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by hakfoo 11mo ago
They couldn't buy the last mile, but they could have gone for an infrastructure play. You buy your broadband from the local phone or cable company, and they give you an AOL email account, the default portal is aol.com, they nudge you
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
The more recent MounRiver releases are so clearly VSCode with the serial numbers filed off. Older ones were Eclipse with the serial numbers filed off.
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
It's interesting that we talk about the false-positive-- "we're declaring a 45-year-old a child for reasons", but it would be interesting to see the false-negative rate. We're well into the second generation of kids
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
I'd wonder if especially at that point in history , trying to appear as a gaming platform would be a liability. An early Mac was not a great gaming computer even by 1980s standards, and the last thing you want is Commodore or Atari ru
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
CSE 419: Resume-driven development. Develop strategies for injecting the latest buzzword tech even though you're performing maintenance for a 1990s PHP or Java 2 codebase that has no business case for it. Term project involves rippi
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
It's interesting that they actually did the work, though. One alternative way to reduce their dependency on foreign platform vendors would be to blow the existing market up. Coreboot and similar exist, and if they got a state-sized in
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by hakfoo 11mo ago
Why not go further? There should be a master book of civil contracts that can be filled out in a "Mad Libs" sort of way, but nothing else is legally enforcable. Every sales contract or employment term is the same with only narro
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I think there are a few factors that are likely to slow the pace down quite a bit soon: 1. We realistically aren't going much past 4k anytime soon. Even the few 8k sets on the market are sort of tech demos, because there isn't r
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by hakfoo 1y ago
The 50-cent coin has been a consistent size since about 1836. It weighs exactly as much as two 25-cent or five ten-cent coins. The dollar coin has been the same size since 1979, and the same colour since 2000.
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by hakfoo 1y ago
Why not ground-based remote-control or autonomous vehicles? You waste a lot of energy just fighting gravity.
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by hakfoo 1y ago
If they can hold on for another 20 years, the PRC could probably have Taiwan without firing a shot. The US isn't going to get back manufacturing capacity on China's scale, and without real long-term economic plans beyond "bet
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by hakfoo 1y ago
There's two possibilities there: The device might not be designed with a publicized tool to restore to a "clean state", and there's also the business signaling factor of "the device stopped working, so I will make s
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by hakfoo 1y ago
AI is appealing to the investors not because it solves human problems, but because it solves some of the problems of previous bubbles. When we wired the world for the Internet in the 1990s, or built railways across the continent in the 1800
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I think an interesting way to measure the value is to argue "what would we do without it?" If we removed "modern search" (Google) and had to go back to say 1995-era AltaVista search performance, we'd probably see ma
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by hakfoo 1y ago
A high acceptance rate isn't a problem. It represents distinct operational choices. We've decided that a four-year degree is today's high-school diploma, so that means that you need to produce a lot of them. But you don&#x2
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by hakfoo 1y ago
What keeps the production cost high? A new inkjet-- especially if you're not getting a photo-optimized one-- isn't doing that much technically different from a 20-year-old one. You don't need 4800DPI and rich six-ink photo f
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I wish Slack would let me pop out multiple windows or channels. Every morning I go in, get half a dozen inquiries left from people who are in earlier time zones, and have to like write "..." in a reply, because then you can at lea
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by hakfoo 1y ago
A lot of the time, that's still API smoke and mirrors. The API call is labelled "sale", but it performs an auth and at the end of the day the system still generates a capture or settlement-style message.
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by hakfoo 1y ago
Gigabyte made a lot of marketing hay about it, but I think it was popular for a while. I think their version was some sort of watchdog/failover model where it would automatically load the backup BIOS, but some other firms had a second
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I had a similar fun problem with a little tool for use with an ATSC TV tuner. For context, while NTSC program selections were typically indexed by channel ("ABC here is channel 4, NBC is channel 6"), ATSC uses "subchannels&qu
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by hakfoo 1y ago
Budget 2025-09.ods and Budget 2025-10.ods would sort reliably. The options explode infinitely if you start trying to guess what people want in terms of semantic grouping. One user might want to see "September Budget" beside &quot
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by hakfoo 1y ago
We need to be especially careful about labeling things a terror threat during the current inflamed security and political situation. "Freddy No-Lips is burning down Suzy's Bakery because she didn't pay protection money"
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by hakfoo 1y ago
The Pico/RP2040/RP2350 ecosystem is more competitive because it's a distance-to-the-metal thing. At this point, most "mainstream" Pis are being used with off-the-shelf software or at least an off-the-shelf OS with c
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by hakfoo 1y ago
Keyword search is the compelling experience. I want my machine to be determinstic and non-magical. I am so tired of search tools that won't let me actually search for what I want because it clearly thinks I meant something else.
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I wish Apple had some sort of "Geforce Now" style setup to run a Mac in a box. I know they'd never go for something like a legit image you could run in a VM, but surely they could come up with something. My work sent over so
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by hakfoo 1y ago
Is keeping up with "just security patches" on Chromium reasonable? As sickening as thought as it is, the best hope there is Microsoft-- they can afford to hire the necessary army of developers, and their incentives are aligned jus
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by hakfoo 1y ago
I have a '60s book on PL/1 which mentions a specific data type for storing the pre-1971 currency. It was a syntactic structure around storing the amount as a quantity of pence. I'd expect there was still ugliness as the conv
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by hakfoo 1y ago
If you have a truck full of A100s, it's "extremely valuable" but also perishable goods. Right now, any workable AI hardware is valuable because the market is not presently saturated, and people are in a "buy what you c
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by hakfoo 1y ago
With human co-workers, you can generally assume things you can't with AI. My human co-workers generally have good faith. Even the developer who was clearly on the verge of getting a role elsewhere without his heart in it-- he tried to
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by hakfoo 1y ago
We tend to draw a few specific narratives for the AGI endgame: - The Machine becomes the tyrant or genocider, either from its measured self-interest (these humans stand in the way of my paperclip optimization), or because it implements the

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