Kon-Peki

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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
You have to fill out request forms, and have an interview, and if they like you they allow you to use the app. People want it because it lets them do what they want with less hassle and it makes many trips possible that are impossible if yo
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
A lot of "big compute" stuff from before the rise of the cloud was on mainframe-y type hardware. And still is, because migration is really really hard. Where I work, we're still trying to migrate a bunch of services off of V
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The US has had a self-service border crossing app for years. It is aimed at pleasure boaters and requires an in-person interview once a year to use.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
That's a good point, and a serious brainfart on my part :)
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Boaters, especially in northern Michigan and northern Washington (where the various small islands can almost seem randomly distributed between Canada and US), can get an app on their phone (the "CBP ROAM" app) to handle their freq
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Analytics changed a lot of things in baseball too. For example, analytics showed that stealing bases was a waste, and we saw a 6+ year window where hardly anybody tried to steal bases. But then, in 2023 steals were back in fashion. Why wa
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Yeah, well when I lived in the urban center everyone complained after festivals and other events where the suburbanites would descend and treat the city like their trash can. Perhaps the real issue are all the lifeless, boring suburbs creat
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Dogs are pack animals and need to know where they (and everyone else) fit in the pack hierarchy. Teach the dog that you aren’t the alpha, and you shouldn’t expect a well-behaved dog at all.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
If I'm reading it correctly, the knifemaker is the brother of the author's son-in-law. So this is kind of a family thing taking place in public; one family member creates a work of art that is excessive for its intended use, and
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Whoops, I actually meant to link to this statement [1] rather than the fact sheet. A key quote: > The use of AI by litigants, attorneys, judges, judicial clerks, research attorneys, and court staff providing similar support may be expect
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Illinois Supreme Court Policy On AI, effective 2025 [pdf](ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.net)
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I think a shutdown is the intended DOGE outcome. Nobody gets paid, but all the essential workers still have to work. As a shutdown drags on, they will stop showing up for work and can be fired for cause. It could either accomplish their g
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Radix sorting is great, as this article points out. But I followed the links and didn't see any mention of the most obvious optimization that makes it even better on modern systems. If you do MSB for the first pass, then the subsequ
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> an opportunity to remind the requester that there are real costs associated with their unnecessary demands Well first of all it's not up to you whether this is an unnecessary demand or not. The district response is clearly in bad
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The surface area of each pin of a plug-in automotive fuse is somewhere around 100-150 mm^2. Vibration, thermal expansion/contraction, etc is easily handled with that much area for maintaining contact. How big do you want your automoti
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The assessed value of your home determines your share of the total tax to be collected. If your assessed value goes down but all the rest stay the same, yes, your tax bill will go down. But if all assessed values go down by the same perc
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
This statement confused me, but according to Wikipedia the job description of a notary is different in different parts of the world. If you live in a “common law” system (IE at one point it was part of the British Empire), it is unlikely t
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I forgot about that one. Was there any scrutiny on the deal? It seemed to fly under the radar like nobody cared.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
... and don't you all have interlibrary borrowing too? This system is 50+ years old [1], surely it can't be the only one around. Request a title from your local library website and it shows up at your local library a few days la
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I made a prototype, but then I got hit by a truck. So maybe once the settlement comes in.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> The first round of test results should come in Friday or this weekend. The longer it goes undiagnosed, the more we tip into categories 2 and 3 The Friday/weekend she referred to is in the past. Although... from a different artic
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
They will if it is faster for less money. Of course, what about power consumption??? Look at the latest steam stats. Low-end NVidias fill the top. Hopefully Intel will be a worthy competitor and it will force NVidia to start paying atten
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The answer is completely obvious. Give your kid the thing they want the most: a sibling.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
So if an employer posts a ghost job, does that become wire fraud? And if the employer posts a real job but the candidate doesn’t get a response, or is immediately rejected, will the employer get accused of wire fraud? Sounds like a nightmar
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Can someone tell me why all those new electric cars are so poorly designed in terms of size and weight? Most of them weight over 2t and have a large frontal area (VW ID.4 is the prime example). I just want an economical family vehicle
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The article says that the legislation was introduced today. It has a link to the text, which says 118th Congress on it. But the 118th Congress has less than a month to go, and the 119th is sworn in on Jan 3. So this bill will go nowhere,
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
This injunction is a trap, and we'll see if the Supreme Court steps in it. The lawsuit has plaintiffs from all over the US, but each with some tiny roundabout sliver of a connection to Texas. It really should have been filed in the fe
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> if net manufacturing and battery costs were to fall That makes it even worse. If costs fall, competitive pressure will force you to lower the price of your new vehicles, which has a knock-on effect of reducing the resale value of each
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
They are doing super-cheap leases. It’s not surprising that people want to take advantage. But this kind of thing usually ends in disaster for the automaker.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Someone already tested What's New Pussycat? and it leads to violence. Not recommended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mw7Gryt-rcc&list=PLmr0-AcI78...

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