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by mrandish 1y ago
P2000 appears to be at least partially emulated in MAME: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Philips_P2000_e... Here's a video of it running: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUa9Ktmsxww T
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by mrandish 1y ago
> You just can't find enough A players to build an entire [large] company of them The corollary to this is that too many real super star players can hurt a large company, especially if they're too close to each other. They ne
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by mrandish 1y ago
There are already many vacation alternatives to Vegas whether for gamblers, for those seeking entertainment/dining or just for family getaways. Vegas has always had an iffy value proposition. It's become a major city that's n
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by mrandish 1y ago
I'm not the poster you replied to, but as a recently retired multi-decade serial tech startup founder of the old-school bootstrap type - the addendum I'd add is what I now teach to young entrepreneurs: Assuming you're a first
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by mrandish 1y ago
> this assumes you are actively building and maintaining your network. Frankly, being a consistent super-star engineer on a team of good engineers, is more important than actively maintaining a network. Experienced founders ask everyone
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by mrandish 1y ago
> I'd rather have the "developers developers developers" CEO over whatever Satya is. I was fairly impressed with Satya in his first few years as CEO, mostly due to his embracing hard but necessary strategic changes that ha
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> But I guess that's not what makes it expensive I went for a niche conference a few weeks ago which was held at a lower-end 'budget' casino hotel off the strip and the actual room price per night was more than 2.5 times t
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by mrandish 1y ago
> So it doesn't matter if visitor numbers have dropped Large corporate casino owners who can still benefit by making up the shortfall in visitors from high rollers who spend (and lose) bigger chunks of money gambling aren't the
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by mrandish 1y ago
I haven't listened to all their MSFT coverage but it's possible they genuinely feel Ballmer's gotten a worse rap than he deserves and they're trying to contextualize some of the decisions and circumstances.
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I agree with you that Satya typically has a flat, measured style that comes across dry and he also stage manages himself rigorously. But it's also worth mentioning that being the CEO of a massive, high-profile public company puts him u
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by mrandish 1y ago
The new timeline event editing functionality looks fluid, powerful and polished. I've never used Bitwig but have heavily used dozens of timeline-based media editing GUIs over the last three decades including leading video, audio, anima
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by mrandish 1y ago
> "the four Big Tech companies account for nearly 40 percent of Nvidia’s revenue" If that was true in 2024 and now only two account for ~40%, then I'm guessing all four probably account for over half of NVidia's quart
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by mrandish 1y ago
> Real question: Why do you think Intel does this? I'm not sure large traditional silicon vendors like Intel, TI, et al re-evaluate the documentation requirements (and costs) on a chip by chip basis. It's probably done by chip
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They also tend to be better written and edited than tech writing in recent decades - and I'm not even talking about the rise of AI slop and search engine bait in recent years. When tech publications entered the hybrid era where every a
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by mrandish 1y ago
> I wish I could drop (so many of) my old internal posts publicly, since I don’t really have the incentive to relitigate the arguments today – they were carefully considered and prescient. They also got me reported to HR by the manager o
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by mrandish 1y ago
Trivia Trivia: Dana based the Wayne's World character Garth on his engineer brother Brad. When he's playing Garth he's impersonating his brother in a way that's as spot on yet over-the-top exaggerated as when Dana does h
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yep, it was an absolutely bonkers combined hardware / software hack conceived by Tim Jenison and Brad Carvey on the hardware side and a team of low-level assembly language Amiga hackers on the software side, for which they won a Prime
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by mrandish 1y ago
The Video Toaster used the Amiga's ability to sync to a video clock supplied by a card in the special video slot. But the Amiga itself didn't include a video input for an external source, so the Toaster hardware card included that
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yes, the same is true of Chik-Fil-A, which is by far the highest revenue per location fast food chain, despite being closed one day a week. In-n-Out is second I believe. Both of them generally pay slightly more than other fast food outlets,
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by mrandish 1y ago
Here in California the cost of fast food skyrocketing and the service experience plummeting started after the introduction of a $20/hr minimum wage for fast food jobs made replacing workers with kiosks, automation and AI more economica
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by mrandish 1y ago
> institutionalizing the upsells is the only way a system like this can pay for itself The vendor that sold the system to Taco Bell probably has "increases average order amount by XX% through upsells" as a main marketing bullet
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by mrandish 1y ago
Although I agree with most of the article's points, I'm not an AI hater. But that's only because AI doesn't incite enough emotion in me to be "hate". It's more apathy or antipathy at worst. I concede that
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by mrandish 1y ago
> "the makers of AI aren’t damned by their failures, they’re damned by their goals." Good observation.
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They announced before the flight that they intentionally removed tiles from some areas around the lower flaps specifically to get data on what happens when tiles fail, such as how much burn occurs, how quickly and what type. It appears it w
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by mrandish 1y ago
> i came away with the impression that parts of Apple might operate differently than inner sanctum hw engineering I agree and I'm not at all questioning what you experienced. I saw similar things. In the case of Apple, it makes sens
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> I'm also not sure what the correct solution is but I'm sure there's some pretty smart people out there that have some really good ideas and understand the issue with a lot of complexity While there are certainly technica
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by mrandish 1y ago
It's unsurprising that the internal narrative focused on the plausible user, product and technical issues which happen to align with sustaining the multi-billion dollar monopoly. Senior leadership isn't going to say the 'quie
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by mrandish 1y ago
Well... no, it's not. As long as device owners can choose which and how many app stores are on their device, regulators and courts will be satisfied. If users then choose number_of_app-stores == 1 and app_store_provider == "Ap
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by mrandish 1y ago
There are many ways to deal with any scenario like this, all of which don't involve the device manufacturer locking ALL device owners out of ANY control over the hardware they own. For example, you can be the administrator on Grand
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by mrandish 1y ago
This is about money not battery life. Apple makes billions of dollars in highly profitable revenue by cryptographically blocking users from controlling their own devices.

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