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by ben7799 4y ago
Basically the mainframes were almost incapable of any data exchange that was meaningful in the 21st century. Instead of IBM doing something same the market just built software to scrape bills off the mainframes printer output, which you c
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by ben7799 4y ago
I agree with thesis but there are entire aspects of this that he didn't even touch upon. There is a multiverse of different billing nightmares for engineers. I worked on a piece of software that bridged billing data from IBM mainfram
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by ben7799 4y ago
I'm 6'1" but I can kind of get this, however it's just one factor out of many that are like this and are made worse by the whole toxic online dating scene in general. I'm 44 and have been married for 12 years so t
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by ben7799 4y ago
I read Tyler’s book and don’t recall him saying that quite so directly. It is surely true though. I met him at an unsanctioned/non-UCI race he showed up at during his ban but before he came clean. Weird experience, he obviously won
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by ben7799 5y ago
I used to have an original copy of this book. I had a relative who was a career officer in the US Army including WWII who had died and the book came to me from his wife when he died. Interesting book but Milton Mayer was an interesting cha
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by ben7799 5y ago
AKA Phillip K. Dick's Autofac.. eventually manufacturing more consumers for itself to sell to.
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by ben7799 5y ago
It's more complex than this though. At those speeds there is no margin for error for the intercepting aircraft and missile. There are lots of accounts from SR-71 pilots about this. At Mach 3 slight changes in course result in large
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by ben7799 5y ago
Radar has high current/high voltage implications that may very well have favored tubes at that point. Not the same low power electronics. If the plane needed to have a high power radio transmitter tubes might have been superior at that
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by ben7799 5y ago
I had DTS and Dolby receievers for about 15 years and no longer do, so I guess for me some of it just doesn't matter. We did surround with DVD + Blu-Ray for a while and then kind of stopped caring about it. The thing I miss the most w
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by ben7799 5y ago
How big is big? If they landed a "big client" and it was a $5-10M/yr account that doesn't sound like it would have enabled them to survive. Even if they had landed Amazon that one client would not have paid enough to m
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by ben7799 5y ago
This is an excellent post. I've worked at 4-5 different startups over the past 22 years with a range of exits including shutting down and getting laid off, 3 acquisitions while I was still at the company, and one acquisition after I l
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by ben7799 5y ago
This does seem like a 1990s story. I'm just barely young enough to have missed it. Friends who quit school early were in on it. I don't know if this was the case at Fast but in a lot of cases back in the 1990s a lot of the engine
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by ben7799 5y ago
Management probably really screwed this up if they were really only making $600k/yr. Places I've worked yearly contracts for B2B have been in the $100k-$5M/yr range. The customers paying $100k/yr barely get any integrati
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by ben7799 5y ago
Years ago my current team was horrible about this. Perhaps the worst case (but there are so many).. we were 99% java. We hit containerization and a team member hard sells introducing a container that did a relatively small job but was wri
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by ben7799 5y ago
Basically so many have failed they've got a bin of them waiting for a chance for electronics recycling. Sure a corporate anecdote is an anecdote but it's a sample size of ~500 versus 1 or 2-3. The OWC ones do seem to be worse, tha
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by ben7799 5y ago
I can back you up on that the TS3+ NIC is definitely quality. But the TS3+ DisplayPort & Thunderbolt monitor support is flaky/buggy and breaks.
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by ben7799 5y ago
Apparently you just missed me saying my CalDigit TS3+ failed last week and IT had a whole bin full of others that failed. It's not the cables.. they handed me a new TS3+ and it immediately worked perfectly and it will probably continue
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by ben7799 5y ago
This is a super junky product category. I notice plenty of people plugging the super expensive OWC and CalDigit Thunderbolt docks. These are also pretty junky, they just have big price tags. Luckily I have not actually spent my money on
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by ben7799 5y ago
Caldigit is junk just like most of the others. I just had to get IT to swap mine out at work last week. We have hundreds of CalDigit and OWC docks.. tons have failed. I had an OWC one fail a couple years ago as well. And yah, these things
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by ben7799 5y ago
Depressing someone would get so into this and spend so much time and effort on a game and then be ruined by cheating when it wasn't even necessary. Watching the video the narrator talks about playing real guitar. I played Guitar Hero
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by ben7799 5y ago
Yes and no.. assets were simpler, games were simpler. But they had to write a lot their tools to create the assets. They had no middleware, no engine to license. They had to write stuff in assembly. The computers they used were super sl
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by ben7799 5y ago
This is a terrible article full of outright falsehoods with no examples. It seems like they just quoted a bunch of older "get off my lawn" photographers who either don't know how to use the latest iPhones or haven't even
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by ben7799 5y ago
You've been able to disable this behavior since like a month after the iPhone 13/13 Pro came out. It's the auto-macro functionality in the camera settings. The default behavior switches to the ultra-wide below the minimum f
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by ben7799 5y ago
Just took some pictures with my iPhone 13 Pro and it 100% doesn't do this. Not even in Portrait mode. Maybe there's some way to monkey with it just right. I think people are confusing low light noise reduction for something else
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by ben7799 5y ago
I love all these cool keyboards and tried a bunch but Cherry style switches just destroy my fingers/wrists/whatever. They are like RSI monsters for me. I'm not really sure why but at least for me I'm 100% sure they&#x27
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by ben7799 5y ago
This is affecting a bunch of other stuff too like musical instruments, furniture, and baseball bats. I have a few prized items made from Ash that are not going anywhere, because before long they will not be replaceable at any reasonable pri
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by ben7799 5y ago
It seems like a lot of the people who thought the D&D players could lose touch with reality had already lost touch with reality. It's just there were so many of them going to their churches that it was normalized.
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by ben7799 5y ago
Laptops were a thing well before 1995. Mine was a 486, I don't remember seeing any laptops before 386s but they existed and Apple had laptop/notebook machines in the pre-PPC era as well. But $3000-5000 was totally normal for l
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by ben7799 5y ago
Our Superman 2 VHS was done that way with imperfect pressing of pause on the commercials.
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by ben7799 5y ago
All this stuff was made in high cost countries in the early 80s, manufacturing was still in the US Or Japan at this point and by the 80s Japan was not really a "cheap" country. That had a lot to do with it. Consumers were not us

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