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by leetcrew 3y ago
> EV energy usage is linear with speed. drag actually scales worse than linearly with speed (which further supports your point), but this is only considering power consumption from the drivetrain in isolation. other systems (most signifi
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by leetcrew 3y ago
right, businesses love opportunities to create market segmentation, and they seem to already do this to the extent it's reasonable with battery capacity. I think the limiting factor here is that the battery pack already makes up a larg
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by leetcrew 3y ago
they could start by shutting down the free car wash at president and fayette... in all seriousness, this is a problem I've thought about a lot, and I have no idea what the answer is. baltimore has a lot of the building blocks for a won
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by leetcrew 3y ago
> What about buying clothing or other necessities? If you're ordering most of your stuff in, you're not reducing the need for driving, you're paying someone else to drive for you. not really... batching a bunch of orders a
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by leetcrew 3y ago
I think using a rare moment of broad public alignment to change our transit paradigm is a lot more aspirational than issuing patches to a fundamentally broken system.
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by leetcrew 3y ago
we don't need to make most of the US as dense as London. we need to make the parts of the US where most people live dense enough to support public transit for most trips . it's fine if people use ICE vehicles now and then to vi
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by leetcrew 3y ago
it does seem to me that we have decided on a date for the solution (EVs) without high confidence that the dependencies (generation) will actually be ready by that date. but besides that, I'm not convinced that EVs are the best solution
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by leetcrew 3y ago
I honestly could not care less whether crypto mining is or is not a viable business. I don't do it myself, and I don't hold any crypto. I just hate to see yet random tax meant to appease people who are upset over this week's
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by leetcrew 3y ago
I'd rather see this mitigated with tiered kWh rates that are still use case agnostic. so the amount of energy needed to heat/cool a reasonable family home could be purchased roughly at production cost, but the rate could step up s
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by leetcrew 3y ago
I agree crypto mining is wasteful, but I don't think this kind of narrowly targeted tax is the right solution. ideally the federal government would not have an opinion on what citizens use electricity for, only that the externalities o
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by leetcrew 3y ago
> But at least you know a 3080 is two generations newer than a 1080. Compared to the seemingly random numbers on CPUs it’s simple. CPU SKUs work exactly the same way? intel has gone longer than nvidia without restarting the numbering, so
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by leetcrew 3y ago
the leading digits of the SKU get bumped with every generation. this is the same pattern used by nvidia and amd for their gpus and cpus. it's only slightly more opaque than model years for cars. I've also heard people say things l
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by leetcrew 3y ago
a lot of this blog post is about how universities come up with a long list of titles to avoid calling adjuncts "adjuncts". so you could ask this question, and the admissions officer would (somewhat) honestly answer that they don&#
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by leetcrew 3y ago
unironically yes? if a job "requires" a BA/BS, but realistically could be done by the median highschool graduate, that's four years off the person's life for no real reason. of course, there are other benefits of hi
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by leetcrew 3y ago
the wireless versions bring their own tradeoffs and connection issues. transferring control from one phone to another is not a seamless experience in any vehicle I've been in. automatically connecting to my phone (and locking me out of
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> the epsilon prefix is part of a past tense conjugation (the aorist? I forget, it’s been a long time) I thought the same thing (also been a long time), but looks like this is actually the present participle of ἐλελίζω. nice tool if you&
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by leetcrew 4y ago
it looks like the fidelity card cashback even exceeds 2% if you have a large brokerage account with them, which is cool. but it looks like you do need an active brokerage account with them to use the card at all. a good deal if you'd l
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by leetcrew 4y ago
so it would be about as loud as something most suburban homeowners do on a weekly basis during the summer, but for a much shorter duration? not really making your point here... that sounds like a fair tradeoff to decrease flight times.
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by leetcrew 4y ago
security updates?
200.
by leetcrew 4y ago
if you're really curious, you can just look it up on levels.fyi. total comp for a senior engineer easily breaks $300k at any of the FAANGs. at the same time, downleveling is common for people who don't grind leetcode problems pret
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by leetcrew 4y ago
not a networking expert, but isn't all of this a complete waste of effort when you can just make the sample buffer deeper? uncompressed CD audio is only 1.5mbps, so it's not like the cost of dram is going to be a limiting factor.
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by leetcrew 4y ago
yes, except it was 1999, and that was the same year the first movie was released. it's interesting to look back on the significance of 1999 20+ years later, but obviously they didn't understand what we would think about it at the
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by leetcrew 4y ago
yes, I get that. some people can't consistently balance a monthly budget. but you asked why not use only debit, and I gave you a reason. for people that can manage a monthly budget, a credit/charge card is strictly better, even
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by leetcrew 4y ago
they're already required to clearly display the total interest over the full loan term on the contract you sign. there's no hiding the fact that 25% APR with a 72 month term means paying ~100% of the principal again in interest. I
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by leetcrew 4y ago
debit card requires you to have the full amount available at the time of payment. safe credit/charge card usage only requires that your monthly income exceeds your monthly expenses. most people get paid biweekly or monthly. if you have
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by leetcrew 4y ago
it's true that all of these things make a pretty noticeable difference when you know what to look for. but you're not going to recognize 60hz or vsync as "unplayable" unless you're very accustomed to playing on a be
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> But if I take a walk around the neighborhood I can wave to ~10 people I know by name. that's great, and I'm sure it makes the neighborhood a lot more pleasant to live in. but aside from maybe hiding your amazon packages for y
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by leetcrew 4y ago
the wheelchair argument is bs, I agree. every family does not need to have a car for the small fraction of wheelchair users to get to the store. however, you are not going to connect with your audience when you say things like this: > Ho
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by leetcrew 4y ago
what vehicles are you using for this comparison? I was surprised to see that a base model 3 weighs in the same ballpark as a 330i. however, a model s weighs >500 lbs more than a 540i, and there doesn't seem to be anything in the cor
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by leetcrew 4y ago
I take it you're not shopping for new cars then? the cheapest new car I'm aware of that has analog gauges is a porsche. btw I have the same preference, just letting you know you are in for a disappointment.

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