hakfoo

34 ms·

421.
by hakfoo 2y ago
You could argue the problem was that it took a system that more-or-less worked offline, and tried to hammer it into working online. A "built for online first" payment paradigm would look different, but it would have an enormous ch
422.
by hakfoo 2y ago
Progress should be saying "we don't have to spend so much of our time and effort on the ladder". Our forefathers would be baffled to see that we've coerced crops into tenfold their natural yield, conquered lightning, the
423.
by hakfoo 2y ago
I wonder if what's actually needed is an interoperabiity feature for launchers. If I'm going to use something like Lutris or Playnite or even Steam to organize my games, a non-zero number of them are going to launch a game-specifi
424.
by hakfoo 2y ago
It's zany that the Bitcoin ATM ecosystem even exists. We generally don't sell speculative investments at the Kwik-e-Mart. There's no Charles Schwab kiosk next to the hot dog roller. The clerk doesn't ask if I want muni
425.
by hakfoo 2y ago
Honestly, that's one thing that makes me optimistic about the current AI omnishambles: we now have ALL THE MONEY aggressively incentivized towards weakening IP protections, because it stands to sabotage their big bubble in trained mod
426.
by hakfoo 2y ago
Also in the US. My family's first PC was a Magnavox-branded 386SX. Weirdly overengineered (motherboard with a lot of SMD components, almost tool-free case, CPU on a card so it could be sold as a 286 or 386SX) but janky in other ways
427.
by hakfoo 2y ago
The problem with micropayments goes beyond the finances. It's a major friction point. How do you set up the payment relationship the first time? Maybe you can get it down to one click, at best, with stored credentials. When you consum
428.
by hakfoo 2y ago
I visited family in Swindon, so they decide "we must see their Nested Fractal Roundabout of Doom" because that's obviously their primary tourist attraction now.
429.
by hakfoo 2y ago
A filter for "has a PCI-E slot" might be interesting. I can see a popular use case being "advanced home router" and that means adding a few 2.5/5/10GbE sockets.
430.
by hakfoo 2y ago
I walked from the train station to the Museum of Computing, which provided enough of a walk through the Bletchley facility (and noticing enough "Asbestos Warning" signs) to fill my need for that portion of the site. If nothing els
431.
by hakfoo 2y ago
mlvwm? https://github.com/morgant/mlvwm I accept all major currencies.
432.
by hakfoo 2y ago
The GeoWorks typography engine was actually exceptional in that it offered fully scalable fonts (up to 792pt IIRC) when a lot of Windows fonts were still bitmapped and you had to get font cartridges for your LaserJet. The fonts look a bit
433.
by hakfoo 2y ago
It's easier for the people who put it up as a shield around them. Every person caught in a web of automated support is one less question they have to answer directly.
434.
by hakfoo 2y ago
I tried it for the first time in SF; ironically coming from Phoenix but about 10km outside their catchment zone. The experience was nice enough but the exact same destination I wanted was serviced by a good-enough bus at 1/5 the price.
435.
by hakfoo 2y ago
The explanation might be simpler. He still needs to play, in some way, to a domestic audience. The fall of the USSR was objectively bad for a large part of the Russian population. Their economy and quality-of-life metrics have never really
436.
by hakfoo 2y ago
A great lever would be to require the state acquire some shares in a company in exchange for the privilege of the corporate veil/limited liability. 1. This provides a benefit in exchange for the trade-in, basically end-running the ine
437.
by hakfoo 2y ago
I was thinking that it was named for the town in Arizona; it's within commuter range of Intel's large presence there. Perhaps the developer was browsing home listings at the time.
438.
by hakfoo 2y ago
Going extrajudicial also turns it into an immovable object "policy says no" rather than a deliberative process to achieve balanced justice. I'm sure there would be plenty of cases where, even if the argument didn't end a
439.
by hakfoo 2y ago
Chargebacks are in many cases the outsourcing of proper consumer-protection regulation and everyday customer service. When the merchant fails to deliver or underdelivers -- "my fries were cold" -- appropriate customer service shou
440.
by hakfoo 2y ago
Given how there's plenty of market for retro nostalgia kit, I'm surprised nobody is making a modern desktop PC that pushes the same aesthetic buttons. Beige paint is no more expensive than white or black. A desktop form factor wo
441.
by hakfoo 2y ago
I can't fathom how "makes driving less of a chore" can work from a regulatory standpoint. For me, that's the end-all-be-all of self driving promises. It doesn't matter whether they call it level 3, 4, 5, or 420, wh
442.
by hakfoo 2y ago
I'm curious how they count a server/data-centre CPU. The Xeon range covers servers, to HEDT, to basically "desktop workstation that requires ECC" levels of functionality and pricing. For AMD those are three separate rang
443.
by hakfoo 2y ago
There was a time when video card memory was sort of an anti-segmentation thing. It used to be so unimportant that manufacturers would design cards with more RAM on them than the GPU could use effectively . For example, there was no techni
444.
by hakfoo 2y ago
Intel's smartphone mistake was trying to push x86 on a market that didn't particularly want it. Android might have been nominally architecture-neutral-- I know some bottom-end products were MIPS-based for a while-- but by the time
445.
by hakfoo 2y ago
Same thing happens with ISO8583. Plenty of firms have an ISO8583-compatible spec, except anything remotely interesting happens in vendor-specific fields with a galaxy of different architectures.
446.
by hakfoo 2y ago
I suspect this is one of the toxic outcomes of broad stock ownership. We could allow the real-world economy to approach a stable equilibrium and even modest contraction and it would probably have many positive outcomes. We do burn a lot of
447.
by hakfoo 2y ago
I always interpreted the Taiwan angle specifically as being unable to finish the prosecution of their civil war. Consider if the US Civil War had ended with a similar stalemate. The CSA still claims a fraction of Virginia in 1865, but were
448.
by hakfoo 2y ago
They did a bit on the local news (Phoenix) about some community college setup which was supposed to be sort of a feeder system. The wildcard is how effectively they can leverage the national-security angle. I can imagine them tapping gover
449.
by hakfoo 2y ago
I suspect the appeal of the Unix Philosophy is strongest at the earliest phases of the system's evolution. Once you've written some very basic boostrap tools, the "second generation" of stuff that adds convenience and fl
450.
by hakfoo 2y ago
TBH, the fast food experience is getting so damn weird. The local McDonald's has big signs out screaming "Link your payment card! Order ahead with the app! Give us some sort of reward points code!" Last time I went inside o

More ›