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by pedrocr 4y ago
There's a huge difference between Google/Microsoft/Amazon having the possibility of accessing "root and logs" just as a side effect of running the service and the OPs assertion about them actively gathering informat
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by pedrocr 4y ago
Google is not getting any data when you connect to a GCP VM through TLS. Or did I miss another huge PRISM-level scandal? Same for Azure and AWS. But if you block those no wonder a huge part of the internet is gone.
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by pedrocr 4y ago
How is a third-party app that's available for both Android and iOS worse than iMessage that's iOS only? How is a mobile number that can be bought from literally hundreds of different carriers all over the world worse than an Apple
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by pedrocr 4y ago
The AMD offerings are much closer to M1 although they're not yet on TSMC 5nm so they don't quite match it. It's a historic event. Intel was #1 in laptops for an eternity. Even when the Pentium 4 was being outclassed by AMD In
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by pedrocr 4y ago
There's one thing that always baffles me about this kind of market work. Let's for the sake of argument assume that HFT and other sophisticated market making activities are crucial for price discovery and other great social benefi
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by pedrocr 4y ago
Once you limit to EV the choices are pretty limited though. Toro and Deere have decent options and all the others at most have a retrofitted electric motor to a transmission designed for gas/diesel. Hopefully the ramp up of LFP battery
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by pedrocr 4y ago
Toro and John Deere have been selling electric versions of their UTVs for decades now. They work great too. Plenty of farms use them and there's plenty to like in the EV models even with just lead-acid batteries.
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by pedrocr 4y ago
We have a Toro Workman electric cart on our small farm. It's extremely useful even while being quite basic and powered by lead-acid batteries. We bought it used a while ago but a new one would cost 15k€. The new ones are a little nicer
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Key energy trends from BP Statistical Review of 2022(gregor.substack.com)
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by pedrocr 4y ago
If what you value is vertical space/resolution why not run a 4K monitor vertically? You can either use the full resolution or crop at whatever vertical space you prefer.
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by pedrocr 4y ago
The Lenovo websites are really hard to navigate and I think they also use them to steer people into specific configurations they've probably batch produced. I just spec based on the PDFs and then ask a distributor for a quote. It sucks
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by pedrocr 4y ago
The T14s has a 2880x1800, OLED, 500nit, wide color gamut, 90hz, screen option. It's probably the best screen you can get on a laptop right now: https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/ThinkPad/Think
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by pedrocr 4y ago
I'll just wait for you to take that short term loss and restart the mining when it's profitable again. Since that's what everyone thinks there's an incentive trap there. And now someone that actually does decide to take
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by pedrocr 4y ago
> Not really, they are among the rare laptops to still offer S3 for Linux. The features are great but my complaint was about quality control. My T460s has had every single part but the chassis replaced, some multiple times, and still fai
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by pedrocr 4y ago
It doesn't seem like a great option compared to a normal USB-C or A ethernet dongle because of that. Those are slim enough that they're basically a continuation of the ethernet cable and as a benefit also unplug when yanked. This
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by pedrocr 4y ago
Yep, same here. And with increasing urgency as Thinkpad quality control seems to have fallen off a cliff. Framework seems uniquely positioned to fix this though. Someone just needs to do a compatible top cover that takes Thinkpad keyboards.
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by pedrocr 4y ago
The 5850U is the 8 core part. Maybe you mean 5650U?
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by pedrocr 5y ago
You can have that now. A Tesla model 3 weighs between 1600 and 1900kg depending on version.
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by pedrocr 5y ago
To fix this problem AMD would have to work on making LLVM and GCC work great on Intel processors. That would be the only way to make people not use the Intel compiler for extra performance and ending up with binaries that are crippled for
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by pedrocr 5y ago
> You're using strictly in a way that's the opposite of precise when you need to preface it with a barn sized caveat. It's not a caveat, it's the whole point. To not have your eyes straining to focus closely the scree
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by pedrocr 5y ago
OSX does have intermediate steps so you can use those instead. It's not true fractional scaling but as the resolution increases the artifacts are less noticeable. Don't know if there are any 2400px tall 4K screens if you want to g
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by pedrocr 5y ago
You may not like it yourself but other people have the opposite experience. Setting the screen farther away and having your eyes focus at that distance is more comfortable for them. That other people choose other solutions doesn't inva
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by pedrocr 5y ago
The effective resolution of 4K is 2x in both directions because to match the size you just set the 27" screen a bit farther away so it fills the same field of view. The jump in resolution from going 4K will be very noticeable and a 27&
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Setting the 8K screen farther away so it fills the same field of view will make it strictly better than the smaller 5K if you can manage it. Same view, more angular resolution and your eyes are focused farther away which reduces eye strain.
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by pedrocr 5y ago
I've seen this sentiment a lot but it doesn't track with my experience. 4K@60Hz is now common and very cheap (<300€ for an LG IPS 27'' screen). It definitely wasn't just a few years ago, people even bought weird
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Amazingly a modern heat pump running on electricity generated by 100% gas is more efficient at heating than burning the gas for heat directly. Modern heat pumps are 5x efficient so you break even at even just 20% thermal efficiency of the p
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by pedrocr 5y ago
In the US houses are supplied with 240V split phase. So most outlets are 120V from one of the two parts of the same phase. There are some outlets (e.g., for a drier) that use the whole 240V and with those getting high amps is also easy beca
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by pedrocr 5y ago
I've started inquiring about this on all hotel stays even if I know I probably don't strictly need it. It at least gives the signal that this is something I value. In Europe with 230V if places just install normal outlets it'
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by pedrocr 5y ago
Hard disagree on that one. In 2 years of driving this car the updates have been a clear net positive. Even this update with the botched UI included a new automatic seat heating feature that's a benefit. I definitely have criticisms of
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by pedrocr 5y ago
There is no rollback but you can stay at whatever version you want. No bugfixes either though, although that's similar to other manufacturers. Tesla software updates have in general been good with some setbacks. So the model still seem

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