hakfoo

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by hakfoo 4mo ago
You're expecting that there's going to be a supply collapse only, but there's a real risk the collapse hits both supply and demand. A lot of the current AI business is FOMO and vanity metrics. Nobody really wants to acknowle
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by hakfoo 4mo ago
I'm actually surprised there hasn't been a dedicated effort to support display offload to, say, the CPU's iGPU. I'm sure manufacturers would love saving a dollar per card, and OEMs would appreciate eliminating the suppor
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by hakfoo 4mo ago
I always fancied the idea of 'dedollarizing' retirement. When you turn 65/70/whatever, your pension/IRA/401(k) isn't paid out as a monthly cheque, but instead as a lifetime lease to an apartment in a retir
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by hakfoo 4mo ago
Especially outside the flagship market, "shanzhai" is enough. I bought a $250 Motorola (G Stylus 2024 model) I wasn't looking for unique and breakthrough experiences. I just wanted good-enough screen/camera/batte
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by hakfoo 4mo ago
I wonder if there's a "commoditize your complement" play in there somewhere. Having the software stack get dirt-cheap and multi-vendor is good for hardware players. I'd argue there's even huge value in developing t
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by hakfoo 4mo ago
The other factor is that we have plenty of potentially automatable labour, but it always exists in the context of real labour markets. Think of the pretty marketing videos of automated disassembly lines that extract valuable materials fro
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by hakfoo 4mo ago
I'd argue that "free riders" are a big part of the gravity that holds a UBI-based economy together. Employers have to make the argument "we're better than sitting at home wanking all day." This WILL cause wides
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by hakfoo 4mo ago
Why don't we just have a captive, state-owned military-industrial complex? The idea of having private firms try to build their interpretation of what the Army or Air Force wants seems redundant and inefficient. And then you have to bu
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by hakfoo 4mo ago
Arguably, that's still a viable thing. I've used a few handheld transcievers and they tend towards clunky user interfaces-- tiny, fiddly displays, highly modal keys, and basically needing to memorize the manual to use it. Even wor
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by hakfoo 4mo ago
As I understand it, we used to have the concept of "hiring workers" or "contracting for services". The benefit of this was that when Internal Revenue called and said in lieu of a tax return, you sent a takeaway menu cove
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by hakfoo 5mo ago
What exactly is the selling point for an orbital data centre? Satellites for connectivity to ground-based data centres seems to make sense, but that seems like it's relatively light hardware compared to a rack full of compute and stora
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by hakfoo 5mo ago
This seems seductive, but how do you get past the wall of "fixing XYZ or adding convenience ABC isn't on our pre-planned roadmap" so you can't get buy in from people who have to sign-off or deploy stuff? Maybe that type
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by hakfoo 5mo ago
Tne trackball rides a couple of bearings and they do pick up scrunge. It doesn't affect tracking unless it gets to the sensor window, but you'll feel it getting progressively stiffer.
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by hakfoo 5mo ago
I feel like "just in time" software is something we already had-- things like VBA and AppleScript showed there has always been an audience for scratch-your-own-itch tooling for work scenarios that aren't programming-centric.
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by hakfoo 5mo ago
Social media in an ad economy serves two masters. End users should be authenticated so you can prove you're selling real eyeballs in the demographic mix you claimed to marketers and to provide lip service for the 'think of the chi
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by hakfoo 5mo ago
What was the story for the manufacturers though? Why would you get into the 3DO business knowing that if it took off, you'd end up competing with other, potentially cheaper brands? I guess the expectation was that it would be like CD p
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by hakfoo 5mo ago
The hardest part is network effects. Consider that the largest payment card network on Earth (China UnionPay, 7 billion cards) - decided it was easier just to bootstrap acceptance in the US by a partnership with Discover rather than connect
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by hakfoo 5mo ago
Well, we famously filled caves full of cheese to keep the dairy industry afloat. Why not just send every American household a few tins of free fruit every month? It might be the closest thing to nutritious food some people get?
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by hakfoo 5mo ago
Because at the end of the day, "profits down to 0" also means things like "reserve capacity down to 0", "safety margins down to 0", and "any aspect of the experience that makes it less miserable than being
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by hakfoo 5mo ago
I could see a synergy. Remember when there was a small trend of strip-mall "We'll sell on eBay for you" shops? That seemed like a great idea for certain types of goods-- the market for plenty of collectibles are thin in any
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by hakfoo 5mo ago
The survivors in the industry were the non-enthusiast players. Cherry was selling mechanical switch keyboards for POS and specialty applications for decades before the enthusiast market emerged. Unicomp was addressing the market of terminal
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by hakfoo 6mo ago
I feel like we could go beyond that, especially for more app-like experiences. Maybe we want themes that do things like "add specific trim to make editable fields more identifiable." or adding "high contrast" versions o
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by hakfoo 6mo ago
I'm frustrated that there's not "solid" instructional tooling. I either see people just saying "keep trying different prompts and switching models until you get lucky" or building huge cantilevered toolchains
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by hakfoo 6mo ago
When we first got our LG TV (a fairly cheap 43" LCD with mediocre brightness and WebOS) you could get an app to be the remote control. It was a convenient option when the remote fell under the couch. They discontinued it for some elab
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by hakfoo 6mo ago
The "children's version" has to be engineered to assume some adult users anyway-- since you're going to have some types of helicopter parents logging into the same platforms the kids are on to make sure they're all
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by hakfoo 6mo ago
The difference is that iOS was clearly designed to wow the consumer. It was shiny, it offered the promise of full-scale web browsing and the established media ecosystem. It was not a power tool. (remember the first versions didn't e
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by hakfoo 6mo ago
Is 1) such a bad thing? There aren't really that many apps that make sense to work in a full-fat form all the way from wearable to phone to tablet/laptop/desktop. Tablet/Laptop/Desktop is probably solvable by a sing
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by hakfoo 6mo ago
I always wondered "what if the Salvation Army had tanks?" If so much of the problems of aid delivery are due to failed, corrupt states, could we be better served by using some of the foreign aid spend to install and maintain gover
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by hakfoo 6mo ago
> Application theming Software 30 years ago was more amenable to theming. The more system widgets you use, the more effective theming works by swapping them. Now, we have grudging dark-mode toggles that aren't consistent or univ
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by hakfoo 6mo ago
What exactly made it possible to get copper wire into effectively every house in the country? We didn't say "if a rich rural community wants telephones or electricity in the boonies..." Maybe we need a new Ma Bell that's

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