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kikkia commented on Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs store.steampowered.com/ne... · Posted by u/Philpax

xbmcuser · 7 days ago

Hopefully China catches up in node size and crashes the market for ram and SSD.

kikkia · 7 days ago

https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20260204PD210/market-dram-na...

Doesn't sound likely

kikkia commented on Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios conbini.kikkia.dev/... · Posted by u/zdw

cheschire · a month ago

I thought you were being unfair, but I don’t think you’re wrong anymore.

https://github.com/kikkia/ConbiniWars/commit/b8ea5e5a9351c23...

kikkia · a month ago

If you are referencing the size of the initial commit that's 99.9% geojson. 56k conbinis takes a lot of lines. Since I was using this as a project to learn leaflet, there is also code I copy pasted from plugin getting started sections and what not. Also some plugins were old and unmaintained so I opted to just put them statically in my assets so I could also modify them easily as needed.

kikkia commented on Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios conbini.kikkia.dev/... · Posted by u/zdw

hyfgfh · a month ago

Sorry but this seems like vibe coded slop

You cant search or change language

Idk what is the goal here, but maybe some analysis with graph would be better, like who has the most territory or something like that? You also might need to disclosure how you got this data

kikkia · a month ago

Hey there I made the site about a year ago or so because I noticed around my apartment is only Lawson's, so I got curious to see and find how common those types of places are. I used ai for CSS since I can't stand it. But this was a project mostly to learn and play with leaflet

kikkia commented on Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios conbini.kikkia.dev/... · Posted by u/zdw

kuon · a month ago

This is fun, but I would separate specialized outlets. For example Lawson and Lawson 100 are not the same.

kikkia · a month ago

I do have the data to do that, I struggled with colors and overlap/readability. With how much interest the sites been getting this year maybe I should do a v2

kikkia commented on Conbini Wars – Map of Japanese convenience store ratios conbini.kikkia.dev/... · Posted by u/zdw

kikkia · a month ago

Lmao I never thought I'd see a site I made pop up here, other than when I posted it maybe a year ago or so. Thanks I'm glad y'all like it :)

kikkia commented on China applies to put 200K satellites in space after calling Starlink crash risk scmp.com/news/china/scien... · Posted by u/nkurz

nkurz · a month ago

I wasn't aware how far along some of these Chinese satellite networks were. There are several, and the number of satellites planned for them is astonishing. This article seems like a good intro to them, with comparisons to Starlink: https://archive.is/zPsmq

kikkia · a month ago

Do take that article with a grain of salt as it is South China morning post. While in this article they do call out that recently the CCP was ridiculing Elon for taking up too much space, in space. So I can give them some credit on that.

As for the state of these networks, G60/Qianfan had a plan of ~650 sattelites by the end of 2025, but currently sits at 108. They hope for ~1200 by the end of '27

Just before the end of the year the GuoWang constellation hit 136 of their planned 13,000.

For reference starlink has launched over 10k satellites to date with ~9,400 in active service.

Im sure the constellations will grow, but they have been experiencing the pains of scaling, especially with 1 use rockets. SCMP loves to pump up these crazy plans and massive numbers as a national pride win, even when they are not feasible or still really far off.

kikkia commented on $5 PlanetScale is live planetscale.com/blog/5-do... · Posted by u/e2e4

kikkia · 3 months ago

Hearing a $5 tier on planetscale was cool and I was thinking about using it for a future project, but those specs are just way too low to be worth it for $5/mo. I think I will just get a $5/mo vps with 32x the CPU (probably more as this is 2 x86 cpu cores vs 1/16 arm) and 8x the ram for the same price. The stats, insights and dashboards are cool, but for hobbyist projects that's too steep for the specs you get in my opinion.

kikkia commented on Linux gamers on Steam cross over the 3% mark gamingonlinux.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/haunter

kikkia · 3 months ago

Going on 2 years of linux only, between Debian and Endevour, other than linux nvidia drivers crapping themselves basically every update its been awesome. I do miss Fusion360 and League with friends, but its been overall very good and I recommend it to anyone on the fence. Break free.

kikkia commented on Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34% cnbc.com/2025/10/29/alpha... · Posted by u/thelastgallon

cloudking · 3 months ago

Well kind of. They use the same data center infrastructure, with internal versions of the external GCP services.

kikkia · 3 months ago

Depends on the service but for the most part googles infra has its own stack that GCP is built on top of. There is always initiatives going on to get more internal stuff running on GCP as opposed to the internal infra directly, but none of them have really stuck that I saw.

kikkia commented on Kevo app shutdown kwikset.com/support/answe... · Posted by u/asperous

itake · 5 months ago

> And let’s be honest, if you were buying fridges or washing machines based on WiFi features that’s on you.

I don't understand what you mean by this? My clothes will smell really bad if I leave them in the washer wet. If the appliance has a leak, I need to be nearby to remediate. Thus its not safe for me to start the appliance before I leave for 8+ hours.

If I can remotely start my washing machine, just prior to me arriving home, I can move the clothes to the dryer.

kikkia · 5 months ago

Don't most washers and dryers have timed start like dishwashers do? I always remember mine having pictures like that but maybe that's just not a common thing