cogman

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[–] cogman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

What sort of hotel are you staying at?

I just looked and the cheapest air BNB in my city is literally someone's RV for $100 a night.

In most cities I can grab a room in a nice hotel for $100 to $150 per night. Cheap hotels are more like $80 a night.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

To add to this, you don't need to setup a fund to track s&p. Just buy VOO (or buy VTI).

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Much like the law should allow people to cancel any subscription created online, online, the law should mandate clear times when and where advertisement is allowed with opt out options.

If Samsung wants to advertise to me on a product, that should have to pay me $10/month to send those adverts.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

When did the IDF start training our admirals?

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

For stoves, the thing that breaks is the control board. Hot + electronics is bad.

An induction stove avoids most of that problem because the hot happens in the pot and not inside the stove.

But I agree, there's not much reason a stove can't last 50 years. In fact, my parents have a 50 year old resistive stove that still works.

Washers have the most to go wrong of things you listed.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Their refrigerators have been a mess. That makes it hard for me to trust their other appliances.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Cafe (spinoff from GE) does a pretty good job with stoves. AFAIK they are still pretty well respected.

The brands to stay away from at all costs are LG and Samsung.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Depends on if Roberts decides to retire or if Sotomayor dies. We'll get another whack job if either of those things happens. Not saying Roberts isn't a whack job, but he's about the most moderate conservative on the court right now. (God help me, Barret is a close second).

No way he doesn't get replace with someone like Aileen Cannon.

Alito or Thomas retiring will be a wash. Alito has said he'll retire, so expect that to happen in the next 3 years. But honestly, I highly doubt there's anyone as crooked as he is so it doesn't really matter.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)
[–] cogman@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

All containers are, are isolated preccesses so its barely different than launching any other process.

The two biggest differences are that containers use more disk space vs non-containers and that containers won't use shared libraries. That means that instead of loading up 1 version of glibc for most of the OS, you end up with n containers glibcs loaded up.

Practically speaking, this isn't really a huge deal. A lot of those libraries fit in less than 1mb. A disaster if this was my childhood computer. A non-issue on modern systems with more than 512mb of ram.

[–] cogman@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Kagi AI will answer

Some psychiatrists and psychologists have speculated that Donald Trump may be exhibiting signs of dementia. These concerns have been raised by experts who point to his public appearances and statements as evidence of cognitive decline. Factors such as his age (nearly 80) and a family history of dementia have also been mentioned as contributing to these concerns

Specifically, some have identified "four signs" of dementia that they believe Trump is showing. One of these signs mentioned is confabulation, which is described as "honest lying" or memory lapses, and is considered a potential indicator of dementia

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