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91.
by photonerd 3y ago
Tell me you’re not from a big city without telling me… (London, Paris, NYC, etc etc etc all have similar issues)
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by photonerd 3y ago
That’s because all the restaurants in that price range are in the rest of the bay, Oakland in particular.
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by photonerd 3y ago
You’re going to have to explain how HIPPA privacy slows things down because, frankly, it’s one of the most important privacy laws for citizens I can can think of.
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by photonerd 3y ago
Tim’s partner in mischief on this show was Rex Garrod (RIP), and that man was an absolutely incredible inventor, maker, tinkerer, and just all round nice fellow. Creator of Brum, self-righting battlebots, and much more. Absolutely an inspir
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by photonerd 3y ago
Need more YouTube: “OMG CRYSTALS AT 1200K! Will it EXPLODE?!?” <insert pic of host with gobsmacked face looking at camera on a background of an explosion over some generic stock image of quartz>
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by photonerd 3y ago
For sure. I was talking… late 2000s/early 2010s era here. A decade or more ago
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by photonerd 3y ago
I get what you mean, but that’s not crippled. The functionality is there. Some convenience features were not. Annoying? Yes. Limited? Yes. Crippled? No.
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by photonerd 3y ago
Natures op-ed articles are very low quality pop-sci trash, unfortunately. It’s made all the more galling because their long form in-depth content is still great . Guess it’s the price they pay to remain solvent in the clickbait age. Really
99.
by photonerd 3y ago
“Wall” may have been hyperbolic on my part, but there’s no denying things sloooowed. Partly because it was the hard problems that were left!
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by photonerd 3y ago
Gotcha. So core dependent basically, rather than a specific project goal? That tracks with what I thought. Great to know about the NeoGeo!
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by photonerd 3y ago
I didn’t think MiSTer was particularly concerned with accuracy like this project is? Just implementation on FPGA. Am I wrong there?
102.
by photonerd 3y ago
Oh absolutely: I fully support the project existing & data archival as well. Just… ouch on the cost of running it. Limits the effective impact somewhat.
103.
by photonerd 3y ago
Which you need to run this project. I get why it’s expensive, but that doesn’t mean it’s not expensive.
104.
by photonerd 3y ago
Realistically the only components that are likely to fail though are the capacitors, which are trivially replaced. While other parts CAN fail it’s physical damage that’s much more likely a problem
105.
by photonerd 3y ago
$300? Christ… I bought by MegaDrive+32X+MegaCD for less than that combined recently. Tho I’m glad this project exists that’s… a huge chunk of change for a 30 yr old console
106.
by photonerd 3y ago
Mostly it’s due to the secondary chips being a quirky pain. It’s emulation was ahead of many others for a number of years in the late 90s & 2000s but hit a wall
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by photonerd 3y ago
Reread what I wrote: follows the same pattern.
108.
by photonerd 3y ago
It’s also a little more than half the price. It’s not bad, but it builds strongly on brand recognition as well. They were really the only major game in town. It’s a good sign for them but far from convincing
109.
by photonerd 3y ago
They definitely have a strong hardware history however.
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by photonerd 3y ago
That’s when they announce it, yes. That’s usually they only time they do that. Compare with Meta: pretty sure this is the 3rd “sneak peak” cycle on this hardware in the last couple of months.
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by photonerd 3y ago
Yeah, that was a technical delay (or rather a quality delay with a technical process). Was a super interesting problem they ran into. Very fascinating from a material science standpoint
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by photonerd 3y ago
> They are not competing goals. They are competing focuses however. Obviously they can all be satisfied, but you can’t focus on all of it. Otherwise it becomes “everything is a priority, so nothing is”. I’ve worked at places that tried
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by photonerd 3y ago
That’s true, though it was mostly only around the announce cycle part of that phase. Definitely a stronger push around it for sure tho. (I still say it was a great design, they just best on the wrong direction of chip/etc tech with it
114.
by photonerd 3y ago
Right, exactly. I feel design has really been pigeonholed into “visual design” by many.
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by photonerd 3y ago
The general maxim I always use is “Apple is a Design company.” They ship hardware & software, but their core product feature for each is the design of it. Both individually and as a whole ecosystem. It’s actually kind of incredible th
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by photonerd 3y ago
When did they use an incomplete, pre release, version of Apple Maps for tech journalism marketing? They didn’t. So not a counter example.
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by photonerd 3y ago
But that’s sort of what I mean: announced, never any mention again. Just cancelled. No additional “here’s that thing but it’s half built”, just… dropped And it’s a pretty rare thing to have that mode of failure for them.
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by photonerd 3y ago
It’s more that Meta uses the showing of incomplete & currently not functional hardware/software as a marketing ploy. Apple has never really done that (at least in the post Jobs return era). They demonstrate what their intention is…
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by photonerd 3y ago
And the reason they do that is quite reasonable. CF is just being a pain
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by photonerd 3y ago
Quite, no new information so no “loss” but not the information that needs to be there. It’s putting an 8oz coffee brew in a 20oz cup & giving it to the customer as a large saying they had no coffee loss. While true, it’s not the same as

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