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by axiolite 11mo ago
> AMD could as well develop their own modem. That didn't work out well when Intel tried it.
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by axiolite 11mo ago
Just price, I'd say. AMD / Intel are used to a certain margin on their products, and the low barrier to entry to create ARM CPUs, and fierce competition from giants like Broadcom, keeps margins very thin in this market. The origi
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by axiolite 11mo ago
I expect nearly all foreign sellers have increased their prices to cover the tariffs. However, there are items selling for less than eBay says an individual will be charged in fees, so it's not just a you-pay-or-I-pay thing. Either e
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by axiolite 11mo ago
> tariffs are surely paid by the buyer, not the seller. The US has declared import tariffs are to be paid by the importer/shipper, not collected from the end purchaser after... The opposite of the rest of the world. If you look thr
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by axiolite 11mo ago
Yeah, I noped-out when I saw eBay's writeup on tariffs owed by the buyer (not paid by the seller): "Shipping carriers or US Customs usually charge $5–$30 in processing fees. Add the item price, import fees, and processing fees to
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by axiolite 11mo ago
> Knowingly downloading CSAM is very likely illegal. Put CSAM in a banner ad, and arrest everyone who was served that ad? Post a CSAM photo behind plexiglass on a wall in a public space, and arrest everyone who walks by and glanced at it
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by axiolite 11mo ago
It was exceptionally clear from reading their writing, they are NOT native English speakers. It seems 57% of people in France can speak English, which I can easily believe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countrie
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by axiolite 11mo ago
> the Range Rover [...] tries to be the best possible version of an SUV. "And this is kind of realistic for Range Rover ownership because when you have one of these, they're so unreliable that you have to have a second vehicle.
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by axiolite 11mo ago
> These are all better reasons than the one we were given. Explaining that it costs 4c to make a 1c coin is a pretty clear and solid justification. People know that producing a physical unit of currency should cost considerably less tha
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by axiolite 11mo ago
Sounds like a lot of projecting... The U.S. doesn't have single-payer healthcare therefore it's a dystopian hell-scape where everyone hates each other. > “sucks to be them” There are large swathes of the US where I would be s
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by axiolite 11mo ago
Plenty of people stop somewhere to get hot breakfast and coffee every day. If you also need something that can't set in your car all day (e.g. milk) that would be a second trip in a day. Whether that's convenient or not depends o
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by axiolite 11mo ago
> Canada is a friendly, kind, gentle place, everything the US is not. In what ways do you find northern midwest US states (Minnesota, Wisconsin, etc.) substantially less "friendly" than Canada?
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by axiolite 11mo ago
Okay, metal prices are low at the moment, but post-1982 pennies did have a melt value of approx 2c not long ago. And it shows nickels are still currently worth more than 5c.
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by axiolite 11mo ago
> Why does it matter if the production cost is higher than the face value? You can buy pennies or nickels in bulk, melt them down, and turn a tidy profit. That's literally a "money printing glitch" Every penny or nickel t
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by axiolite 11mo ago
Intel infringed on one of its patents when it inserted a technology called "enhanced SpeedStep" into its models starting in 1991 (which predates the Pentium Pro) [...] Transmeta was the first company to emphasize that powe
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by axiolite 11mo ago
Chiming in to complain that a good, working solution to a problem just doesn't happen to solve ALL PROBLEMS is just banality or perhaps pedantry. Unless it was also proposing an alternative that might do better... Braille on money als
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by axiolite 11mo ago
> Let me assure you that all Canadian banknotes are the same size too [...] not sure how the article got this fact wrong. Because Canada is just part of the U.S. (flame away)
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by axiolite 11mo ago
Even with just a 6% tax, you end up with prices that need 4 digits of precision after the decimal (e.g.: $11.6494). That issue extends over a wide range of pre-tax/input prices, so one would have to DRASTICALLY change the prices so t
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by axiolite 11mo ago
> Just show the price including tax. With a tax rate as precise as 1000ths of a percent in many jurisdictions*, you'd need extreme precision on the price tag (e.g. $11.798625), OR you need to substantially overcharge for tax (roundi
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by axiolite 11mo ago
It's impractical to eliminate the nickel and penny, while keeping the quarter and dime. The most practical way forward is to keep only the dime, but people will be quite upset about the loss of the quarter.
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by axiolite 11mo ago
Transmeta floundered because Intel simply appropriated their technologies, allowing them to jump ahead in energy efficiency: https://www.computerworld.com/article/1565866/intel-settles-...
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by axiolite 11mo ago
penny-rounding “imposes a tax of $3.27 million Canadian dollars from consumers to grocery stores on a yearly basis in aggregate https://economics.ubc.ca/news/penny-rounding-profitable-for-... eliminating the penny woul
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by axiolite 11mo ago
> This might be one of the only cases where subscription model would work well to cover the maintenance cost. 1) Company takes your subscription money. 2) Company finds a vulnerability that's difficult to fix. 3) Company announces y
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by axiolite 11mo ago
> outside your hostile I don't imagine you'll get much business at your hostile... They'd probably rather go to hotels or youth hostels instead.
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by axiolite 1y ago
I don't see any `tput`s inside the Main loop. Only at startup and exit. Comment at the top of my version (HEAD as of yesterday) says: # This version is optimized for speed by: # 1. Using direct ANSI escape codes instead of fork
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by axiolite 1y ago
> they fired the whole dev team on Evernote, and the price has gone way up too.. but as a user I have to say Evernote the product has gotten better and better since the acquisition I'd say it's only just slightly improved now,
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by axiolite 1y ago
Just an empty screen here... You're picking random positions on screen, and random colors, but then you don't display ANY text so the info is discarded and cells remain clear. After the printf, perhaps you want: tput smso; echo
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by axiolite 1y ago
With "matrix" causing bash to consume 46% of my CPU time, I think I'll pass. I think I can play the actual film in 4K with less CPU time than that.
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by axiolite 1y ago
Sorry, I did not write-up a guide. Electrically, you just need to: 1) connect both wires from the old mechanical thermostat to the "Cooling" terminal block (polarity doesn't matter). Or if your model doesn't have separ
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by axiolite 1y ago
Neither the article nor the linked sources even attempt to prove that modern appliances are less durable or having more issues than old appliances. It seems to be just complaining about "computer circuit boards" in appliances, muc

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