ethbro

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by ethbro 7y ago
> Because they're often full of malware or bloated with other stuff. I wonder why they're able to be sold more cheaply?
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by ethbro 7y ago
Assuming the $750 vs $200 price disparity... That means $550 is what the Android collection of companies is willing to pay to acquire your personal data stream. (And a price at which they think they can make a profit off you at)
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by ethbro 7y ago
To put it in perspective, Microsoft products have been spamming his domain for 26 years.
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by ethbro 7y ago
I asked a friend who lives in Hong Kong, when I visited a few years back. About 15% of people were wearing masks at the time. His explanation, 'Everyone did it during the SARS period, and then some people just kept doing it.'
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by ethbro 7y ago
We're not just talking about Windows boxes. We're talking about entire Active Directory networks. In this sense, it's more like the ipv4 -> ipv6 migration.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Technically, the domain owner probably has grounds to sue Microsoft. By effectively configuring AD / Windows to DDoS the domain, on multiple protocols, MS deprived him of usability. Seems pretty open & shut on loss of value.
577.
by ethbro 7y ago
If a third party got burned, they should turn around and sue Microsoft. MS deserves some responsibility for causing this. And "take your entire AD network down for some amount of time and break backwards compatibility" is not a re
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Toss the cast iron Blasphemy! (As someone raised in the southern US) In all seriousness, the biggest difference I've found in properly keeping up cast iron is using the right cleaning method. Water. Or just a bit of highly-dilut
579.
by ethbro 7y ago
I've found that listening to stovetop food sizzle will usually tell you what's going on. I imagine I'm generally hearing the amount of water left in the food? But curious about any other approaches to "No look" you
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by ethbro 7y ago
I think Radio Lab did an experiment with french fries. The optimal method of transporting them was to never seal them (!!), turn your car heater on full blast, and put them right in front of a vent. ... if you survive driving a car that sme
581.
by ethbro 7y ago
As any restaurant cook can tell you that there's a lot of steps they have no control over that directly impact food experience.
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by ethbro 7y ago
That's because new products get promotions.
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by ethbro 7y ago
The problem is companies that treat support as a cost center. A healthy company mines the hell out of it for feature discovery and product improvement. These people are literally continually talking to your customers about what their actual
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by ethbro 7y ago
> We've had multiple on-boarding and troubleshooting calls with the actual product managers of GCP services As have we. But that should ring a few alarm bells in regards to scalability and whether that can continue. Google should
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by ethbro 7y ago
I think most of the annoyance with Google is their culturally not seeming to understand that model even exists. Their zeitgeist appears to be "Other companies needed to provide that because their technology was wrong / incomplete.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> How supply chains are managed isn't going to change because of a bunch of woke millennials. Parent's point was that systems require trained and capable people. If the job entails dealing with something arcane, and you can&#
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by ethbro 7y ago
For those who might be confused: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
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by ethbro 7y ago
I'd say that SubSpace and its predecessors were the first "haiku-competitives" -- a lineage that eventually resulted in DotA and League of Legends. Essentially: distill gameplay to a relatively small number of rules + iterate
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by ethbro 7y ago
I would say: they buy the product they trust the most to fulfill their needs (as they see them). Barring actual corruption, oftentimes ability to eventually get it done is more important to the buyer than features.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Do you have any experience with the factory-built watercool systems? Didn't Corsair have some years ago? Seems like it would be easier to make a "never disassemble" system not leak.
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by ethbro 7y ago
Wealth inequality.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> There's something deeper going on here, where tech is investing money they seemingly don't know what to do with in land. ... And before tech, video media. ... And before video media, radio. ... And before radio, railroads.
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by ethbro 7y ago
> Make the passwords memorable phrases ("correct horse battery staple") etc to make them easy to type in. (Insert obligatory XKCD on relative complexity) ... Gee, it sure would be nice if all sites simply allowed long-length pa
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by ethbro 7y ago
It all comes down to demand for me. These legacy+tech companies create additional demand by virtual of their tech. Uber services opportunities that couldn't be serviced by traditional taxi companies (on demand, low latency rides). Whic
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by ethbro 7y ago
Depends on if there's enough demand for the service from people who consider Regus an unacceptable option. Starbucks built an empire on the unserved masses of people who (1) wanted to be people who went to coffee shops & (2) were s
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by ethbro 7y ago
> You'd be surprised how often the work issued email address is not read. I would not . Yes, I'm talking about you, IT security architects...
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by ethbro 7y ago
It was all well and good when it was just "Gordon, please push the sample cart into the beam."
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by ethbro 7y ago
If a company habitually buys shares back, then yes, that does tell you something about future growth prospects, in comparison to share buybacks. It's a pretty clear sign of management saying "We see no better opportunity than to
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by ethbro 7y ago
> They go into marketing this thing with guns blazing, positioning it as the future to play games and the one-stop-shop, they better back that talk up hard. Stadia development is expected to pick back up as soon as the Google Fiber rol
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by ethbro 7y ago
Never is a strong word. The initial version of the PS2 had dedicated hardware to be fully compatible with PS1 games.

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