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by sokoloff 10mo ago
Why would they care if you or I believe them or not?
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
As a second car in a two-car family, we love our Leaf. It’s obviously unusable for road trips, but in a country with more registered cars than drivers, there are plenty of multi-car households where one could be a Leaf-class (cheap but stil
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I would imagine the set of people who would spend $4K per person on a week in the Galapagos does not contain very many people who don’t have 3 weeks of vacation per year (or are retired).
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
Sub $1B cash value. Several hundred million after taxes. Dramatically life-changing for sure, but not even a single billion pre-tax, let alone plural.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I can’t imagine trying to sell into the Australian market if a failing power socket after seven years is cause for a full refund. “My laptop is really slow.” “Don’t you think the power supply socket is faulty? <wink />”
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I agree they’ve surpassed the west (or at least stopped solely playing catch up) in some areas. But surely you can see how your upthread math of “250 years in 40 years” has a mix of mostly catch-up and replication and a sliver of novel inno
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I’m no expert in other country’s politics, but it would be pretty surprising if that was unique to America. Boris Johnson? Nicolas Sarkozy? Silvio Berlusconi?
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I always feel the jump in price from standard to nice rental car is too much to bother with (like a factor of 2.5-5x). So I drive a lot of crappy rentals, but they’re just a way to get from point to point.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
> it saddens me that there are so many artist-SWEs like me, because the golden handcuffs can kill your dreams. Sometimes dreams are just fantasies. I love programming (and other puzzle-solving). I’d love it slightly more if I could just
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
This was the first toy I expected to see on the list. Can agree that, though they are somewhat expensive, our kids played with them frequently for the better part of a decade and then we passed them along to cousins who completed the decade
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
Now imagine there are 1000 people who are capable of submitting an application that appears to match the job description. Do you have a way to help either winnow out the 750 worst or (better) identify the 50 best of the lot to start to enga
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I bought that specific model to provide connectivity for our robotics team’s pit computers. For this need, good antenna performance is key, since different venues differ wildly in WiFi and cell coverage and when we setup the evening before
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I read GP to mean that Intel had strong incentive to cooperate in order to make the initial sale. That’s where the customer need was relevant.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
Imagine a model trained only on an Earth-centered universe, that there are four elements (earth, air, fire, and water), or one trained only that the world is flat. Would the capabilities of the resulting model equal those of models trained
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
On top of that 60% is ~13% on net interest payments.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
Nothing, other than perhaps just much high-quality legacy equipment is out in the field that still works fantastically.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I’m using a GLinet GL-XE3000 for that and it’s great. Initial setup of the 5G eSIM on a physical SIM took a little searching but it’s been rock solid and having consistent access on the road and hotels has been great for family travel. It h
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
You’re surprised that people find a title of “Help! My c64 caught on fire!” to be clickbait in a case where your c64 did not catch on fire and you don’t need help?! It’s an interesting article, but the title is a textbook example of clickba
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
You still have the customs/immigration step; it’s just often done planeside.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I try to spend the company’s money with as much care as I spend my own.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
When I was in university, midnight was well inside “normal hours” for me (mostly by choice, not by crushing workload despite being at a competitive school).
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
They’re a pretty good mix of incredibly cheap, reasonably rugged, fast enough to run classroom and edit docs, well-understood/documented how to use, consistent across the student population, and have incredible battery life. Our high s
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
It’s the world’s most popular low-code platform.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
For me, some complex Excel usage was not replicable in either Sheets or LibreOffice.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
Having started using emacs in the 80s, it’s strange to read about it being the power-efficient choice now. I agree it was for you, but it had well-earned the “eight megabytes and constantly swapping” reputation 35 years ago.
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
As a driver, I control my speed for a variety of factors, but I assume no responsibility for the variance in the speed checking device. That’s on the people deploying them to ensure they’ve done their job (and is part of the reason tickets
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
There are schools that can serve in that manner, but it’s a tiny minority of them. No (or virtually no) public schools with 125+ students per grade will have that tight community structure. A private school with 20 per class and 60 per grad
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
GP is the one who argued “not 100% safe” as evidence of inherently unsafe. I agree with you that it’s a comically wrong threshold, which is why I offered that series that was progressively more safe but never 100% safe as examples against t
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
> The values you mention are timeless & should be taught to all. Agreed, with the related note that I think that facts/knowledge can be taught by strangers, but values must be taught by family or another tight community struct
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by sokoloff 10mo ago
I think that aviation has a lot of factors that bias its decisions conservatively. The “cost” of being conservative can be pretty easily borne in aviation. As an example, Zyrtec is grounding for 48 hours after taking. I think most Zyrtec us

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