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by ak217 1y ago
They are quite inefficient (yes, even the vacuum insulated ones) and the Zojirushi one has plastic inside the lid that disintegrates if you always keep the water on the high temperature setting. That means plasticizer from melted plastic in
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by ak217 1y ago
This is wrong by at least three orders of magnitude. Very roughly, a human requires 2000 kcal a day = 2 kWh a day so 75 kWh is enough to cover about a month, putting aside the upstream losses in the energy supply chain (which are far greate
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by ak217 1y ago
Makes sense, yeah, a 3600x is far behind the curve now. Edit: Took a look at AMD's lineup and realized they did something I got conditioned not to expect: they've maintained AM5 socket compatibility for 3 generations in a row. Thi
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by ak217 1y ago
How old was your previous CPU? Different people have vastly different expectations when it comes to upgrading. I'm certain I can play all of the games that I'm interested in on my 3 year old Ryzen 7600x, and that I'm limited
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by ak217 1y ago
> Spotify > “enshittification” of streaming I've been a happy paying Spotify user since 2010 or so. I'm still mostly happy with what I get out of it... they did try to shove podcasts down people's throats, but backed of
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by ak217 1y ago
OK, here is a study with 10x the sample size reading out the opposite effect: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26746907/ The point of my post was that these experiences are highly personal and specific to your physiolog
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by ak217 1y ago
Better yet, get stability/motion control shoes. Don't skimp on running shoes and be prepared to try a few different types for extended periods of time before you settle on one. I found that there is only one type of shoe on the ma
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by ak217 1y ago
The key to productivity with these tools (as with most things) is a tight feedback loop. Cursor has an amazing tab completion model. It uses a bunch of heuristics to try to understand what you're doing and accelerate it. It's a bi
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by ak217 1y ago
Yes, colorectal cancer screening is estimated to reduce colorectal cancer mortality by 50% to 73%. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10093633/ https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056
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by ak217 1y ago
In terms of the ratio of profitability to social good and positive economic externalities, coffee shops are in a category of their own. All the cities trying to attract businesses and stuff should just subsidize some coffee shops first.
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by ak217 1y ago
Check Four Barrel or The Mill. I'm sure there are others. For many years, Coffeebar played this role in SF - I was sad when they closed.
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by ak217 1y ago
Yes, if you are a profitable company operating at a steady state and your investors have a time horizon of (in other words, are locked in for) a decade or more. Most companies in question don't fit these criteria. They are either large
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by ak217 1y ago
A less far-fetched reason is that modern EV and robotics technology (lithium ion and LFP batteries, motors, power electronics, embedded electronics, RF electronics etc) is dual-use and absolutely crucial for building all modern weapons
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by ak217 1y ago
Agreed. The intent is good, but there are recurring problems that arise because of insufficient communication between the distro package maintainers and upstream, insufficient domain experience, or both. I think the solution is to set stron
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by ak217 1y ago
I think it's important to learn from incidents. It's clear there were design issues on both projects' sides that allowed that bug to happen, and in fact several of them were fixed in subsequent years (though not quickly, and
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by ak217 1y ago
I know Mazda makes good boring SUVs, I own one. I like Mazda's design philosophy, that's why I want them to succeed. In terms of vehicles sold, Mazda's sales peaked in 2017, the year before I bought my most recent one. As bes
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by ak217 1y ago
Mazda also managed to squander a huge brand and structural advantage by falling into lockstep behind other Japanese automakers in underinvesting in EV manufacturing infrastructure. Now they have to rely on their JV partner Changan to lead t
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by ak217 1y ago
Yeah, the number of statements in this essay that, if not uninformed, at least lack perspective, is pretty telling. Anyone who says the Muni is "crumbling" hasn't spent much time in other cities or in SF of a decade or two ag
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by ak217 1y ago
Doom Eternal is great for affirmation and motivation. "Your strength will be their shield, and your will, their sword. You remain unbroken, for your fight is eternal."
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by ak217 1y ago
You think of Elden Ring as cozy?
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by ak217 1y ago
Correct and I agree. TurboTax flags zero cost basis values for you and gives you some basic instructions on where to look for the correct ones, but it's quite tricky. I think the issue is brokers don't want to take responsibility
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by ak217 1y ago
> the broker should have known that and not 1099'd me for it. The broker is obligated to 1099 you for it. The issue is that brokers who handle NSOs are not obligated to set the correct cost basis, so they set it to 0, making it seem
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by ak217 2y ago
One underappreciated feature of S3 - that allowed it to excel in workloads like the Tables feature described in the article - is that it's able to function as the world's highest throughout network filesystem. And you don't h
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by ak217 2y ago
It's not a joke. JSONB blows Mongo out of the water. I've run large production workloads on both. > You can do actual searches inside the JSON, index the table To be clear, you can do those things with Mongo (and the features h
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by ak217 2y ago
The proper name for this functionality is Visual Studio Code Remote - SSH ( https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh ), and it's VSCode's killer feature. With this plugin, VSCode is the first IDE to p
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by ak217 2y ago
Personally I think FaceID is a big step backwards in terms of both security and usability.
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by ak217 2y ago
It's an interesting reversal and highlights the power of competition - as a young part-time employee in college, my employer automatically contributed a few hundred dollars for me to a 403(b) type of retirement savings account. Fidelit
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by ak217 2y ago
No, zero means a 0% expense ratio and no minimums, as listed for the four funds at the top of https://www.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/investing-ideas/index-... . Unlike most other funds, these are captive to Fidelity
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by ak217 2y ago
Sure. That makes sense physiologically, if you think about membrane potential and hormonal control and kidney capacity. Just like with glucose, it's the spikes that cause the damage. But it's a lot easier to explain to a non-profe
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by ak217 2y ago
That study is focused on how much to restrict sodium intake in patients who have already experienced heart failure to avoid further clinical events (more heart attacks). The evidence for excess sodium intake causing cardiovascular problem

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