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by rconti 10mo ago
> Europe hast lost ~30% of power vs. the US in just ~12 years. [citation needed] mostly because I'm curious what kind of metric one uses to measure this. From an economic standpoint, Europe stagnated behind the US coming out of the
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by rconti 10mo ago
Of course that's a factor. The article doesn't get into causes much, but this anecdote provides a bit of color and gives a vague sense of the scale of a few factors: > Onions that cost $9 a sack before COVID now run $80. Beef i
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by rconti 10mo ago
The (digital) gauges are interesting too, like a throwback to VWs of yore.
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by rconti 10mo ago
Google writes bloatware for iOS to force me to buy a cloud subscription (?) from... Apple?
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by rconti 10mo ago
I mean, if the lack of a refrigerator is a uniquely Los Angeles thing, it seems like you could just predict what will happen based on what happens in _every other city_....
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by rconti 10mo ago
Importantly, the _reason_ that ChatGPT is good at this kind of homework, is that the homework is _intended_ to be toil. That's how we learn- through doing things, and through repetition. The problem set or paper you turn in is not the
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by rconti 10mo ago
Yeah, I've been WFH since the pandemic and my team is remote anyway, so even going to the office doesn't help (much). I'm exploring in-office jobs for 2026.
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by rconti 10mo ago
I remember that as well. The details elude me, but I seem to recall my 300A was running at 464.25mhz on an ABit B7.
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by rconti 10mo ago
What CPU had double the performance of a (top-of-the-line) PII CPU at the time?
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by rconti 10mo ago
Going from a single CPU to a dual CPU would, in theory, double performance _at best_. In other words, only under workloads that supported multithreading perfectly. But in the real world, the perceived performance improvement was more than d
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by rconti 10mo ago
For some reason you left off the part that explains that the Celeron had a PII core. > Socket 370 era Celeron processors had a Pentium II core, but Intel disabled the ability to change the multiplier to discourage overclocking
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by rconti 10mo ago
I think the missing information here is whether there are plans to put the 4680 in vehicles that sell well.
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by rconti 10mo ago
Nothing would make parent happier, but they've placed a very small price on their happiness.
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by rconti 10mo ago
A couple of years ago in early December, we took a trip to Berlin and Strasbourg, and spent our time visiting many Christmas markets. It was a really enjoyable trip. Yes, it was very cold, which is not deal when you're spending 12 hour
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by rconti 10mo ago
Hope things improve for you, and you have a Merry Christmas in spite of it all. For what it's worth, it strikes me as very unlikely that the transmission is going to be less than an additional $4500. But you never know, it could be a s
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by rconti 10mo ago
Looks like they were only (generally) outlawed for sale in 2023. Though some states were ahead of that. They last a long time, though, and I imagine a lot of people are still using their existing bulbs. I can't imagine doing that in CA
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by rconti 10mo ago
Any idea what changed, if anything? Court decisions made in the meantime simplifying things? Hopefully the content fits in a few buckets (cartoons, fiction, non-fiction) as far as different terms for rights might go. And then from there, yo
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by rconti 10mo ago
Places nobody's ever heard of like "Ohio" or "Oregon"? Yeah, I'm not worried about being targeted in an RCA and pointedly asked why I chose a region with way better uptime than `us-tirefire-1`. What _is_ worth
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by rconti 10mo ago
I haven't used the McDonalds mobile app in the drive-thru line. Can you clarify the experience? Why would I use the mobile app once I'm already at the drive-thru? For points/payment? Or for ordering as well? I once ordered ah
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by rconti 10mo ago
In addition to the reasons mentioned in the other reply, maybe you actually didn't want anything much bigger. People replacing (say) a 27" CRT might upgrade to the latest fancy 32". They wouldn't have seen the purpose of
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by rconti 10mo ago
For fairly obvious reasons, most people were unaware this set ever existed. In the 90s (~1993?), my family replaced our old 1970s-era 19" Sony Trinitron with a HUGE new TV, a 35" Toshiba. At the time, a "big" CRT was a 3
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by rconti 10mo ago
Wait, the acronym for "Tap To Action" is "TPA"?
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by rconti 10mo ago
== Call To Action
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by rconti 10mo ago
The short video platforms are almost exclusively individual-algorithmic garbage-recommending platforms designed for maximum passivity. A couple major differences here are: * Not video * Meant more for commmunity/interactivity * Not ind
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by rconti 10mo ago
They keep mentioning "innovation". What's innovative about shoveling mindless junk in people's faces 24x7? We've got a lot of these platforms already. Do we need an even MORE mindless one to dethrone TikTok? Is that
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by rconti 10mo ago
They covered this a lot on the Accidental Tech Podcast last night. I just don't get why these companies should be in the business of offering gift cards-- at least, not if they can't be redeemed safely. I'm sure people would
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by rconti 10mo ago
There's been increased attention on it here when (from memory), it was found that police departments on the other side of the country were handing over data from completely different jurisdictions' cameras, without any kind of war
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by rconti 11mo ago
I don't specifically remember it, but I had the manual, and I was a voracious manual reader as a kid. I also remember the carrier landings being the hardest thing in any game I ever played. Felt like about a 1% success rate, and I neve
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by rconti 11mo ago
People seem to be more helpful to strangers in smaller communities, where there are fewer other people who could render aid, and where the consequences are perhaps more dire. In a big city, meh, there's always someone else who could do
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by rconti 11mo ago
Are you Val Kilmer? :)

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