niucllos

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[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's more like the 30% who always vote R will vote for whoever, the 30% who always vote D will vote for whoever. Kamala's task is to get the 1-2% independents who always vote, yes, but also convince as many of the 40% who never bother showing up as possible to actually show up like some have started to in the last elections where reproductive healthcare/etc have been on the line. If she can motivate people for herself and simultaneously underscore that trump is an octogenarian with dreams of fascism and Project 2025 is what he would do, I think we'll have a landslide. That's a big if though.

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 12 points 3 months ago

I've been on the pixel A train the past few years, and wait until they offer me >$300 for a trade in. I got a 3A for I think ~$300 or so in 2020, and a 6A for $150 in 2022. Almost jumped to an 8a which would have been like $200 I think but there's no reason to really besides shiny new toy so I'm holding out for another year or two in hopes a 4a-style size reduction comes again

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

It looks like you're planning on using windows, in which case I would strongly caution against only 8 GB ram. I have a 4 year old windows laptop with 8 GB RAM, and unless you do a lot to optimize things/kill processes it quickly becomes slow to a very frustrating point. The last thing you want is to open a new tab to look up something the professor said while running a note taking app and have the whole thing freeze for a few minutes and not be able to take notes. RAM is relatively cheap, so I would bit the bullet and either get 16 GB or run Linux.

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 27 points 3 months ago (10 children)

A lot of advanced analytical tools in biotech at least are developed to be compute cluster compatible, and thus work best on unix-like CLI, e.g. Linux (or Mac with a bit of tinkering)

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

For many of those years it was the only electric pickup truck being advertised. And also, yes people do like the Tesla name. Musk and growing competition has done a ton to tank the reputation lately, but until just a couple years ago Tesla was far and away the best and most advanced electric car, and depending on your criteria the most advanced/best car period. Perception shifts slowly outside of well-informed groups, and the Musk hate is really only affecting well-informed left wing groups right now, so a lot of libertarian Musk fanboys are still fully on the Tesla train

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In all three cases, he can do it as long as Congress gives him that power. In this case it's unlikely Congress will push back on banning Russian software, in the other two the republicans have promised to block any executive effort

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 22 points 3 months ago (2 children)

One could make the case that it is a patriotic duty to divert money from fascists that would otherwise go to fascist causes

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

All these dumb companies chasing the wrong high margin class imo. Tesla did it right, start with the sports car: the EV powertrain plays well to its strengths, their big advantageous use case isn't 600 mile road trips, and they don't need to tow. Starting with the mom-mobiles and dad's pavement princess puts you on the worst footing by needing obnoxiously large amounts of the most expensive component, needing to meet road trip or towing standards, and catering to a market that by definition has other big spending priorities, e.g. their kids or whatever they want to tow. If Ford's first electric mustang had been a cobra equivalent rather than a sportier electric escape I suspect they would have had a much better time.

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 28 points 4 months ago

I think that's part of the point? The twitchy zoomers aren't on?

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Because companies mostly don't want the degree to prove skill sets, which is why they don't generally ask for transcripts, just that you have a degree in a somewhat related field. The value of a bachelor's degree to a company is that it proves the applicant is capable of undertaking a ~4 year commitment, achieving a tangible result, and that they pass a threshold competence at navigating beaurocracies and interacting with other humans. The specific skills/experience the company wants are much better assessed using prior experience, interviews, assessments, etc.

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago

Just sounds like the first episode of community with less context and more soapboxing

[–] niucllos@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Aldi in the US always gives me the option at checkout to pay later, I've never explored it to find out the fine print

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