Kon-Peki

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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
This recall is for the high-beams. And yes, the EU allows brighter high-beams than the US. This seems to be the extent of the recall. But there are other differences between the EU and US. For example, on what the headlights are illumi
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
... "right after" being something like 4 years later and not at all scandalous by French standards unless, by chance, there was some organized campaign against her. Ya know? But anyway, there is a group photo from the meeting tha
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
It seems really strange to me that the CEOs of two major companies have announced immediate retirements on the same day (the other being Carlos Tavaris of Stellantis).
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Steinbeck's books were mostly late-30s, no? Which one are you thinking of? Grapes of Wrath is mostly around Bakersfield, Cannery Row and East of Eden are Monterey/Salinas Valley. I'm not sure of anything set that far north
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
People have been complaining about the DMCA for 2+ decades now. I guess it's great if you are on the winning side. But boy does it suck to be on the losing side.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Violations of 17 USC 1202 can be punished pretty severely. It's not about just money, either. If, during the trial , the judge thinks that OpenAI is going to be found to be in violation, he can order all of OpenAIs computer equipment
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Don't worry, the Supreme Court has interpreted that to mean it only applies in criminal cases, and even then there are only 4 kinds of situations in which it applies [1]. 1st. Every law that makes an action done before the passing of t
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I don’t think it’s much besides people becoming more lax on maintenance as the car ages. Most people are going to adhere to the oil change schedule no matter what. But if the schedule is calling for new spark plugs every 60,000 miles it wi
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I'm sure that would have worked about as well as Napoleon agreeing to live in exile on Elba.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
It takes a terrible toll on the doctors to see so many babies die. A friend was a neonatologist in the US Army and he was very very good at it. The military sends a lot of their highest-risk pregnancies to Hawaii with the idea that tropic
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
It was created by a Swedish emigrant. There's a lot of Swedish history and people in Chicago, so much so that Sweden maintains an honorary consulate general that has no official diplomatic duties but is there to maintain relations and
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Without the purchase-to-fulfill-a-gag market, it probably would have shut down decades ago. The new owners are a serious distillery, and doing the best job possible with the recipe. This will lead to people drinking it for reasons other th
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
... yet the Outback is still around and the PT Cruiser is not. Why? Well, the Outback has a thousand tiny details that add up to make it a very useful vehicle, while the PT Cruiser was all about exploiting nostalgia and finding regulatory
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Don't worry, we'll all fight tooth and nail against any sort of compromise we can live with [1], until compromise if off the table and the worst case scenario is shoved down our throats. [1] Anonymous attestations by trusted autho
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> The installation is more expensive than the material. That's exactly the problem, isn't it? If any middle class person can afford high-quality wood flooring for their middle-class house, you need something exotic for your ma
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Very cool!
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
This is a fascinating page about it [1]. Note that for many of the images, you can open in a new tab and zoom in. The second one, with the time and distance from Washington DC, is amazing (I noticed that it says Honolulu is in the Sandwic
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> they don’t allow creating new executable code. Ie no JIT or compilers The Metal compiler is embedded in the Metal runtime and runtime compilation of GPU kernels is part of the official API. So I'm not sure if Apple would actually
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Reviewers don't spend their own money on this kind of stuff. If they did, they wouldn't claim that a $5700 bike might be perfect because the alternative is $12000. LOL. You know what the perfect gravel bike is? It's whatev
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I saw one of these a few months ago. It was ~4 am and the person driving the car said "What the F is that???" If I hadn't remembered seeing something about a recent launch I probably would have been perplexed as well. It&#x
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Does the engineer not have to log in when he is on-site? Does the employer not have employees log in periodically to validate that their procedures are currently working? My employer does "disaster recovery" exercises at least onc
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The act was modified to ensure that it wouldn't kill non-commercial open source. But if you try to monetize, you have a lot more responsibility. That is reasonable, but on the other hand, with burnout and other issues surrounding unpa
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
It's always worth remembering that a year from now the media will be breathlessly talking about the M5 Macs. These M4 ones are fantastic machines and are a great upgrade for many, and it is nice to see the yearly progress. But most p
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I'm not sure if that is the case, but if it were that's not really my problem :) This is the place I generally use, but simply because it is most convenient for where I live (it's about 3 blocks south of I-290 at the Cicero A
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Just do a web search for "office furniture liquidator" and include your nearest big city. You are probably going to want the least flashy of the results, as all that flash comes at an expense ;) I know that there are at least 2 go
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
There are warehouses like this in all big cites, and are open (ish) to the public! I helped get some stuff for a small business earlier this year, and picked up an Aeron for myself while I was there. It was in a legitimately bad neighborho
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Oh man, I thought this was in reference to Apollo, not Voyager! I'd say that it almost certain that by the time Voyager was launched, there would have been robust authentication just out of necessity. By that time they'd have dec
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
If a thread is blocked waiting for something, then at some point in the future it will be ready to continue execution. But what if some other thread is still running on that specific core? If there is some other core available and you can
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The space communication network was ~15 years old by the time of the Apollo program and under constant expansion to meet needs. For the moon landing, it was a few dozen ground stations all over the world and 2 million miles of cable linkin
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> “The distance over which we create quantum entanglement in this project, via 25 km of deployed underground fiber, is a record for quantum processors,” says Hanson. “This is the first time such quantum processors in different cities are

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