DuckConference

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by DuckConference 5d ago
Google scholar link since that one didn't work for me: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Chal... Yikes, didn't realize that the 2009 stand included a few really silly things like that
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by DuckConference 14d ago
I started reading and it immediately sounded like AI, sent it to pangram and it agreed. The amount of posts praising it like it's fuckin oxygen or something ... dead fuckin internet
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by DuckConference 17d ago
Those skeptical are anticipating a possible large drop in demand before that backlog clears. ie. a change in market conditions that means that many of the orders in that backlog would be cancelled or belong to bankrupt entities. Many words
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by DuckConference 2mo ago
> has now widened from the initial +175bps to a whopping +231bps doing more than two-thirds of the work. 2.31% spread over treasuries is heading for junk bond status?
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by DuckConference 3mo ago
Yes. Most modern sunscreens are photostable, but even if you aren't going in water or sweating, just moving around (and thus scrunching and un-scrunching your skin on a micro level over and over again) is enough to mess up the sunscree
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by DuckConference 3mo ago
No, they're regular LPDDR dice from one of the big manufacturers that are mounted on the same package as the SoC.
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by DuckConference 3mo ago
I would assume 395MW is the nameplate capacity, so you would multiply it by a capacity factor and time to get the energy production in a specific interval. Capacity factor in hydro can vary a lot by season and how much they want to produce
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by DuckConference 4mo ago
It didn't stand out to me on first read but pangram gives it a high confidence rating as being written by AI.
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by DuckConference 4mo ago
IDGI. How is a company that owns a bunch of infrastructure you almost have to use to put your service on the internet not more profitable such that they have to do layoffs?
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by DuckConference 6mo ago
While it's a rumour site: > Apple has also confirmed to 9to5Mac that it has no plans to offer future Mac Pro hardware.
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by DuckConference 6mo ago
Was somewhat famously parodied in a naked gun movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6NJspRcfYM
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by DuckConference 6mo ago
The lights up on top will show a walk sign when it's waiting for a pedestrian to cross before proceeding.
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by DuckConference 6mo ago
Please don't link to LLM generated crap.
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by DuckConference 6mo ago
It's hard to say whether it's AI generated or just bad writing, but my eyes kept sliding off of it. The bolding for emphasis could be a sign it's LLM output though, whatever bot was popular to use for reddit posting a few mon
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by DuckConference 7mo ago
Most clothes washer cycles are about an hour, is the motor really averaging 800 watts over that time?
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by DuckConference 7mo ago
There are tons of important health effects of exercise beyond caloric balance.
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by DuckConference 7mo ago
It splits revenue out to 3 categories, "Productivity and Business Processes", "Intelligent Cloud", and "More Personal Computing", with windows as one of several things in the 3rd group. How did you figure it ou
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by DuckConference 10mo ago
Tariffs/inflation/everything has raised the unit cost to the point that they're probably close to running a loss again sometimes on the latest gen consoles.
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by DuckConference 11mo ago
On possibility I've seen raised is that slower GI movement -> slower alcohol uptake -> not getting as much of a "hit" from drinking as the effects come on more slowly.
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by DuckConference 11mo ago
They're saying a net 14,000 reduction after hiring, so it's possible that's consistent with the 30k total from the earlier rumours.
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by DuckConference 11mo ago
Their performance claims are quite a bit ahead of the distributed android build systems that I've used, I'm curious what the secret sauce is.
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by DuckConference 11mo ago
As of a few ipadOS versions ago, the higher performance models can use swap space now.
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by DuckConference 11mo ago
One of the famous small canadian mining companies that went under was named something like Bre-X, somehow a lot of members of the general public had shares of it so it was a big scandal on the news when it went under. Also as it was unravel
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by DuckConference 1y ago
Pretty sure Baumol has like 80% of the blame here.
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by DuckConference 1y ago
Switzerland's extreme wealth makes them a bit of an outlier though, other european countries are probably a fairer comparisons for most places.
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by DuckConference 1y ago
Great, I always wanted to founder of roblox to tell me to go keto /s
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by DuckConference 1y ago
They're big, expensive chips with a focus on power efficiency. AMD and Intel's chips that are on the big and expensive side tend toward being optimized for higher power ranges, so they don't compete well on efficiency, while
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Watch Out Bluetooth Analysis of the Coros Pace 3(blog.syss.com)
2 points by DuckConference 1y ago|0 comments
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WWDC25: What's New in Passkeys [video](youtube.com)
4 points by DuckConference 1y ago|0 comments
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by DuckConference 1y ago
I share a lot of the sentiments expressed in the post, but the reality is that the people who feel this way are a tiny, tiny niche compared to the general population, and we probably can't expect anything widely used and available to t

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