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by qdog 24d ago
This is possibly the craziest goddamn conversation I've ever seen on HN. Michalena's swedish meatballs are like $1.50 for 350 calories[0]. It's been a while since college, but I would guess they are delicious when compared t
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by qdog 8mo ago
IMHO, the value of the protest is to demonstrate a portion of the electorate does not agree with whatever they are protesting. There are a lot of people in a bubble that seem to think the majority always views things exactly the same as th
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by qdog 9mo ago
I don't think so, not like it was once upon a time. I had a manual 6-cylinder I bought in about 2002 for around $14000, no leather, 2wd extended cab. That's like $25k in today's dollars according to Google. If they made a
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by qdog 10mo ago
There was a dip on the first chart in the article, it also sbows something like 9% of companies using it. What I wonder is beyond "using" AI, is what value the companies are actually seeing. Revenue growth at both OpenAI and Anth
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by qdog 3y ago
Yeah, it's pretty clear Tesla is still the best EV experience. I'm just waiting till the next gen of EVs to have proper connectors before I will consider another one. Our model Y is fine, but I don't want to buy another veh
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by qdog 3y ago
Says they are installing them at their gas stations. Probably a lot of money to be made from getting people to stop to charge and buy sodas etc.
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by qdog 3y ago
Intel basically hit the clock speed limit and diverged to multiple cores. However, they still make x86 based chips, not ARM. They owned an ARM license for a while and got rid of it. For whatever reason, Intel felt like putting all there
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by qdog 3y ago
I've worked with several types of people. For me, the best mentors were the ones who would answer questions I had with the full answer, often with details. Then they got on with what they were doing while I went back to my desk and t
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by qdog 3y ago
The Mini Electric is down there. Weighs more than gas, and one of the reasons it isn't long range, would push up the weight too much. The current generation of battery tech is just a little heavier than would be competitive to ICE on
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by qdog 3y ago
The Hummer in any form seems like a ridiculous vehicle. The Rav4 Prime weighs more than the Model Y, so depends on what version. The 4runner, Tacoma, Tundra, Sequoia etc. are all same or heavier, the big difference is that in the future,
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by qdog 3y ago
lifepo4 doesn't require any fancy materials but lithium, less energy dense at the moment, but also doesn't degrade as fast. Panasonic is currently producing ~260Wh/kg batteries for Tesla, so much of the mass market EVs will
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by qdog 3y ago
Not in CA, but where I live there is continuous work on covering canals. A lot of canals were dug a century or more ago and are just ditches, something like 60% of water is lost to evaporation and seepage. The issue is still the cost, the
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by qdog 3y ago
The places I looked at had some EV dedicated parking spaces and then shared EV charging. Just like gas cars you don't need to charge every day, they will probably add more chargers as more people get EV cars. But yeah, it is pretty in
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by qdog 3y ago
There are a lot of custom EV conversions if you really want to control everything, probably no modern new vehicle is going to meet what you describe. You can already buy lifepo4 cells, I've thought about making a boat, but time and mon
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by qdog 3y ago
New apartment buildings are adding EV spaces, but on-street parkers either have to find a charger and take time, or regularly park somewhere with a charger (like at work). The city could start adding chargers pretty easily at like street l
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by qdog 3y ago
New bolt is what, 20k after incentive? I would assume in 5 years those will be cheaper used. No one is selling 11k gas cars worth a damn last I checked, either, there just isn't a huge supply of used electrics at the moment. Not that
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by qdog 4y ago
The split would be zoning and operating a business in a residence. Hotels usually have fire escapes, inspections, etc. Also parking, expected noise, any number of things my house doesn't conform to, and doubtful most of the Airbnb&#x
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by qdog 4y ago
Sorry for the late reply, I was out a while. I literally have heard people say things like "We need less brown people". This may not be your reasoning, and not everyone says something exactly like that, but there are enough. Appl
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by qdog 4y ago
I certainly haven't conducted a scientific study, this isn't my field. I am, however, a white male who checks most of the 'tech dude' boxes, and I don't usually have to guess what people are thinking about this. I
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by qdog 4y ago
Yeah, I dunno if these people hung out on the Care Bears irc channel or what, but every 'open' forum and most of the closed ones had tons of racism/sexism/whateverism. Just look at twitter nowadays to see how awful some
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by qdog 4y ago
I usually point out Paul Walker's gas Porsche bursting into flames immediately on impact, one of worst-looking EV crashes I've seen was Richard Hammond, who rolled down a hill in a questionably built car, but was still pulled out
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by qdog 4y ago
I think Uber/Lyft is that company, they just use human drivers, which has apparently made traffic worse now, and I wouldn't expect it to get better.
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by qdog 4y ago
Where I grew up my parents had their own 300 gallon gas tank, because you couldn't buy gas for many miles around. Nowadays not even sure how possible that is in some areas, as I am sure there is more regulation. Several of the fillin
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by qdog 4y ago
The people "investing" in FTX weren't doing it because they wanted cryptocurrency, they wanted a 15% guaranteed return. Without the exchanges, the USD->cryptocurrency onramp/offramp is a lot more difficult to do, I do
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by qdog 4y ago
Gas Suburban small v8 is 15/20, which is better than the 88, but still abysmal in general. Previous year Toyota Sequoia (more comparable than a cruiser), got a combined 15mpg, which is what I generally get in a decade old Tundra. The
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by qdog 4y ago
Tesla might be worse, but I had a modern Rav4 that people mistook the low beams for high beams all the time and would flash or turn on their high beams. It also had the auto-dimming feature, which didn't react as early as I would as a
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by qdog 4y ago
Conversely, a business needs to generate the most profit per worker, not the most work. This might work out well for Google, or it might not. All the work metric systems I've seen essentially become a random number generator that hit
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by qdog 4y ago
A lot of these replies certainly amaze me. The infrastructure for gasoline is under constant maintenance and construction: rail cars spill oil, trucks have to be driven by humans, pipelines take maintenance, gasoline has to be refined at a
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by qdog 4y ago
In an equally balanced society, one would expect college admissions to largely reflect the makeup of that society. By the numbers, datausa.io says Yale is 43.6% "white", 5.67% "black". 13.7% "Asian". US popul
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by qdog 4y ago
Pretty much the same as loading an unsigned or untrusted kernel module, someone would have to get it loaded from a privileged account.

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