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by hakfoo 2y ago
Modern civil law seems to revolve around this quaint fiction of contracts being some sort of "meeting of the minds" of relatively equally resourced parties. This might have been viable in 1795, but it feels ill suited to a world w
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I believe there is some market for consistency when your market is explicitly travelers. This is probably why so many motels have chain restaurants in the parking lot: if you've just spent 7 hours in the car getting there, or are prima
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by hakfoo 2y ago
You'd think that sort of handling would make for some interesting use cases-- aerial photography for example, maybe some sorts of cropdusting where the slower speed offers more precision. I wonder if there's anything else built th
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by hakfoo 2y ago
To be frank, I'd be more comfortable with this sort of thing more if there was a full-fat government-based ID platform. Some sort of SSO-style "Sign on with identity.gov" button, where it tells you clearly exactly what infor
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by hakfoo 2y ago
Also, the banks have proven themselves fairly inept at it. The problem is that KYC, being a cost centre with no upside other than "it's imposed on us by law", immediately turns into a box-checking exercise. The industry will
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I was always amazed that back in the 2000s when the PT Cruiser (and to a far lesser extent the HHR, SSR, and Prowler) showed there was a market for retro-cool cars, they didn't resuscitate the El Camino nameplate. It's iconic and
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I think it's an interesting take around the scheme I've seen IRL: we have various religious missionaries around and some people figured out that they can be coaxed into performing free manual labour (i. e. gardening work) because
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The fun thing about Rifas is that they're most there as filters; half the time the equipment still works fine, even AS it's emitting clouds of smoke from the final act of the capacitor's life.
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by hakfoo 2y ago
i suspect the appeal is the constraints. That you can tell a story and express emotion with 16x16 figures is an interesting counterargument to the "we need a trillion polygons per second to render a few hairs".
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by hakfoo 2y ago
What's disappointing is that it's big but adds virtually no extra keys. You can get to a very useful 130-key layout-- a second band of function keys, two more columns, and a knob-- by adding only about 5cm on each dimension compar
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by hakfoo 2y ago
The problem I'm imagining is that the hole you need to punch in the wall now has to be big enough to thread the plug through, not the 2mm thick fiber. This is problematic if you're dealing with external walls and need stucco&#x2F
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I used to be very pleased with the Polish "Cobi" range. They make a lot of military models, which were great for my dad, who has mobility issues that made traditional model-building difficult. But then we bought one of their bigg
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by hakfoo 2y ago
I did a hack job to rewrap my house with Cat6a a few months ago (three drops, all ran outside). Part of me is interested in fiber, and saying "next time, we'll do that", but it seems like the termination stuff is non-obvious
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Of course there's no appetite for that. Can't really imagine people looking at what's going on in Argentina and saying "Where do we sign up?" The big story in first-world politics in the next 50 years is finding a
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Plaid wouldn't exist if there had been practical open banking APIs. Remember their original use case was to offer third-party services something with a little more guiderails than "enter your ACH info and cross your fingers"
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I actually took a punt on them this week (280 shares), mostly because they're selling something so different from the rest of the market. It seems like the mainstream American EV manufacturers are very blinkered-- bigger, heavier, l
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by hakfoo 3y ago
My family's first PC, they made a big point of getting both types of floppies; it was a 386SX, probably around 1992. By 1995, you didn't get a 5.25 drive; I can recall bolting one into the family's third PC (a P100 Packard Be
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by hakfoo 3y ago
That feels like a US problem. Go find a recent GBP, CAD, or AUD note. Printed on a polymer stock you can't just get at Office Depot, so it doesn't feel like paper. Has clear windows and shiny foil elements in said stock, so if
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Microsoft hasn't been cool in decades. They might have had a week back when Windows 7 came out, and another when Win10 arrived, but that's about it. Apple gets a lot more leeway because they've been effective at presenting
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by hakfoo 3y ago
A lot of payment processor APIs use FS and GS intensely; I suspect it was an lighter way to serialize structured data when your typical card-payment terminal was an 8-bit MCU with a few kilobytes of memory and a dial-up modem.
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I always wondered if the trick was to assign absolute power to someone with a boring and benign fixation. Yes, he'll be insatiable and remoreseless in his quest to rebuild his favourite class of steam locomotive, but aside from that, h
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by hakfoo 3y ago
You might find the Sentinel 65X interesting in that the guy behind it basically said "the X16 is big and clunky and expensive, let's cut out that stuff". https://github.com/studio8502/Sentinel-65X It&#x2
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Serious question: how much of the cost of a car is labour? I figure they've probably automated as much human work out of the product as possible, both as a money-saver and to deal with human limits on consistency and the ability to ch
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I'd expect a lot of the hobbyist interest in VMS is specifically people who have vintage DEC boxes and want to run somerhing more "authentic" than NetBSD.
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The physical release was always the contrast to streaming. It should have offered a quality encoding and additional features not available on streams, and of course the permanence of "it won't suddenly disappear because they only
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I always figured a low-cost/high-impact charity would be free PO boxes for the homeless. Then you have a fixed address you can put down for a job application, getting through that filter, and it can be used to bootstrap access to othe
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by hakfoo 3y ago
You're starting way far down the path here. The first questions should be more things like "Why are the current stakeholders willing to play along with the CCP system" or "How can a more 'western-norms' appro
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The US began withdrawing their $500/1000/5000/10000 notes in the 1960s as well; the last issues were nominally before WWII. There was some discussion around the turn of the century that the introduction of the 200/500 Eu
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by hakfoo 3y ago
When I graduated high school in 1999, it was a reasonably prosperous upper-middle-class campus, so a lot of kids had cars. It was a couple years too early for the Koreans to have a serious market presence, and a couple years too late for Ge
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I thought the 3 year thing was standard for many years, pretty much as long as there have been retail-boxed CPUs. I think the logistics of a long term CPU warranty might be difficult too; aside from a few perennial, typically embedded marke

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