ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is such crap. Enshittification of the OS. I have once again lost all respect for Microsoft. Sigh
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This link[1] takes you to the paper. From "external influences": We explore three main potential sources of positive external health effects from recessions suggested by prior literature: reductions in the spread of infectious di
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
So this came across the wire. It is an interesting standard which adds an NFC capability to an inductive cooktop to turn on power for an appliance set on top of the cooktop. Me, I'm thinking hmm, looks like we could make a fully NEBS s
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Power your kitchen appliances from your induction cooktop(st.com)
3 points by ChuckMcM 3y ago|1 comments
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Has a real Transmeta vibe. I wonder if Dave Ditzel is working for Arm these days.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I certainly concur with this. On the one hand, a narrow warrant that reveals a lot of people (classic example are warrants on motels to provide the names of everyone who checked in on a certain date, or was registered on a certain date) are
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Yes, historically the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) and the Clayton Act (1914) define the roll of "regulated capitalism" rather than simply "free market capitalism". There has been a continuous battle between people who w
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
From a hardware standpoint third party fitness trackers with full integration into iHealth and third party ear buds with the same (or better) features than airpods. Part of the IBM settlement required them to document interoperability. That
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This feels like it reflects similar actions taken against companies that are dominant in a market. The first one I heard about[1] was IBM versus Memorex which was making IBM 360 "compatible" disk drives. IBM lost and it generated
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Tax Burden by State (2022)(taxfoundation.org)
2 points by ChuckMcM 3y ago|2 comments
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
You may find this web site enlightening, I certainly did ( https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/tax-burden-by-state... ) This paragraph in particular for me Since we present tax burdens as a share of incom
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I don't ever recall seeing people paying for a flight on-board but I did fly from Las Vegas to Reno (and back again later) to visit UNR and walked up to the Hughes Airwest counter, paid my $45 for a ticket, walked out to the tarmac and
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I am aware :-). It was the direction Amiga (although not Commodore) was headed. The key is that Commodore didn't see it as strategic nor could they justify re-organizing around it once the end of the runway was pretty clear.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
There are a number of well fleshed out plans for doing essentially this. One of the more interesting ones for me was that microwaves can be used to fuse lunar regolith into a solid. One plan had a solar powered rover that sat there and micr
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
At the time (early 90's) Commodore was very much struggling. Since I knew their hardware team and had a lot of respect for them, and they were 68K based and seriously considering doing UNIX workstation level like things, my pitch to th
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
So back in the day, Commodore flew me out to Frankfurt Germany to interview me for the role of CTO of Commodore[1]. We had a wide ranging discussion about the role and Commodore's strength as a brand, etc etc. I wanted to dig into the
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I bought an A1000 when it came out. I then became good friends with the original team in Los Gatos, CA as we worked through pushing it into new places. My "day job" was a Sun, and my Amiga could do more than my Sun 3/50 could
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Not according to the article, the mechanics are structural. That said, I downloaded the 'cube' picture that was the banner and the cube does not use the structure described in the article. That makes me a bit curious. The article
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Heh, my childhood would have been quite a bit different if I had been denied access to coding information because of my age. (I have never been someone who responded well to the notion that there was an answer but for <reason> it coul
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
You cannot expect to get the Turing award for just creating a language that uses stuff already known and just changes the syntactic sugar.[1] To be explicit though, this comment is spot on. As someone who was part of the original Java devel
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
As usual, I find Matt Levine's take on this quite fun and informative, unfortunately HN won't let me include it (comment to long) but it begins thusly; Elon vs. OpenAI I wrote yesterday about reports that the US Securities and Exc
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Exactly. The article of course is focused on nVidia which is making money (unlike the dot com businesses) but the 'bubbleness' will happen if AI startups that aren't making money go public anyway. If there isn't a way to
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
The trick then is to time the selling ...
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
One of my mentors was Steve K. at Sun who I consulted with about how badly Sun did changes. It really pissed me off that Sun wouldn't put NIS+ into SunOS because they were allegedly worried it would "reduce the incentive to migr
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Here is a fun book for you, if you want: "Who Moved my Cheese?"[1] An HR person shared it with me in the dot.com era as things were exploding around us and I found it pretty informative. Basically it seems humans see "bad out
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Yes. In many situations that has resulted in me having additional conversations with the folks who are asking for the change to be clear about headcount goals. If they are trying to reduce staff (usually coded as 'increase operational
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
That is a great example. And yes, if you're in an org where things are "tight" it gets much harder because people will assume the worst outcome is most likely. I've always been a fan of being honest with people, not ever
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
A vice president once asked me how I was able to get effective change in large organizations when no amount of exhortation on the part of senior management had been successful. I pointed out to him that the people who resist the change the
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
You are correct, they are fun to play. The challenge is knowing that the activity has become unhealthy. Every addict that I personally know thought they had their issue under control until something helped them realize they didn't. I d
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
It is a nice aesthetic right? The short answer is that in volume, injection molding is cheaper. That said, you can buy a wide variety of "standard" extrusion products if you want to build a custom case for something. This happens

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