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Guest42··on Hertz orders 100k Teslas
I wonder the pricing.
Guest42··on Tesla pulled its latest ‘Full Self Driving’ beta after testers complained
Hopefully it's not 6k + your personal safety.
Guest42··on Uber and Lyft don't save money, time, or the planet
Agreed, seems as though even rubber gloves are "empowering a new limitless future."

Personally, I'd love a return to boring but accurate descriptions.

Guest42··on High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers
Agreed, indeed says that Pepsi pays 65k and that’s one of the top employers in the industry.
Guest42··on High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers
The price of oil and gas has been far more inflated than the price of truck drivers since 1970.
Guest42··on High schoolers are training to drive 18-wheelers amid shortage of truck drivers
There’s an endless supply of truck drivers, just a shortage of those willing to be underpaid and abused.
Guest42··on Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
Appreciate it very much.

To check, do you know whether the bootloader can be unlocked without a SIM card with these phones?

I am thinking that the oneplus 8 has plenty of horsepower.

Guest42··on Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
No budget restrictions although I’d like the ability for Bluetooth to run in the background and not go to sleep , and ideally ip67 or ip68 water protection.
Guest42··on Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
Fantastic!!!!
Guest42··on Android phones are sending significant amount of user data with no opt-out [pdf]
Can you recommend a couple phones that are compatible with LOS + microg? I looked on their sites and it wasn't quite clear
Guest42··on Large percentage fear having children because of climate crisis
Agreed, I even saw a “full stack” role that required the person to do testing with a 65k salary
Guest42··on Blue light from monitors no danger to eyes or sleep
Same experience here, has made a world of difference

Depending on how a statistical experiment was designed, I could imagine a variety of results though

Guest42··on Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks
That’s the impression I get, not so much JIT but rather limiting supply budgets as much as possible. A lot of companies tout Toyota as the pinnacle of manufacturing without realizing that they are not Toyota and there was more to Toyota’s success than JIT.
Guest42··on Wave of US labor unrest could see tens of thousands on strike within weeks
Agree, and would propose increased property taxes for amount of time a property is empty, I think this would increase liquidity in rental markets.
Guest42··on AT&T says it has big problems. A T-Mobile salesman showed me how big
Better than me, I had extensive up-sell attempts.
Guest42··on Create, train and run Scikit-learn and TensorFlow models in Excel
Perhaps Microsoft can add it to their certs list and start competing with the tier 1 grad schools.

I remember a newly hired ex-consultant have a slide in her deck about using ML across sparse/inaccurate company data and how this would turn “data into information.” I think eventually they realized that it takes more than PowerPoints and repeating that phrase.

Guest42··on Who Is Driving the Great Resignation?
Anecdotally, I've seen 4 people leave for career advancement versus 1 that left due to wanting to be in the office.
Guest42··on Is BI dead? – On dismantling data's ship of Theseus
Having used looker, it felt rather clunky and proprietary

I was generally able to create better results via power bi, ssrs, or shiny

Guest42··on KrebsOnSecurity Hit by Huge New IoT Botnet “Meris”
To me it's rather concerning that more and more products are opting towards connecting to the internet for seemingly little reason. The costs of security on that seem somewhat astronomical.
Guest42··on The code that controls our money
I’m generally pretty amazed at how low the salaries are for COBOL developers relative to the criticality of the systems being maintained, and also how common those legacy code bases are.
Guest42··on Fired NY credit union employee nukes data in revenge
Said they had backups, I wonder to what extent, and the costs of maintaining those backups
Guest42··on Woman with 3 Properties Left Homeless Because Tenants Couldn't Be Evicted
I’d claim there’s a good chance that mass evictions would lend themselves to lower property values and rental incomes which would also lead to an unsuccessful business strategy and a similar outcome. Whether or not this is preferable would then be a separate conversation of hypotheticals.
Guest42··on System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals now in stock
Thanks for followup, I was curious if the ram was allocated in blocks if sections could go unused.

Right now I have 16gb and it's been great and I generally don't put much pressure on it (except for some occasional Android Studio virtualizing).

However, it seems as though software resource usage has a tendency to creep up over time so it seemed like more RAM would be a safe option. I also tend to use the computer more lightly when it's unplugged.

I don't know much about hardware so all input is appreciated.

Guest42··on System76 Pangolin Linux-first laptop with AMD internals now in stock
Would ordering one of these with 32gb of ram lead to a significant decrease in battery performance?
Guest42··on Why wild foxes led you to treasure in Skyrim
That’s a good point. If I had to guess, I think over time there is a natural limit to the amount of user saturation. People are mostly aware of the platforms and their features and have probably made up their minds as to whether they want to join. Parts of the existing user base are probably getting sick of the engagement and lessening their usage.
Guest42··on Something is killing gray whales
I wish it would be possible to know the amount of energy used unnecessarily with software and have it bucketed. I think that there’s a lot of telemetry and unnecessary video rendering that would add up (among many other things not listed...)
Guest42··on America’s losing battle against diabetes
Anecdote, but hfcs requires approximately 3 times the insulin, if anyone has a different experience, please tell
Guest42··on One simple design fix for the Olympic medal tally
I would choose weights for gold, silver, and bronze and then sort accordingly, this would be confusing which would make the consumer of information pay attention to more of the details.
Guest42··on Senators move to exempt Bitcoin, crypto miners from proposed U.S. tax rules
Interesting, I’ll have to research that. It seems like something that would take a long time to deploy.
Guest42··on Senators move to exempt Bitcoin, crypto miners from proposed U.S. tax rules
Sidetopic, but I am rather disappointed that Venmo has been pressuring me via email to embrace crypto and imagine behind the scenes they own however much, trades only get executed internally, and they do their best to extract transaction fees. To me this is the antithesis of what the crypto community was looking to stand for in terms of privacy and independence from traditional banking systems.
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