rconti

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by rconti 4d ago
> But you do what you think is right at the time, and I'm grateful for every moment I got to spent in Cupertino. It often surprises me when people express deep regret for things like this, because if you feel you made the correct d
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by rconti 5d ago
> But it should be pointed out that the current administration eschews intelligence entirely That's not fair, they happily hand over intelligence briefings to people with no clearances or vetting whatsoever.
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by rconti 5d ago
IANAP but it's hard to imagine that the many mistakes the Pilot Flying apparently made were related to unfamiliarity with the type. They just all seem so, so, so basic.
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by rconti 5d ago
If we accept your premise, the current war has made us less safe, because we've had previous, stronger nuclear deals that have now been torn up in a failed attempt to replace their leader with someone more favorable to the US.
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by rconti 6d ago
Some of us still believe in market incentives.
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by rconti 6d ago
Yep. I went through my big box of cables, deduped a lot of things, got rid of a bunch of stuff I'd never need, etc. Of course, I DID need one of them just a month or two later! But it was still a good exercise. Now I have a whole drawe
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by rconti 7d ago
The fact that the band changed their handles months ago and haven't complained? Occam's razor, man.
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by rconti 7d ago
Is it cherry? I see burgandy on the site. Also, preorders begin on the 12th.
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by rconti 7d ago
What is "meaningful"? I was listening to the Accidental Tech Podcast last week and Marco said that the iPhone Air has lower penetration, after 1 year, than EACH of the 12 mini and 13 mini _currently_ have. Among a tech audience. W
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by rconti 7d ago
That's a great point I was overlooking-- that said, I know plenty of people on my corp plan who also have strong opinions on different models' strengths, so there _also_ are plenty of people who are legitimately digging into the p
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by rconti 8d ago
I use claude all day every day, and sometimes codex, and I still don't change models. I guess I'm more interested in accomplishing the thing than in experimenting with a dozen ways of accomplishing the same thing.
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by rconti 8d ago
So, basically, in an attempt to reduce bias, they're overfitting to all new information, which increases bias?
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by rconti 12d ago
Wow, you have insanely, enviably cheap power. But also, it seems to have increased in price quite a bit lately. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APUS35A72610
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by rconti 12d ago
Perhaps it ranges (if a measurement). But my best guess is they simply _cannot know_ because the usage patterns of the new elevators will be different from the old elevators based on dispatching and sequencing and call systems. In other wor
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by rconti 12d ago
> And 45-50% energy savings per year is a great ROI For certain values of "I", and depending on the baseline cost of operating an elevator!
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by rconti 12d ago
I had the same question but about price (and its related impact on consumption, which is your question) -- are we assuming total spent / total consumed are held constant? It wasn't stated in the website and I didn't see anyth
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by rconti 13d ago
Wow, that's some ASTOUNDINGLY terrible driving!
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by rconti 13d ago
My model 3 doesn't even HAVE an option to pay extra for a display directly in front of the driver.
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by rconti 13d ago
Porsche is now charging extra for a "standard" transmission https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/2027-porsche-911-carrera-s-...
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by rconti 13d ago
I was thinking about this the other day in regard to Flock. There's simply no way this company will fail, despite the public outcry, because the rich people in charge will not _let_ it fail.
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by rconti 14d ago
Related; I've owned a number of inline 6 cylinder motors and currently have a flat 6 (boxster). I believe the math says the I6 is smoother than the boxer 6, but my perception is that the boxer is vastly smoother. I don't know how
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by rconti 14d ago
The thing that always gets me is that a top fuel dragster's engine only rotates something like 540 times in an entire quarter-mile run.
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by rconti 15d ago
I've only once in my life worn out a set of rim brake pads I wore out the thin, small disc brake pads on my gravel bike in the first ~2000 miles. It didn't even _occur_ to me that the sound I was hearing was my brake pads being co
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by rconti 16d ago
First thing I thought of when I read the title was "ah, I learned this from Daniel Stern's lighting page..." https://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/bulbs/blue/bad/bad....
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by rconti 20d ago
The original After Dark, distributed on floppy in 1989, 1.1MB, was $110 in today's money. More than $7 per screen saver! Of course, the target market of computer users was way smaller than it is today.
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by rconti 21d ago
Well, in suburban Portland, where the wooden shed is, the house will be similar construction. You could very, very easily drill a hole in the exterior wall, reach through the hole, and unlock the door from the inside. In fact, in many homes
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by rconti 21d ago
yeah, this is quite literally the first thing i saw when i opened the page.
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by rconti 21d ago
This must be bundled with TV at that price, right? Though I know from experience that if you try to get rid of TV service they find a way to charge you more for just internet.
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by rconti 21d ago
In the US, there are various websites for checking service availability based on zip code. You can fairly easily find local ISPs in a region and then use their own service checker to see if service is available at a specific address -- in o
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by rconti 22d ago
I used Trumpet WinSock with Win 3.1, but with most ISPs you had to use an emulated SLIP/PPP connection anyway. Otherwise you'd be dialing in to a shell so the advantage of the GUI was mostly lost (from the perspective of being abl

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