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Re:Tailscale Is Pretty Useful
on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:07PM (#43271627)
I have Quantum Fiber in Colorado and enabled IPv6 on the old CenturyLink C4000XG modem following these directions: https://www.centurylink.com/home/help/internet/modems-and-ro...
Re:Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows CEO's Killing
on Friday December 06, 2024 @12:19AM (#42336591)
I'm a Coloradan who voted for the 2016 universal healthcare (aka ColoradoCare) proposal, but I understand why the majority (79%) voted against it: there was sticker shock at the additional 10% income tax (with caveats, but people saw the 10%) and an inability of proponents to answer basic questions such as "Will I be able to keep my current doctor?", "Will I be able to get an abortion?", and "Will there be additional tax increases?".
Re:Boeing's Starliner proves better at torching cash than reaching orbit
on Saturday August 03, 2024 @02:27PM (#41148284)
That might even be worse: Calypso stranded Odysseus on an island for 7 years
Re:US Justice Department to Seek Breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster
on Wednesday May 22, 2024 @07:19PM (#40448079)
In Live Nation's latest 10-Q filing they listed the operating margin of their ticketing segment at 32%, with a non-GAAP AOI margin of 39%.
[1] https://investors.livenationentertainment.com/sec-filings/al...
Re:IBM to buy HashiCorp in $6.4B deal
on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @05:27PM (#40149900)
Although there is significant overlap between the two, I prefer Terraform for resource provisioning and Ansible for resource configuration.
Re:Logistic Regression for Image Classification Using OpenCV
on Sunday December 31, 2023 @04:24PM (#38827636)
Pytorch includes a simple neural network example for the MNIST data: https://github.com/pytorch/examples/blob/main/mnist/main.py
It only takes a few minutes to train with default parameters and will have >99% accuracy on the MNIST test set.
President Biden Announces Billions to Deliver World-Class High-Speed Rail
Re:WeWork Goes Bankrupt, Capping Co-Working Company's Downfall
on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:20PM (#38173217)
Yes, there are hot desk memberships on their coworking page [1], including single day purchases. They're underneath the giant "get a quote" call to action, however, which is indicative of their priorities.
Re:Max is taking 4K away from its legacy ad-free subscribers
on Saturday November 04, 2023 @11:49PM (#38147956)
> "One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue"
Gabe Newell of Valve, Oct 2011
[1] https://www.gamesradar.com/gabe-newell-piracy-issue-service-...
Re:Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo
on Sunday October 29, 2023 @12:38PM (#38060236)
Denver, Colorado maintains two bison herds descended from the last wild North American bison. There were as few as 18 bison left in Colorado at the beginning of the 1900s. Thankfully, the conservation project has been a success and Denver has been transferring bison to Native American tribes to start additional herds. The herds are just about 30 minutes from downtown if you ever visit.
More info, pictures, and video here: https://www.denvergov.org/Government/Agencies-Departments-Of...
Re:Home Insurance Is So High in This Florida Town, Residents Are Leaving
on Tuesday October 17, 2023 @09:44AM (#37914946)
Redfin has a “Flood risk” layer option on their maps.
Interestingly, it show only small parts of Flamingo Park having substantial flood risk, especially compared to the rest of West Palm Beach.
https://www.redfin.com/neighborhood/55857/FL/West-Palm-Beach...
Re:The Average New EV Costs $14,000 Less Than It Did a Year Ago: KBB
on Saturday October 14, 2023 @11:26PM (#37886595)
Cox Automotive (parent of KBB) estimates 35.2 million used [1] and 15.4 million new car sales in the US for 2023 [2]. So, about 30% buy new.
[1] https://www.coxautoinc.com/market-insights/estimated-monthly...
[2] https://www.coxautoinc.com/news/cox-automotive-forecast-augu...
Re:The Average New EV Costs $14,000 Less Than It Did a Year Ago: KBB
on Saturday October 14, 2023 @11:20PM (#37886571)
If you're looking to remove outliers, Kelley Blue Book also tracks the average (likely mean) of new non-luxury vehicle sales, which was $44,626 in September. Non-luxury is about 80% of sales.
Also, concerning the lower end of sales:
"But the news isn’t all good. Only one car sold for an average price under $20,000 last month. The Mitsubishi Mirage’s average transaction price in July was $19,205.
Every other car with a list price under $20,000 sold for over $20,000 on average. It’s not a large group. Automakers increasingly focus on building more expensive cars, trimming affordable models from their lineups. In December 2017, automakers produced 36 models priced at $25,000 or less. Five years later, they built just 10." [1]
[1] https://www.kbb.com/car-news/average-new-car-price-sees-smal...
