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by mrandish 1y ago
That was a fun rabbit hole. My first computer (8-bit, 4k RAM, 0.8 Mhz) had a video chip related to that 6845, the 6847, which was (sadly) a somewhat lower cost, less capable, less interesting chip.
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by mrandish 1y ago
To me it does because his actions while alive clearly establish a consistent pattern of behavior which indicates he would not have any issue with the company he founded and dedicated most of his life to using his likeness to honor him (whil
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by mrandish 1y ago
With Walt, there's also the context that he was the founder and CEO of the company who chose to make himself a very public spokesperson for the company for many decades, including regular TV appearances on Disney's weekly national
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by mrandish 1y ago
> He most recently led a powerful Vatican office for bishop appointments. Maybe I'm jaded but when I read that line I kind of assumed maybe that had a little to do with getting elected Pope.
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by mrandish 1y ago
Yeah, I guess Denon should have changed the name of their AVRs (Auvio Video Receivers) to AiVR. That might've added a cool billion dollars to their value :-).
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by mrandish 1y ago
True. In some sense, consumer digital video and audio tech have reached an end game for living room and home theater viewing of TV and movies. Once you have 4K 10-bit HDR+ with 5.1 (or higher) digital audio there's not much new you nee
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by mrandish 1y ago
Indeed. My custom-built, sound proof, no-window, 150-inch screen, laser projector, 7.2.4 THX-rated speaker, 10 seat, dedicated home theater room is driven by about 80 pounds of dual rack-mounted Denon AVRs. I'm going upstairs now to di
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by mrandish 1y ago
I'm a little surprised these four companies combined sold for only $350M.
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by mrandish 1y ago
I've had problems with modern monitors shutting themselves off if they don't detect a signal in something like five or ten seconds, which is far too short when I'm trying to debug a PC having boot issues, configure a multi-mo
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by mrandish 1y ago
> Which made it just another config burden when I'd be installing office on many computers in a day. Ah, well that does explain why you have some... baggage. My experience was different as I wasn't supporting or interfacing reg
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by mrandish 1y ago
> I'd rather be hunted by a Boston Dynamics robot than have to face Clippy on my screen every day. This is the first AI thing I've actually bothered to install on my computer. Until today, despite being a technologist, I&#x27
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by mrandish 1y ago
Great idea! I've been humorously referring to chat agents as next gen Clippy because of their chipper, talky default personas which I find insufferably annoying. I'm kind of shocked Microsoft didn't already do this as an alt
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by mrandish 1y ago
The author of Atari 2600 Adventure, Warren Robinette has an extensive explanation of how the game works on his personal website: http://www.warrenrobinett.com/inventing_adventure/inventing_...
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by mrandish 1y ago
I agree that this is simply Altman extending his ability to control, shape and benefit from OpenAI. Yes, this is clearly (further) subverting the original intent under which the org was created - and that's unfortunate. But in terms of
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by mrandish 1y ago
> What I take from this is I need to find the tools that people want Yep. > Do you have any suggestions for books Lean Startup by Eric Ries Business Model Generation by Alex Osterwalder
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by mrandish 1y ago
As someone who eventually 'got rich' (to a very comfortable FatFIRE level) after decades of high-tech startup entrepreneurship across three startups and over a dozen new products, my primary objective was never "get rich&quot
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by mrandish 1y ago
Wow, unexpectedly fun! And thanks for supporting Firefox!
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by mrandish 2y ago
Based on the history of technology, this is overwhelmingly the expected result of technology-enabled automation - despite every time pundits claiming "but this time it'll be different."
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by mrandish 2y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. It looks closer to what I want than anything I've seen so far. Probably still not granular enough but much closer and headed in the right direction.
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by mrandish 2y ago
> the functionality needed for Suno to work here is very different from the "write prompt, get fully complete song" use case. Yeah, AI music gen is super fun to play with for a half-hour or so - and it's great when I need
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by mrandish 2y ago
Personally, I have little interest in typing a text prompt and getting a complete song as an output. However, I will gladly pay serious money for a tool that interactively collaborates with me in a granular, iterative process of generating,
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by mrandish 2y ago
> the judge is saying Tim Cook was acting in willful violation of the court orders Yes, I chose not to focus on Cook because of the reason you mention, "unable to gather evidence." While I'm certain an EVP-level exec had t
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by mrandish 2y ago
Apple will certainly appeal this ruling to the Ninth Circuit and probably to SCOTUS but Apple already appealed the original order which the Ninth denied and SCOTUS denied by declining. That makes an appeal on getting busted for non-complian
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by mrandish 2y ago
> particularly because of how close it is to the first amendment It is tricky to prosecute and prosecutors don't like it but perjury rarely has anything to do with the first amendment.
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by mrandish 2y ago
Execs will continue to default to obfuscating and misleading in testimony as well as minimally complying with court orders until a high-profile exec spends time in jail for criminal contempt. I fear this particular guy isn't senior eno
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by mrandish 2y ago
I just smile hearing the term "Millihertz Computer". I'd love it if building and designing mechanical and analog computers grew as a hobby/educational activity as I find them both fascinating and somehow satisfying. Also
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by mrandish 2y ago
> I grew up with a mentality of "you can't do that, there's a rule against that" No matter how wealthy or poor your Western European upbringing may have been, being saddled with that worldview is, IMHO, the worst kind
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by mrandish 2y ago
> He thought he belonged... he thought he could do things and that people would let him. This is a good point and, in the case of successful startup entrepreneurs, it may not rely solely on how much society grants or denies that belongin
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by mrandish 2y ago
While I think the TFA makes some interesting points, I too felt the DEI reference was tangential. The point that I felt TFA missed is that none of this was fundamentally unique to the dotcom era. Random factors like "right place/t
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by mrandish 2y ago
Installers seem to run with the permission level of "Trusted Installer" which is even higher than admin as far as I can tell.

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