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by dwater 4y ago
I worked at CompUSA the summer of 1999 and there were demo machines for the Voodoo3 and TNT2, and what I remember most was that the Voodoo looked muddy while the TNT2 looked crisp. Frame rates weren’t different enough to have a clear winner
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by dwater 4y ago
I bought a second hand mountain bike designed for riding single track around 2005 in the US for $600, what I wanted would have been $2000 and the best were $3000-4000 new. Today the high end is higher but the low end feels about the same, a
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by dwater 4y ago
When I was a CS major in 1999-2003, the big names I remember people using were RedHat, SUSE, Debian, and Mandrake was gaining market share for desktop use. The installfests I went to were all RedHat. There seem to be a lot of complaints her
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by dwater 4y ago
I bought a house in DC in 2006 and my home's value never really fell, it just went flat for a year or two. Very different from the overheated markets like Las Vegas that lost 30%+ and took years to recover. There were a lot of foreclos
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by dwater 4y ago
"Your lawyer" does not need to refer to someone who works exclusively for you, or someone you have on retainer. It could just mean the legal professional who you call when you need help with your business. If you have a business a
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by dwater 4y ago
In my experience as a contractor, most federal agencies are now preferring products that are built with open source software, and I think a big reason why is because realistically there’s only a handful of contracting firms big enough to fu
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by dwater 4y ago
At which point you're no longer using natural language and may as well design a traditional interface. As noted in the GP, Alexa and the rest of the digital assistants are losing users because it's faster and easier to have a cust
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by dwater 4y ago
Through the guards like all the other drugs.
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by dwater 4y ago
When the ban was first instituted in Virginia there was a lot of pushback from restaurant and bar owners, but not many were willing to put their money where their mouth was and invest in separated HVAC systems. For the most part the handful
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by dwater 4y ago
As a data scientist, the greatest thing about Databricks is their marketing and sales departments. Not that they have a bad product, but they're not selling anything brilliantly unique.
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by dwater 4y ago
I believe you should have the same attitude when giving an interview e.g. to a member of the media. They will make it feel like a personal conversation which is intended to get you to share your story and views, but in the end they are real
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by dwater 4y ago
I used to sit nearby on my lunch break, and on a clear day you could watch planes after takeoff clearly follow the course of the river N/NW until completely out of sight, which would probably have been close the DC/Maryland border
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by dwater 4y ago
Vim is from an era when software was written to do exactly what you commanded it, not what you intended. It was your responsibility as a user to learn how to turn your intentions into commands.
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by dwater 4y ago
Even in rural areas? Even if we add in the cost of maintaining infrastructure that runs under the road surface (water, sewer, and gas)?
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by dwater 4y ago
To those downvoting because they think this comment is baseless: "The Loyd Jowers Trial (officially the King family vs. Loyd Jowers and other unknown co-conspirators) was an American civil suit brought by the family of Martin Luther Ki
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by dwater 4y ago
My wife and I recently purchased her father’s rural childhood home, and many of his stories about growing up here are about people dying in car accidents and house fires, both because of the consumer safety of the 60’s and 70’s as well as t
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by dwater 4y ago
When I was shopping for a used car in late Summer 2020, Carvana was priced 10-20% above traditional dealerships in the area for same make/model/trim/year/mileage. The traditional dealership process sucks so some people w
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by dwater 4y ago
I don't haven't been following CarMax, but CarLotz was another new entrant to the field that went public via an SPAC IPO in 2020 at a value of $1.9B that now has a market cap of around $24M. They are also trying to merge with Shif
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by dwater 4y ago
It's also possible that the one hastily thrown together excel spreadsheet the CEO himself chose to release doesn't include the full accounting. Maybe Sam decided to leave off an illegal off-book loan?
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by dwater 4y ago
“Liquidity refers to the ease with which an asset, or security, can be converted into ready cash without affecting its market price.” https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/liquidity.asp You have misunderstood the m
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by dwater 4y ago
And 99% of the market and capital as well.
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by dwater 4y ago
Then the next major milestone for the early ones then will be assisted living and death, both of which will free up homes and other assets.
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by dwater 4y ago
That doesn't differentiate between fame and infamy.
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by dwater 4y ago
This is how the SomethingAwful forums operated when they started charging for accounts. Unfortunately it probably wouldn't be useful as a test case because it was/is, at it's core, a shitposting site.
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by dwater 4y ago
Cree is a part supplier to loads of manufacturers of commercial products. You can add Cree as a search term when looking for high quality LED lighting (and you'll get lots of knockoffs depending on where you're looking).
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by dwater 4y ago
If you ignore deductions.
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by dwater 4y ago
Well, the entire rest of the industrialized world was bombed to shit and the US was not only untouched but also had been ramping up production as much as possible for 5 years. It's pretty much an ideal situation for a large economy whe
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by dwater 4y ago
They're not FAANG or JPMorgan, but he's not the CEO of Elon's Cheese Emporium on Main either. SpaceX has a market cap of $100B, Tesla $700B. That's bigger than any company I'm CEO of. Actually, due to the downturn N
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by dwater 4y ago
That's not the issue being discussed. His engineering capabilities are irrelevant to him running the day-to-day operations of 5 of the biggest companies in the world at once.
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by dwater 4y ago
They are already dependent on those things. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/climate/2015...

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