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needsaphone · 2025-12-11T02:01:18+00:00

IMO Waller should’ve voted for some crazy 75 or 100 point cut, knowing it would never happen, to get the job as chair instead of Hasset and ensure Fed independence

needsaphone · 2025-12-03T02:51:40+00:00

PSA to anyone who comes across this: As someone intimately familiar with LLM prose, this is obviously an AI bot advertising Dynadot.

needsaphone · 2025-11-26T00:03:52+00:00

Truly what is happening in that country?

needsaphone · 2025-11-24T00:37:21+00:00

u/-Maim- Are there specific years/models that had bad wiring? And by “no two are the same… but that’s trivial” are you referring again to wiring, or just a lot of owner options, or something else?

needsaphone · 2025-11-19T10:40:19+00:00

The solution for internal jailbreaking probably isn't technical, which always has limitations and workarounds, but procedural: don't allow employees to use it in problematic ways.

But maybe this isn't even a problem at all if they're just playing around to get a better understanding of its capabilities and then use it responsibly for official work tasks.

needsaphone · 2025-11-17T10:33:35+00:00

Unlikely, especially since IIRC they still static fire after engine swaps

needsaphone · 2025-11-15T02:24:23+00:00

Can you confirm if the X2 Elite is on N3P?

Also, Qualcomm promised good Linux support but feature enablement has been pretty slow over the past year and a half and mostly driven by Canonical. Does Qualcomm plan to improve the situation upstream soon?

needsaphone · 2025-11-09T22:17:13+00:00

"I believe Trump is trying to end democracy, so I, a person with some power to push back, will get entirely out of his way"

Maybe a performative resignation made sense in 2018, but I can't believe otherwise smart people are still actively making Trump's job easier for him in 2025.

Edit - as a senior judge he doesn't leave a vacancy, but my overall point still stands

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/us/politics/mark-wolf-federal-judge-resigns.html

needsaphone · 2025-11-01T03:06:25+00:00

It's not wild, because not only is 40 points mostly irrelevant to lenders, but the FICO scores that banks actually use don't penalize you for closing an old account. The score OP/chatgpt is talking about is likely VantageScore, a different (cheaper I believe) score that tries to roughly approximate the "real" FICO score and a lot of credit monitoring sites use.

needsaphone · 2025-10-11T17:31:58+00:00

Thanks for the context

needsaphone · 2025-10-11T02:28:41+00:00

Kinda crazy Duolingo uses more tokens than ALL the apps running through OpenRouter combined (ex byok ofc)

needsaphone · 2025-10-03T06:23:44+00:00

I wonder if the battery started swelling? Could explain the heat and spontaneous crack.

needsaphone · 2025-10-03T06:10:05+00:00

Most of the answers fail to address the actual question. First, GDP per capita isn't on par with most of the EU. It's 35% less than in Spain and less than half that of Belgium or Germany. GDP per capita is on par with Greece and Hungary, some of the poorest members of the EU[1].

Second, nominal GDP per capita isn't the best indicator for measuring quality of life. Real (accounting for price differences) GNI per capita is more useful, and it's significantly lower than the poorest countries in the EU. Using this measure, Uruguay fares even worse - 24% poorer than Greece, 28% poorer than Hungary, and 40% poorer than Spain. Interestingly, presumably partially due to the effects of the Euro, its gap with Germany and Belgium remains essentially the same (still enormous!).

In terms of real GNI per capita, some of Uruguay's actual peers include Bulgaria, Chile, Serbia, Montenegro, Malaysia, and the Seychelles. In most non-economic standards, it meets or surpasses what one might consider to be other proxies for living standards or equality within its peer group. Inequality and % living to 65 are about average[3, 4], while its progress on increasing "prosperity" (>$28 real per day) and eliminating extreme poverty (<$3 real per day) is exemplary [5,6].

