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by blihp 4y ago
In the U.S. at least, anyone dealing in things financial has to be very careful not to violate any number of laws involving money handling, banking, insurance, securities etc. It's not enough to say 'we don't do that' o
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by blihp 4y ago
How they do it at a conceptual level isn't a big secret: they don't need to minimize die area the way other companies do. For Apple, the die is just part of a chip that is part of the larger system they sell that they can amorti
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by blihp 4y ago
Minimizing the perception of downside risk in sales when it dries up to keep share prices higher than they otherwise would be. Had they come out and said approximately X% of a given quarter's sales were mining related, it would have m
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by blihp 4y ago
I was referring to the DOS version which is what the majority of 1-2-3 users ever experienced. While the Windows version existed, it took far too long[1] to be released and was quite buggy. By the time Lotus had even a remotely viable Win
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by blihp 4y ago
Lotus 1-2-3 was still king of the (spreadsheet) hill back then. Borland was trying to compete but could never get their act together.
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by blihp 4y ago
It actually improved quite a bit until Excel 97. By then the competition was dead, so they no longer needed to try.
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by blihp 4y ago
Back then their competition was Lotus 1-2-3. What they were showing was that they had some basic automation for some common tasks (autofill, auto calculations, auto formatting) while everyone who was coming from Lotus, their target custome
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by blihp 4y ago
It might be more apropos to look at it as a con man thinks he spots a mark, runs his con but gets conned himself. At every step he can see the tables are being turned and there are multiple opportunities to walk away, as it's a long c
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by blihp 4y ago
Don't blame China for our broken systems of corporate governance.[1] It was people on our end, who actually had the leverage in these transactions, who decided it was a good idea to exchange long term competitive advantage for a few y
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by blihp 4y ago
They can finally close that support ticket!
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by blihp 4y ago
Unless Coinbase is regulated like a bank or brokerage, what it feels like is irrelevant if you're in the U.S. Short of your deposits being FDIC or SIPC insured you know all you need to know: every cent and/or coin you have with t
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by blihp 4y ago
Sure, for things that you have the option to do that with and you don't mind the hassle. In cases where that isn't an option (i.e. in the case of a smart fridge) or you're not going to do that, it's still useful to know
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by blihp 4y ago
Depends on whether or not you have a fancy 'smart' fridge, in which case it could very easily be in a state where it is consuming power without performing any meaningful work. A lot of these IoT devices, while low power vs a trad
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by blihp 4y ago
These are among the first businesses to get hit by a recession. Sure, you may call the plumber to fix a leaky pipe but that bathroom remodel project is on hold. New construction, where a lot of contractors make the bulk of their money, al
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by blihp 4y ago
Your information is outdated. It hasn't been called IceWeasel for a while now and that only had to do with a trademark issue[1] but it was still based on the Firefox sources. Source: running Firefox via .deb (firefox-esr in the Deb
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by blihp 4y ago
Debian's told them where to stick it once or twice.
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by blihp 4y ago
Ubuntu has been looking for ways to differentiate themselves (and arguably lock users in) for many years and Snap is their latest go at it. Consider that Debian (i.e. Ubuntu's upstream) has been providing Firefox .debs for a very long
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by blihp 4y ago
What happened was they got what they wanted: full control of running the business. Then they quickly learned that was actually a lot of work and not very much fun, made some fairly unpopular decisions (business, product and policy) with a
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by blihp 4y ago
Right, which is pretty much where we are now: very fat margins largely because fabs have been banging up against capacity for a while now because they could. (i.e. to avoid the risk of overcapacity... why take a chance if you don't hav
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by blihp 4y ago
Because that's not where you end up in a world without numerous serious competitors.
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by blihp 4y ago
I suspect they would disagree with what's in their best interest. Most large businesses (especially nVidia) operate with a zero-sum mindset: they're not winning unless someone else is losing. To them, sharing information when no
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by blihp 4y ago
It was the truly 'on demand' aspect of it. Before that, the best most people could do was get a Tivo and time-shift programming which the cable companies fought hard (and lost) to stop.[1] Cable TV's version of 'on dem
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by blihp 4y ago
There was nothing novel about Blockbuster other than scale. VHS-on-demand started in the 70's (but didn't really get rolling until the 80's) with mom-and-pop video rental stores (which Blockbuster itself started as in 1985)
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by blihp 4y ago
> The chip design itself should be the secret sauce. Not the tools you make the chip with. The secret sauce is generally whatever gives one a competitive advantage. Businesses typically open things up when the want to reduce the cost of
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by blihp 4y ago
Don't get me wrong, your efforts are definitely appreciated. It would just be nice if AMD officially put more of a priority on consumer Linux users. That's the reason I push back on the assertion that AMD Linux GPU (compute) sup
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by blihp 4y ago
By not spending the >$1 billion they've taken in over the last decade as fast as they got it. A billion+ is a ton of money in the open source world and had they been responsible stewards they would have been able to fund developmen
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by blihp 4y ago
A big 'thank you' to you and the others working on this as it is badly needed! I've been following the progress of this work and I'm looking forward to the day when it makes it into testing. Unstable lives up to its
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by blihp 4y ago
Unless you're running one of the handful of 'officially' supported distros/versions, it really isn't that good yet for at least 6000-series cards. Sure, the upstream video drivers work fine if you just need basic f
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by blihp 4y ago
Setting aside the ideological arguments, the primary reason you should not be installing video drivers, or any other device drivers, outside of what your distro has packaged (if you can help it) is that they have an annoying tendency to bre
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by blihp 5y ago
Unless you are part of their existing installed base, don't waste your time. It's an attempt to generate interest in a dead product. Oracle long ago killed any chance of it remaining relevant in the larger software world.

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