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by com2kid 5mo ago
Seattle has absurd labor costs. Just the needed permits are a couple hundred.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Definitely, the car costs more. But speaking purely in terms of maintenance, costs are nearly 0. Assuming I don't but a pot hole, the tires will last me 7-8 years at minimum (I drive a bit under 3000 miles a year). Brakes are barely us
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by com2kid 5mo ago
I haven't had to do any work on my EV in the 2 years I've had it. I'm due for a cabin air filter change in another couple years. So yes the bike is costing me more in maintenance! It is hard to compete with 0.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
I fully understand the 240 vs 120 in US houses. The difference is other countries have 240 running everywhere. So apartment garages can have cars charging (slower than the max possible speed but faster than if they were on 120v), without te
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by com2kid 5mo ago
In other countries every outlet is 240, a regular extension cord to outlets in a apartment complex garage is 240. It is less overall amps than the beefy 240v an American dryer plugs into, but it is good enough. Meanwhile $3k to get 5 feet o
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Conservative bots are out strong in Pacific NW forums slop posting against new "green energy" energy projects. Blaming the (not yet built!) green energy projects for upcoming rate increases. Nevermind that solar is why Texas has s
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Bicycle doesn't carry a family of 4, or carry loads of dirt or pick up lumber or tow a trailer. Also my e-bike needs more maintenance than my EV. Go figure.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Other countries have $15k new electric city cars for sale. The US doesn't. Our domestic car manufacturers are either uninterested or unable to make them, and import bans are in place on foreign cars that meet that price point. Also our
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by com2kid 5mo ago
It is funny that propaganda has somehow convinced conservatives, people who used to idealize self reliance and independence from government dependencies, to move away from solar and EVs. A EV and a home solar setup with a large battery bank
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Size diapers based on the amount of pee not on the size of the baby. That was life changing advice for me.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
My mutant power is the ability to put babies to sleep. Before I had my own I'd put other people's kids babies to sleep easy peasy. It's something I've been able to do since I was a teenager.
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by com2kid 5mo ago
> full surveillance You realize smart glasses have a battery that allows for all of 15 to 20 minutes of recording right? Hell just turning on wake word detection for asking it questions murders the battery life and it is one of the first
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Vacations smart glasses are great at translating signs, historical plaques, and even ancient inscriptions on walls. (That last one surprised me.) For parents smart glasses are awesome, no need to pull out a phone to take a picture. No need
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by com2kid 5mo ago
> It's not obvious if that's the case with llm based development. Of course you could 'use llms until things get crazy then stop' but that doesn't seem part of the zeitgeist. Harnesses are coming online now that
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by com2kid 5mo ago
> First of all, what you're talking about is nondeterminism at the hardware level, subverting the software, which is, on an ideal/theoretical computer, fully deterministic (except in ways that we specifically tell it not to be,
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by com2kid 5mo ago
It has always been non-deterministic but we relied on low level engineers who knew the dark magicks to keep the horrors at bay. Bit flips in memory are super common. Even CPUs sometimes output the wrong answer for calculations because of ra
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by com2kid 5mo ago
> But it seems so weird to me to be a Linux open source adopter, who is also so am conservative. I used to be a tech enthusiast who installed the latest bleeding edge everything. Now days I need a stable machine that lets me work. Someti
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by com2kid 5mo ago
I'm still on Ubuntu 22 because everything works. Got enough packages that still request I don't use wayland that I don't want to risk an upgrade. Sad because I really want the better One drive integration that Ubuntu 24+ come
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by com2kid 5mo ago
Windows had working suspend to disk with Windows XP then they messed it up trying to get a more tablet like experience. :/
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by com2kid 6mo ago
> 1.On a system that is handling 10k concurrent requests, the 10GB of RAM is going to be a fraction of what is installed I've written massively concurrent systems where each connection only handled maybe a few kilobytes of data. Asy
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by com2kid 6mo ago
It'd be funny if Google offered 750m in stock + cash just to see what happened... :D The drama on HN alone would last for days. Twitter would implode in on itself.
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by com2kid 6mo ago
Cable TV begs to differ. I grew up working poor and plenty of people around me dumped a lot of money into cable TV subscriptions, and $120 back in the late 90s is $240 now. Computer costs keep collapsing. Image and audio generation is turne
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by com2kid 6mo ago
That is ultimately where it is headed and has been headed for over 100 years now. The question is when will we get there. If the answer is tomorrow, money means nothing and none of these investments matter. If the answer is 30 years, well l
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by com2kid 6mo ago
Linux has Snap, and Flatpak, and sometimes an app works with one or not the other. It is the worst of both worlds. I especially love how flatpak has its own version of graphics drivers, which results in my browser flatpak updating to a vers
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by com2kid 6mo ago
> If that is true, of which I remain highly skeptical, then it implies that books are wildly inefficient to produce. It just means that publishers are really good at manufacturing physical goods. They've been doing it for several hu
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by com2kid 6mo ago
I got an android based epaper device and installed Libby on it. Overall it is a much better experience than doing the library to Kindle dance. I can just browse my local library's ebook collection on device and immediately open them in
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by com2kid 6mo ago
A number of authors have written about this and the tldr is that ebooks aren't really any cheaper to produce. Paper is cheap. Shipping is cheap. The incremental cost of making a physical book is so small as to be noise in the overall b
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by com2kid 6mo ago
Suburbs are places where people refuse to pay taxes to build parks and instead have giant yards and everyone builds their own private park. :/
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by com2kid 6mo ago
Still reads as if the blogging part they feel bad about. The platform got a rep for blog spam instead of being a medium competitor, which sucks because Hashnode has really good inline code syntax highlighting (why I picked them). Unfortunat
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by com2kid 6mo ago
Amazingly open live writer seems to be a very active project that is getting ready for a new release sometime soon! It is sad that these sort of local apps are a thing of the past. It is all every changing web UIs. One of the blogging platf

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