trains inside of Illinois (except the Hegewisch station t
912.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
If you want to add the Chicago transit train location data, the API documentation and API key request form are available here: https://www.transitchicago.com/developers/traintracker/
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
There are other support requests indicating missing data: https://support.google.com/drive/thread/245534268/a-spreadsh... https://support.google.com/drive/thread/245524854/data-
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
No idea what Option Alpha is, so I looked at their FAQ: > Do I need to download anything? > No, Option Alpha is a web-based trading platform that runs completely in the cloud which means you never have to download any local desktop so
915.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
This “western world” chart is showing approximately 5 generations from the “big economic boom” that created the middle class. India and China are just now seeing the emergence of generation 2 or 3. What will it look like by gen 5? Based o
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
If you have a Mac or (preferably) an iPad, check out the Swift Playgrounds app. All of the playgrounds and challenges that you see are "Swift Playground Books" which anyone can create and distribute via a static website (download
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Details matter. A lot. Do you get to choose the portfolio provider? Can you move the account to a different provider? What obligations do the providers have regarding marketing, 3rd party access, etc? What types of investments are avail
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> It's not strictly mandatory. My understanding is that if the automaker uses it during the EPA fuel economy test, it must be enabled every time the car starts. If not, the automaker can choose to have it remember your preferences.
919.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Large fire extinguishers are high-pressure cylinders that require high-precision valves. There are fewer than 10 manufacturers in the world that can do it - half of them are in the US and the DoD will spend what it takes to keep it that wa
920.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Notice that nobody replied ;) Anyway, VMS servers don’t generally have hard drives, they are designed to be run in a cluster, with each server using fiber channel to connect to a SAN. Also, I found that the ones we’re getting rid of aren’t
921.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> but 2035 marks the ban on new passenger ICE vehicles. Don’t worry, there will be a huge supply of like-new cars that have been titled in Nevada for 3 months and driven 10 miles.
922.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
We got 4 from that last batch that Intel ran. Our cloud migration project is way behind schedule and we needed the insurance. Support for the VMS version we’re running on them goes until 2028 I think. We’re decommissioning a couple of fir
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> I wonder how many airports in the world are at such significant risk of "lava flow" and other catastrophic natural disasters It looks like Kilauea lava flows in the 1880s came within a mile or two of the site of Hilo Internat
924.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Too many people want to move to Berlin, from wherever they lived before. Because where they lived before does not offer people what they need and want. To solve the housing crisis in Berlin, Germany must put in a lot of work to make othe
925.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> I have a feeling it got named because somebody felt Maryland was "exotic", but they'd never actually been here. In the pre-WWI UK, absolutely no monarchist, status-conscious first-class-traveling Englishman would have th
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> I don't understand why the USD 1 bill exists The US introduced a USD 1 coin in the 1970s. It was an exceedingly poor effort and failed miserably. The memory of that failure is likely the reason we don’t get rid of the bill now.
927.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The link in the article doesn't provide any evidence of the steel mill vs data center claim. I'll be charitable and assume that he got his links mixed up because he's got the same target URL for two links. But anyway... I d
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> Just a quirk of where the highways run? Yes, most likely. According to this site [1][2][3], Illinois has almost double the wind generation capacity of Indiana. The average megawatts per site is almost 50% higher. Neither state holds
929.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The author of that post responded to a comment, saying that this employee that they want to get rid of tries to get other people to do work that is “in his job description” but that he doesn’t want to do. I’m inclined to believe that there
930.
by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> Borman and his crewmates never quite got the kudos they deserved. It’s worse than that. Indiana named a horrible stretch of perpetually under construction interstate after him.

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