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by rconti 1y ago
Sure-- I'm not saying ANY of this is good!
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by rconti 1y ago
I'm no AI apologist, but for one, this is how investments, particularly speculative investments, work. They're investing money now in the _hopes_ of a future return. It's pretty early days still. Secondly, of _course_ the hug
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by rconti 1y ago
Higher than I would have thought! I was just thinking about this again and my SWAG was 5%. I asked ChatGPT which repeated the shockingly high 28% number, but it elides the fact that this was in a (small) survey of 2000 "travelers"
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by rconti 1y ago
| only about <30% of Americans have travelled internationally in the past year 30% sounds insanely high. I suspect at least half of Americans haven't even taken a _vacation_ in the past year, let alone _travelled internationally_.
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by rconti 1y ago
In another thread here, the author of "TimeCap" mentions their iOS app. I just downloaded it and am currently trying it. It blocks a lot of the junk. I've only used it for 4 or 5 minutes now, but it does a lot of what I'
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by rconti 1y ago
I just don't understand the appeal of reels for the average user posting them (eg, not a "creator"). All comments come through as DMs which feels weird/creepy. The social/engagement is out the window; your friends c
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by rconti 1y ago
Sure, but in this case the /. comment was from 2004.
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by rconti 1y ago
Sorry, I was parsing the "either" incorrectly here.
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by rconti 1y ago
Just had our PTC (resistive electric) heater replaced in a 2018 3 with 110k miles. Sure wish it had a heat pump, but we don't suffer much range as we live in a mild climate.
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by rconti 1y ago
The quote you reference doesn't make a distinction either way.
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by rconti 1y ago
Sounds like they found quite the cache of counterfeit drives.
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by rconti 1y ago
Alternatively, the "popular" TLDs are a money grab by vested interests who already own popular domains.
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by rconti 1y ago
Did putty.org once link to the putty software? Or an alternative SSH client? Why did the site ever become popular? I'm trying to grok this, but all of the posts sort of obliquely refer to things that happened in the past (even the old
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by rconti 1y ago
Which part do you object to more? The policy choice to have the entire cost borne by the student (in the US, specifically)? Or "society" encouraging people to study the humanities?
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by rconti 1y ago
Invisible fence. An electric fence that stopped working years ago is still a fence.
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by rconti 1y ago
But it doesn't really matter; you just add a buffer in front of you that allows you to slow more gently so they don't rearend you.
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by rconti 1y ago
Had to look up "yuppie button" to figure out what they were on about. Sounds like a fun fellow. Lights up all of the lights on the back of the car for funsies. Oh they're all DOT-approved, so it's probably a good idea. D
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by rconti 1y ago
I'm surprised that the cost of groceries is a bigger source of stress for most people than the cost of housing. I guess, generally, it's weird to break these things into categories because money is fungible, but food vs housing is
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by rconti 1y ago
You're not really going to come out ahead on a $3000 motorcycle. Factor in gear, maintenance (more intensive per mile than a corolla), and it's hard to make the math work. You have to enjoy riding. In Houston, I wouldn't even
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by rconti 1y ago
I'd drop the HOA first, I sure as _hell_ don't need one of those.
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by rconti 1y ago
Passkeys are a usability nightmare. No two experiences are ever the same. I have passkeys saved in 1Password and in Apple Passwords. I have a YubiKey. I have Duo on my work computer. A common experience is Chrome telling me to scan a QR cod
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by rconti 1y ago
Yeah, and it will depend a lot on the regulatory structure in the local environment, plus national things like interest rates. With prop 13 locking in below-market taxes, you'd have to be crazy to sell property in CA. With a different
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by rconti 1y ago
That doesn't strike me as true at all. Nationwide, housing has generally been a "good investment", regardless of whether we're talking about an area that restricts supply or one that does not.
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by rconti 1y ago
That's surprising to me, given the lag time between authorization and completion, and the dynamic of people moving into a given area vs moving out.
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by rconti 1y ago
I like how simple and minimalist this is! Another great similar solution is the Caltrain Companion iOS app. The main screen I use is "Arriving Trains" which uses your current location to tell you when the next trains arrive in eac
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by rconti 1y ago
Arguably some of them are useful (speed? as much as I hate to say it). I don't think the "don't drive anywhere near the edge of the lane" is a good practice. There are lots and lots and lots of good, pro-safety reasons t
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by rconti 1y ago
| His cluster was flashing constantly, warning him of imminent doom. And it was warning him correctly, because he was accustomed to driving incorrectly. In the cars I've driven, the cluster flashes all happen regardless of how you driv
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by rconti 1y ago
I just had a rental Corolla in Europe. It had a lot of driving assistance features, and they're all absolute dogshit (and, I think, mandated by EU regulators). It's a pain in the ass to turn them all off every time you start the c
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by rconti 1y ago
Sorry, must have been another thread, not your wording. Someone pointed out CT production is <10% of their planned capacity. So the CT is underperforming by 90%, but I'm sure 3/Y sales are _not_ down by 90%. Meaning the CT is a
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by rconti 1y ago
Under cost re-framing and goal redirection, it might be neat to add something like "how much this amount of money would net you in 5/10 years at 7% growth" for example. (Ties into the down payment category, perhaps).

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