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by stockresearcher 8mo ago
In a large rack-mount SAN with hundreds or thousands of disks connected to your computing equipment via fiberchannel, the performance difference is pretty negligible. The real advantage of SSDs in this use case is storage density and power
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by stockresearcher 8mo ago
I had never heard about it being called a fast-growing tree :) I am outside the natural range, but close to a [different] river and feel that with climate change it should be fairly ok. But it appears I am wrong!
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by stockresearcher 8mo ago
> Both George Washington and Thomas Jefferson planted pecans at their plantations At the time of Washington and Jefferson, they were known in English as Illinois nuts. And, living in Illinois, a few years ago I bought a selection of 2-3
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by stockresearcher 8mo ago
iMessage has supported RCS in group chats for more than a year. It’s a non-issue, technology-wise
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by stockresearcher 8mo ago
> better for your long term career growth if you just open source this as part of your GitHub resume. Those days are long gone.
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by stockresearcher 8mo ago
Yes. Mean girls at school are mean. If everyone has the same color bubble they’ll just find something else to be mean about.
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by stockresearcher 8mo ago
Do whatever you want with the time. Just don’t bill it to the client; it violates ethics rules and can get you fined, disbarred, sued, etc.
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by stockresearcher 8mo ago
If it comes out of an llm, it’s not legal advice, it’s just text(according to this judge)
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by stockresearcher 8mo ago
Ah, well NASA left some mirrors on the surface of the moon so with some favorable reflection and infinite quality optics, you can theoretically see halfway around the world.
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by stockresearcher 9mo ago
> 800 euros a month. Not qualitatively different. Put 800 euro a month into an investment account and you’re a millionaire by age 50.
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by stockresearcher 9mo ago
Major artists have a tendency to begin their careers as minor artists, selling their works to unsophisticated buyers that hang them on walls because they like how they look. A few years ago, there was a story out of Chicago: like many citie
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by stockresearcher 9mo ago
I'd counter that with the Big 3 gas car you generally know what you're getting yourself into when you buy it. Additionally, while the maintenance could very well be annoying and expensive, it would be very unusual if either the s
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by stockresearcher 9mo ago
Your lender definitely wants to get paid back, but they don’t necessarily want to get paid back right now. Because then they have a pile of money and they need to find something to do with it. Consumers have a tendency to pay loans back ea
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by stockresearcher 9mo ago
Crap, I was wrong. Bill Ackman is trying to convince Bessent to do it. So while it may happen, it isn’t coming from inside the admin. One argument is that it could allow for lower rates, BTW. (This is true, it very well could). And also,
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by stockresearcher 9mo ago
Prepayment penalties are illegal for the vast majority of loans that consumers can get in the US, which makes it a no-brainer to refinance any time the payment saving exceeds the cost of writing a new loan. The Trump admin has floated the i
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by stockresearcher 9mo ago
My household tends to keep cars for 5-10 years, so I do pay attention to longevity and the necessary parts and service availability that leads to longevity. Some various things I've read out of Australia suggests that Chinese EV makers
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by stockresearcher 9mo ago
So far in the 119th congress there have been 3688 bills filed in the Senate. A fraction of a percent of them will ever get talked about, voted on, or passed an sent to the House. It’s performative theatre for the constituents back home. A
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by stockresearcher 9mo ago
Not terribly surprising. The base load is heavily nuclear and doesn’t adjust very quickly; there is a lot of installed wind and solar capacity. The past few days have been bitterly cold but also windy and sunny. Today the wind was a pretty
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by stockresearcher 9mo ago
> The US might have had a president who was knowledgeable about technology and dedicated to solving climate change. might have had ? Ha, you should read up a bit on Jimmy Carter. > A generation from now this solar heater can either
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by stockresearcher 9mo ago
> Can you explain what he got wrong? If I’m understanding this correctly, he is suggesting that Apple should put their fancy camera in a strategic location at every stadium and concert hall in the country/world and then give the Vis
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by stockresearcher 9mo ago
The Texas bar exam already has a second day of testing, entirely on Texas oil and gas law. Everyone must pass it to practice law in Texas, even if you no intention to do anything related to oil and gas.
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by stockresearcher 9mo ago
Arizona is the only state that artificially limits the number of lawyers it has. Every year they decide how many new ones they need, and that is exactly how many will pass the bar exam. I don’t think that this has has had the effect of dri
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by stockresearcher 9mo ago
I worked in automotive software a long time ago. You’d be essentially starting at zero, but that’s ok. If you break in, you’ll probably need to move to a less glamorous area and accept lower pay. And you’ll always be lower than people wit
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by stockresearcher 10mo ago
The aroma of bread being baked is a glorious delight, yet somehow whenever a Subway is baking the smell gives me nausea and I can’t even go near the shop. Yes, it is edible and inoffensive once baked; I have no idea what they do to make th
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by stockresearcher 10mo ago
Every modern chip needs some percentage dedicated to dark silicon. There is no cheating the thermal reality. You could add more compute units in the GPU, but you then have to make up for it somewhere else. It’s a balancing act. The Core
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by stockresearcher 10mo ago
Slop, slop, beautiful slop. Beautiful slop with a Satya on top.
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by stockresearcher 10mo ago
This is a group that gets independent author ebooks into public libraries. Perhaps contact them to find out how to do it: https://indieauthorproject.com/authors/
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by stockresearcher 10mo ago
My local Barnes and Noble carries about 15 different brands of (good) notebooks from around the world, and a large selection of writing implements that aren’t fountain pens. Doodling, writing, drawing, whatever is enjoying a revival. Not
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by stockresearcher 10mo ago
My local Microcenter has tons of RAM at inflated prices, with even more inflated “list prices” to make it appear like it is on sale. Checking just now - they’ve lowered prices on some of it since I last looked 2 weeks ago. So either sales
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by stockresearcher 10mo ago
I used DB quite a few times last month and all of the delays and problems were listed on the trip planner website (in German and in English) despite there being no notifications at the departure station and the train driver speaking in Germ

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