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by bradfa 1y ago
In fiscal 2024 the US federal government brought in revenues of $4.9T and spent $6.8T ( https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61185 ). Of that $6.8T, mandatory spending accounted for $4.1T ( https://www.cbo.gov&#x2F
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Qt (the company) releases MOST of their code under open source licenses, but not all. Qt4 was LGPLv2.1, Qt5 and beyond are under LGPLv3. In every major Qt release, there's a handful of super useful but kind of niche widgets which ar
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by bradfa 1y ago
The Ubuntu that NVIDIA ship is not stock. They seem to be moving towards using stock Ubuntu but it’s not there yet. Running some other distro on this device is likely to require quite some effort.
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Imagining the tool is like a college intern helps me. It has no idea how the real world works. It blindly follows things it previously found online. It’s great at very common boilerplate coding tasks. But it’s super naive and will need hand
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There are definitely times when it’s not faster to use the tool to do the full job. But sometimes just using the tool to plan the job helps to clarify the task so a human can do it better/faster. But then there’s also tasks where using
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by bradfa 1y ago
My experience has been that if you take the time to explain what the current state is, what your desired state should be, and to give information on how you want the agent to proceed, that then you can work with the agent to craft a plan, r
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Pedestrians are hit by cars in the USA because the roads are not designed for non-car users. This is exacerbated by distracted driving, drunk driving, and recent car design changes like higher hood heights but the root of it is poorly desig
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by bradfa 1y ago
There's roof safety anchor systems which are designed for residential roofs. Look for something like the Ridgepro anchor: https://www.theridgepro.com/ It does seem best when using lag bolts to secure such an anchor to
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Population of the USA is about 340 million, population of Canada is about 42 million. Assuming similar statistics of people needing a given medicine, proper cost sharing to result in the same profits would put it much closer to the USA cos
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Yearly fluid film or woolwax treatment solves the rust concern in salt states. Roughly $1k/year/bus in operating expense. Schools do this to their buses already, it’s totally common.
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No, we've been jumping sharks for quite a while now, on both sides of the aisle. This is more like Tony Hawk pulling a 900 on a half-pipe made of sharks.
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But also if this is an indication that more research effort is going into this because of breakthroughs, that’s a good thing. Double the efficiency a few more times and pretty soon it could be competitive in many uses. Solar panels used to
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In the US there are probably 1000x miles traveled in cars vs on bicycles or as pedestrians everywhere except probably the top 10 metro areas. That the casualty rates are only 4:1 shows the danger that cars pose to non-car road users.
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by bradfa 1y ago
Plaid and Finicity do this in the USA for some linking of banking to other financial products. Feels SO insecure. Connecting my credit union checking account through Plaid even ironically brought me to a login page which explicitly stat
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by bradfa 1y ago
CFM is a measure of volume moved, generally quoted at effectively zero static pressure. Zero static pressure is rarely reality. All fans will have a static pressure vs airflow curve, which will vary based on the design of the fan. I doubt
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Memory training or memory testing leading to the minutes long time spent in firmware? I haven't used the most recent AMD server platforms, but on earlier Epyc generations the memory training and PCIe link training were noticed duration
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by bradfa 1y ago
Stripe has payment via crypto methods. Pricing a recurring payment in crypto feels off putting to me as it’s likely the cost will change often due to crypto volatility.
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Reliable in what way? The Raspi 5 PCIe interface to NVMe is only a single gen2 lane (5Gb/s physical, 4Gb/s data due to 8b10b encoding) but that's still plenty fast for lots of uses. I've had no problems using a Samsung
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by bradfa 1y ago
With eMMC can’t you just stick u-boot in a eMMC boot partition? Then the entire eMMC user area can be used without risk of clobbering u-boot.
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As the grid moves away from physical inertia sources and loads, do you think it would be realistic to distribute a grid-wide signal separate from the actual line voltage which could assist non-rotating power sources to stay in sync or at le
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by bradfa 1y ago
Docker works fine on arm. Docker has multi-arch image support and it works seamlessly if implemented correctly. Tons of docker images already support multi-arch. https://www.docker.com/blog/multi-arch-build-and-images
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ATX should call out Molex Mini-Fit Junior connectors. There are many Mini-Fit.
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Drum brakes are cheaper, too. The VW ID4 has rear drum brakes for all of these reasons and it seems to work out very well.
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But there's no money in making a consumer Linux OS. The market has shown this time and again. ChromeOS is effectively a loss leader, getting consumers and students into the Google ecosystem. MacOS is what you get if you want Apple h
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But there are customers who are looking for tractor wheels and flywheels. Maybe not you or people you know, but there's definitely large industries for both. Just like there's a market for "vehicle to get to work". Sa
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Lots of banks now offer “cash equivalent” mortgages. You do more to pre qualify and the bank locks you in with some contracts but then you can make a cash equivalent offer that has no mortgage contingency which can close just as fast as an
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I have a Firefox account. I will gladly pay a yearly fee for it! It provides significant value to me. For example I pay Bitwarden $10/year for both myself and my wife. We will be moving to a Bitwarden family plan soon as our kids are
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Honda Q2 sales are up year over year, and not just slightly. Figures came out today: https://hondanews.com/en-US/honda-corporate/releases/release...
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I suspect it’s mostly tourists leaving the garbage. People usually don’t literally trash the places they frequent. Tourists don’t follow rules.
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Is any of it affordable for the median household income in your area? If so, that’s great!

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