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Reading the datasheet for one of the most common radios used for meshtastic devices (Semtech SX1262) the lowest bitrate is pretty slow: 18bps. But, with larger channel sizes and lower spreading factors, it goes up to 62.5kbps. I cant tell e
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Tempeh is widely available in the US, at least in California. I cant think of a grocery store that doesnt have it.
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Riding a fixie isn't really any harder than a normal bike. Just ride one with brakes.
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While the first >1000 core x86 processor is probably a little ways out, Intel is releasing a 288-core x86 processor in the first half of 2024 (Sierra Forest). I assume AMD will have something similarly high core in 2024-25 as well.
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Intel has over 15,000 software engineers, per their website. I couldn't find a number for NVIDIA, but it looks like they have a bit above 26k total employees. So, its very likely Intel has more software engineers than NVIDIA. Intel has
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> it's important to note that "tricking" people into tipping more doesn't help uber's bottom line. Of course it does. Their drivers presumably want a certain level of total compensation, but they dont care who it
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> This doesn't happen any more. Back then you could find companies with a cap that was LESS than the money they had in the bank. Those were no brainer deals. Plenty of companies trade at a discount to book value. I found over a thou
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3y ago
> Long perplexed why they had canvas stretched across Its a radome, used to protect the antenna from weather.
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Wayland has been working for a long time on the 3.x development releases. I run a wayland only (no xwayland) system, and I have been using GIMP development releases without issue for years.
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Those high reward cards are only available to people with good to excellent credit, which probably doesnt apply to most of the people living paycheck to paycheck. Also, given that you make thousands in cash back per year, this must equate t
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> USDC doesn't pay interest Coinbase, who co-founded USDC, absolutely pays interest on USDC: https://www.coinbase.com/usdc (they call it rewards instead of interest in an attempt to avoid regulation, but it is funct
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> At some point someone has to explain to you what law you broke and how you broke it The link at the top of this page is 90 pages of the SEC telling Kraken what rules and regulations they have broken. It is certainly possible the court
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The linked forum thread talks about this, its called pair gain.
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56k wasnt standardized until 2000, though the draft was available a little earlier. There was also the very short lived K56flex and X2 technologies that came out in 1997, but ISP support and sales were pretty low.
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>We knew this about casinos. That's why they were relegated to a little hellish desert town. There are only two states with legal casino style gambling statewide, but most states offer many other ways to gamble legally: lotteries, t
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Nvidia Shows Intel Gaudi2 Is 4x Better Performance per Dollar Than Its H100
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I looked briefly into this and it seems that while there is evidence that intermittent fasting may be useful in preventing cancer and may be useful as an adjunct cancer treatment (in addition to chemotherapy and/or other treatments), t
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No, but should you want to enable it, you can install systemd-zram-generator. See also: https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator As someone else mentioned, for many cases this will be a performance increase, not decre
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> Is this an easier way to get weather info without Internet than e.g. Raspberry-NOAA and a large antenna? If you're OK with audio only, you cant beat NOAA weather radio: https://www.weather.gov/nwr/ You can li
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> 1. If you look at recent Treasury auctions, 30-year TIPS are actually yielding 1.5%, not 1.3% Auction results only show the coupon rate on the TIPS, not the total yield. All TIPS are currently yielding more than 2.1%: https:/
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> A plot of land might have taxes of $1,000/yr. It looks like TIPs give a fixed real rate of 1.3%. So, $77k in TIPS will balance out your taxes. This math is wrong because you have to pay tax on the income from TIPS (unless you are
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Intel doesnt use TDP anymore. There are base (PL1) and turbo (PL2) power levels, and the numbers given are actually pretty accurate.
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I think you are really underestimating how much progress has been made with renewable energy. Taking a quick look a CAISO, the California grid is currently 65% powered by renewables (mostly solar). This is a bit higher than average, but it
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That data is calorie supply, not consumption. It could be true that Japanese consume just as much as ever, but waste slightly less food than they used to.
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It should be noted that Valerian works on the brains GABA system in a very similar manner to alcohol or benzodiazapines (valium, xanax, etc). This is why it is effective, but also why it should only be used short term.
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It should still be able to run an up to date web browser though, right? If one is that concerned about someone exploiting an OS level security flaw to exfiltrate their online banking credentials (wildly unlikely), they should just be doing
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They have an Aliexpress store that appears to ship from China: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/1102551393
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3y ago
The Daily Show was never "broadcast". Comedy Central was, and still is, only available via a paid subscription.
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> Yes, but taxes on capital gains are much, much lower than taxes on interest. Not true in California: Capital gains are taxed at normal income rates, and treasury interest is state tax exempt. For the hypothetical taxpayer earning $100k
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Re: the cannabis situation - the closest European analogy would be Amsterdam or Christiania. Cannabis sales are not legal in those countries, but some sales are tolerated in specific areas. California isnt too much different - it is illegal
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