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by jmb99 2y ago
Some disincentives to have kids, if you grew up in the 21st century: - The cost (financial, time, stress/health) is incredibly high. When cost of living as one person increases somewhere between notably and substantially faster than wa
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> DDR5 can barely operate with four ranks per channel, at severely reduced speeds. That is objectively false. See, for instance, V-color’s threadripper RAM[0]. If 96GB quad-rank modules @ 6000Mhz in octo-channel counts as “barely operati
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Time, money, and lots of knowledge and skill. Actually, lots of time and money too. It’s really not a practical thing for at least 99% of the population. Probably more like 4 or 5 nines.
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Not the same hackability, but also limits. If you want to make, say, 1500HP, that’s 1120kW. Assuming even a pack voltage of 900V, that’s still 1240 amps that has to be dealt with. Wiring/interconnects have to be huge and water cooled
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by jmb99 2y ago
Was there ever video interviews? Admittedly I wasn’t really paying attention but back when I was getting into what it was only IRC, and these days it still seems to be IRC anywhere that does interviews (otherwise class-restricted forum invi
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In my experience, they’re lots of fun... in a straight line, to a point. I haven’t driven one that turns or stops as well or as “connectedly” as pretty much any enthusiast ICE car. And yes they have instant torque off the line with very goo
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by jmb99 2y ago
> V8s have been replaced by turbo engines which respond much more dramatically to modifications than any N/A V8. While technically true, it’s not the same. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve owned (and enjoyed!) both, but a highly strung big-
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> The main culprit is that anyone estimating battery life in percentages. I thought this was a solved problem, like, decades ago? At least I remember even the first gen MacBooks having accurate battery percentages, and it’s a more vague
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I have pretty much the exact same opinion, right down to “cloud shit” (I have even used that exact term at work to multiple levels of management, specifically “I’m not working on cloud shit, you know what I like working on and I’ll do prett
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There’s a pretty big difference between traditional auto markers’ “concept cars” and Tesla in 2019 showing off what was supposed to be very close to the final production car. It was also supposed to start at $40k, be bulletproof, have shatt
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by jmb99 2y ago
Even taken at face value: > Most people don’t buy a truck to haul. But if they do need to haul or tow something, they can. > Most people don’t buy an off-roader to go off road. But if they do need to go off-road, they can. > Most p
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by jmb99 2y ago
I have driven a model 3 and it is hands down the worst 45k (CAD) car I’ve ever driven. Horrible ride quality, uncomfortable seats, terrible (in my opinion - beauty is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose) and slightly dangerous interior, n
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by jmb99 2y ago
Recall is the industry-standard (and populace-understood) term for “this vehicle has a safety or reliability issue that must be resolved by the manufacturer.” It is all encompassing; anything from possibly loose lugnuts to faulty airbags to
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by jmb99 2y ago
GM F-bodies (Firebird, Camaro) and the Corvette are good contenders as well. Barely counts but the C4 ZR1 Corvette (launched in 1989 for the 1990 model year) that made 375HP and was partially designed by Lotus would be up there as well. Tau
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Not sure honestly. I've been to lots of remote areas, only accessible by multiple days of travel on foot or canoe, so probably? But I live on the other end of the country, so the effort likely wouldn't be worthwhile if it were tru
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by jmb99 2y ago
> The cited system has 2x89.6 GB/s bandwidth. The following applies for certain only to the Zen4 system; I have no experience with Zen5. That is the theoretical max bandwidth of the DDR5 memory (/controller) running at 5600 MT&
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by jmb99 2y ago
As cool as this is, how many peoples' employers allow them to do either personal work from the work computers, or work work from their personal computers? My company is quite strict on both.
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If you’ve never been, I’d recommend visiting Lake Louise in Alberta. However, when I last visited in 2019, the lake base was packed nearly shoulder to shoulder at 7am. Hiking the trail to the tea house was like walking a sidewalk in NYC at
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by jmb99 2y ago
> This lead to decades of low quality cars being made. Really, it was only a bit over one decade. Taking GM as an example, their last great cars were produced for the 1973 model year, after which point the economy, emissions, and efficie
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This would be an example, but far from the whole picture.
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> Hah, you really did the VM thing? A lot of people have suggested that to me but I didn't think it'd actually work. Pretty cool! Another data point that it is indeed possible. I had a dual Xeon E5-2690 v2 setup with two RX 580
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by jmb99 2y ago
I bought a house in Canada with a liquid net worth of $75k (admittedly, 2 years ago, but still). 15 minute drive to a major city’s downtown, 0.3 acres, 3 bed 1 bath with an attached garage. Is it the nicest house? No, but it’s a house, and
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I think that “just” might be doing some heavy lifting in that assertion.
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I find generic ABX tests not great, personally, because I generally don’t know what to be listening for. However, with songs I’ve listened to lossless my whole life, it’s much easier to spot encoding failures - an intuitive “wait, that cymb
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1080p@60 is “only” around 500MB/s, which should have been possible a decade ago. PCIe 1.0 x16 bandwidth maxed out at 4GB/s, so even if you weren’t on a top of the line system with PCIe 2.0 (or brand new 3.0!) you should have been
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The (almost) direct counter example is Aperture. That was the “Pro” photo application and it was killed for seemingly no reason with no notice. It’s fairly reasonable to be pessimistic about this acquisition given that history.
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Definitely not a direct alternative, since Encarta was not free nor user-editable.
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What direct alternative to Wikipedia had the first mover’s advantage with a billion monthly active users in 2001?
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Apple’s supported JPEG2000 for years, but no one else does. I imagine the same will be the case for JPEG XL.
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I think (hope) the vast majority of people do not believe that asking the CSIO why their website is blocked is embezzlement.

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