renton_wal

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by renton_wal 5y ago
> WW84 was the biggest HBO Max exclusive to date. im not sure that's a comment in your favor ;) ww84 was pretty bad. i imagine it drove some signups, but not as many as hbo would have hoped for > People did signup to watch that m
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by renton_wal 5y ago
> both in theaters and streaming Yeah, but that was on HBO max. That had, at the time, less than 1/5 the users of netflix. Wonder Woman was clearly a marquee title designed to get signups, but that strategy is always risky and not s
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by renton_wal 5y ago
> more people saw this movie than any Star Wars movie is baffling Is it? It's much easier than going to the movies. You could literally watch it on the toilet. I can imagine that if, for $20, you were magically and instantly transpo
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by renton_wal 5y ago
Charging a modern electric car is like charging many drone batteries at the same time with one power strip. It's not like charging one or two cells. In this case, the "power strip" is passing 50kw and needs active cooling.
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by renton_wal 5y ago
> But why do you even have to start with To address a common complaint? Frankly, I have no trouble at all and I think most people are complaining due to change - a tale of software developing old as time
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by renton_wal 5y ago
> commercial and industrial use cases > unsuitable for consumer devices that need computing power a SBC offers PLC is not "consumer". "for industry" devices often have service contracts and dedicated staff whose jo
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by renton_wal 5y ago
Raspberry Pis, as are most consumer sbcs, are extremely unsuitable for an embedded, high reliability consumer device. For a whole bunch of reasons, from reliability, to form factor, to pricing, to technical concerns (such as IO).
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by renton_wal 5y ago
> use something that destroys CPU and battery Before you even mentioned falcond, I immediately knew that it was clownstrike
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by renton_wal 5y ago
I'm not saying they were copying the concept of sattelite imagery, but rather they were late to the business model of maps-as-a-service. And thus, significant components of their modern (after usgs) imagery had licensing terms onerous
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by renton_wal 5y ago
All speculation, but I bet they screwed themselves on licensing. Google put a ton of money into acquiring mapping visuals themselves, as did apple. Microsoft simply licensed the hell out of it. When Google was ready, they were able to sell
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by renton_wal 5y ago
Can you speak to yourself in your head? I also think there's a difference between involuntary and voluntary inner voice.
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by renton_wal 5y ago
I don't always use my inner voice. I arrange all of the conditions in my head and then logically and rapidly resolve them. In your example, I wouldn't engage my inner voice for something that simple. If it was planning much more s
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by renton_wal 5y ago
Interesting about how there's different shades of this. I have an inner voice when I'm working through a problem, but I don't rely on it. I can definitely do abstract and complicated thinking without engaging it. It's a