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I don't know if there's any truth to this, but I heard that there were also issues that could arise more easily with electrically conductive thermal paste and that there was essentially fraud going on where lower end SKUs were being passed off as higher end units. That being said, that seems like something that would only affect the consumer used market.

If the cheapest is $25/month, I think it would just make sense to get a used school/office PC. I was able to pick up a used Haswell i5, 8GB of memory PC for $200, which you would probably get better performance out of, and break even at ~8 month mark. That being said, pandemic prices might shift those numbers.

But if the optimal strategy only falls apart for uncommon events that you can't determine when they happen, how much of an incentive is there to run a conservative/gambling strategy like that?

Pokemon!

So is this saying that a possible modern day commercial for a Game Boy might feature: "The artisanal properties of the Nintendo Game Boy make each and every one a unique playing experience!"?

GPT6 escaped from Google!

I thought a lot of those videos worked off of nerve impulses at the terminated end of the limb.

Is there even a viable way to compensate mods financially? It seems like it'd be far too expensive, excepting a few major subreddits, which doesn't even get into other issues. You'd have to eventually evaluate and manage mods, which is difficult since the evaluators would have to be good enough subject matter experts to evaluate a mod, then you'd have the problem of communities getting split because they don't like the "man" policing them, even if they are doing a good job. There are also so many subreddits already that look like tribal echo chambers utilizing a "you're either with us or against us" frame of mind that you'd just have to shut them down.

Great choice of a domain.

It feels cozy. I can already hear the faint buzz of the CRT and see my dim reflection on the curved glass.

How much of that is developers doing it because they want to make something new?

I thought the UK was big into competitive bike culture, what with having big champs like Cavendish and Froome, the Ineos Grenadiers being based there too, as a really successful team.

I don't know if it's intentional, but it feels like you're implying these people are actively looking to cause crashes.

Safety, storage, terrain capabilities, and "command position" are all going to be factors.

Drones are going to force changes to those rules, if they haven't already.

I'd taken up biking during the pandemic, and for a while was doing a loop from south Tempe to Tempe Town Lake and back. In a 4 month period, I was almost run over twice biking through downtown Tempe. Both times from right turning drivers where I had to swerve out of the way before they finally noticed me.

Regardless of the infrastructure, which is just passable by US standards in the downtown area, people just are not expecting cyclists.

I loved watching those numbers go up between visits! As a kid, I would naively think: "This many new people experienced this as well". Of course thinking back, many of those could have been repeat visitors, but it's still so cool to think about.

After travelling in Japan, I was really surprised by how cheap apartments are in Tokyo. For reference, this was 3 years ago near the big main Sumo arena/dojo, at around $800 USD/month, and fast food was around $4 USD/meal.

I don't know anything about the income tax rates, but 65-70% pay seems like you'd take home more than an SFer being paid SF rates.

To solve the hiring problem that seems rampant in the industry, I propose for all resumes that get past the auto-filter, we just implement a lottery system. Maybe it'll be even more effective than the current method!

Not to mention the compounding effects of getting that business advantage earlier than others in the same space. If you can lie and say you have e2e encryption to scoop up market share before anyone else, even if the bare-faced lie gets revealed like it did here, not all of the clients who signed up are going to leave you, and you already have market inertia as a big player that will help you keep growing.

I don't think most people at the IC/engineering level would choose that culture, but once they're in and inundated into that environment, how many are going to propagate it out of habit? That's the risk.

And the music that you listen to is what, objectively better?

Not to mention the whole Starcraft BW esports fiasco with KeSPA.

I think humans are pretty good at finding the optimum strategy. It's only really recently that bots have overtaken us in a lot of highly environmentally complex games.

Fuck those people. When I was starting out, I had to work with a company like that. No questions for me, no resources or backup, minimal direction; I was never once relied on for direction or advice despite being the one most qualified to give it, which I did on many occasions, none of it taken.

In fact, after I left, I came to the realization that the leadership team had first licensed the initial product, then basically contracted out all the changes they could do to patent it separately, essentially doing none of the actual developmental work themselves.

Unsurprisingly, it was a shitshow.

And exactly what we don't need is an "us vs. them" to solve the problem.

I didn't actually believe you, until I saw that you can spec it with 1.5TB of memory. So yeah, that's where most of the cost comes in.

Might be a case of sunk cost fallacy. The article mentions that while vendors were asking for 64 bit, they didn't want to cannibalize Itanium, but were forced to anyway when AMD came out with their 64 bit pentium compatible CPU.

I went to college in 2010, and it's unreal to hear about beer vending machines.

Authenticated videos maybe?

I used to work at in construction as an estimator and we used spreadsheets. No backups, no version control, a single value change took 10s of minutes to propagate through the many sheets in the file. We fixed errors when we saw them, but I always felt it was an exercise in pointlessness.

These were not small companies either, ~$800M in yearly revenue for one, and ~$150M for the other.

Then, afterwards, the end value would be massaged to what felt right. And yet, these sheets were seen as part of the "secret sauce" of the business.

It's one of the reasons I really wanted out.

Programmers have a reputation of being arrogant assholes, but I think this push-back and ridiculing other industries of using excel for stuff like this is completely justified. Excel spreadsheets let these people FEEL productive and like masters of their own fate with a bunch of numbers neatly encapsulated in their own little cells in a table, but their actual usefulness is questionable. For construction, it gives a rough feel for a project, but a lot of it is smoke and mirrors.