foobarian

The vibe I get is like when the Meta VR app store product launched, and there was huge promises and optimism about all the amazing apps and experiences, but when you bought it and actually tried, it was a few juiced up flagship things and a bunch of shovelware.

OK sooo... is there a way to get investors to cover the legal costs?

Or just outright sell the patents to a competing big company and let them duke it out. Now at least you end up with some money.

How the heck do you even climb this. I don't see any places to grab hold? There are gaps between the cubes I guess but those seem awfully smooth and slippery...

Really wonder if corporal punishment wasn't such a bad idea after all

This almost reminds me of the Ancien regime mess with a million different taxes and fees on everything

Could be zero orders too if they are fulfilling a back order

As Arturo Salazar said, "Addicts? They treat themselves... they overdose, and there is one less to worry about." Dark movie

I did this for a couple of years but after my mileage didn't budge regardless of summer/winter/car age/mechanical work I got bored and stopped recording :-)

Stadia? GeForce Now? Xbox Cloud Gaming? :-)

I feel like Sun's main problem was that that era was pretty much the steepest part of the Intel S curve as far as chip performance goes, and it was outpacing the older chips on fab progress alone. I'm pretty sure had something like TSMC been around then at current strength, and Sun fabbed their excellent designs there, we'd have a mirror of what Apple is doing but in server space.

That just feels like an extension of how things used to be done back then, especially on DOS. Making a recipe app? A bookkeeping app? A paint program? Well, you start by making a UI library first, and the product stuff got done eventually.

Then there was a transitionary period where common UIs were available, but not that great and individual shops could still easily create better experiences on their own. See eg Winamp. But eventually shared UI stacks got better and doing your own thing became a bad experience, see eg the Java UI libraries.

At least the next generations past 2-3 probably won't have the genetic problems we saw with the Habsburgs

Now here I thought it was the Byzantine Theme in the Caucases

I feel like this pattern is a great way to practice and sharpen critical thinking. It's like a whole new skill to deal with computing systems in this way.

My impression was that the frontier AI coding models are kind of resetting the barriers to entry/reward ratios to before the dot com boom, when people didn't go into this career for money, and so most folks that ended up in it were the 1% kind of talents who really wanted it. Perhaps that's an elitist thing to say? I don't know. That's not to say that AI is pushing people away from computing, it's just that it's creating such massive low resistance paths to getting to the goal without the "productive friction."

p.s. and at the same time, it's such a fantastic learning tool. It distills the intuition of a whole world and is able to transmit it on demand, like in your examples. It's an interesting dichotomy.

I'm not sure when the lamb chops started showing up in local supermarkets but it feels like it's recent. I dress them in olive oil + kosher salt + crushed garlic + chopped thyme and oregano, and then grill over lump charcoal.

In that case they should have those giant propellers that seem to spin at a few rotations per minute

So it's like two kubernetes pods happen to run on the same node.

> Of course, we've had the ability to extinct ourselves for decades

This gets mentioned often in various doomer narratives, but I question how true it is. A global thermonuclear war would be terrible and would bring us back to the stone age, but I reckon it would come far far short of causing mankind to go extinct.

This was a fun thread to lurk on but it's kinda fascinating that there is so much debate about something that should be seemingly well known and documented. It's like having a couple of software engineers debate what e.g. a Java static initializer does :-)

People keep saying this and yet I struggle to find a decent sized house battery that doesn't cost as much as a new car.

Clankers found me one study [1] that suggests total handling costs may actually be this bad, but are highly business dependent e.g. restaurants are worse than grocery stores

[1] https://www.ihlservices.com/product/the-cost-of-cash-handlin...

Huh, I thought accepting legal tender was a federal rule, I guess not. Looks like a salad variety of regulations that vary by state and city.

Maybe an increasing share of their market are people like me, that is, old and blind :-D

But.. what if it's true? It's like not wearing a seat belt, or smoking, or drinking while driving. If AV are widely available it becomes similarly opt-in high risk behavior.

Just remember Charles Dickens was paid by the word too

Wonder if there should be a "UBI reservation" set up where everyone gets it, and very basic needs like housing and food are taken care of in a self-sustaining manner with machines. (which is the whole premise, everything is automated so nobody needs to work). Then people who don't like the freeloading can opt out and live as usual, and those who like it can move to the reservation.

I've heard this advice a lot with respect to graduate school/PhD work. And indeed, the students that came from industry jobs tended to be much more impressive; some of that was probably from the "real-world" experience, and some probably from a self-selection effect where folks who came in from a presumably well paying job had to have really wanted it and were therefore more motivated.

There used to be one at the museum of natural history in NYC, where if you didn't have the supplies you could pay a dollar to get 4 quarters to activate the machine and a penny to squish. It was a legit infinite money bug in the real world :-)

I am doing well with remote because I'm pathologically introverted and find that being around people is exhausting. I can imagine things being the other way around for extroverts and that is saddening.