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by jacknews 2y ago
That's what your phone or tablet is for. No need for all that custom UI tech in the car, just provide a documented API and open-source app you can run on your phone or even dedicate a tablet for it. Proprietary screens and their suppor
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by jacknews 2y ago
"The move also adds a layer of unnecessary complexity in saving Premium viewers from these ads. If they are added server-side, the YouTube client would have to auto-skip them for Premium members, but that also means ad segment info wil
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by jacknews 2y ago
Nice idea and nicely packaged. I think they could open the firmware and make plenty of sales from tinkerers, and 'secondary tinkerers' ie people buying the clock to use a particular mod to show the tides, moon phase, stock quotes,
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by jacknews 2y ago
And this is not far off most hardware. Retail price will be about 5x BoM cost, or about 3x overall cost of goods, though of course it can vary wildly depending on volume and market. HP famously aimed for a markup of pi (3.14x cost, ie gross
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by jacknews 2y ago
Sure, but I mean that they are not so respected in the hierarchy within hardware companies, the way devs are in big tech, say.
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by jacknews 2y ago
I definitely would not lie. But perhaps you can be economical with facts and/or 're-prioritize' them, if expedient, ie choose which cards to reveal and with what emphasis. Personally, I just tell it matter-of-fact as I see it
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by jacknews 2y ago
But it seems embedded pays horribly, is not respected, and can be way more frustrating due to hardware bugs etc.
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by jacknews 2y ago
The salaries in the city table seem like a fantasy to me, with $180k at the low end of the scale. Albeit I'm a western expat in a supposedly impoverished developing nation (no shortage of very expensive cars here though!); local salari
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by jacknews 2y ago
The problem is MBAs and financialization Good tech companies are those that focus on their products or services, but almost inevitably they get taken over by 'business' people; private equity, MBAs, CFOs, etc, and then milked to d
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by jacknews 2y ago
the plan is to exploit 'free' markets to force de-industrialization
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by jacknews 2y ago
This is what the 'probation' period is for?
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by jacknews 2y ago
The riser cables look delicate and likely to introduce latency. I think mainboards, particul;arly ITX, could have PCIe sockets on the back or on the edge, and/or at right-angles - for example you could mount a GPU on it's side nex
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by jacknews 2y ago
um, out of print, and the pdf is available 'soon'? What's even the point of this link then if we can't actually get the book in any way? however it can be found at anna's archive
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by jacknews 2y ago
"Some people might say it’s a bit like Lua with Python syntax" ye gods
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by jacknews 2y ago
Is 50% based on analysis and projections, or is this just another CEO sticking a finger in the air, banging a drum and willing it? Don't they realize they completely lose credibility when they do this? I guess by this stage they'r
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by jacknews 2y ago
It seems to me that power is really 'what are you able to do', and I guess a part of that is how long it takes to do it. But another factor is how much skill/knowledge you must have and how much effort you must expend to do t
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by jacknews 2y ago
"Pretty soon, SaaS companies are going to be a mixture of founders, a small number of experts, and ChatGPT." And by implication, all companies. But, what are the rest of the people going to do, and who will the customers be when n
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by jacknews 2y ago
it's not only buildings, and efficiency and financial optimization are definitely causes, but it's driven by business much more than consumers I think. Business has optimized itself simply to make money; so-called shareholder valu
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by jacknews 2y ago
This is all very well but how will I buy my groceries?
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by jacknews 2y ago
Except there are only so many human experts to go around, whereas everyone can have their own personal AI expert, or a whole team of them.
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by jacknews 2y ago
"remote work is broken" web page scrolling is broken. please stop it.
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by jacknews 2y ago
Such a great time with so many interesting home computers like the oric, jupiter ace, dragon32, acorn atom, sinclairs, etc. The 'Oric' name, at the time, made me think of 'Orac' from the tv series Blake's 7, but now
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by jacknews 2y ago
"Software around the world is engineered - it just often isn't in California." Can you explain the difference between 'engineered' software, and the rest? I mean other than being created by someone with an engineeri
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by jacknews 2y ago
The title seems misleading, it should just be 'better ways to buy things/spend your money' or similar. I do like the ethos that you should carefully consider/choose the things you own, and then look after them, repair th
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by jacknews 2y ago
I agree, of course it's a horrible thing, and AI maybe makes it easier or more realistic, but not new. It must be fairly shocking to have it happen to you, but surely you just point out that the images are AI fakes - so the real damage
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by jacknews 2y ago
the comment I replied to was merely a strong opinion same same i don't believe there is much evidence, certainly nothing conclusive, in this debate but factorizing code concentrates the logic that can be an advantage, to a certain de
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by jacknews 2y ago
They don't want the unwashed peons to know how things really work in big-tech-land, in fact, capitalism-land.
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by jacknews 2y ago
"In the industry code that isn't DRY is a much bigger problem than code that is too DRY." which industry is that? in general programming, absolute nope not-DRY code can be weaseled out with a good ide badly abstracted code, n
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by jacknews 2y ago
"The article tries to paint a naive example where private equity buys everything and jacks up the prices. But why doesn't this happen to restaurants, or super markets or car mechanics?" Seriously? Look around. It does. Eg, ti
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by jacknews 2y ago
Unless "not available in your country" Still. It's been a couple of years already. Someone should write an article about the 'digital divide of AI', when it comes to developing nations which use minority languages&#

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