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by hinkley 11mo ago
Long ago when the History Channel was still about History, they did a hypothetical “What if the 10 plagues of Egypt actually happened?” That was surprisingly plausible. I’m getting some vibes of that. The punchline of that hypothetical was
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by hinkley 11mo ago
You think they’re only going to eavesdrop? You’re mistaking them for the FBI. CIA has destabilized entire countries.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
I learned it by watching you, Dad. American Imperialism is European Imperialism 2.0.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
I think that was the British? We are just getting over hating them ourselves.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Young travelers have always found ways to subsidize their trips by selling some of their personal possessions while there. I heard Levi’s were so popular during the Cold War that customs started counting your clothes going in and out of Rus
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by hinkley 11mo ago
It’s always the bandwidth. Noisy neighbors or part of the Eight Fallacies and the cloud tries to pretend they don’t exist.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
If the CIA shows up, Amazon is 100% going to let them rootkit those boxes. They might even have a way to do it without rebooting your servers.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
I got a work laptop stolen (in my favorite bag, which they don’t make anymore) and found out from the police that there’s a chain from fences for drug addicts to criminal organizations in the Middle East. They’ve found American hardware the
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Where does nvidia manufacture those chips?
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Hmm. I’ve been out of the loop too long. When did China start getting munitions laws thrown at it? When I cared to know, Boeing could sell to everyone except NK, Syria, Iran, and two others I’m now blanking on. It didn’t matter we were usi
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Your dismissive tone is really discouraging me from replying with a legitimate answer to your concerns. So you only get: people have been predicting the imminent demise of Apple every year for the last 20 and they are still the most valuabl
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by hinkley 11mo ago
The plane suffered an engine mount failure, which tore a hole in the wing, sprayed shrapnel into engine 2, which caused a compressor stall reducing thrust past the survivable level. Then it crashed into a fuel recycling plant with a full lo
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Or like with the M1 chip: wait until the incumbent alienates so many experts in the field that you can scoop them up and they will succeed partially fueled on spite against their old employer.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
From a financial market perspective, AAPL is the second highest valuation for a publicly traded company and #1 is in first place because of the AI bubble.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
What people hate about Apple is that they ship things other people couldn't get to capital-W Work, and they're seen as 'stealing' the idea instead of perfecting them. Great artists steal.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Split adjusted, I bought AAPL for $6 a share. They also pay dividends. This investor is feeling just fine about their stock price.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Meanwhile I'm still here trying to make Shure happen. Their next bluetooth model will be amazing, I just know it!
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Hank Green mentioned in passing the other day how ungodly much money Apple is making off of airpods. I still have managed not to get one. But the watch and iPad definitely counts as something after the app store. Which they didn't real
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by hinkley 11mo ago
I don't know why this is a surprise to anyone. Apple is famous for watching peanut butter and chocolate makers and swooping in with Reece's Peanut Butter cups while everyone scratches their head because they've had better cho
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by hinkley 11mo ago
They're still scrubbing the scorch marks out of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_2976 tragedy. I understand that turbines are very handy in power generation but we don't use gyroscopic po
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Sheer stubbornness. Profilers lie and some more than most. I’ve gotten 3x from code with a perfectly rectangular profile output. Part of it comes down to a trick game devs steal from finance: give each task a budget and keep it to the budg
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by hinkley 11mo ago
End to end gets weird. I was asked to look at an admin page, nobody could figure out why it was 30s. Literally the first thing I tried got it under 4 and the second down to three. It was pulling the same list of rows twice, applying two fil
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by hinkley 11mo ago
The thing that has made me feel the oldest this week is that someone I used to mentor posted a holiday pictures with visible wrinkles. If people you think are young look old, then buddy, check the mirror. But this is a close second. 10 year
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Until you get high memory contention from the rest of the code. Once eviction gets high you get some pretty counterintuitive improvements by fixing things that seem like they shouldn’t need to be fixed. My best documented case was a 10x spe
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by hinkley 11mo ago
I had a coworker in Seattle who commuted from the far side of Steven’s pass every day. That was a 2 hour trip each way. I desperately wanted to know what was up with her home life. Some introverts can use a long solo car trip to wind themse
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Responding to myself to add: If AWS is bad at this, Atlassian is worse. I cannot scan the tab bar in my browser and find what tab I was in three minutes ago because they are all too uniform. They're more concerned that I know that a t
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Yeah and the Amazon color schemes aren't exactly amazing for contrast either.
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by hinkley 11mo ago
There was a comic artist I used to follow when I was doing more front end work, who would blog about his craft. One of the things he said that really hit me was talking about silhouettes. The visual noise in certain eras of comics make them
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by hinkley 11mo ago
> Hilariously, the suggested replacement is PowerPoint, "Did he just tell me to go fuck myself?" "I believe he did."
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by hinkley 11mo ago
Yeah I'm pretty glad Newline biffed that one since we got this instead. Also Clarke has a chronic illness, which is preventing her from trying for another book of that caliber. That mountain of cash is probably keeping her very comfort

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