johnvanommen

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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
That’s a perfect summary of what I was getting at, thank you
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
Yes! The world is changing fast.
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
And the increases in network speed are one of the last bastions of Moores Law.
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
> How many hospitals, roads, houses, machine shops, biomanufacturing facilities, parks, forests, laboratories, etc. could we build “We?” This isn’t “our” money. If you buy shares, you get a voice.
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
> That implies combined hyperscaler cloud and AI revenue going from: $330B today to $1.2T within 3 years :-)) You’re ignoring the fact that gaming is going to the cloud. That industry is bigger than Hollywood. Desktop computers will inva
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
Or we’re seeing a world where corporations dwarf countries. Apple will be around in a hundred years. Will the USA?
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
exactly.
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
> the baseline of open models running on cheap third-party inference providers, or even on-prem. This is a bit of a challenge for the big proprietary firms. It’s not a challenge at all. To win, all you need is to starve your competitors
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
> Generating an extra $400 per year in value, per employee, isn't that much extra. I agree, and would add that it’s contributing to inflation in hard assets. Basically: * it’s a safe bet that labor will have lower value in 2031 than
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
> One can make the argument that trump was elected because of OWS knock-on effects... Absolutely. And guys like Tim Poole got famous off Occupy, then parlayed that fame into building an audience for themselves. The libertarians at OWS ne
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
This is such a loaded question. Because the fundamentals are basic: Creating money out of thin air generally creates inflation, because theirs is more currency chasing the same amount of assets. But the Devil is in the details, because ther
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
Yeah that’s a huge red flag
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
> It appears they've been associated with a lot of hype/fear copy-paste companies that offer highly inflated monthly access to their trades and research. Note that they were named "Game of Trades" before rebranding. I
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
The XBox was named after a Microsoft API. Definitely one of the more clever ways to force developers to eat your dogfood.
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
> I’m a little impressed at how a company whose business model is to sell a product they developed in the 1990s over and over again while making inconsequential and non-breaking changes from year to year somehow still manage to screw tha
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
They’re in the thread, ask them
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
Everything has consequences. Free money is never free.
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by johnvanommen 8mo ago
It’s to control inflation. Basically, when currency is scarce, its value goes UP. When currency is plentiful, its value goes DOWN. The first scenario lowers inflation, the second raises it. After Japans bubble economy popped in the early 90
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by johnvanommen 9mo ago
> my former manager organized an offsite where we all watched Office Space together. Working in management is infinitely more soul crushing than being Peter Gibbons. I literally brought up The Peter Principle when I quit a job like that.
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by johnvanommen 9mo ago
Good point. During that era, a lot of the legacy devices like the famous Nokia brick, the dev work on those was done with actual physical devices. The smartphone stuff, a lot of that development was running in emulators, which likely reduce
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by johnvanommen 9mo ago
> I always thought it was hilarious that a company called Danger lost everybody's data. The connection to Microsoft only makes it better. Cursed marketing. Besides the fact that we didn't have any real money to promote phones a
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by johnvanommen 9mo ago
Yep. My boss came over to me that morning, asked if I'd seen the news, and basically said that if it turned out that I built the servers wrong, it would be firing time. I kept my job. It turned out that the reason that Paris Hilton and
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by johnvanommen 9mo ago
I found a PDF that confirms the story I heard, and also has information I wasn't aware of until today: https://availabilitydigest.com/public_articles/0411/sidekick... Details are on page 3. * The Sidekick ser
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by johnvanommen 9mo ago
If it wasn't for the T-Mobile Sidekick, Microsoft probably wouldn't have had to buy Nokia. Here's the story: I worked on the infrastructre for the predecessor to Android, the Danger Hiptop, AKA "The T-Mobile Sidekick.&qu
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by johnvanommen 1y ago
> They also often time have versions of old movies and shows that have been modified due to silly things like license agreements on music expiring! I have felt gaslighted when I rewatch and old movie and some scene isn’t how I remember.
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by johnvanommen 1y ago
I listened to the podcast that the founder did about a week ago. It reminded me of how retired folks in the middle class open a restaurant when they don't know anything about running a restaurant. Except this dude isn't investing
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by johnvanommen 1y ago
I quit every vice: Stopped playing videogames in my 20s because they were a time sink, stopped drinking in my 50s, stopped drinking coffee because I no longer needed a 'wake me up' when I embraced sobriety. But when I first starte
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by johnvanommen 1y ago
I'm 80% certain that my Dad sunk his sailboat because he fell asleep: https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/elderly-man-reunites-... He's doing great, still sailing. That was the third boat he sunk. Thi
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by johnvanommen 1y ago
> Am I reading correctly that of the $250K they need, $150K of that goes to a single staff member for 60% of their time? Does that seem...excessive? When I was doing AIX and Solaris system administration in Salem Oregon, they paid me $75
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by johnvanommen 1y ago
I think the best Fry's of all was the former Incredible Universe location, just south of Portland. I believe it was the only Fry's that didn't charge sales tax. The Fry's by I8 in San Diego was an Incredible Universe too

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