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by chongli 6mo ago
I don't see how owning SNK could be considered a great investment opportunity It’s not. It sounds much more like a vanity or passion purchase. Like how Neil Young once invested in the Lionel model railroading manufacturer.
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by chongli 6mo ago
Since most retro games ran around 60fps, so about 17ms, That’s an oversimplification. Many retro game consoles don’t use a frame buffer. Instead they render the game state to the screen on the fly, one scanline at a time, and they’re able
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by chongli 6mo ago
Doesn't need to be a website, can be a native app. Native map apps on phones are superior to web app maps anyway.
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by chongli 6mo ago
I use a desktop mail client. I have always used desktop applications. I have never had any desire to use web mail clients. Likewise for office suite applications. A true desktop spreadsheet, word processor, and slide deck are always superio
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by chongli 6mo ago
Ads don’t work nearly as well without JavaScript for adtech. They’re basically limited to static banners and text ads as well as sponsorships.
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by chongli 6mo ago
It really comes down to JavaScript. The web was fine when sites were static HTML, images, and forms with server-side rendering (allowing for forums and blogs).
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by chongli 6mo ago
If your average lifetime is 2.5 years For a tool people come to depend on for their daily computing needs, this is wildly pessimistic. Look how many people use Unix shell tools on a daily basis. Some of that stuff is 60 years old! Imagine
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by chongli 6mo ago
There will always be a shortage of money for medical care. The dirty secret of social medicine is that a small percentage of the population are essentially unhappy utility monsters [1] who gain little or no benefit no matter how many resour
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by chongli 6mo ago
Might as well link directly to the game: https://archive.org/details/mac_DarkCastle_1_2
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by chongli 6mo ago
Now what we need is a cheap grid interconnect for home users running solar panels that automatically starts charging a battery when grid prices go negative, to absorb that extra power.
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by chongli 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by chongli 6mo ago
Woks aren't the only shape of cookware with a non-flat bottom and/or a non-ferrous construction. There are clay pots with many different shapes [1], Korean stone bowls [2], Indian copper cookware [3], Moroccan tagines [4], and man
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by chongli 6mo ago
It's possible on the Mac, but it's not easy. Apple uses an immutable system volume on macOS, so you can't just delete the Safari app like you would a user-installed app. To actually delete Safari you need to disable System In
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by chongli 6mo ago
Ahh I see. I guess I was mistaken about the title, which suggests building a real ISP for friends & family, rather than just a simulated ISP within a local network.
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by chongli 6mo ago
I'd rather listen to one of the top chefs in China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgYXRuQcniw Fried rice IS a quick dish with a proper gas burner.
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by chongli 6mo ago
Induction requires your cookware to sit flat against the surface or it won’t heat up (and the range will shut off after a certain time). With natural gas the flames rise through convection and wrap around the contours of the pan. This means
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by chongli 6mo ago
The other catch is actually subscribing to those phone lines (real POTS lines, not VOIP lines). Where I live, the only game in town is Bell Canada. The cost for a single home phone line is $58/month! They do have enterprise accounts wh
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by chongli 6mo ago
What year was your house built? Do you have a whole-house humidifier? My house was built in the late 1980s. It has decent insulation but not amazing. It still needs a lot of heating when temperatures plunge below -15C. I do not have a whole
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by chongli 6mo ago
You’re forgetting about humidity. Mediterranean climate has comfortable humidity year-round. Where I live, winter relative humidity is 0% because outdoor humidity is nonexistent from freezing temperatures.
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by chongli 6mo ago
Because solar energy production doesn't just vary by time-of-day, it also varies seasonally. Where I live, winter solar production collapses due to decreased daylight hours and cloud cover. At the same time, energy use skyrockets due t
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by chongli 6mo ago
Because the sun doesn't shine every day. Where I live, the sky is overcast 90% of the time in the winter. You can't charge the batteries during the summer and run them all winter.
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by chongli 6mo ago
66F is ridiculously cold to me, and I live in Canada where it can reach -40(F or C) in the winter. I would find that very uncomfortable and elderly people would be shivering constantly and highly susceptible to respiratory illness. I have a
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by chongli 7mo ago
They do, though I don’t think they max out on energy efficient technology. It’s much easier to cut a deal for cheap electricity with a regional government, much to the chagrin of the locals (who see their power bills go up).
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by chongli 7mo ago
Creativity and concision are not mutually exclusive. Read Ernest Hemingway or Cormac McCarthy. Their books are concise, almost spartan, clear and pleasant to read, and undeniably creative. This style of writing is deceptively simple, of cou
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by chongli 7mo ago
Rent-seeking is too general of a term. You can rent-seek just by raising prices. Enshittification specifically means deliberately making the product worse as a rent-seeking strategy.
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by chongli 7mo ago
What I said is quite far from unfalsifiable. Any number of insiders could step forward and set the record straight.
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by chongli 7mo ago
I think by "internet" they mean search engine results pages. If you restrict yourself to short, common queries and only look at the top 10 results on the page, then the space really is very limited. If all those top 10s for common
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by chongli 7mo ago
I don't want to go too far down the conspiracy rabbit hole, but the vendors know everyone's prompts so it would be trivial for them to track the trackers and spoof the results. We already know that they substitute different models
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by chongli 7mo ago
It's not insider info, it's common knowledge in the industry (Google model optimization). I think they are unprofitable either way, but unoptimized models burn runway a lot faster than optimized ones. The reason it's not a sq
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by chongli 7mo ago
New models literally do get worse after launch, due to optimization. If you charted performance over time, it'd look like a sawtooth, with a regular performance drop during each optimization period. That's the dirty secret with al

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