rconti

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by rconti 9mo ago
I agree with your logic, and this is a good reason to use centimeters instead of inches.
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by rconti 9mo ago
Counterpoint to #1, celsius increments are too large. I laugh every time I see a thermostat in a car or home that needs to have steps like 20, 20.5, 21, 21.5.. :)
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by rconti 9mo ago
I think my warning would be that prioritizing tasks you know you can do and do well may be satisfying, but may limit growth. I identify with the author's POV quite a bit, but sometimes I find that when I take a step back and put in les
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by rconti 9mo ago
Yeah, the article was pretty confusingly written. When they explained why it hadn't been found, the quote was "I suspect the coyote was swept away...", but then later in the article it seemed clear the 'swept away'
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by rconti 9mo ago
Yeah, I'm on a Lenovo 5k2k 40" UW and it's never occurred to me to want something wider. Though I will admit I definitely noticed the loss of total real estate vs my old 3x 27" setup.
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by rconti 9mo ago
I don't follow. Wouldn't the high cost of childcare make couples less likely to have 2 incomes, because the lower-earning spouse is working for lower marginal pay, just to pay someone ELSE to provide child care?
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by rconti 9mo ago
I have a friend whose parents were just (incorrectly) detained by ICE, and had to pay a $3000 administrative fee to be released. That _is_ the extremism. It's here.
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by rconti 9mo ago
This is the opposite of the Free House in Nelson, NZ; a pub in a former church. https://thefreehouse.co.nz
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by rconti 9mo ago
Interesting how punitive the tax structure is on vacant buildings. On the one hand, harsh for the landlord. On the other hand, encourages lower rent to get the space occupied and reduce blight.
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by rconti 9mo ago
Context for european style ski maps?
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by rconti 10mo ago
Ah, interesting. So it sounds like the tax roughly scales with property value (or size). And pubs are probably a "poor use of land" because the revenue per square foot is not particularly high?
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by rconti 10mo ago
For submitter, I sympathize hugely even though I've never gone through it myself. I know myself, and I know if I was unemployed, I'd spend all of my waking minutes either applying for jobs, fretting about applying for jobs, and co
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by rconti 10mo ago
Interest in context on "government pub rates". New tax scheme?
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by rconti 10mo ago
I'm sure some day we'll notice the consequences. Real soon now...
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by rconti 10mo ago
I'm on NEM2.0 so I can generate more than I use at peak hours and push into the grid for higher credit value than I consume overnight to charge my car. Still, I don't see the value proposition for batteries on NEM2. If I wasn&#x27
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by rconti 10mo ago
Honestly, I think this is a selling point for cable subscriptions. I find those boxes kind of painful to use, but still, it's a full-featured, consistent UI and (with HDMI-CEC) you can control everything with one remote.
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by rconti 10mo ago
Households that contain one or more users. > Within six months of starting a GLP-1 medication, households reduce grocery spending by an average of 5.3%.
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by rconti 10mo ago
Presumably it's difficult to figure out individual grocery spending, so they measured the household level spending. So when one (or more) people in a household begins taking the drug, the household spending goes down by that much.
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by rconti 10mo ago
It's household spending, not nationwide. Presumably you'd see similar findings among German households on "this stuff". > Within six months of starting a GLP-1 medication, households reduce grocery spending by an aver
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by rconti 10mo ago
Yeah, it's a great listen: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/coca-cola
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by rconti 10mo ago
yeah; the product ends up tasting SUPER acidic.
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by rconti 10mo ago
Same I'm on iOS 26 and it's reasonably bad but I figured I might as well pull of the band-aid and have app compatibility. I can't see a single reason to upgrade to Tahoe. We'll see what 2026 brings.
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by rconti 10mo ago
I'm kind of going the opposite way. I've got 10gig internet, and I planned on running fiber for future-proofing in our remodel, but the past 20 years has taught me that fiber's day is coming "real soon like now" for
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by rconti 10mo ago
Yeah; my bay area job is basically remote (in all but name), but I keep hearing "everyone" had to RTO.
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by rconti 10mo ago
Related; when I'm driving my car, and I see a bicyclist riding on the shoulder, I like to leave tons of room as I pass (when I can). "Look at me! I'm a nice considerate guy! I like cyclists! I'm leaving tons of space! I
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by rconti 10mo ago
Honestly, updating tables in markdown has been my most successful use of AI :)
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by rconti 10mo ago
It can be helpful, but also untrustworthy. My mother-in-law has been struggling with some health challenges the past couple of months. My wife (her daughter) works in the medical field and has been a great advocate for her mother. This whol
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by rconti 10mo ago
Yep, the hoods are higher than my wife's head.
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by rconti 10mo ago
I used to ride as well, and I had the same reaction. The sheer number of people who moved over for me (in California) blew me away every time I rode. They'd never hear me coming; they SAW me and made the choice to move over. I constant
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by rconti 10mo ago
It's notable that the annual ridership is up 47% in the FY ending June 2025 vs the FY ending June 2024, when electrification was only complete in September 2024-- in other words, it's not even a full year's worth of ridership

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