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by rconti 1mo ago
> And 45-50% energy savings per year is a great ROI For certain values of "I", and depending on the baseline cost of operating an elevator!
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by rconti 1mo ago
I had the same question but about price (and its related impact on consumption, which is your question) -- are we assuming total spent / total consumed are held constant? It wasn't stated in the website and I didn't see anyth
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by rconti 1mo ago
Wow, that's some ASTOUNDINGLY terrible driving!
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by rconti 1mo ago
My model 3 doesn't even HAVE an option to pay extra for a display directly in front of the driver.
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by rconti 1mo ago
Porsche is now charging extra for a "standard" transmission https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/2027-porsche-911-carrera-s-...
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by rconti 1mo ago
I was thinking about this the other day in regard to Flock. There's simply no way this company will fail, despite the public outcry, because the rich people in charge will not _let_ it fail.
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by rconti 1mo ago
Related; I've owned a number of inline 6 cylinder motors and currently have a flat 6 (boxster). I believe the math says the I6 is smoother than the boxer 6, but my perception is that the boxer is vastly smoother. I don't know how
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by rconti 1mo ago
The thing that always gets me is that a top fuel dragster's engine only rotates something like 540 times in an entire quarter-mile run.
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by rconti 1mo ago
I've only once in my life worn out a set of rim brake pads I wore out the thin, small disc brake pads on my gravel bike in the first ~2000 miles. It didn't even _occur_ to me that the sound I was hearing was my brake pads being co
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by rconti 1mo ago
First thing I thought of when I read the title was "ah, I learned this from Daniel Stern's lighting page..." https://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/bulbs/blue/bad/bad....
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by rconti 1mo ago
The original After Dark, distributed on floppy in 1989, 1.1MB, was $110 in today's money. More than $7 per screen saver! Of course, the target market of computer users was way smaller than it is today.
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by rconti 1mo ago
Well, in suburban Portland, where the wooden shed is, the house will be similar construction. You could very, very easily drill a hole in the exterior wall, reach through the hole, and unlock the door from the inside. In fact, in many homes
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by rconti 1mo ago
yeah, this is quite literally the first thing i saw when i opened the page.
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by rconti 1mo ago
This must be bundled with TV at that price, right? Though I know from experience that if you try to get rid of TV service they find a way to charge you more for just internet.
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by rconti 1mo ago
In the US, there are various websites for checking service availability based on zip code. You can fairly easily find local ISPs in a region and then use their own service checker to see if service is available at a specific address -- in o
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by rconti 2mo ago
I used Trumpet WinSock with Win 3.1, but with most ISPs you had to use an emulated SLIP/PPP connection anyway. Otherwise you'd be dialing in to a shell so the advantage of the GUI was mostly lost (from the perspective of being abl
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by rconti 2mo ago
One of my earlier memories of it back then was that _every single time I recompiled my kernel_ (which was frequent), my LILO bootloader ended up corrupted. There was just a totally broken default in whatever version that was. SO MANY rescue
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by rconti 2mo ago
Was the quad die layout expected? I've checked a couple articles and can't find any commentary on it, but I don't remember hearing this rumored.
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by rconti 2mo ago
Same. My personal laptop is an M1 Air and I also have an M1 Studio desktop. My work machine is an M4, and in "regular" use I can't tell the difference between them.
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by rconti 2mo ago
Yep. I'm adding 500sqft to my home in Silicon Valley and the cost will end up being more than I spent to buy the house 12 year ago. Smaller jobs are more expensive per square foot because not all costs scale with size. Which is why you
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by rconti 2mo ago
It doesn't look any easier to break into than my house. Which is to say -- pretty easy, and yet, home break-ins are pretty uncommon.
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by rconti 2mo ago
That's funny. Somehow it completely escaped my notice. I lived on the Eastside at the time, and I remember it being all over the news that Bill and Steve were running all over town in someone's 911 (I forget whether it was Bill or
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by rconti 2mo ago
It's hard to imagine not being impressed by the step up from 3.1 My 486 only had 4MB of RAM and I couldn't afford the $400-$500 to take it to 16GB so I actually switched to Linux in August of 95, amusingly enough.
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by rconti 2mo ago
I mean, I _live_ in Silicon Valley, work in tech, and I've only ever heard of them from podcasts allegedly reporting on Silicon Valley. I've never heard an actual human in person talking about them.
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by rconti 2mo ago
I'm sort of in this area, and I'm fighting the same struggles because I desire "productivity", not autonomy. I asked my manager if I should be creating tickets for the work I'm coming up with, and he answered a ques
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by rconti 2mo ago
I don't really think "enshittification" is a conspiracy theory. I think everyone can relate to engaging in a relationship with a company, thinking they had a reasonable understanding of how the relationship worked, and then h
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by rconti 2mo ago
Don't they have network effects? Let the locals search the next few towns over? Obviously this diminishes with distance; there's not a lot of benefit to Denver sharing with Minneapolis.
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by rconti 2mo ago
Ah, for sure, that’s absolutely true.
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by rconti 2mo ago
The most aggressive anti-surveillance legislation we can muster in the US seems to be "30 day retention". How is this a reasonable compromise? I don't want surveillance cameras at all, but a neutral position might sound somet
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by rconti 2mo ago
Paying a private company to record everyone's phone calls and texts and emails and putting them in a searchable database will also help solve some crimes. Should we do that? How is this any different?

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