sueders101

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by sueders101 5mo ago
A pair of 9 and 11 year old boys made a similar trip going from Needham MA, to the World’s Fair in Montreal. They did it with a pony/pony-cart in 1967. PBS did a really nice short documentary on them where they're interviewed. ht
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by sueders101 5mo ago
I was/am a fan of z.ai’s GLM models as a drop in replacement for Claude. But they more than doubled their prices recently. Still a ok alternative, but not really an amazing deal anymore.
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by sueders101 9mo ago
I've tried out gpt-oss:20b on a MacBook Air (via Ollama) with 24GB of RAM. In my experience it's output is comparable to what you'd get out of older models and the openAI benchmarks seem accurate https://openai.com
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by sueders101 4y ago
Your article states 68,300 figure is using average global energy supply at the time. As grid decarbonization happens that break even point can be reduced to as little as 30,000 according to the article(pure renewable scenario). It's no
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by sueders101 4y ago
I had a wisdom tooth removed by a dentist within the last 5 years. This was in the United States, for what it’s worth.
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by sueders101 4y ago
Kanye West 'patched' multiple songs on his album The Life of Pablo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_Pablo#Post-release...
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by sueders101 4y ago
If you’re looking for an example of a successful small plane airline in the United States: Cape Air.
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by sueders101 5y ago
> The more harm is done, the less likely that people will support a public option. I don't think that is the case most of the time. If anything, suffering makes people more likely to be sympathetic. For instance: people with low inc
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by sueders101 5y ago
"You can _not_ buy thousands of rounds worth of any ammo other than .22 with a week's worth of minimum wage pay (if you know something that I don't, let me know where you're finding these deals)." It's pretty c
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by sueders101 5y ago
Confusingly Apple actually has a few ‘Apple TV’ product. There’s the app that you’re describing then there’s the physical device, as well as the subscription service. The physical device is the Roku competitor, and supports Netflix/Di
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by sueders101 5y ago
For what it's worth; I banked with Simple for the better part of 10 years, but then they acquired by BBVA who was then acquired by PNC. That meant that all Simple customers had to go through account migration twice this year, and in th
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by sueders101 5y ago
That’s incorrect. If I’m remembering correctly Nigeria was the second largest Bitcoin market pretty recently.
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by sueders101 5y ago
Canada doesn’t have the ability to manufacture the vaccines. The United States does. The United Kingdom also has manufacturing capabilities and has had a strong vaccine rollout.
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by sueders101 5y ago
>do we have more data points for these cherry blossoms Yes, the article includes a nice graphic showing the "peak bloom day of the year". It shows that average peak bloom date has been getting steadily earlier in recent history
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by sueders101 6y ago
BTC seems to have found a use in Nigeria as a means of dealing with inflation, and a USD shortage in the country. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nigeria-one-bitcoin-cost-68-2...
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by sueders101 6y ago
Colt used to sell many rifles to the US military. They lost that business to FN. And with that they lost a lot of value.
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by sueders101 6y ago
Depending on where I clicked in mobile safari it wouldn’t scroll.
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by sueders101 6y ago
No. There is difference between a little rush job, and an incompetent rush job. I’m only speaking for my own experience, but when put under pressure most competent teams don’t end up throwing away such important data. I’ve been incompetent
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by sueders101 6y ago
Excel tops out a little more over a million rows without specifically handling of larger files. I’m not sure excusing it, just a heads up to all the junior analysts out there who haven’t dealt with the problem(not implying you’re a junior a
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by sueders101 6y ago
Many pay-to-use(coin or card) laundry rooms in apartment complexes are entirely contracted out to a third party company that handles everything; payment collection, machine leasing, service/repairs, etc. On the whole I think it's
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by sueders101 6y ago
And box office receipts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_office_futures
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by sueders101 7y ago
Having a great legal team doesn't mean you can't lose billions of dollars in court; as Monsanto/Bayer recently found out. The jury may not look favorably upon tech companies. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/
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by sueders101 7y ago
The most popular, recently released RTS I can think of is Factorio. It seems like RTS game elements have been splitting into their constituent parts and forming a game around those.(e.g. production to Factorio, or combat to DOTA) It may be
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by sueders101 7y ago
If I'm not mistaken, Google has called off any plans for expanding Google Fiber. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/googl...
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by sueders101 8y ago
For what it’s worth, it’s my understanding that they’re ‘only’ transferring plasma which other companies are already paying people for.
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Alooma Signs an Agreement to Join the Google Cloud Family(alooma.com)
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by sueders101 8y ago
If you're going Postgres to Postgres I enthusiastically recommend Bucardo.[1] I'm not very technical, but even I managed to get an ~1TB DB successfully replicating using it. In my case it was going from AWS RDS to AWS Aurora. Prev
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by sueders101 8y ago
The iPhone 6 and beyond are too big for my tastes. I reluctantly upgraded to an iPhone 7 after destroying my SE. Even after owning the 7 for over a year, I find it uncomfortably large at times.
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by sueders101 8y ago
I agree that this should just be everyday normality. However there seems to be wave of recent popular articles and essays about an epidemic of loneliness. I think essays like this can serve as a positive example of how to interact with&#x2F
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by sueders101 8y ago
It’s a poetic statement not a literal one. It speaks to the aspirational idea of what America could and should be/aspire to be.( in the mind of the writer)

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