nordsieck

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by nordsieck 1y ago
> But chemical batteries cost a lot more and don't have lifespans of hundreds or thousands of years in seasonal storage scenarios. Practically speaking, you're probably not going to get 1000s of years out of any storage method.
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> The correct way to write as a left handed person is to turn the page ninety degrees. That is such a genius solution!
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> What suggests that people are becoming less capable? From the root level comment in this thread: > Student test scores have worsened more than in other Scandinavian countries, and critics of the government say there are too many boo
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> What's the problem? Only poor people care about test scores as they imagine high test scores is how one can pull themselves out of being poor. When you are rich you can also do pointless things just for the fun of it like build br
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> It is not so much that used diamonds are worth less (although they might decline in value without provenance to prove they are natural or if they are chipped) but the huge markup on retail jewellery. Precisely. And on top of that some
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> Perhaps other EV drivers can chime in but, if anything, I think I use my friction brakes less at highway speeds where, in general, you're not really supposed to do a lot of braking. I'd say, overall and regardless of speed, m
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by nordsieck 1y ago
From what I've heard there's a countervailing effect for EVs, though - they end up generating more particulate pollution from tire wear because of greater vehicle weight and greater torque. The number that I've seen bandied a
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> The interesting thing is when this breaks down. Obviously if you eat a weeks worth of food every day for a sustained period of time, you will start to gain weight. Or if you run 12 miles every day, you will be in such a deficit that it
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> How many frivilous assault allegations against male drivers are there? I've never heard of this happening personally. It comes up from time to time if you watch Uber driver videos. There's a reason why many drivers have a cam
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> Hopefully hotels don't yet have an industry-wide "do not host" list without any appeal process...? There are lots of small operators, so I doubt that there's some industry wide list. But there are only a few large o
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by nordsieck 1y ago
For a while, I was optimistic that Apple would at least continue to release the SE every 3-ish years. I'm guessing they wanted to finally kill the fingerprint reader and other SE-specific features[1]. And maybe even the SE with its red
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> I don't understand the purpose of consumers owning individual solar panels in a large array. How is that better than a single entity owning the whole array, and what function does the consumer provide? I don't now if it'
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> I remember reading about this Swedish dude who added 2 solar panels totaling about 1 kW to his hybrid station wagon. I want to see a picture of that. Apparently 1 kw fits on an extended box van [1]. But I don't now how you'd
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> Don't want to deal with the logistics of lots of SKUs? Don't sell them. Trying to upsell people is a money move. Selling a SKU where the 80+gb OS is like 40% of the disk is a good SKU to cut. This isn't a profitable move
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by nordsieck 1y ago
If you're interested in some hard data, Backblaze publishes their HD failure numbers[1]. These disks are storage optimized, not performance optimized like the parent comment, but they have a pretty large collection of various hard driv
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> It's pure robbery on Apple's part. Completely beyond the pale now. Their ridiculous RAM and storage prices were never that big of a deal back in the PowerBook/early Macbook Pro days, because you could always opt out if y
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> So if someone gains access to your email, they also get FB access…? I mean, that's how it works for most websites. I think I have 2FA turned on for FB, but honestly the phone system is way less secure than email at Google/Mic
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> States only believe in their own interests and the narrative always go towards the powerful and the one which won. And depressingly, even that isn't true - states are plagued with the principal-agent problem[1], as is basically ev
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> You can usually get the rights but it costs more. Like in software if you want an exclusive license… Nah - the correct comparison is to an employee/contractor software developer. Copyright assignment is industry standard.
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> If a actor works for a day on a TV show he may get cheques forever. Most actors get paid either a fixed fee or hourly. It's only the top talent that can negotiate points. And honestly, that's pretty good for the producers, si
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> There aren't many things like .NET, MSSQL and Visual Studio out there. The debugger experience in VS is the holy grail if you have super nasty real world technology situations. There's a reason every AAA game engine depends o
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> I think the challenge is certainly the costs of enforcement. IMO, this is fundamentally a mismatch between how software is developed in practice and how copyright works. If software was like a book, where it's finished and publish
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> GPL definitely does. Clearly it doesn't because companies get caught doing it with GPL software all the time. ... and the only recourse is to sue them into compliance.
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by nordsieck 1y ago
> One major reason why EU capabilities are lagging is because they hitched their geopolitical wagon to the US and assumed that the US launch providers would be sufficient for commercial purposes, and that ESA/Arianespace only had to
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> People who have been left behind by Apple's push towards phablets It's my impression that Apple really tried to service this market - that last model was probably the iPhone 13 mini. I assume that there just isn't enough
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by nordsieck 2y ago
There's MacMiniVault (nee MacMiniColo) https://www.macminivault.com/ Not sure if they count as niche or not.
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by nordsieck 2y ago
> Is anyone other than a vanishingly small number of hard core hobbiests going to upgrade from an M4 to an M4 Ultra? I expect that the 2 biggest buyers of M4 Ultra will be people who want to run LLMs locally, and people who want the high
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by nordsieck 2y ago
IMO, backpacks are better at conforming to size limits. They're typically advertised by volume, so 30L, 40L, etc., so you can get one the size you want. I think carry on size is typically advertised as 35-40L. They've got all th
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by nordsieck 2y ago
I'll admit that I don't travel outside of the US much, so those issues don't really apply to me. > 7 kg is laughably little, a standard cabin bag already weighs 2 One thing that I have done is move from roller luggage to a
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by nordsieck 2y ago
I don't know. At this point, I personally know multiple people who've "lost" luggage when flying. Thankfully it's not as big of a deal now that airtags/trackers are readily available.

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