Kon-Peki

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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Our previous TV used the Roku OS and also had the option to use the device without an account or internet connection. What we found was that it still dedicated a lot of space to features that required the non-existent internet and on more t
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I bought a dumb TV from Walmart a few months ago (65" 4K). The brand is Sceptre. Picture quality is pretty much the same as any other 4K TV that you will get for <$500. Audio quality is horrendous and that is not an exaggeration.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I think that the BMW i3 REX is the only other vehicle with a setup like this. The ICE is not connected to the wheels. It can only generate electricity. The wheels are only driven by electric motors.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Man, $10000 doesn't get you very much truck anymore.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> reselling a genuine cable is completely legal even if you attach it to a third-party screen. The courts disagree that this is always true. For example: https://casetext.com/case/martins-herend-imports-v-diamond-g..
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
These shoes are crazy and will continue to reduce times. But you have to remember that this year the weather was excellent for marathon running in both Berlin (women’s WR) and Chicago (men’s WR, would have been women’s as well if not for B
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> At Pitney Bowes, where the attrition rate is also down year to date, the shipping and mailing services company has had a few instances in which it hired an intern, expecting a vacancy to open in the company, only for the existing emplo
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Yeah, I completely understand. Keep in mind that it plays very well on old iPads; a used one might lessen the pain. Plus, she would probably like the presence of the home button a lot better than the gestures that a modern iPad requires.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Oh dear. It started out as a Java game and the biggest ecosystem remains around the Java edition. But the writing is on the wall: the future of Minecraft is Bedrock edition. This is what runs on Android and iOS. This is what runs on Win
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> So there must be some reason they … don’t want to. …Starting with the fact that it would no longer be user-generated content that provides Google with Section 230 protection.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Well, it appears that just because this is a parody does not mean it is fair use. I noticed that in the lawyer response, a court case was cited. I did a search for this court case and found plenty of analysis. It turns out that the Congre
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> Why would it make more sense for car companies to target more niche segments for electric vehicles? This thread is about failed EV plans, so I guess with hindsight we should be saying that targeting the mainstream segments didn't
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38058979
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I had forgotten about this, it's hard to believe that it still hasn't been fixed. I've read through a number of the comments, and I guess I shouldn't be too surprised to see that most are asking the IRS to do the job of
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> I want a small truck with a 6 foot/ 2m bed, and regular cab so the vehicle is still a reasonable length The 2024 Tacoma will be available with 2 doors and a 6 foot bed. It won't be a "regular" cab, more like the sl
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I've had tech-heavy cars for nearly 10 years now. The novelty factor has worn off. I'm done paying a premium for stuff that doesn't work in heavy rain or heavy snow. I'm done paying a premium for stuff that needs OTA b
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
You missed the recent article about Hertz's maintenance and repair nightmare from attempting to run the largest publicly-known fleet of rental Teslas :)
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
In various areas, the military offers pre-bootcamp programs to get non-qualifying potential recruits into qualifying form. No obligation. But a real, major problem are the people that are fighting the attempts to make the military more att
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> The Tesla deal was executive hubris -- an activist CEO (INTERIM CEO at that) of a ruined global company in bankruptcy trying to make a name for himself by swinging for the fences. I was with you all the way until you revealed that it w
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> discourages entrepreneurship and gig work (which can be lucrative) Self-employed folks can make both employee and employer contributions to tax-advantaged retirement accounts, and the aggregate yearly amount far exceeds what a W-2 empl
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The Geneva Conventions aren't offering you any protections, so if the infantry is stretched a little too thin you probably can't do much complaining about the "treatment" they give you.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I thought that EU regulations were going to force smartphones to have removable batteries within the next few years. That’s hardly swimming out into the blue ocean. But regardless, easily removable batteries are going to create more e-wast
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> I have only a B.S., negative net worth, and no special skills except web dev (which is increasingly worthless these days). Are there other avenues to emigration that I'm missing? The TN visa works in both directions - you can go w
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Tim Apple can’t afford to be handing these things out with the purchase of every high-profit-margin device, so you get one free trial per lifetime (read the fine print). It’s your own damn fault you used yours back when there was no conten
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> I'd kill for an electric extended bed 2000 ranger size truck. You could lease an EV Ranger from Ford back then. Some of them still exist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Ranger_EV
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Create ML [1] is just so simple, non-AI developers can bring AI into their apps with ease. I can imagine that they will be adding generative model creation/training/usage soon. [1] https://developer.apple.com/mach
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
High performance cores use a lot of transistors and take up a lot of space. When you are aiming for high performance, this is a good tradeoff. The efficiency cores are physically smaller, cheaper, etc. One you reduce the performance expec
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Nice data set. > Debt secured by residential property was about unchanged between 2019 and 2022. About 42 percent of families in both 2019 and 2022 had debt secured by their primary residence, and the median amount of this debt decreased
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> Was the industry ready for this concept of a computer having a number of meaningfully different kinds of cores? The industry didn’t have a choice. The market was demanding higher performance within the same thermal envelope and the sa
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
It won't be very bright. Warm winters = lots of cloud cover. It's those really frigid days when you need sunglasses to go outside. The real question, however, is whether El Niño reduces the odds of a February/March polar vo

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