Re:The Average New EV Costs $14,000 Less Than It Did a Year Ago: KBB
on Saturday October 14, 2023 @11:06PM (#37886508)
The Jeep 4xe models are actually selling below MSRP here in Colorado with "dealer discounts" (separate from any tax incentives) between 3 and 7%. Time for a roadtrip?
Re:Cisco Acquires Splunk
on Thursday September 21, 2023 @04:37PM (#37603958)
They bought 1-day options, so they knew the timing of the announcement.
Re:Namecheap to increase .COM and .XYZ prices
on Monday August 21, 2023 @12:32PM (#37211893)
Porkbun has an excellent price comparison page for .com: https://porkbun.com/tld/com
They're still at $9.73 for both registration and renewal.
Re:eSignature for Google Docs and Google Drive (Beta)
on Thursday August 10, 2023 @03:32PM (#37080672)
Like Salesforce
Re:Death Valley Just Had the Hottest Midnight on Record
on Friday July 21, 2023 @03:47PM (#36818697)
> A higher reading of 134F, or 56.6C a century earlier, also in Death Valley, is disputed. It is believed by some modern weather experts to have been erroneous, along with several other searing temperatures recorded that summer.
> According to a 2016 analysis from weather historian Christopher Burt, other temperatures in the region recorded in 1913 do not corroborate the Death Valley reading
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @03:12PM (#36591328)
https://aaronoellis.com
I mostly write about Python, Django, and SQL, but occasionally do some basic statistical and GIS work.
Re:Yellen says government will help SVB depositors but rules out bailout
on Sunday March 12, 2023 @11:28AM (#35121192)
Both Ackman and Cuban have called for measures beyond "protection of depositors".
Ackman: "What should the FDIC do? @FDICgov to guarantee all bank deposits by Sunday night before Asia open and call a time out. Run a process to recapitalize @SVB_Financial while managing liquidation of UST and MBS portfolios ... Equity holders pre-recap are wiped out, bond holders are protected." [1]
Cuban: "The Fed should IMMEDIATELY buy all the securities/debt the bank owns at near par, which should be enough to cover most deposits. Any losses paid for in equity and new debt from the new bank or whoever buys it. The Fed knew this was a risk. They should own it" [2]
In a following tweet, Cuban claimed "this isn't a bailout" [3]. Their tweets, like many of the comments here, seem to be arguing the semantics of a "bailout". However, both Ackman and Cuban are calling for financial assistance from the Fed, which is absolutely a bailout, if only "partial".
[1] https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1634694924707807236
Re:Crypto firm BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout spreads
on Monday November 28, 2022 @11:27AM (#33775612)
Yes, Coinbase is an exchange
Using Postgres Schemas
Re:Police helicopter's 100mph chase with 'super sophisticated' drone n...
on Saturday August 21, 2021 @10:03PM (#28262252)
Wait until it runs out of fuel and then retrieve it?
Re:The Lightness of Windows
on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:35AM (#27663236)
Globally, about 270 million personal computers (including laptops) [1] and 1.5 billion smartphones [2] are sold per year. Apple makes up about 17% of global smartphone market share [3] and 55% of US market share [4].
[1] https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2021-01-1...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/263437/global-smartphone...
[3] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/global-smartphone-share...
[4] https://www.counterpointresearch.com/us-market-smartphone-sh...
Re:The collapse of the IRON stable coin
on Thursday June 17, 2021 @11:56AM (#27541031)
Well, a price can go negative [1], so I wouldn't consider zero to be surprising.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/26/why-oil-prices-went-negative...
Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Using the Falc...
on Saturday February 20, 2021 @08:11PM (#26209852)
In Greek mythology, Artemis is a goddess of the moon and the twin sister of Apollo. It seems a rather obvious choice for a program determined to land the first woman on the moon.
Re:Python's Type Checking Renaissance
on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @11:17AM (#25917537)
For the actual type annotations themselves, the official docs are great: https://docs.python.org/3/library/typing.html
Know that the signatures vary with version, so select the correct one.
To check these annotations, you'll need a third-party type checker somewhere in your build process. I use pylance with VS Code, as it can detect errors as I type: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-pytho...
Re:California’s Roadmap to Modify the Stay-at-Home Order [pdf]
on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @10:57PM (#22874015)
San Miguel County is home to Telluride ski resort, an international destination with about half a million visits per year [1]
[1] https://www.telluridenews.com/news/article_1547199f-46bc-547...
Re:Jeff Bezos's phone 'hacked by Saudi crown prince'
on Tuesday January 21, 2020 @07:07PM (#22113197)
Are you referring to the data center breaches exposed by the Snowden leaks? Because Google claimed that they were unaware of the breach and quickly took action to correct it [1]. Are you suggesting that Google was complicit?
[1] https://www.zdnet.com/article/meet-muscular-nsa-accused-of-t...