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shiftpgdn··on Gandi.net – Pricing Update
Namecheap is significantly worse than Gandi and amongst the absolute bottom feeder domain providers. I'd recommend cancelling your transfer ASAP.
shiftpgdn··on Video to video with Stable Diffusion
Dell T7810 or 7820 are also good candidates
shiftpgdn··on Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddit CEO’s recent remarks
Major subreddits I’ve seen run polls show that less than 3% of users are using third party apps.
shiftpgdn··on Tesla Doubles Down on Model 3 Price, Now Among Cheapest EVs
The Canada market and buying power is so small it’s mostly irrelevant in economics discussions
shiftpgdn··on Tesla Doubles Down on Model 3 Price, Now Among Cheapest EVs
Are those low MSRP Corollas or Imprezzas something you can actually buy? I was car shopping last year and all the "entry level" sedans were priced at $35,000+.
shiftpgdn··on Tesla Doubles Down on Model 3 Price, Now Among Cheapest EVs
You would be out of your mind to pick a Corolla or Civic over the Model 3 today, especially with the dealer markups on the Corolla and Civic (and other traditional ICE vehicles)
shiftpgdn··on Nvidia releases new AI chip with 480GB CPU RAM, 96GB GPU RAM
Still useful for other coins, though the returns may not be very great.
shiftpgdn··on Preparing for the Incoming Computer Shopper Tsunami
I think what a lot of younger people also don’t realize is how gigantic a single issue of computer shopper was. They were as thick as phone books with thin weight pages. I remember multiple issues being well into the thousands of pages.
shiftpgdn··on Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”
There are over 5.9 million Orthodox in the USA alone. That's not some fringe religious group.
shiftpgdn··on Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”
Synagogues are giving the Catholics a run for their money. Ask yourself why the shorim are allowed to completely cover up all the abuse inside the orthodox community?
shiftpgdn··on Waymo One doubles service area in Phoenix, continues growing in SF
I feel like this is a nonsense study. They used a 2013 study that measured gas cars and then just extrapolated that out based on weight for EVs and did nothing to account for regenerative breaking, specialty EV tires, etc. Also the numbers are from the Simons 2013 study seem to be dubious as well.

Anyone who has been to Oslo understands EVs are a huge benefit for urban air quality.

shiftpgdn··on New Yorkers want to stop landlords from using facial recognition
Sounds like NYC needs to add more housing supply to take the power away from corporate landlords.
shiftpgdn··on Lithium-ion batteries a growing fire hazard in NYC garbage trucks
In my city we have these big clothing donation bins in the corner of the parking lot at most major strip malls: Example: https://patch.com/img/cdn/users/82019/2013/06/raw/d5b3360843...

With scrap batteries being worth 5-50 cents per pound it would be worth just sticking a handful of these, but labeled as "used battery drop off point" in high visibility areas. It won't stop people from maliciously throwing away batteries but would remove the lazy factor.

shiftpgdn··on A small number of companies are colluding to cheat H1B visa lottery, US says
Yes the companies are the ones entitled. In a free market wages would rise for citizens, instead we have these huge body shops artificially running down wages for any company outside of the FAANG.
shiftpgdn··on A small number of companies are colluding to cheat H1B visa lottery, US says
Because if everyone were honest with themselves they'd see H1B is just a tool to depress american IT/developer salaries. There is no shortage of Americans looking to fill these roles.
shiftpgdn··on Mercedes Reveals EQE and EQS 'Acceleration Increase' Subscription Pricing
The majority of cars with OTA updates just use a normal SIM card. You can physically remove the sim or disable it for the vast majority of them.
shiftpgdn··on Long before trees overtook the land, Earth was covered by prototaxites (2013)
Rockets (especially SpaceX ones) can fly without fossil fuels. Hydrocarbons can easily be synthesized with thermal depolymerization or wasteful processes like how we make ethanol from corn.

