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by leetcrew 4y ago
when did you look into it last? the iphone 6 could perform sequential writes over 80MB/s. that's already well past saturating USB 2.0, and that phone launched in 2014. https://www.anandtech.com/show/8554/
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by leetcrew 4y ago
I think you're right that the actual impact is minimal. still, I don't think it's the right choice for the brand. I'm not an apple fan, but I usually respect the company's attention to detail and overall quality sta
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> Unfortunately, most companies have fallen into the trap where if someone has a title of X they can only make up to Y, regardless of how good they are at their job or how long they've done it. I don't agree that this is a trap
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by leetcrew 4y ago
private pensions are typically not adjusted for inflation. you're trading a slice of an uncertain economy for a guaranteed amount of an uncertain currency. pensions could be inflation-adjusted, but then you have to trust that the offic
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by leetcrew 4y ago
sure, if you're going to live in a 3BR+ home either way, it doesn't take long to break even on a purchase in most markets. but I'm living in a 1BR apartment that comes with a garage parking spot, an ideal setup for me persona
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by leetcrew 4y ago
people consider a lot of different factors when choosing a place to live. crime rate is an important factor, but it's not the only one. reading that some other city has X armed robberies per capita doesn't give a great sense of ho
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by leetcrew 4y ago
I really doubt the per-unit hardware cost to install heated seats is anywhere near what they cost to option. it's not a complex technology, and plenty of cheap cars come with them standard. the manufacturer might even break even on the
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> The heated seats example is a great one. There is no reason for this not be a one-time charge. if you're referring to BMW, the heated seats are still available as a one time charge. they're just also available as a subscripti
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by leetcrew 4y ago
it's really not that complicated. PL2 is two settings in most bioses, a power limit and a max duration for that limit. sure, you could spend hours optimizing with all kinds of tweaks, but if you just want your cpu never to exceed 150W
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by leetcrew 4y ago
how does gaming for several hours on weekends add up to your PC being at load 25% of it's life? think that through. you'd need to spend 42 hours/week gaming for that to be correct, literally gaming like it's a full-time
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by leetcrew 4y ago
I don't really get this argument. if you're putting a PC together yourself, you're certainly capable of turning down the PL2 limit. so are the OEMs like dell. I'd rather have the product ship near the top of it's v&
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by leetcrew 4y ago
my gut tells me I really don't want to be a wide receiver in this game.
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> If you want to stop that, pay fair market value for the guns. Homemade guns have essentially zero market value, so stop paying people to make them. this approach also has issues. if someone wants to sell a gun for fair market value, th
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by leetcrew 4y ago
it demonstrates that the program organizers either don't understand enough about firearms to realize they would be "overpaying", or they simply don't care about wasting public funds. it also raises doubts about the numbe
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by leetcrew 4y ago
people don't just want to live in cities, they want to live in a few specific neighborhoods within those cities. for example, a peculiar thing has been happening in baltimore. average housing prices have been steadily going up while th
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> Might have been true back in the JDK 6 or JDK 7 age but from JDK 8 to JDK 19 it has become a better functional programming language than most functional programming languages. uhh, let me know when they add the ability to define a stan
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by leetcrew 4y ago
I think you are confusing "free market" with "perfect competition". a free market is just a market with minimal government interference (taxes, subsidies, import/export controls, etc.). monopolies and other market f
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by leetcrew 4y ago
what electromagnetic pulse? intercepting a nuke doesn't detonate it early like a conventional explosive; it most likely turns it into a dud.
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by leetcrew 4y ago
we're talking about the default text editor on an OS that supports endless alternatives. yes, it's an embarrassment, but (approximately) no one is dying because notepad is janky.
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by leetcrew 4y ago
the objection is that large-scale weather patterns can be cyclical over a period of years or even decades (eg, north atlantic oscillation). sample vs effect size in the statistical sense is a red herring here. an oscillation will look like
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by leetcrew 4y ago
in most situations, I would rather see a complicated statement split over several lines than several simple statements with vague/unhelpful variable names. if the variable name itself doesn't help me understand what it means, I ha
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by leetcrew 4y ago
probably not for most use cases, but I build some fairly large projects. it's nice to interact with a 16C/32T xeon node through an ultrabook. downloading tools/assets runs at the speed of the datacenter link rather than coffe
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by leetcrew 4y ago
I'm one of those weird people that genuinely enjoys using windows as my main OS. vc++ and c# stuff is very nice on that OS, but I still feel like wsl is a bit like shoving a square peg into a round hole. too often, things that "ju
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by leetcrew 4y ago
I guess I'll be the odd one out in this thread. 2-3 years worth of expenses sounds like a fairly small buffer for someone that has 20+ years of experience and currently makes 4x their monthly expenses. where is it all going? I can&#x27
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> The action scenes were immaculate they really weren't... the choreography of the big lightsaber fight in the last jedi is mediocre at best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3HMz25LvnY you could almost pick a light
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> Why is it so hard for some people to believe that these days, casting can cast a wider net and that there are plenty of qualified actors of all races that will still fit the parts being cast? that's not the part that's hard t
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> taking on debt for an appreciating (or incoming earning) asset, is generally OK - taking on debt for a depreciating asset is never a good idea if you can avoid it. this is a good rule of thumb, but there are exceptions. say I want to b
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by leetcrew 4y ago
FYI, the way it works in most states is that 0.08 is the "per se" limit. this means that having a BAC >= 0.08 is enough for a conviction. it does not mean you're guaranteed to be fine if your BAC is below that. if you get
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> Or.. honk your horn? Slow down without "slamming on the brakes"? this depends on the assumption that other drivers are aware of their surroundings and following you at a safe distance. unfortunately that's not usually th
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by leetcrew 4y ago
> Can you provide a scenario where to avoid an accident the best choice is to add speed, which would have the effect of worsening the accident if you are wrong? you're in the middle lane with cars to your left, right, and rear. the

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