purplezooey

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by purplezooey 3mo ago
My fav. so far is the IMSAI 8080 in "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (2007).
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by purplezooey 7mo ago
No mention of Eggs Florentine?
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by purplezooey 8mo ago
Loved this game as a young kid. Great to see it. Somewhere I also found a web implementation of that black and white codewheel that came with it.
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by purplezooey 9mo ago
Really like this idea. The archive is automatic! Do you have to organize into folders etc. or just one big list.
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by purplezooey 9mo ago
Let's get Rockefeller up in here
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by purplezooey 10mo ago
Adjacent space, but can't help but wonder why Confluent did so much better than MapR
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by purplezooey 10mo ago
The author says, "The operational resistance alone would be too much." True. But we need to continue reforms that clearly will improve the system. That effort seems to be stuck as we instead pause to relitigate the advances of
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by purplezooey 11mo ago
Part of the reason PE succeeds is their choice of things that have a large or lengthy startup cost or other supply restrictions. Most towns will support only 1 hockey arena. Or lately, with veterinarians. New supply is complex and doesn&
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by purplezooey 11mo ago
Awkward writing in this article. "McDonald’s executives say the higher costs of restaurant essentials, such as beef and salaries, have pushed food prices up..." Beef and... salaries? I think I found the name of my new fast food
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by purplezooey 11mo ago
Netflix joins everyone else jumping on the "rules for thee, but not for me" train.
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by purplezooey 1y ago
There are some interesting points, but a few cringe things. 1) (referring to the Antifraud Company) "...they call themselves “a private-sector DOGE” -- Not exactly putting your best foot forward. 2) OpenAI paid $6.5B for Jony Ive'
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by purplezooey 1y ago
Mainly categorical wildfire-related funding. It's a shell of what it was, we've been cutting it for 40 years. Most ranger stations run skeleton crews.
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by purplezooey 1y ago
I like how the author threw this in as (nearly) the last sentence: Of course, the AI talent war may end up being an expensive and misguided strategy, stoked by hype and investor over-exuberance.
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by purplezooey 1y ago
Perhaps best modeled as a waveform that starts before morning coffee. Each engineer has a vector of spectral magnitudes.
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by purplezooey 1y ago
Appreciated the unexpected Hofstadter sighting!
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by purplezooey 1y ago
That MIT report shall now be known as the Paper that Spawned a Thousand Churnalisms.
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by purplezooey 1y ago
The strange thing is, if, in 1995, one were to write an article about building a computer in 1965, it would have involved a room full of gear for e.g. an IBM System/360. The rate of change has slowed.
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by purplezooey 1y ago
It seems that a lot of businesses barely function. They're often stuffed with overpaid executives while the actual business wheezes along, barely managing to get its product out the door. More attention is usually paid to reducing co
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by purplezooey 1y ago
This was table stakes not long ago. There seems to be an increase in apps/UIs blaming the network for what is clearly poor performance on the backend, as well.
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by purplezooey 1y ago
As others mentioned, self-checkout has been widespread for 30 years. They had it at most stores in the 1990s. The answer is, simply, it's cheaper for companies to hire someone at a non-living wage than it is to install and maintain t
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by purplezooey 1y ago
Strangely addicting :)
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by purplezooey 1y ago
More like pickleball
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by purplezooey 1y ago
I had been working on something like it when I came across this. Excellent work. Love the demo.
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by purplezooey 2y ago
I have been going to IETFs on and off for 20 years. As if the past few months were not nauseating enough in the US, I never thought I would see my own country on a page like this, and described in this way, and I feel even more deeply sadd
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by purplezooey 2y ago
I appreciated calling out the well-known job role known as: "Fly from one exotic location to another and argue over which post-physics-experiment algorithm is the most cromulent." Every tech company maintains a select cadre of ho
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by purplezooey 2y ago
"Over the past year or so, I've reluctantly come to the conclusion I need to leave Elm and migrate to some other MUA like PINE or mutt..."
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by purplezooey 2y ago
This is like a misguided, unhinged sermon from the Victorian era with a few references to Chipotle added.
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by purplezooey 2y ago
It seems that the brief period where demand vastly outstripped the supply of workers in many sectors (2021-2023) really terrified the leadership of many companies. Workers gaining a sliver of leverage is clearly something they are working
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by purplezooey 2y ago
"Demolition Crew"? That's a very kind euphemism for a collection of sycophant clowns that have no experience in government. Indeed I could not find a single one that had any experience.
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by purplezooey 2y ago
Well, Vonnegut was right. It's just a dog's breakfast.

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