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571.
by vondur 3y ago
The NeXT scrollbars look nice. The OS was pretty darn cool at the time.
572.
by vondur 3y ago
I'm assuming that there may be a large drop off in delivery orders as the costs will by borne by the consumer. Maybe people will have to go out like ye olden days and get food themselves. Maybe not, some people are willing to pay more
573.
by vondur 3y ago
As a Chem major it’s cool to see this, but not sure how it ended up on the front page?
574.
by vondur 3y ago
Reddit seems fine to me as of right now. (8:30AM PST) This site however, is having issues loading for me.
575.
by vondur 3y ago
It's indirectly solar power, and ethanol can hold more energy per volume than batteries. However all of the other inputs that go into growing ethanol cancel that advantage out. If we were using Nuclear or maybe pure solar to produce th
576.
by vondur 3y ago
Dealing with them on an institutional basis is bad too. Use to be I’d email our sales rep with a configuration and request for a quote. Usually a week later they’d come back with a price that would be substantially lower vs the website list
577.
by vondur 3y ago
AMD did pretty well with the AM4 socket. At least 3 CPU generations on the same socket.
578.
by vondur 3y ago
China doesn't care one bit about climate change. China is building six times more new coal plants than other countries, report finds: https://www.npr.org/2023/03/02/1160441919/china-is-building-...
579.
by vondur 3y ago
From what I understand there are huge deposits of untapped oil in Central California.
580.
by vondur 3y ago
There are some housing near my house that was simply repurposed motels. Seems to work, I don't notice any people just hanging around. Seems to work better than the standard homeless shelters we have here, that are pretty restrictive an
581.
by vondur 3y ago
I wonder how many of the non business properties are still under Prop 13? I can't imagine it would be that many at this point. Business property can probably be held in some sort of trust so it appears to never have changed hands over
582.
by vondur 3y ago
Why would you cut the periodic table from curriculum? I'm a chem major and have never heard of such a thing before.
583.
by vondur 3y ago
I don't think Marcus Aurelius had much of a choice in the matter. If he didn't leave his son as heir, a civil war would have broken out. He probably looked at the example of the year of the four emperors and decided that was a wor
584.
by vondur 3y ago
No way the guys in Metallica ever thought about doing a measure in 5/8 time, it's all by feel. Side note, Master of Puppets is one of the best metal albums of all time, and I was fortunate enough to see them on this tour with Clif
585.
by vondur 3y ago
The US generally will not break treaties with other countries. Kinda makes us look bad if we do.
586.
by vondur 3y ago
Didn’t he use money from WeWork buy the office buildings in his name and lease them back to WeWork?
587.
by vondur 3y ago
Yes, I’ve been forced to use passwordless login for a couple of weeks at this point.
588.
by vondur 3y ago
I think that deal was canceled.
589.
by vondur 3y ago
Amazon printing service? I see they have one for photos/calendar and such. Do they have one for sending PDF's to print?
590.
by vondur 3y ago
Funny enough, the same company that built the high speed rail in Florida is now going to build a high speed rail line from Southern California to Las Vegas. It appears that this project will start construction soon.
591.
by vondur 3y ago
KDE Plasma has something like this called "Activities" Check it out.
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by vondur 3y ago
I wonder if we can get more use out of cell phones now that the CPUs are tending to plateau in terms of performance? For a while the Apple A series were were on an exponential curve but seem to be leveling off. Also making it easy to turn i
593.
by vondur 3y ago
I wish more of the funds that were allocated to combat Covid were used to install better air handling systems in public areas here in the US. The education side received billions of dollars, which if used for better air would help keep kids
594.
by vondur 3y ago
Did the Soviet government actually follow the Constitution of The USSR? I believe it also mentioned freedom of expression, freedom of religion and freedom of assembly, all of which seemed to be ignored.
595.
by vondur 4y ago
The 10th gen mobile CPU’s are notoriously hot and power hungry. They behave similarly under windows. I mostly tried to purchase mobile Ryzen based laptops during that time.
596.
by vondur 4y ago
Ha, I gave away my vinyl records about 20 years ago. Recently picked up a Fugazi record just 'cause it looked cool. I no longer have a record player.
597.
by vondur 4y ago
Reminds me of that Monty Python episode where they suggest taxing all foreigners living overseas.
598.
by vondur 4y ago
I believe we've seen issues like this before from motherboard manufacturers, who are pushing more voltage to the CPU to get more performance out them. Recently is was on the Intel side of things.
599.
by vondur 4y ago
Wow, that's a pretty cool idea I've never considered. Switching CPU governor based on the virtual desktop.
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by vondur 4y ago
Nice. Pretty impressive project if they can get it going.

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