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by npunt 8y ago
Yeah they were super expensive at MSRP. They did get heavily discounted after launch though, unlike today's Apple products. And the software available for Macs was really what allowed them to price the way they did.
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30th anniversary of the Macintosh SE/30(twitter.com)
41 points by npunt 8y ago|10 comments
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by npunt 8y ago
See also this post about notifications delivery interruptions on Android and how to fix it: https://onesignal.com/blog/manufacturers-interfere-with-reli...
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by npunt 8y ago
True, but the genre/medium itself is broader than the conventions some have settled upon. The sense of being trapped is another sub-genre / experience that escape rooms can offer. Sounds like that's more popular in the Europe
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by npunt 8y ago
> It's no good putting all your widgets in a box that's only just big enough to hold them. One of my personal organizing rules is that if a box / container is over 80% full, it’s time to split it and get a second box.
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by npunt 8y ago
The DO one-click is super easy, but the SSL config and adding Cloudflare wound up being a huge pain. DO's docs aren't great and that meant I spent hours in config land just trying to get tablestakes blog features of HTTPS and DDoS
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by npunt 8y ago
iPhone XS margins are around the same or slightly less than prior models. Here are numbers: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apples-iphone-prices... If you have better numbers, share them. Your article has none.
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by npunt 8y ago
You're so missing the bigger picture. 'Healthcare' is just a subset of 'health'. Go back to first principles: #1 people have always cared about their personal health and have always been willing to spend a lot of ti
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by npunt 8y ago
They don’t have higher margins on the new iPhones, they are selling higher end phones that contain costlier components.
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by npunt 8y ago
Agree about anecdote, but you're off about the X. Apple discontinued the X, so if someone wants a cheaper phone in the X form factor, they're getting the XR. It's unusual for them to discontinue a model after just one year bu
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by npunt 8y ago
Perhaps if you're doing this type of work frequently, but if you're just a regular person who wants a blog it's not trivial nor advisable. Configuring your DO instance can be a pain and you have to manually keep Ghost up to
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by npunt 8y ago
My understanding is the $29 is very much at- or below-cost. The all in cost is just not that cheap for anything involving a service that has labor, a warranty, etc. Not only is labor expensive, there's a chance that the customer's
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by npunt 8y ago
I dunno, there's enough unknown in medicine to make the 'facts' effectively technobabble.
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by npunt 8y ago
Yep. OP doesn't seem to realize BT5 was only finalized in mid-2016, and iPhone / Galaxy phones didn't even get BT5 until mid-late 2017. AirPods were released in Dec 2016. Next rev of AirPods is likely going to be BT5.
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by npunt 8y ago
The creator of this (ants) also made a classic Mac wifi extension which is also a brilliant little backport of modern wifi selection UI. https://github.com/antscode/MacWifi
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by npunt 8y ago
Agree I was being a bit dismissive on that for expediency sake. It’s not without issues, but it represents the best available location to build. I imagine small tunnels can partially mitigate these issues.
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by npunt 8y ago
Cost? We haven’t heard anything about how much it costs to take one of these per mile. And ideally these systems mean less cars on the road / less car ownership, with higher utilization (cars sit idle 96% of the time, they’re the world
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by npunt 8y ago
If there’s no subway nearby, how would you do that? Also not everyone can afford a luxury car. Just imagine lyft, lyft line, and a bigger lyft line. They can all coexist.
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by npunt 8y ago
Point to point transport in most cities is not at all a solved problem. While this was demonstrated with a SUV there’s no reason why this can’t be used for a larger van carrying 6-12 people and tied to a carpool service. 12 people hurtling
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by npunt 8y ago
Also automated guideway transits (aka peoplemovers) which is what this essentially is. So much better than rail in terms of practicality / cost / compatibility with existing road network. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by npunt 8y ago
It’s mostly speculation for sure. I forgot what parts were real from the live stream (the 3x power output was real) but it seemed like this is mostly the rapid learning and planning stage. Buying a competitors device is a really smart move
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by npunt 8y ago
Worth considering that a single family luxury car is not the only vehicle type that could be in these tunnels. Automation allows for all sorts of new options in vehicles. This is a platform and many services can sit atop it. No reason why p
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by npunt 8y ago
Yeah practically I think there’s almost always going to need to be two tunnels side by side, given density of stations and the need for long distances to slow vehicles down as they exit from the main tunnel (up to 150mph) to the stations. I
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by npunt 8y ago
True, lots of info yet disclosed & some impt questions raised. Seems like an Elon intro where it’s vision first and then lots of details sorted out later and/or changed last minute (lookin at you BFR).
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by npunt 8y ago
True. My concern (as a former Angelino) is what a ~2+ inch shear on the track would do to a vehicle traveling over 100mph. Lots of LA is on some fault or another that can cause these shears. Maybe it’d just be a big thud and the car goes in
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by npunt 8y ago
Sure it’s not density of subway but more tunnels will partially offset lower capacity. This is about lowering tunnel & ‘station’ construction by ~2 orders of magnitude. There’s also lots of room underground to build vs surface, so littl
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by npunt 8y ago
Seems like it needs to be centrally controlled automation so they’d be able to adjust fleet speed in relevant area for any issues that arose. Flat tire seems easy, probably a limp home mode to nearest exit + slow down nearby fleet. There sh
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by npunt 8y ago
It’s explicitly not Tesla exclusive. Doubt regs would allow that anyway.
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by npunt 8y ago
Tunnels looked wide enough to get out and walk thru. They’ll need ventilation and will probably get maint / esc hatches for regs. Dunno about ADA. Didn’t seem like a detail worth hashing out in a debut tho.
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by npunt 8y ago
I imagine it’ll also probably be hell on tires. You’d need W- or Z-rated tires to do that and those are $$. Perhaps smooth concrete will mean lower rolling friction along with lack of sudden maneouvers. Still, going that fast is expensive i

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