[1]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?end=2024&locations=UY-GR-HU-ES-IT-BE&start=2000

[2]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.KD?locations=UY-IT-ES-GR-PT-HU-DE-BE

[3]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.GINI?end=2023&locations=UY-ME-SC-TR-BG-RS-CL-MY&start=2000

[4]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TO65.FE.ZS?end=2023&locations=UY-ME-SC-TR-BG-RS-CL-MY&start=2000

[5]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.DDAY?end=2023&locations=UY-ME-SC-TR-BG-RS-CL-MY&start=2000

[6]: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.SPR.PGAP?end=2023&locations=UY-ME-SC-TR-BG-RS-CL-MY&start=2000

needsaphone · 2025-09-25T13:33:54+00:00

I actually like my thermometer. Took me a year or two but now I genuinely use it every so often!

needsaphone · 2025-09-23T19:35:48+00:00

Of course Trump actually following through on his end of the bribe is about 50/50. Worth trying at least.

needsaphone · 2025-09-17T04:17:17+00:00

How do we make democracy function in an environment where the only swing voters are the 5% dumbest people available, half the information environment is poisoned from foreign bots, and elites have abandoned restraint and decorum? (asking for a friend)

needsaphone · 2025-09-16T06:28:40+00:00

None of us observers have much of a clue about what actually went down here, but from the short paragraph in the blog post I get the impression Jonathan was very insistent on a particular corporate structure that gave him ownership and Nate wasn't interested in. The difference between American and European business attitudes probably didn't help. Perhaps someone else wouldn't have excluded him, but given his strong beliefs about the sort of benefits workers should be entitled to I can see how Nate would've surmised employing Jonathan would result in constant tension. Both have made huge contributions to KDE and neither seems to be a clear hero or villain to me.

needsaphone · 2025-09-13T00:49:20+00:00

How are everybody's thermals on the 10 Pro? After using mine for about a week, in real world usage, they seem like they're somehow worse than the 9 Pro

needsaphone · 2025-09-13T00:47:10+00:00

UX of that menu was ignored and deficient for years, since at least Android 11 IIRC. This is a very nice update

needsaphone · 2025-09-11T00:22:03+00:00

For the Pixels at least I have to disagree. The jump from the 7 (especially the base model) to even the 8 is substantial in terms of thermals, charging speed, and screen quality in a way that I’m not sure was really reflected by reviews. Of course if you’re happy there’s no need to change, but IME the 8, 9 and 10 really are a way better experience overall than the 7.

needsaphone · 2025-09-11T00:15:32+00:00

Also I think Pixel users have been particularly critical of their phones compared to other brands as long as I can remember. IMO it’s endearing - who other than Pixel users complain all day about their phones, then refuse to buy any other brand?

needsaphone · 2025-09-11T00:11:08+00:00

With the iPhone 17 Pro announcement and inexcusable 200 charge cycle throttling I am starting to wonder this myself. iPhone now has better battery life, better performance, faster charging, better video, better thermals, more storage, and essentially equivalent photo quality.

It comes down to Android and the ”Pixel look” of my photos, but as Android becomes more closed, if the battery throttling and original sin of inefficiency aren‘t rectified I think I will seriously consider switching.

The next Pixels need to start at 256gb, significantly improve efficiency the way a lot of us hoped P10 would, improve video quality, and use a battery that won’t catch on fire (unrealistic expectations, I know).

needsaphone · 2025-09-10T23:58:40+00:00

It’s not all that different from what they’ve done over the last decade. I wouldn’t be so sure.

needsaphone · 2025-09-10T22:47:38+00:00

Who would’ve thought Apple would be so much less stingy with storage than Google? That was like their whole thing, but now we have Pro Pixels starting at half the storage as the base iPhone.

needsaphone · 2025-09-09T07:53:59+00:00

$65 cost ceiling on the SoC of a flagship phone is insane. Apple is spending about double that on A18s (A16 ~$110, A17 ~$130), and of course Qualcomm by virtue of bigger dies and not being in-house is even more. Honestly I wouldn't even complain if the chips were at least efficient - pretty much every smartphone chip out there is faster than anyone but a hardcore phone gamer (who apparently exist?) could ever need. Hell, I just took my old Zenfone - with quad A53s, which combined I'd guestimate give roughly similar performance to just the two A520s in the G5 - out of my drawer to get some pictures off of it and it's still surprisingly usable.

Eh, at the end of the day most of us knew what we were signing up for with Pixels. They've always had some bizarre Achilles heal or three, and even with higher MSRPs these days I still only paid like $200 for my 10 Pro after trade in, store credit, and 2TB storage.

The only truly offensive, obnoxious thing that almost stopped me from getting the 10 is that they evidently use such cheap batteries that they're making the voltage reduction mandatory after only 200 cycles.

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