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811.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I always wanted to see just a "price transparency" aspect. Tell me exactly how much the advertiser paid for his placement, and that's a hugely important signal here. If I'm searching for weird hobby parts, even though it
812.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I think it needs to be tied to a consequence for it to all fit together. The stated price would be effectively a binding offer to sell at any time. It reminds me of the "24 Hours of Lemons" joke racing series. The rules require
813.
by hakfoo 3y ago
If you ask 100 people on the street "what's the website for Widget Company": * 80 are going to answer "widgetcompany.com" * 15 will say "widgetcompany.co.uk" (or whatever the local country code equivalent
814.
by hakfoo 3y ago
It's linear. The keycaps are pretty decent, The layout is a little weird, but not as strange as many other machines of the era.
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Consumer-facing internet wasn't widely available at the time. I'm not sure if this represented the potential to sell people on the Internet, or just on online services as a whole. As I understand it, the NABU platform was still (
816.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I think the secondary risk factor is that access to the legal system is expensive and time-consuming, especially for an individual. A counterclaim process, even if as streamlined and fully supported as possible, is still a legal operation w
817.
by hakfoo 3y ago
That was always my mentality on paid services. Effectively speaking, Visa has done the CAPTCHA for you. In general, people don't care that you're a robot, they care if you're a non-paying customer. OTOH, I wonder if they do
818.
by hakfoo 3y ago
There's value in curation and scheduling. Let someone else wade through the ocean and make decisions for you. When it comes to passive entertainment, I prefer broadcast TV over streaming, because left to my own devices I just hit ch
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by hakfoo 3y ago
If you store things in a hypothetical subsidiary unit, you end up with plenty of corner cases. 1. You might need a different number of "implied decimals". Two decimals is enough for many currencies, but some are three, quite a f
820.
by hakfoo 3y ago
The problem is that the data is interpreted without context. At worst, it incentivizes bad behaviour. The box knows I slammed on the brakes. Does it know the schmuck in the next lane dove in front of me? If the user figures out the way to
821.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I feel like this is something where determinism would be a win. Maybe have indexing, but pre-prioritize certain common searches. I notice that I get completely different results on my home and work machines doing the "start button, ty
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I wonder if that had to do with the underlying business arrangements with the telcos. They are probably set up to special-case 911 alone for phones with no service/SIM, and getting them to accept a second number is an entire new set of
823.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I think I had to use Access in the databases class too back in 2003; they taught SQL but also had a practical project that involved building something in Access. I could see it as a legitimate use case-- in a real business environment, even
824.
by hakfoo 3y ago
As someone who attended at the turn of the millenium, the entire area is unrecognizable now, with all the towers that have gone up where it used to be low-rise shops and restaurants servicing the student audience. Traffic's a mess and
825.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I figure VSCode is intended to extend their reach outside the .NET ecosystem where it's not a "VS is bundled with the tools" malformed market, and stuff like JetBrains products and Eclipse still exist.
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Why not some sort of "certificate of origin" instead. Maybe it's a ugly looking government label or even a QR code, and misuse of it would be under deceptive-trading laws. The point is for it to be functional, rather than le
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Tiered pricing? Post/download ratios as a pricing factor? Per-user API keys, where a "human" key is free and restricted to a handful of requests per second, but the "LLM" key opens a full firehose?
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by hakfoo 3y ago
What's funny is that the Mechanical Keyboard one is sort of a refugee from another set of communities. And much of the knowledge also exists on the other communities. If you go back to the early 2010s, there was Geekhack. Back then,
829.
by hakfoo 3y ago
I think there's two messages RISC-V supplies, and one is less obvious. "It's free to license" means we don't have to send ARM a nickel. That looks compelling today. But the bigger story is much more the "It&#x
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by hakfoo 3y ago
"You Get What You Measure" means you have to be smart about what metrics you pick. Instead, we've got a lot of really stupid, but "easy to track" metrics. Today's top-line is easy to track, how much you'v
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by hakfoo 3y ago
"Nice patent you've got there. Would be a shame if we eminent-domained it." That's extortion. And I'd love to see it.
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by hakfoo 3y ago
There's some appeal in constraints-- look at the people who do new homebrew NES/SNES games. I've built a kit-based 8088 product, and I have a 386 clone. The 386 is more capable, but I've gotten more hobby mileage out of
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The thing is that federation is a non-user facing feature if you do it right. The whole point is that you don't need to care where a specific service is. Email, arguably the most successful federated app, exposes the servers as a dis
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I always wondered how we got there. The original ARM chips, as in the Archimedes era, obviously ran in things that broadly resembled the other desktop computing platforms of the era. They had to solve the same problems: deciding which devic
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I've been pushing to try SQLite as a "sacrificial memozation." Basically we have two tasks separated by 5-10 days. When we do the first task, we calculate a bunch of information as a "side effect". At the second
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by hakfoo 3y ago
It's also toxic on the low end. As a hobbyist, I might want to spend a few weeks on designing PCBs, and then not again for months. I'll either have to over-buy an expensive annual contract or futz with activating and deactivating
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by hakfoo 3y ago
An enthusiast community can self-sustain basically indefinitely on things like premium-supporter subscriptions, the occasional fundraising pitch, and well-targeted advertising. But it will never be more of a revenue generator than "it
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The one argument I can see for modern speakers is materials: theoretically we can have better materials science-- better foams and rubbers for the gaskets and such, better insulating batting. However, it is frustrating that I can't get
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by hakfoo 3y ago
IMO, the value of Reddit was that it was a group of forums with SSO and decent discoverability. If you wanted to find a forum on a specific topic on the broader web, you had to sift through various sites and look for individual hints as to
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I also love the self-selected aspect. "The people who did X say positive things about X." There are scenarios where WFH is an excellent away around socially awkward scenarios. If the guy in the next cubicle makes things subtly u

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