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by qzw 4y ago
Exactly this. Offering AMD or dGPU is a whole other level of engineering, supply chain, and support effort. Google itself may also be good for a few thousand orders, just from all their now orphaned Pixelbook users. And presumably that’s st
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by qzw 4y ago
Are those the only hardware differences from a regular Framework?
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by qzw 4y ago
Didn’t google make a version of ChromeOS that can be installed on a lot of regular laptops? Seems to me it’s possible there may not be any hardware difference between the Chromebook edition and other Framework laptops.
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by qzw 4y ago
This is so true, except for that one glorious, fleeting period when iOS apps were new and you could be an overnight millionaire with something like Flappy Bird.
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by qzw 4y ago
I'm sure NVIDIA is a serious pain in the ass to deal with (Linus_middle_finger.gif), but perhaps one of the unspoken reasons is that, as suggested by the rumor mill, there's a serious oversupply problem with next gen GPUs. NVIDIA
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by qzw 4y ago
One night a few weeks ago I had my first ever UFO sighting. It was a pretty classic scenario of lights hanging in the sky and then suddenly accelerating far more quickly than I thought an airplane would be capable of. I live in the glide pa
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by qzw 4y ago
Some number of the staff may also be from the “questionable” side of the business. They don’t have to do any actual restaurant work but will get some clean income as part of their total compensation. So the laundering happens at more than o
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by qzw 4y ago
> I've never had my breaks fail on me. Just a friendly reminder that your car has brakes . When they break, then they will fail.
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by qzw 4y ago
Would be a good start, but even then, if there's a low probability of getting caught, a lot of business people might roll the dice. There needs to be serious jail time for serious fraud.
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by qzw 4y ago
Laws need to be written to hold the c-suite personally responsible for fraud. Otherwise there’s basically every incentive to commit fraud and consider it a cost of doing business. There’s a sitting U.S. senator with presidential ambitions w
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by qzw 4y ago
Proof of stake before it was cool.
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by qzw 4y ago
Right, because the Royal Family themselves never ever make headlines for the wrong reasons.
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by qzw 4y ago
Good link there, but assuming I’m looking at the same section as you, it seems like the 1/3 figure is for skipping or delaying tests and treatments recommended by their doctors , which doesn’t really tell us how many people forego see
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by qzw 4y ago
I’m going to have to stan for Weird Al here and say that there’s basically 0% chance that he didn’t know the difference between RAM and hard drive space. He’s actually quite meticulous in his songwriting and pays a lot of attention to detai
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by qzw 4y ago
The sad thing is that they could’ve also put Midjourney (and DALL-E) in the title and not lost any votes.
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by qzw 4y ago
I think he just described the workstation of the Operator on the Nebuchadnezzar from the Matrix.
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by qzw 4y ago
Yeah, I remember seeing a picture of Einstein sitting at his rather messy desk years ago. Haven’t tidied up my desk since.
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by qzw 4y ago
In this thread: complaints of how the Universe used be available to purchase as a perpetual license, and now the option is buried in some page only linked from a KB article.
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by qzw 4y ago
I don’t disagree with you that serious money can be saved if one knows the correct way to buy from a private party. But psychological comfort also has real value for a lot of, maybe even most, people. It may seem like a poor reason to you,
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by qzw 4y ago
I appreciate it, but it’s actually not bad for me personally. My wife wants a new car rather than need one. We can afford to wait but can also afford to buy now, and I wanted her to be happy. But I know many others are definitely not so for
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by qzw 4y ago
Dealerships run a lot of ads during my nightly local news, just saying. And if all the dealers are doing the same thing, it then becomes a non-story.
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by qzw 4y ago
The convenience is a factor for some, but perceived safety is probably the primary factor for most. They may not be able to afford to pay thousands extra, but they can even less afford to be scammed or buy a lemon. So they will compromise o
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by qzw 4y ago
TrueCar used to be a pretty good one, and was the service behind Sam’s Club and USAA’s auto buying programs. But it’s pretty much no longer worth the bother now. Don’t know of anything newer that’s better. Keep in mind that no app can work
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by qzw 4y ago
Until they put some teeth into their “unhappiness”, forgive me for taking it as merely low effort PR noise. For $10k per car (or 30-50k on some models like the F-150 Lightning), a dealer would be willing to incur all kinds of unhappiness. B
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by qzw 4y ago
Of course, and I really look forward to the eventual auto dealer winter, but if you actually need a car right now it’s a serious pain in the ass.
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by qzw 4y ago
Costco seems to have suspended their car buying program. I tried to use it a few months ago and couldn’t even get started. Probably no dealers near me are even participating in the program in such a seller’s market.
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by qzw 4y ago
They may have sold your car for more money to another buyer locally.
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by qzw 4y ago
People don’t have trusted mechanics or know how to get one. For the majority of people, the dealer where they got the car is their “(somewhat) trusted mechanic”. That’s why they go to dealers or CarMax and pay a huge premium, just for the p
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by qzw 4y ago
That’s how it used to work (and still does for some less in demand/in short supply models), but if you’re after something that’s even moderately popular (most SUVs and EVs), you’ll hardly see any replies nowadays. That was the case whe
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by qzw 4y ago
And do what when you get there? Sell them by the roadside like fresh vegetables? A few tons of batteries' worth of electricity is hardly worth a utility company's time.

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