desiarnezjr

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by desiarnezjr 3y ago
DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS. I downloaded (not Shattered) Pixel Dungeon and then Shattered, and nearly a decade later I'm still playing. In fact it's 70% of my non-work computing time. Not only that Shattered's dev updates often wit
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by desiarnezjr 3y ago
His beginnings were humble enough, so I'm not sure what your point is. I don't believe for a second that any of NVDA's success was handed to him or them - they effectively helped create and propagate a market for GPUs at a ti
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by desiarnezjr 3y ago
This.
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by desiarnezjr 3y ago
I managed to see him perform several times around that era. One concert I recall Shane managed to sing only three or so songs. He fell backwards, and was eventually dragged off stage. The rest of the band carried on. Another, Shane made it
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by desiarnezjr 3y ago
It's also much more usable than the UX mess that is Google Maps. I don't use either enough to specifically triage what's going on with Google Maps - all I know is the last half dozen times I have opened Google Maps I get anno
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by desiarnezjr 3y ago
Is this a modern wood stove or insert? I recently bought one for a new home we're building, and from my research they're incredibly efficient these days. Not installed yet so we will see, I suppose.
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by desiarnezjr 3y ago
The hard work I'm referring to is all the effort to get to place where you have even be "lucky" or serendipitous. For example, professional networking is a tremendous amount of work. But in meeting, bonding and potentially wo
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by desiarnezjr 3y ago
Luck in my experience, is really hard work. Getting to a place you can leverage opportunities really, but yeah.
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by desiarnezjr 3y ago
Exactly! In whichever market that you can sell dirty bathwater, I think they may have an advantage over my sales of "Smelly Old Nerd dirty bath water". I'll either find a better channel, price point or give up on my dream of
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by desiarnezjr 3y ago
Distribution channels are endless, and as large as Amazon is, they are only one amongst many, albeit with plenty of vertically integrated advantages. In the case of a firepit, local consumer channels would likely be speciality shops, hardwa
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by desiarnezjr 3y ago
Neither did Amiga. Also OS/2 was performant on equivalent hardware at the time.
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by desiarnezjr 3y ago
I remember meeting NVIDIA in the late aughts (2007?) first launching their CUDA efforts. Really the product was a re-branded 780GTX or whatever their high end gaming card was at the time more or less, but they already laid out a clear pathw
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by desiarnezjr 3y ago
This organisation was big on that conspiracy (??) theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society
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by desiarnezjr 3y ago
A rising tide raises all boats. North and Central America will be an economic power house soon. A few regions just need to get more of their collective sh!t together.
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
They've employed a "Amazon is the first and best customer" for most of the services they've launched. Amazon.com / AWS is an example.
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
No. Architects are about end results and "vision". General contractors, while imperfect, should be about getting it built. So an architect you should roughly expect getting something built at any cost. A GC should be how to do it
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
I think the Japanese language has a pregnant pause that's part of the language. Or I think that's the intent (I barely understand Japanese). But in many a meeting someone will say a long "anooooo" which I always understo
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
Nope. :( To add some context to those not from that era. Dejanews was the only practical way to search USENET at all, so it was effectively a USENET search engine with a crude web client. It was pretty darned crude, but was also much easier
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
Google in many ways helped sink USENET by acquiring Dejanews, then slowly replacing the USENET functionality with Google News. Dejanews, in hindsight could have been a pretty reasonable proto-social network on its own. Not that I'm bit
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
In the US and the Americas it won't have a severe impact. Most countries in America should hold up, and Canada has relatively high immigration levels, so there's that. Much of Europe and large parts of Asia (China! Japan. Korea.)
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
It isn't dissimilar to other missteps they made in the past as well. Early tablets powered by Windows XP. Windows CE and embedded. Phones. Their wins are massive. Really enterprise and XBOX lately (no doubt more, but just off the top o
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
I'm betting by next week.
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
The Laserwriter was one of the first accessible laser printers. And also the first with Postscript. It was super expensive (easily more than the Macintosh needed to print to it) but it was revolutionary. The only other common option was the
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
They may not necessarily be lazy OR entitled. Every business has it's laundry list of problems. Every business. Your list of problems and worldview may differ a great from their day-to-day reality. Very few want to work on resource suc
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
Yes. Bits and pieces were pretty rough. But it was better than what existed before (Wordstar, XYWrite and embedding typesetting codes, etc.) but workable. By the time Pagemaker, Adobe Illustrator and the Laserwriter arrived, it was revoluti
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
Today's marketing is much more targeted and dark pattern driven. There was an earnestness to many ads back then. Either "native" style ads, or price lists -- given researching anything was much more difficult without internet
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
Bingo. Predictability and consistency is actually hard to execute and scale. I can order an iPad from Best Buy or Apple, but most of the time I'm never quite sure when it might arrive. Amazon, I know it should arrive tonight or tomorro
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
Agreed. Every logistics partner I ever dealt with was another layer that you did not have full control of, and each had their problems. Amazon's in-house logistics gets cheaper with scale. Waiting for the day Amazon launches their offe
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by desiarnezjr 4y ago
It's not stupid. Unnecessary most of the time but it becomes an expected processing and delivery standard, which makes the experience much more predictable for consumers. Very few can really compete effectively with Amazon on this fron

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