That's to say nothing of how all the oil fields we've tapped are the easy to get ones, and the deep sea holds a ton of oil.

shiftpgdn··on What I learned unsubscribing from 22 newspapers
If you change your address to a California address you can enable click to cancel online for NYT.
shiftpgdn··on What I learned unsubscribing from 22 newspapers
I switched to using a custom domain + catchall email setup. So when I go to a retail store that requires an email to get a receipt, I just give them STORENAME@mycustomdomain.com and it will get delivered into my inbox. Retailers that don't honor the unsubscribe button just get the email address created and then set to bounceback as undeliverable.

This also does a great job of catching data leaks or willful sale of client and customer data.

shiftpgdn··on REI to close only Portland store, citing break-ins, theft
Empathy for the homeless does nothing. Those people need to be in asylums or jail. Society depends on everyone following the rules.
shiftpgdn··on FBI is warning people against using public phone-charging stations
If you have a zero day takeover via usb/lightning why would you waste it on public charging infrastructure? That seems ridiculous.
shiftpgdn··on Bob Lee, former CTO of Square, has died after being stabbed in San Francisco
People are at the end of their wits with organized gangs and homeless. What do you expect?
shiftpgdn··on Sweet Dreams Cereal
Nearly everything Post sells is laden with poison in the form of Canola, Soy or other seed oils. The american obesity epidemic is because we let a handful of companies control 90% of our food supply where they have begun to poison us in the name of shareholder profit. The majority of all american food would not be legal to sell in other countries.

This is to say nothing in regards to the leagues of sleep research that clearly state you should not be eating before bed, especially this sugar bomb garbage.

shiftpgdn··on Microsoft Loop Preview
This looks like a parity to Notion's feature set. Chrome wasn't a copy of Internet Explorer because it was a great leap forward in web browsers. Call of Duty isn't a doom clone because it has a storyline and semi-realistic weapons and graphics.
shiftpgdn··on Home Prices Fell in February for First Time in 11 Years
Supply in the number of rental units available is what drives down prices. This is extremely obvious to anyone who visits Dallas or Houston Texas where developers are allowed to build as much as they want vs the bay area where supply is extremely restricted.
shiftpgdn··on Ask HN: How would you build a budget CPU compute cluster in 2023?
You can buy complete Dell Workstations with e5 v4/v3 CPUs or even Xeon Gold CPUs for a pittance on ebay. They already have power management, etc built in and tend to run whisper quiet.
shiftpgdn··on The cloud backlash has begun: Why big data is pulling compute back on premises
If you're a big company you can easily negotiate "normal" rates.
shiftpgdn··on Volkswagen’s ID. 2ALL Is a $26,000 EV Hatchback You’d Want to Drive
For US buyers half of your list are VW/Audi/Porsche products which have the same underlying software issues. I will admit the Taycan is the best driving car, EV or otherwise I have ever driven.

The Ford Products are promising but have been majorly hamstrung by dealers asking for astronimal markups. I had a Polestar as a rental car and it was great, and the BMW and Mercedes EVs are wonderful too. BUT they're all stuck with a very unreliable charging network and dealers are awful middlemen for now.

shiftpgdn··on Volkswagen’s ID. 2ALL Is a $26,000 EV Hatchback You’d Want to Drive
Nonsense. Go on the audi forums and look at all the a3 e-tron owners who have nearly dead batteries who can't get them replaced under warranty without threat of legal action.
shiftpgdn··on Volkswagen’s ID. 2ALL Is a $26,000 EV Hatchback You’d Want to Drive
I own both a VW/Audi EV (e-tron) and a Tesla. The dealer support for the Audi is extremely pitiful, the software in the car in the app is buggy and unreliable, and that is to say nothing of how bad the associated app is. The annual cost for the advanced features is absurd. The long range charging network is a disaster. I could go on.

I am by no means a Tesla fanboy, and Tesla has its own faults, specifically around build quality on the Model 3 (though the S/X are quite nice.) But it's a better EV in every way.

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