rconti

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811.
by rconti 2y ago
For the occupants, at least. They might be safer for pedestrians, cyclists, other drivers, etc.
812.
by rconti 2y ago
Actually, insurance companies are already _very_ aggressively steering their customers into "lower-cost" shops, leading them to believe they should accept subpar repairs in order to keep costs down and profits up. In many cases th
813.
by rconti 2y ago
Provide the ability of on- and off-ramp traffic to merge without a signal.
814.
by rconti 2y ago
Please, set this clickbait car insurance ad on fire, and blackhole whatever "source" you got this from so it doesn't push junk on you again.
815.
by rconti 2y ago
What's confusing is that most of our attention gets focused on "whoa, weird, driving on the wrong side of the road" and not on what it does to the on- and off-ramps (blue in the linked wikipedia image).
816.
by rconti 2y ago
The implication of "I wish I could hand my iPad to..." is that the person receiving the iPad would be able to use it, not just physically hold onto it.
817.
by rconti 2y ago
We fairly regularly eat eggs that are many months old, but I make sure they aren't floaters at least.
818.
by rconti 2y ago
yeah, I haven't really thought twice about taking, say, ibuprofen that's 20 years expired. It's good for a laugh, that's about all the critical thought I put into the label.
819.
by rconti 2y ago
It made me cringe, but only because I saw it after hearing about the controversy. It made me wonder whether I'd have had the same reaction if I just saw it "fresh".
820.
by rconti 3y ago
I have an electric car, and I'm starting a hugely expensive remodel that will involve migrating to a heat pump and electric tankless water heater, but even with solar, it's a laugh to say that my PG&E rates are a fixed cost!
821.
by rconti 3y ago
Is this how we end up with junk phone calls from whatever area code we happen to be in? Or is that a different mechanism?
822.
by rconti 3y ago
that was neither stated nor implied as you intuited by your "13 cents" vs my comment about $15 being break-even. Curious about a source for $15 being uneconomical. It's just a SWAG on my part that it's break-even, but if
823.
by rconti 3y ago
Considering I pay $50 for 10 gig internet here in the US, I suspect those poor downtrodden ISPs can afford to add a small percentage of marginal customers at $15/mo and still at least break even on all of them.
824.
by rconti 3y ago
I'm not sure if it was just me, but I struggled with the visual style. In some groups there were more rows than others, but then the rows would be of different lengths, making it difficult to intuitively compare the population sizes, e
825.
by rconti 3y ago
Well it seems we have to wait until Aunt Edna phones in and reports whether her ceramic collection survived unscathed.
826.
by rconti 3y ago
My guess was that the directional antennas were off by enough that it didn't work well in clear conditions, but the rain refracted the signal enough to work. The actual answer was better :D
827.
by rconti 3y ago
My public library system allowed you to telnet in, and had a limited menu-based list of destinations you could telnet OUT to... but a simple escape char allowed you an open telnet prompt to go anywhere in the world. It was my favorite (only
828.
by rconti 3y ago
my wife absolutely loves them and would like to have one here, but i think the roots can be pretty troublesome for use in a residential yard.
829.
by rconti 3y ago
I only skimmed the article but a few things jumped out at me that confirmed what I was going to suggest anyway, so let's go with that :) "Better suited" is not the same thing as faster. Less cellular and muscular breakdown mi
830.
by rconti 3y ago
Stapleton is now "in Denver". I had never been to Denver until a few years ago, and was out for a run with a running club based out of a sports store in a strip mall in Denver proper. I asked what the control tower was for, and so
831.
by rconti 3y ago
Can we get a fix for the headline typo? "solTUTions".
832.
by rconti 3y ago
It seems very unlikely that it's the sysadmins pushing stuff onto AWS. Devs who don't want to be sysadmins, managers who don't want capex maybe.
833.
by rconti 3y ago
Or more!
834.
by rconti 3y ago
Should have built them when? In the last few years? Why wouldn't you have sympathy for those affected by the drought who have no say in the building of reservoirs? Seems excessively harsh.
835.
by rconti 3y ago
Super cool. Been to Death Valley a few times; got rained on once, and even snowed on crossing the mountain range between Panamint Valley and Death Valley (I think the range tops out around 3500'?). What surprised me, though, was that o
836.
by rconti 3y ago
Just yesterday the cops apparently showed up at a house 5 doors down from me and shot someone's dog right in front of their family. Not sure if we have shotspotter, but at least I know the police responded! (I say apparently because, w
837.
by rconti 3y ago
My silicon valley residential area is swept twice a month. But I'm not sure more major multi-lane arterials are ever swept. At least, not during daylight hours.
838.
by rconti 3y ago
I have a Tesla and haven't had occasion to use a non-Tesla L3 charger, but my understanding is that different networks may make it easier to pay without a credit card, or offer discounts for being part of their network, or maybe don&#x
839.
by rconti 3y ago
That's been the last 40 years
840.
by rconti 3y ago
It's almost as if there's a pattern to which letters in the headline are capitalized...

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