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by hakfoo 3y ago
In an enemy-of-my-enemy perspective, Walmart comes out as the "good guy" here because their market position aligns best with the unbanked/underbanked audience. Neiman-Marcus is less likely to complain about their audience not
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Maestro is literally starting to wind down this year, supposedly they've decided to switch everyone towards Debit Mastercard products. I assume there's gradually less and less appeal for a card that isn't as broadly accepted,
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I'm curious what those would be in the modern era? The "non-PC" x86 chips I can think of: 80186/188 - Sort of predates the IBM hegemony, can be hammered into shape by adding replacements for onboard peripherals 80376 -
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by hakfoo 3y ago
For systems where there's a real fear of physical compromise, you'd think there would be more physical mitigations. The crypto stuff is nice, but I feel like it's difficult to package in a way that non-technical audiences wil
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by hakfoo 3y ago
One problem I've noticed with agile is that developers may not be the bandwidth choke point. If you have a multi-stage dev pipeline-- say with a user-testing, audit, or compliance phase somewhere in there-- it can become the bottleneck
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Conceptually this reminds me of how in the QBasic (DOS 5+) docs there was a section indicating "this is an intentionally hobbled product, and you should expect to graduate to QuickBasic for more professional stuff." For educationa
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by hakfoo 3y ago
This demonstrates a real issue: even information you "own" and feel like you can pull the plug on, really becomes part of a global discussion that can only be lessened by removing it. A tweet you posted 10 years ago might be irrel
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I think the problem is "an old IBM 4019" isn't a scalable solution. I can't tell my Mom to go to Staples and pick up an IBM 4019, let alone figure out how to chain it to a modern PC, set up non-auto-installing drivers,
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The standard assumption seems to be that the US had two options: shock-and-awe by dropping the bombs or engaged in a protracted invasion of the home islands. Were there other options? By the last months of the war, they had largely lost co
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by hakfoo 3y ago
TBH, I think centralization makes a lot of sense here. When you get into a CBDC, you're probably looking at a lot more real-world infrastructure needs than even the most ambitious crypto. In particular, the on/off ramp capacity h
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I always wondered what a house "designed for maintenance" would look like. I imagine '70's style paneled interiors, but each panel comes off with a couple bolts, and you can rip out the insulation and replace it with st
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The operative portion was the other half of the sentence. It's never a "they're targeting a number that they believe in good faith will maximize economic activity on a national level", it's always "devaluing my
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I suspect there are three flavours of gold bugs: 1) Wealthy + Paranoid + Stupid. They'd rather keep their money in sovereigns under their mattress, than put it into any sort of productive economic activity. On a long term, especiall
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Why can't we just move the journals themselves inside the taxpayer-funded sphere? Set up a few journals like "Physics, presented by the Department of Energy" or "DHHS Intestinal Virus Fanbook", and hire on some edit
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I don't understand why when a bank fails, the FDIC is so desperate to toss the carcass back to the private sector. Nationalize it. We've already established that the shareholders are getting zilch, so there's no argument whe
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by hakfoo 3y ago
They've already lost the conversation though. There were Windows products people were genuinely excited for. 95 being the obvious one, but WinXP did really deliver the promise of modern, NT-based windows for the home desktop, and Win7
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The risk for the ad-based business model is on the buy side. Digital "won" because it could generate pretty dashboards to convince people that it was producing better targeting/reach/etc. than traditional spray-and-pray
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I think it originally came from the fact the book series dates to the 1940s. The earliest ones actually predate the 1946 nationalization of British railways. Diesel locomotives were strange and disruptive to the steam-based world that was
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Sort of a tangent-- I always wondered what was meant when you see FCC disclaimers (i. e. the Part 15 disclaimers on anything electric) that says "must accept interference." That seems weird to specify-- interference seems like an
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by hakfoo 3y ago
Windows 7 had that "XP Mode" feature where it would try to run things in a VM, but it was an unloved stepchild. Really, they could have done a lot better-- a VM jukebox with everything from DOS 3.3 onwards available could have mad
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by hakfoo 3y ago
That's a reasonable argument. From the investor perspective, I wonder if that's good enough-- the people chasing unicorns and 500% IPO paydays would probably be angrier watching it become a low-margin but functionally useful compa
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I've been using the CH32V305 as a keyboard controller. ( https://gitlab.com/hakfoo1/ch32v-keyboard ) It can be had on a convenient breakout board for six dollars. You get GPIOs for days and workable examples to ha
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I'm sort of amazed the "ancient brand under license" business idea hasn't burnt itself through over the years. It's so often applied to products that are huge shifts from what their original credibility was in, and&
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by hakfoo 3y ago
What I like about PHP is that it's not just batteries-included, it's "Entire Batteries Plus Store Included". The standard library is huge, documented, and also features 15 years of accumulated notes and discussion right
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I recall years ago reading a magazine article discussing the (at the time) market bubble for either Lionel-style toy trains or baseball cards. So this was probably early 1990s, and it pretty much tracked with when the kids of the late 1940
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by hakfoo 3y ago
There are quite a few in the "building it is half the fun" space. You've got things like the Omega (MSX) and ZX81+38 (Sinclair), and Tynemouth Software made PET and ZX80 clones. The RC2014 ecosystem is interesting; it's
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by hakfoo 3y ago
My theory was that the isekai concept justifies a lot of storytelling framework: * You can have a main character with modern sensibilities and attitudes, and yet fit him in a fantasy- or historical world. You can and often do get away with
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by hakfoo 3y ago
That's the entire problem here. One nudge at the right moment is awesome. A constant red alert of status notifications both undermines their credibility and fatigues the user to the one real notification. "42 other users are look
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by hakfoo 3y ago
I could imagine businesses in stealth phases trying to intentionally obfuscate their externally visible finances to keep a low profile. "Hey, $big_client, can you pay us through a chain of sham companies so it looks like you're b
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by hakfoo 3y ago
The problem is that "the commitment to democracy" has long had huge disclaimers and asterisks next to it. If your democracy starts to get a bit frisky about nationalizing assets, suddenly it's going to become an "illegi

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