snowchaser

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by snowchaser 22d ago
I just bought one a few months ago after putting it off for years. He sent the most charming hand written note and a series of selfies proving that he personally packed it! A true gem.
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by snowchaser 2mo ago
If AI flops, they’re be left holding large pools of useful datacenter/compute capacity and “revert” to one of the most profitable businesses of all time.
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by snowchaser 6mo ago
I just use my laptop as a powerbank these days. What I typically need to charge is a phone, with way smaller capacity than my macbook. So it works pretty well now that everything has usbc.
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by snowchaser 6mo ago
Totally agree, SI units for the win! I was just trying to use “familiar” units. I could have led with 1 HP per square yard, and then you’d totally have license to call me out! And yeah, I was just talking about solar flux, there’s a whole l
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by snowchaser 6mo ago
It’s a good question, but the reality is the energy required to power a car is far larger than what you can collect. The solar energy you can collect is about 750W/sq meter. A car roof is about 5’x5’, and if we are generous and include
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by snowchaser 6mo ago
I think they mean (sarcastically) that ICE is sucking up all the qualified candidates.
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by snowchaser 6mo ago
Disappointing. A better response from Atlassian (or the CEO if this really bothered them so much) would be to look at the criticism and try to understand why this sentiment is in the org. Is he too rich for some people’s taste? Does that in
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by snowchaser 6mo ago
“There's no (state) school giving out tablets that aren't pretty much single-use locked down devices.” They try, but kids are smart and there are holes in the tools to lock things down. You would not believe the inventive workarou
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by snowchaser 7mo ago
In US, going to 128 GB from 32 is $1500 extra. However 32 GB is only offered with the 32 core version and 128 only with the 40 core version.
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by snowchaser 7mo ago
I noticed that the “Net Cash” figures look fishy, it seems like you’re not taking into account Marketable Securities (MS) in the calculation. These are essentially cash. See GOOG and others. (GOOG ended 2025 with almost $100B in MS, for a
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by snowchaser 8mo ago
As a PSA, the Google Workspace version of gmail doesn’t train on your data, if you like other gmail/workspace features. (Workspace TOS is now part of the Cloud TOS https://workspace.google.com/terms/premier_terms&#