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by hakfoo 3y ago
If it's "still Boeing except for the name", that still smells funny. They got something out of spawning a new corporate entity. Without a convincing TL;DR I think most of us will assume it's for reasons that sound good
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by hakfoo 3y ago
This is reminiscent of the Hemming nickels. High-quality counterfeit nickels were made in the 1950s, with several dates but a common reverse. That's okay, except one of the dates counterfeited was 1944. 1944 nickels were made of a sp
603.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I think the point is more that "OS Components" - updates, drivers, optional components-- are an entirely different universe than "third-party and purchasable content", which is what you'd expect the "store&quot
604.
by hakfoo 3y ago
The problem is that they are wealthy and politically powerful, so it's unlikely they'll go down without a fight. I fully expect a lot of large-model stuff will become legally nuclear over time, much like the sampling culture in mu
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Banking is an extremely constrained product. Whether it's formal legal rules, or the customer taste for "I don't want a credit card that's only accepted at six stores I never use", you can't really change the o
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by hakfoo 3y ago
2010s era, but Easy HDTV ( http://www.enigmaindustries.com/easyhdtv/ ) was the one that actually cracked my wallet. For some reason, TV tuner cards always came with garish, clunky software. This is minimal, reasonably n
607.
by hakfoo 3y ago
The thing about reptile stores is that there seem to be two categories: * The scientific types, where the have family histories longer than your typical European monarch's for each animal, and a temperature and humidity control system
608.
by hakfoo 3y ago
The US and Canada discontinued silver coins at about the same time (mid-1960s). The US went for a copper-nickel alloy sandwich and Canada went for pure nickel (which I believe is now nickel-plated steel).
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I think my primary distaste for Wi-Fi tends to be generations of obtuse binary blobs, and driver support that's scattershot and years coming. TBH, I'd love to see Wi-Fi presented as a bridge device rather than a direct NIC-- the h
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by hakfoo 3y ago
It seems like there aren't a lot of "commercial" offerings. Of small-scale/hobby projects, there was the GH-122, a long-passed project, and I think there was a board called the "Boston" in the 120% size class.
611.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I think it's still part of the experience. I'm going out to eat, likely spending on drinks and tips I wouldn't if I took it home, so I want someone to be bringing me the order while I sit.
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by hakfoo 3y ago
All these more and more complex sleep modes on desktop seem like they're solving problems people don't have. I thought we solved suspend-to-RAM and suspend-to-disc years ago; wasn't the point of the +5VSB rail to keep stuff
613.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I question the ability of the market to measure quality. Note I'm not talking about 'commercially successful', but enduring, historic/academic quality. Even though they made bazillions, will students in the high school
614.
by hakfoo 3y ago
Maybe it's both: management is running on instinct instead of data, and since they can't get data that supports the "productivity" narrative, they focus on something they can point at-- a risk of lost real-estate value
615.
by hakfoo 3y ago
The only way I can make the math make sense is if the people angling for RTO are staked entirely in the capital-assets table, and ignoring operational expenses. Even if you discard features like "employees like it", "it earns
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I think we can go further. Copyright is a terrible hack. Creative works are not scarce, but they're subject to front-loaded costs. (Write the game/book/song once, and then every subsequent copy is essentially free). Copyri
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I think it took off because we finally saw behind the curtain. By and large, people could ignore copyright for its first few centuries-- it simply wasn't in the face of most people. In 1799, or 1899 you couldn't reasonably print a
618.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I could see them trimming down the number of brands -- too many dealers and redundant models -- in ONE national market, but that seems like it makes little sense on an international basis. You'd want to pick the brands in each individ
619.
by hakfoo 3y ago
Was it that they weren't interested in the 386, or had they already promised OS/2 for the 286, and now had to honour the cheque Marketing wrote? It's possible they got lapped by Compaq to the 386 because MCA was so much new a
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by hakfoo 3y ago
By that logic, Rolex is leaving money on the table by not selling a rebadged Chinese quartz watch for $129 in Walmart. An established brand like HP had options. They had profitable product lines in the business and high-end consumer market
621.
by hakfoo 3y ago
They chose to embrace a razor-blades model-- they sold their soul chasing the consumer market. People trusted HP printers at the high-end of the market, where words like "TCO" and "duty cycle" matter. That could scale t
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by hakfoo 3y ago
That works as long as there's a long-term stake in the brand. Because Kenmore was a "face" of Sears, who had a vested interest in staying in business, they had a motivation to say "let's pick competent suppliers, an
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The problem isn't a matter of messaging. You can draw as many diagrams and explain "it's digital cash" as much as you want. It's that table stakes have changed. Mainstream customers-- and the regulators who repres
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Honestly, I'd like to see some science on the bracket design. My card (an ASRock 6900XT, 332mm, 1.78kg per reviews) came with a bracket that's a modestly beefy-looking piece of steel, but it just bolts into two or three more thumb
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by hakfoo 3y ago
They already put him on a $1 coin in 2010. They went through every president starting in the mid-2000s, but by the time they had gotten to him, we had plenty of $1 coins in the vaults, so the mintage was small and not-for-circulation-- abo
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The whole "their own competitor" (Zelle) thing seems sort of weird. It hit the market well after people were seeing FedNow on the horizon. Why bother building something expensive that's obviously going to be obsolete in a fe
627.
by hakfoo 3y ago
It's because there's one company that produces the weird bronze-plated-zinc blanks used for cents, and it resides in a politically powerful legislator's district. Since it also features Lincoln, the Illinois contingent will a
628.
by hakfoo 3y ago
"Has a clear core of acceptance" might be another big qualifier. For all meaningful fiat currencies, there's at least a moderately sized, easily definable, reasonably contiguous market that will accept the currency without a
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by hakfoo 3y ago
To me, the killer feature of a paper identification document is that it just works. I've been in an accident. They're trying to figure out who I am for whatever reason (i. e. to hopefully tell my family what happened). The paper
630.
by hakfoo 3y ago
What confuses me is that there seems to be a bathtub curve on the fab market. We've got the race to 7-5-3-2nm for high-end parts, and then a couple generations back on support chips and lower-performance cheap parts. Then you've g

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