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by rconti 1y ago
> These people were on tracks because they were put on tracks from a young age and told that the track leads somewhere, and any questioning of the tracks was often met with a harsh rebuke. They didn't play outside with the neighborh
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by rconti 1y ago
It's not though. Even though fuel to heat is vastly cheaper than electricity to cool, the winter thermal difference in a cold climate is an order of magnitude more than the summer thermal difference in a hot climate. https:/&#x2F
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by rconti 1y ago
It seems like you'd need more than 1.5kW of heat in upstate new york, even for a small place (which is more than half the size of my suburban home). Also, while I agree that $40 is cheap to me, it's also an additional 10% on their
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by rconti 1y ago
Apparently it's "free Amish wood" or "a little extra in electricity"... which, as someone who lives in a temperate area, is a stunningly low price to imagine for electric heat in somewhere cold.
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by rconti 1y ago
> I just want to outline my overarching concern off the bat with similar sentiments I see expressed exactly in this vein by people: there's a very strong potential for serious cognitive biases, and, frankly, simple flawed logic, to
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by rconti 1y ago
Drivers consider it adversarial because it not only "takes away control" but also because it messes up their feedback loop. I'll give two examples. From a recent Toyota rental (~2024 RAV4): The lane departure system (which se
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by rconti 1y ago
I needed to replace the 12v battery in our Tesla a few months back, and was surprised to see a protest out front. I laughed to myself, glad I had driven my Porsche to the service center instead. Thankfully, I said to myself, none of our non
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by rconti 1y ago
That smells plausible, but from my seat as am armchair car enthusiast, it seems that foreign automakers outsource components just as often.
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by rconti 1y ago
Ah, thanks. I saw the photo of the car with lines on it and naively assumed it was part of the restoration, not the initial problem. Of course it's not surprising that "price gouging" (or, supply and demand, whatever you want
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by rconti 1y ago
Yeah. Most people don't have a generator because they're on the grid, and no power is not life and death for them. If it _is_ life and death, sure, get a generator.
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by rconti 1y ago
And $600 to rent a pickup (!!) to haul a generator that looks like it would fit in the back seat of a Civic.
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by rconti 2y ago
The most obvious way in which I think "math" and "programming" are related is the way they're taught; by repetitive performance of problem sets. I got frustrated in math for this reason; it takes a lot of energy to
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by rconti 2y ago
I very clearly remember my very first version of Slackware -- pre 3.0.0 (which I actually bought on cd for a few bucks). I don't remember that first version, just that I downloaded the floppy disk sets over zmodem at 14.4kbps (thankful
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by rconti 2y ago
> Red Hat went in another direction. Red Hat Linux 7 became RHEL, a commercial, paid-for, supported distro. This was the second time we had a Red Hat 7, though.
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by rconti 2y ago
Although I know the church has a lot of money, I can't imagine they dedicate a particularly large budget to the observatory compared to, say, a huge research university or a specialized scientific research project. Openly musing, I&#x2
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by rconti 2y ago
Oh, absolutely, fair point. I used linux exclusively on the desktop from 95-02. Even commercially; I worked at a decent-sized digital services company in 99-02 that, from the day I started, had 2 ALR 6x6 pentium pro machines as database ser
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by rconti 2y ago
In the PNW, eskimo.com was using Sun machines at least in 1994 when I joined, and I assume for some years earlier. Oz.net was using Irix on SGI machines :)
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by rconti 2y ago
I guess I hadn't stepped back to think about the difference between computer ethernet and switched ethernet. I _do_ remember hubs, though, so it should have occurred to me that we didn't have switching on day 1.
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by rconti 2y ago
The "Live Free or Die" NH plate really makes it.
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by rconti 2y ago
I worked at several x86 Linux + SPARC Solaris shops between 1999 and say 2011. Linux was always on the app servers, and Solaris on the DB servers. The Sun hardware was just better, more robust, and the machines tended to have hot-swappable
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by rconti 2y ago
In the blog, he commented on his brother being distressed as they were barely managing a mortgage on 3 full-time incomes.
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by rconti 2y ago
Wow. 10Mb ethernet. I even remember in the late 90s "Fast Ethernet" (100Mbps) was a feature in small switches; that implied 10Mb was the default.
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by rconti 2y ago
I was also struck by | He told her he believed that air traffic control wanted them to turn left, toward the east river bank. Now, I'd love to _hear_ the actual comment/instruction here. He may have been hedging because he was try
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by rconti 2y ago
My hack is to only use fast charging bricks, but at home I charge my phone wirelessly. So that means in practice I rarely fast charge it. Yes, it does heat up due to energy losses, but I suspect that's way less hard on the battery than
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by rconti 2y ago
I associate it with the movie Clueless / "Valley Girl" speak.
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by rconti 2y ago
probably related to the policy of suppressing regional languages discussed in another thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43735946 It seems likely that regional languages impact accents in the "primary" l
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by rconti 2y ago
Tesla sells their own branded panels and monitoring solution, and do the installation. Other installers might sell you LG panels and Enphase inverters and LG batteries, and then your monitoring comes from whomever, and the installation warr
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by rconti 2y ago
did you follow the "20 darkest" link?
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by rconti 2y ago
I still use Google for everything; the difference is now I'm just unhappy with the results.
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by rconti 2y ago
We have a Tesla car, but I never considered their solar because it's a commodity, and their options are overpriced. They also pushed leases pretty heavily, which I was not interested in. We bought our panels in 2018, the same year we b

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