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by hakfoo 3y ago
If that's a fear worth courting WWIII over, shouldn't we have been considering the strategic importance of manufacturing stuff domestically for... IDK, the last forty years? TBH, I wonder if it would be worth tossing off a few pol
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The goal of a narrow victory seems faulty. I wonder if a "narrow accelerationism" might be more effective. IP disputes tend to be B or C stories in the public eye-- either super-technical where they only really interest people in
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I feel like mandatory licensing is the answer. Have a state ombudsman who sets a price of "marginally above reasonable" so that people are still encouraged to negotiate first, while providing a way out when it's obvious the
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The risk point is always "good enough." Yes, you can run a better model if you have more hardware, but does a better model translate to a more compelling user experience? Will people be willing to pay for slightly better AI imag
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by hakfoo 3y ago
News van news isn't necessarily news. It creates the appearance of currency by having a big "LIVE REPORTING" tag, which consists of someone standing where there was a fire/homicide/car wreck four hours ago. I'
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by hakfoo 3y ago
IMO, there's a viable business model for "background news". CNN feels like a channel you could set the TVs in waiting rooms to and not cause a fuss. They aren't as politically loaded as MSNBC or Fox, and the programming
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I will say, the branding was actually pretty clever. I was a Windows Phone user back when it first came out, and the general consensus was that it was clearly a code name and they were going to find some bland corporate name for launch.
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I suspect it was a market failure. As home internet moved from a competitive dialup market to a handful of DSL/Cable players, all ancillary services dropped in importance. People weren't willing to take 128kbps ISDN instead of 10
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The question is whether any players actually need copyright as we know it, or if it's a convenience. There are definitely some creative types who have optimized their business around the affordances copyright has provided. But can t
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I won't say that USB4 is confusing, because I admit I don't understand it, because I haven't really bothered to try, aside from noticing some motherboards advertising "support for special USB4 module socket, coming soon.
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The point was less about the permissions themselves, and more that you're replacing a centralized "everything you want is in one ISO" model to having to retrieve a bunch of packages from third parties after the end of "t
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by hakfoo 3y ago
It's weird how we see the business people making this same sort of mistake on community after community. It's like there's a blind spot surgically implanted in them during the MBA programme. It's well known that most on
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by hakfoo 3y ago
That tends to wave away the responsibilities of the distributor. The distributor's job is to package software. In effect, putting it in their repo is sort of vouching for it-- they know it's going to work properly with the rest o
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by hakfoo 3y ago
As someone who has implemented code revolving around Level 3 data, the information provided is often of incredibly low quality. Many shopping carts don't bother sending the data, because they'd rather say "let's support
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by hakfoo 3y ago
That's definitely a case that can be argued. Social problems often make more sense to attack at a governmental level. When you have a patchwork of different charitable initiatives, often regionally bounded, they can easily fall victim
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I tried a couple of CD-Rs that were stored in a dry closed drawer for most of the last 20 years recently, and they seemed to at least initially come up. Now I can reinstall Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4 slipstreamed!
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Isn't there a subset of that at least for floppy discs with Kryoflux or GreaseWeazle style controllers? They read the raw flux transitions off the drive head, and then it's up to software to figure out that it's a Commodore
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The Unicomp phenomenon was that IBM literally spun off their keyboards along with the printer stuff to Lexmark. Lexmark, in turn, begat Unicomp because they'd rather sell fiddly terrible $19 inkjet printers. It does seem like it'
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I doubt it. It's the dream of the 1950s. Flying cars waste a lot of energy in that whole "defying gravity" thing. It's sort of just the continuation of the dream of "I can travel when and where I want, because the
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by hakfoo 3y ago
TBH, that's a valuable skill. It's delusional to point and scream about IP-- the knowledge exists and will eventually flow broadly. Singing and dancing around with legal frameworks to try to pretend it belongs to one specific com
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I like my spaghetti water. Didn't realize I should keep it after cooking the pasta though.
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by hakfoo 3y ago
How do you train the model to differentiate "actual ergonomic furniture" from "we bought it at a high-fashion place so it's $1500, Scandinavian, and looks futuristic, but is somehow less comfortable than a $69 task chair
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Part of it could be different audiences. Not everyone is on a greenfield project with full authority to grab the freshest and latest. Some of us are effectively living in 2014-- they can't say "no, you can't use IE11" t
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by hakfoo 3y ago
It's a bit harder if you go through-hole. When you can't fit it "under" the switch footprint, it becomes harder to auto-route it-- there might not be a space specifically where you want-- maybe you want to move some dio
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by hakfoo 3y ago
What I hate is that you don't even write JavaScript anymore. You write fantasy future JavaScript. Sure, it will be available in ECMAScript 23, scheduled to drop in real browsers in 2092. But for now, here's a convoluted mess of
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I wanted to do a custom keyboard, at one point I tried to write some PHP code to parse a JSON definition of the layout, and generate a disposable Python script to feed into the KiCAD console to position the switches and diodes to order. (M
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Apparently there was some work inside Caldera to do exactly that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28358828
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I thought the idea was that in real mode it should be have like a faster 8086, and exposing memory beyond 1Mb breaks the illusion.
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I thought it was a 286 errata-- where the address didn't wrap around correctly in real mode. The "fix" was IBM repurposing the keyboard controller to fix up the behaviour on A20.
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by hakfoo 3y ago
There's two entirely different classes of control out there. A state database will may be centralized, but it's also much more accountable to established legal norms. Private systems run on their own internal rules, with less form

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