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by cfeduke 15d ago
The example could be hyperbole, but Home Depot and Lowes both offer a wide selection of "smart toilets" and if we think "oh this is just a weird niche thing that will never catch on" let's remember how difficult it
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by cfeduke 15d ago
Depending on where I park in the city, I have to install a different parking app. And create an account, and pay with a credit card via the app. There was a time, however brief, when some of the parking meters just accepted credit cards, or
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by cfeduke 1y ago
I bought a Model 3 in 2018, a Y in 2020, and another 3 in 2024. The end user design has only continued to get worse on various aspects of the car. Regarding non-safety issues, living in the northeast and mid-Atlantic, the door handles freez
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by cfeduke 2y ago
> Generally speaking, for most people, bills go up as they age (kids, health, yada-yada). To a point yes. There was a time when you could realistically pay off your mortgage before you were fifty, and for some people maybe this is still
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by cfeduke 2y ago
From AWS pricing: > Per 10,000 API calls > $0.05 per 10,000 API calls. So imagine you have some number of cron jobs which require a bunch of secrets and these things fire every minute or 30 seconds or what have you. You could save as
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by cfeduke 2y ago
Okay I guess I've just had a different experience entirely. Maybe I'm jaded by hallucinations. The code ChatGPT generates is often bad in ways that are hard to detect. If you are not an experienced software engineer, the defects c
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by cfeduke 2y ago
Tesla uses independent body shops they certify, I know this because I've used one as a result of a deer accident. The service centers do not handle beyond some level of damage.
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by cfeduke 2y ago
My personal experience so far with Tesla specifically - and this is not to say they are doing the right thing in regards to parts or anything - was when my wife hit a deer and a bunch of the driver's front side of the car had to be rep
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by cfeduke 2y ago
If its tech and they want a 30-45 minute interview with live coding on something like hackerrank - especially if whatever brain teaser they've chosen has absolutely nothing to do with the field they operate in - I'd put the chance
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by cfeduke 2y ago
> I don't see how AI, quantum and block chain are at all equivalent. It's not that there is any claim to equivalency, its that these are the technology trends that are most useful - the trend itself, nevermind any sort of usabl
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by cfeduke 2y ago
For all these "it is better" points, it still doesn't even begin to outweigh the "you get to spend time with your children" point. This is the most important part of child rearing and once they've moved on you&
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by cfeduke 2y ago
> browser search bar and get perfectly good answers That depends. If your search engine is Google, you'd get things like "The best 17 AAA games by budget to buy in 2024" or "22 triple A games for a tight budget in 202
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by cfeduke 2y ago
> Alexa is about as useful as a toaster The toaster at least makes toast. Alexa can only prompt me about adding toast to my shopping list.
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by cfeduke 3y ago
In the early 90s I ended up taking a Pascal course in high school for a math credit. Afterwards I joined the military in a computer software MOS and was trained in Ada. Of course... my actual day to day was often working with Visual Basic o
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by cfeduke 3y ago
We pour concrete to make Atlas stones for specific weights knowing that these artificial stones will eventually be ruined by accident by the people who have a new interest in stone lifting. We also collect natural stones which may get ruine
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by cfeduke 3y ago
3 billion devices run Java! ;)
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by cfeduke 3y ago
I had a Sears Admiral refrigerator that was built in the 90s which recently (three months ago) had the compressor go out. I've had the refrigerator since I purchased the house in 2001 and I have performed zero maintenance on it, so it
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by cfeduke 3y ago
It's not problematic, its just plain wrong. Also, the phone number is right there on the flier so its not like the fliers owner can't be contacted after seeing a flier to see if the animal has been found and if the flier can be re
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by cfeduke 3y ago
Corruption is everywhere, not just in big cities. The more rural the county in US, the greater the chance that "stuff like this only happened in 3rd world countries" is necessary to get anything done [permits especially]. Anecdota
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by cfeduke 3y ago
Haha yes, similar for me. It was word scramblers as games in AOL chat rooms that lead me to my love of programming... and of course Visual Basic 3.0. What an amazing product back then.
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by cfeduke 3y ago
> Why would anyone think a two-hour buffer for something so critical would be appropriate? This sort of negligence is intentional. My guess would be it started as a requirement for analog recording and was carried over without change and
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by cfeduke 3y ago
I have fixed numerous home appliances over the past two decades almost entirely thanks to YouTube and eBay, and a willingness to apply myself. If the YouTube video has no intro and its subject is about your problem, you can be almost certai
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by cfeduke 3y ago
From experience in the 3D printing space, it's too early to say Bambu out-Prusa'd Prusa, because there hasn't been enough time to know whether the Bambu printers will outlast a Prusa printer. The business model the author is
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by cfeduke 3y ago
> it will be just in maintenance alone Can confirm; >5 years on a Model 3 and other than tires $0 in maintenance so far. >3 years on a Model Y and other than tires, $0 in maintenance so far. Absolute huge cost and time savings comp
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by cfeduke 3y ago
I have that problem but it probably some something to do with some combination of browser addons I have installed. When I launch the link in a Private Firefox window they seem to work.
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by cfeduke 3y ago
I've owned a Model 3 for over five years (~100K miles) and a Model Y for over 3 years (~45K miles). $0 maintenance excluding replacing the tires. This has been a game changer for me, since I perform my own maintenance on all of the veh
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by cfeduke 3y ago
From what I gather from Oblomovka[1] [and based on my own memory of this period]: It was a place where the primary early users of the Internet did not frequent, but could be something an ordinary person would be exposed to out of necessity.
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by cfeduke 3y ago
There's some selection bias in here too. People who have had excellent customer service experiences on Twitter aren't taking into account the number of people who did call or email customer service versus the substantially fewer p
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by cfeduke 3y ago
> and mostly I just try and avoid the medical system. Me too, but the medical system knows no matter how healthy we were when we were young, in the end we'll need the medical system in one way or another.
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by cfeduke 3y ago
Bathtub caddies that hold books are $10-30, with the upper end having a few other niceties.

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