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by hakfoo 1y ago
Mechanicalkeyboards.com actually has a storefront in Arizona. They host meetups for the local enthusiast community, and you can buy the various components over the counter.
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by hakfoo 1y ago
As I understand it, straight electric locomotives would use the 'dynamic' braking to send current back up the wires. Apparently this would make for entertaining economics-- a section of the rail network where most of the tonnage
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I wonder if we could reproduce the magic of Bell Labs by basically re-creating some Ma Bell style businesses: grant a profitable, but regulated monopoly that had the financial security to think long-term and be willing to fund out-of-the-b
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I'm curious when the cutover occurred in consumer sentiment from "We use Steam because we need to for some specific titlese" to "We use Steam because it's the most convenient way to purchase"
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by hakfoo 1y ago
Part of the reason for a crash was that the deluge of low-quality games hit a wall of limited retail space. The retailer had to be much more of a curator. I'd be unsurprised if plenty of them lacked the knowledge and foresight to pick
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by hakfoo 1y ago
That's what I ended up doing since I was using a CH32V305. It is amusing how many ways you can initialize the display into weird modes like "upside down" or "thinks there's 64 vertical pixels when there's only
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by hakfoo 1y ago
Where I am in the US, it seems like there are two endgames for the "anchor" of a strip mall. Typically this starts as a grocery store, but sometimes it will be some other larger retailer that collapsed (see Bed, Bath and Beyond or
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by hakfoo 1y ago
People love the sales pitch of "eliminate paper things" for some reason. It's the future, how could we possibly need dead trees anymore when everything is SCREEN? I prefer paper travel documents because I know there's n
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I could see some sort of certificate driven approach. Customers and merchants generate a keypair and CSR. The CSR by design contains no personal information. You submit the public key/CSR and seperate identifying information to a KYC
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by hakfoo 1y ago
Nationalize the entire circus. We should have some form of Faster Payments scheme, backed by the state, because cheap, reliable transaction networks are the sort of infrastructure that's good for business. At the very least, this scre
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by hakfoo 1y ago
The bloviation on manufacturing is cargo-culting. It's a promise of a better time for an electorate that's being squeezed by ever increasing precarity. It's a rose-coloured version of 1950, when people with a high-school di
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by hakfoo 2y ago
One aspect might be "avoiding getting stuck in local maxima". Starting with a "parallel universe" like RiscOS, FreeDOS, or the numerous Amiga-necromancy projects might make it easier to get to some clever idea that we wo
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Just because they're measuring doesn't mean they're measuring the same things as before. The goal in 1995 might be "The user can launch the text editor, add three lines to a file, and save it from a fresh booted desktop
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Or the ad content isn't being made specific enough. I know that at least for the cheap Aliexpress tier stuff, they'll make the same basic design for 12 different phones, so theoretically the same product listing might include iPh
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The spectrum is a matter of nature. Drawing lines in it and saying "Group A begins here and B begins there", and more importantly "A gets access to the good schools and country clubs to the exclusion of B" are human con
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The other draw of an established "old architecture" is that it's fairly fixed and sourcable. There are a bazillion Z80s and 8051s, and many of them are in convenient packages like DIP. You can probably scavenge some from you
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Process control seems like the big one. Precise tools for precise measurements and monitoring are pretty high up the tech tree, so if you can say "we saved a box of Arduinos and sensors from the Before Times", you can get those ca
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I've heard that the standard grass seed mixes used to include a percentage of clover, until early herbicides came out that tended to kill it, so the Yard Industry retconned clover into a weed.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The problem is that there's no realistic options in Ukraine. If the only acceptable answer is 1991 borders, that's going to be an incredibly expensive proposition. The "economic isolation/sanctions will work any day now
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I feel like we've never had Weimar-style inflation in a country with the levels of consumer debt the US has. Much of the population is paycheque-to-paycheque, so if we spent a year or two hyperinflating the currency, they might actuall
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The entire industry is in a very cart-before-the-horse mode here because this is less "cool new tech being able to mature" and more "frantic economic bubble that happens to manifest through new tech" New tech tends to st
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by hakfoo 2y ago
We don't use GOTO because we got richer alternatives. A lot of people were using GOTO because they wanted (for example) do-while or switch-case, or because they wanted to box up their code into self-contained functional units, but the
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Does it require a new language, or could it be enforced by simple discipline or linting? I'd suspect it makes sense in an embedded bare-metal environment where you know all the data structures you might ever have in circulation at once
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I feel like Tesla is more equipped to be a first-generation brand, when sheer novelty is a big part of the product appeal. You can get away with weird user interfaces and marginal quality when you're the only major mainstream EV brand
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by hakfoo 2y ago
A use case I can see is for people who are dependent on things like insulin or other temperature sensitive medications. If you have to get out a dose every few hours or even every day or two, you might not be able to rely on thermal mass,
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The right answer is to nationalize it. Set up some sort of independent non-profit steering committee, and maybe redirect some of the massive savings Elon has pulled out of his ass to fund the actual core development. That solves the &quot
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I think in a way, we already sort of have precedent for this, in the comics sector. The Japanese-style "phone book sized" manga weeklies/monthlies are the manifestation of this idea. Technically it's not a "free&qu
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The economic tradeoff would be interesting. How many good boards get RMA'd because they provide no feedback that you're in the middle of memory training, versus the $1 BOM addition to put a seven-segment display-- or hell, one of
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I still suspect the long con is that we'll see peaceful reunification. The RoC is very import dependent, and we're staring down the barrel of some major swings in world trade. Will they be able to compensate if the US economy sli
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by hakfoo 2y ago
They've had the potential to revolutionize global financial systems for a decade now. So why haven't they? If I'm looking for the promise of "virtually instant, virtually free transfer of value", SEPA and FedNow ar

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