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by hakfoo 2y ago
Having a bunch of institutions wind up at once sounds like the results of a stress test finally came back, so they now knew exactly who needed to have their plug pulled. This seems like it also differentiates the "financial economy&quo
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I sort of wish there were places that sold new 2Gb drives as honest 2Gb drives rather than pretending they're 512TB. There are plenty of use cases (i. e. for a Gotek/Flashfloppy setup where 2Gb would hold more software than ever
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Qiqi puts the game on easy mode, because her healing capacity overpowers everything except a very few instakill scenarios. You won't necessarily top timing challenges, but you won't die in any story content.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The appeal of Thinkpads is that they're more or less predictable. Some manufacturers tend to swing wildly from "really great" to "terrible and flimsy" from generation to generation. Thinkpads may, like everything el
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Addresses are useless if you don't know them. I once had to call 911 at a local streetcar station, and since it didn't have an obvious address, being in the middle of a street, I'm trying to identify it by station name, and t
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by hakfoo 2y ago
90% of the time, you could be doing a local function call. Your dozens of containers and multiple repos, all chained together with event queues, hook systems, and standing up async metaphors around fundamentally synchronous behaviours woul
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Competition still works as long as you've got something other than "cheapest" to differentiate yourself on. The people who say "I'm buying brand X because they have a reputation for quality/good design/bet
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The part of "bootstrap through tarrifs" that's missing here is the "bootstrap" phase. You can get away with selling domestic rubbish to local consumers when you're a poor country with few options. For an estab
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I can't imagine that being a compelling sales pitch even to domestic investors. If Americans are trapped by tarrifs and have to buy whatever domestic-made rubbish is available, and you're not getting a high-quality workforce, why
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The way they've completely given up on education is the key evidence they have no economic vision. No matter what stimulus hack you do for the next quarter, you need to be educating the next generation in a way that leaves us competiti
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I hear that claim, but it seems like we're still on the fringes. I understand we finally got to the point where you can build a C64 free of Commodore-exclusive parts only like a year ago. Is there a full suite of FPGA replacements fo
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I'd think that self-hosting is a niche that grows in appeal over time. We're one "they trained the LLM on our private repos and it leaked" scandal away from undermining a lot of trust in cloud services. There are probabl
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by hakfoo 2y ago
But realistically, KHTML is no longer steering the boat. Is Konqueror a meaningful choice these days? Hell, even Apple isn't steering the boat with WebKit anymore. If Ladybird gets big, what stops it from being captured by a major co
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The hardware served two purposes, as I see it: 1. It was obviously a "toy"/"educational tool" making it less desirable to divert from the intended use case. If you had a charity unload pallets of refurbished Think
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by hakfoo 2y ago
>but essentially presumes a nation run by public sector unions and their committees of planners is a desirable end state. I get that this is an typical perspective for the HN crowd, but "where do I sign up?" An aspirational go
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The answer is federation. Don't try to sell me "subscribing to one specific blog", sell me a sensibly curated and rich network. People might be willing to pay $10 per month for a broad spectrum of quality content, but they d
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Frankly, when you describe PoW that way, it sounds like something you'd get by giving an investor a monkey's paw. If you had a source of power, you had to use it, either directly or indirectly, to make goods and services-- satisfy
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I think there's a reasonable case that identity is a 'natural monopoly'. If we end up with multiple pluggable third parties, what happens when they disagree? There's inevitably going to be data sync issues, and the risk
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The DPRK introduced new banknotes in the late 2000s. They're reasonably modern and colourful. They don't look as technically sophisticated as some countries' notes with foil strips and polymer stock, but they don't loo
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Interesting fact: the DPRK used to issue three parallel sets of coins and banknotes. One was for locals, one for visitors from other Socialist states, and one for visitors from Western states. The three-tier model was a little but unusua
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by hakfoo 2y ago
If you can find a dental lab, the sort that makes crowns and bridges, they'll have this infrastructure, or at least they used to in the 2000s and before. My father worked at such a lab, and occasionally the dentists who owned it would
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I've been amazed at the silence about it. I work in a firm very closely associated with CC and ACH processors, and I feel like the only time FedNow ever came up was when I mentioned it. The low cost of acceptance and fast response time
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by hakfoo 2y ago
If you don't want to have others distribute and modify your art, never show it to anyone else, put it in a box, and bury it five metres under your house. Even aside from any technology angle, the human mind is fundamentally very good a
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by hakfoo 2y ago
A little Python/Tk script that scrapes weather.gov data and provides an icon with the local temperature and a forecast dump. It was sized to fit the fairly large-iconed dock of my X11 desktop and be a bit more modern than old WindowMa
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by hakfoo 2y ago
They didn't implement it as anything resembling a system widget. What every web developer wanted from 1997 on was the common nav bar of the era: a set of dropdown menus that more or less behaved like the native dropdowns every other pi
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The constrained timeline tends to cause a lot of "policy determines mechanism" behaviour though. I recall having a code-review conversation with a co-worker that ended with him saying roughly "I can see your case for (minor c
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by hakfoo 2y ago
This immediately makes me think of TCL/Tk, back in the days where that was the lowest barrier to entry to get a basic X11 GUI app up.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I have to wonder why we haven't moved towards the Japanese example in the article, where the government provides a single-source of truth for title ownership. The low-value, high-margin industry disappears, and presumably there are mec
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I got one shortly after I went WFH, as I was having low-back pain due to my ordinary office-warehouse home chair. Paid about $250 delivered from a mail-order refurbisher (there was a cheaper one locally, but the warehouse was in the part o
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by hakfoo 2y ago
If the application was critical enough, then I could see the effort in making a cycle-accurate, bug-accurate clone.

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