brianstorms

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by brianstorms 3y ago
I sometimes suspect what's really going on with Tesla is that they want to become the world's manufacturer of EVs of all sorts, utility-scale energy storage systems, and software for EVs including ADAS. Musk has said it: "the
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by brianstorms 3y ago
Also, humans and other animals that rely on vision have eyelids and tear ducts and are able to blink and get stuff out of an eye. Poor, poor Tesla cameras freak out as soon as the sunshine is too bright or there's snow or rain or ice o
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by brianstorms 3y ago
Oh phooey. It's a longstanding joke that the "Don't Walk" lights don't change to "Walk" any sooner if you press the button. Just like the "close door" button in elevators doesn't make the
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by brianstorms 3y ago
Have been a Netflix customer since about 2000. I used to blog about them all the time in 2000-2001, did full writeups on their UI design, even the red envelope design. Had a dialog going to Neil Hunt their CTO/product guy. Even visited
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by brianstorms 4y ago
History doesn't quite work as nicely as one might like. Fact is, dozens, probably hundreds, maybe thousands, of PLATO people wound up working in the tech industry, had long careers there at DEC, Data General, Sun Microsystems, Atari, O
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by brianstorms 4y ago
brian dear / orange07 / pea.... homelink customer too... it was crazy expensive. But then I wound up with two physical PLATO terminals at home, and I was dialing in to CERL for all the fun and games, and to umbc for work
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by brianstorms 4y ago
Always wanted to get out to Western Australia and Perth... still hope to visit some day. I have a video somewhere still of Don Bitzer's PLATO demo/presentation that he gave there in 1976 which was aired nationally on ABC in Austr
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by brianstorms 4y ago
Steve Nord! Nice to see youhere....
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by brianstorms 4y ago
I interviewed a number of CS profs who worked at DCL in the 60s/70s/80s including H George Friedman, who was one of the few CS dept people who gave PLATO a try and built lessons for his programming students. Also, a full BASIC emu
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by brianstorms 4y ago
Who cares about the Internet. (I'm on internet-history... it's a bunch of aging farts, very distinguished and nice aging farts but still, talking about TCP/IP and who did email and who did this and when did that happen etc. T
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by brianstorms 4y ago
What I wanted to do was a film documentary. What stopped me was, there was no footage! Meaning, nobody at CERL, the PLATO lab at U Illinois, had filmed everything. Nobody was a movie camera nerd. Nobody captured all the historical events, o
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by brianstorms 4y ago
yo, Brand! nice to see you here!!!
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by brianstorms 4y ago
Stig was a cool guy, RIP.
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by brianstorms 4y ago
I'm the author of The Friendly Orange Glow. I agree the book skips across the surface. Some backstory: I originally proposed three volumes, each 1000 pages, to the publisher. They laughed and told me absolutely no. My thinking was, PLA
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by brianstorms 5y ago
Nice planet you're on. Not Earth, though.
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by brianstorms 5y ago
The law is exactly why we were not able to get local service here in NM.
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by brianstorms 5y ago
We did present it to the legislators that way. They didn't care. The way it works is, the lobbyists for the dealers go and meet with the legislators behind closed doors or in the hallways of the Roundhouse (NM State Capitol) and they t
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by brianstorms 5y ago
Study economics. Tesla owners in New Mexico acted in our own self-interest. We pushed and pushed and leaned hard on Tesla, the legislature, the dealers, for six years, so WE would have a nearby in-state service center so we wouldn't ha
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by brianstorms 5y ago
Some background on this story that you won't get from the media. On August 23, 2015, I founded the Tesla Owners Club of New Mexico, with one purpose: fight for a change in the state law that protects the franchise dealer monopoly on sa
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by brianstorms 5y ago
Bartle inventing "MUD" is like the has-so-many-PhDs-guy who claims he invented "EMAIL". Bartle was unaware of the PLATO system, which had numerous MUDs up and running and mature by the time his was released online.
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by brianstorms 5y ago
CNBC from March 2021. Old FUD.
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by brianstorms 5y ago
Have been an Amazon customer since 1996. Have signed up for Prime dozens of times -- for the free trials. I have never paid for it. I would never pay for it. Seems like a ripoff. In the early days they would warn you: if you end the trial y
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by brianstorms 6y ago
Pro-tip in terms of naming: Calling it "Fediverse" is going to strike a lot of people as meaning "The Feds" not, I dunno, "federated". Gotta pick another name.
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John Hunter’s World Peace Game, Roger Ebert, and the PLATO System(medium.com)
37 points by brianstorms 6y ago|9 comments
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by brianstorms 7y ago
I'm confused by all the disclaimers regarding home ovens. WHY NOT a home oven, what is the scientific reason? I've been baking N95s on a tray in our kitchen oven at 170F for ~20-30 min and reusing. These articles seem to suggest t
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by brianstorms 8y ago
Problem is, it's nigh impossible for a tech company to "strike deals with all the theater chains," be they sweetheart or not so sweet. The movie theater biz is one of the most inept around, stuck in the 1950's in terms
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by brianstorms 8y ago
You think that's something, you should see this documentary called CAVEDIGGER about a guy named Ra Paulette in New Mexico who carves exquisite caves for customers. It's really something. Watch the trailer: http://cavedi
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by brianstorms 8y ago
Indeed. There is an excellent film documentary by that very name that documents how they're starving public universities across the country and how some may go bankrupt soon. The irony is, the Rs collectively are the beast, and if we w
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by brianstorms 8y ago
I just rode the Southwest Chief from New Mexico to Illinois and back, last month. Had a long talk with one of the conductors while on the trip. We discussed the remarkable pattern that the Republicans follow: starve everything they don&#x27
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by brianstorms 9y ago
If you want to find out more about the book, I recommend: http://friendlyorangeglow.com that is, after you've gotten a copy of the book. Really, everyone in the YC world ought to read this book. It is a completely alien his

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