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by blihp 5y ago
It never escapes, it just runs around the field for a while. During the dot com bubble a very large number of retail investors (and hedge/mutual funds) were racking up huge gains during the run up due to margin leverage and got wiped o
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by blihp 5y ago
Because profit doesn't matter as much for a growth story, growth does. They do it to themselves... in the face of this 'miss' the CEO continues to pitch the growth story: https://www.theverge.com/2022/2&
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by blihp 5y ago
Everything I've heard about the Altera deal is that Intel has basically just been milking existing customers, rather than attracting new ones. If AMD does more with Xilinx sooner than they did with ATI[1] it could be good strategic mo
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by blihp 5y ago
Not just terminals: most printers until the mid-80's or so also cared about the distinction for the same reason. They started adding DIP switches allowing you change the default behavior and by the end of the 80's the need for CR
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by blihp 5y ago
When they eventually lose a major lawsuit, any 'record setting' settlement or judgement is likely to be a tiny fraction of the profits they were able to reap in over a decade of bad behavior. Name a single multinational company i
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by blihp 5y ago
Slackware was one of the first distros and was Debian before there was a Debian[1] Also, there was a convenient offline CD archive version (Walnut Creek, IIRC) of it you could get for ~$20 which included several CDs worth of software (i.e.
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by blihp 5y ago
In the 'code is law' world of crypto, so are/should be these hacks. How are they any different than lawyers pouring over the fine print of a law or contract to find a loophole to exploit?
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by blihp 5y ago
Why waste ones time hoping for 5-6 figures from big tech bug bounties? Smart contracts seem like the ultimate bug bounty program.
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by blihp 5y ago
Both. The earnings call is typically just a reading of the filing with a Q&A period at the end where the questions are at best minimally answered.
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by blihp 5y ago
The markets reward predictable businesses and guidance often matters more than the current quarter, assuming management has any credibility. Whether that predictability is from the companies own guidance or analyst estimates[1] is fine. I
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by blihp 5y ago
That's actually a spectacular improvement (82% ad revenue)... it was more like 98% not that many years ago. So while it's taking them years, they are slowly diversifying.
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by blihp 5y ago
Yes, it works quite well. Explicit 1gb huge pages also provides significant improvements for the right workloads. You pretty much have to start taking advantage of features like these to get anywhere near the theoretical maximum throughpu
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by blihp 5y ago
Lots of people had their first, and possibly only, programming exposure to Lisp as the scripting system for something else (i.e. Emacs, AutoCAD etc.) I'd go so far as to speculate that orders of magnitude more people learned it that w
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by blihp 5y ago
In addition to it being a historically popular implementation, from the MCL days, there was a period of time when SBCL was still pretty rough while CCL was mature and performant. They've swapped places IMO in the past decade or so par
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by blihp 5y ago
The more recent previous nodes are too new for companies like the autos as they want 20+ year old process nodes like 90nm+. So having excess 14nm capacity, for example, doesn't give them what they want since they can't just retro
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by blihp 5y ago
They are ignored from the standpoint of Google Play displaying them to you in the listing but not ignored by Android itself. Google 'streamlined' the permissions displayed to users in the store years ago but you can still see the
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by blihp 5y ago
Unless you insist on absolute freshness at all times, which is pointless IMO for most dishes, you're probably making small portions which is a ton of busy work in terms of shopping, prep and cleanup as you noted. For many dishes, you
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by blihp 5y ago
Typically when people were using Usenet and email, they weren't on the Internet proper but rather connecting to a node (often via a terminal emulator over dialup) that often itself got batch updates via dialup using UUCP etc. Even whe
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by blihp 5y ago
The thing that changed is that Google started pitching, and pricing, the Pixel phones as premium phones. At least with the Nexus line they were more modestly priced. So the lack of long term updates was still an issue, but more people wer
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by blihp 5y ago
Also, for any FOSS author who gets one or more of these inquiries don't laugh it off or write blog posts mocking the sender. Take it as the business opportunity it is and send a professional response indicating your willingness to hel
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by blihp 5y ago
I'm with you, and that's probably a good summary of my point. At this stage it's probably safe to say that the FSF isn't likely to ever add much value in the hardware realm.
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by blihp 5y ago
At this point, I think that's become a cop-out on their part. If they really want to make their vision of truly open hardware a reality, they need to roll up their sleeves and make it happen. Mostly open (due to reverse-engineering) F
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by blihp 5y ago
Tax breaks + cheap land + low cost local labor + business friendly local government + good PR. Geographically it's reasonably centrally located from a transportation standpoint to the rest of the U.S. and has access to lots of water.
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by blihp 5y ago
I don't see it as that much of a risk. One of the reasons Intel has so thoroughly dominated for so long was that they were at least at parity to slightly ahead on process nodes. If they don't get back there fast, they are in rea
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by blihp 5y ago
You mean like Intel? https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-...
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by blihp 5y ago
Fair enough... most haven't. Pretty much any of his standup/specials (i.e. the stuff he didn't do for network TV) will have a fair amount. For example, I started doing a YouTube search on 'bob sagat' and it offe
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by blihp 5y ago
Pretty filthy (nsfw): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHeZS3mGDKY In fairness, this wasn't his joke or even meant to be funny... it's kind of a comedian test of sorts re: delivery. But you wanted to know how filt
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by blihp 5y ago
Probably neither... they were both for the audience. The 'America's Dad' thing came mostly from his stint on the show Full House in the 80's and 90's. However, his standup could get hilariously filthy and was as a
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by blihp 5y ago
I suspect most Linux users aren't looking for drivers but rather a way to disable the functionality entirely. The issue with these types of features is that they tend to have unexpected surprises (i.e. back doors, bugs) while not prov
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by blihp 5y ago
In addition to the manufacturing and logistics mess the pandemic has created globally for everyone, the semiconductor shortage is even more of a special case. Just looking at graphics cards, we're in a perfect storm from a demand stan

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