What a trip down memory lane, thanks for this. I was running a hardware review aggregator site in the 90s, and dpreview and the above provided quality content. When search engines were not great and link sharing / exchanges were useful, what a time it was.
Absolutely correct. Chatted with him several times circa 2015 to 2016 when working out of Capital Factory in Austin. He was present for all sorts of event such as mentor hours, startup pitches, etc. Funnily enough, he would give you a very stern look if he thought you were taking him for a ride. Have not been there recently as as much as I would like, but I imagine he is still around to be found.
This one is legendary especially in hot seat mode. So many summer hours with cousins were spent playing this, fond memories. Now if I can hook my young ones on this or civilisation, I will fear long airplane flights no more.
Indeed, what a fantastic story and read, thanks for sharing. I can barely bring myself to drive to NM or big bend from Austin, and here you were going to cross the state on horseback, and then some. I'll bookmark this for when I lack motivation
In addition, and not considering privacy concerns, I've found relegating them to kids entertainment to be a pretty good use case. Conversations go into all sorts of random directions, it misunderstand most of the intent which can be very funny at time, answers incorrectly, but the kids don't mind at bit and simply keep on going.
Been probably 30 years since I played it last, but that would so make sense wouldn't it. I don't think I figured that out back then, wow. Still, the interface compared to all the other adventure games at that time was just so different and full of wonder, I kept coming back until I finished the darn game.
Additionally, transistors can experience aging through various mechanisms [1], some of which are permanent and some of which can be fixed with a reset. Most manifest via a shift in threshold voltage of the transistors, which can impact the operating frequency of chips or stability of sensitive circuits such as memory cells. When ICs are designed they usually have a lifetime operating profile, i.e 5y or 10y with max voltage and operation for x% of that lifetime at a given temperature. Simulations are then run pre and post degradation to ensure requirements can be met. Different fabs such as tsmc and samsung will provide models/info for the transistor aging as part of their design tool kits.
This is very informative. During the financial crises of 2007 to 2010 about 3 to 4M properties went into foreclosure. I have not looked into statistics of home ownership vs rent for those impacted by covid, but given the number of infected you stated and if there are long term care requirements, could this lead to another large set of foreclosures? Unlike last time though, the housing supply currently seems fairly tight in many areas, so a large pricing collapse downward seems not nearly as likely.
This is a similar observation I've made on BB. When CC went under, I was fairly certain that BB was on the chopping block next, and I though Fry's would be the last one standing. Forward 15 years and the fortunes of BB and Fry's seem vastly different. Although I'm not sure how they accomplished this, buying last second supplies over the last few years when I ran a business shifted back to BB, because they managed their inventory better than Fry's and had more items in stock when we needed it in a pinch. So convenience and sufficient selection, with good enough prices are somewhere in that playbook
One thing that has to be considered and can become an issue with under volting is that multiple transistors make up circuits. Some times these transistors work together and some times they fight each other. Even two transistors in close proximity to each other on the same chip will be slightly different due to variation. As voltage decreases for some circuits this variation between transistors gets exposed as one transistor approaches the treshold voltage while the other may not, while at higher voltages this slight variation may not come into play as strongly, leading to outright failures or stability problems that get exposed at particular frequencies.
Curious as I don't know the terms of a perpetual architectural ARM license. But, is it valid only for a specific architecture, say v8 or v9, or is it valid for all future architectures as well? Or is it one of those things, where it depends per licensee and how they negotiated?
Been enjoying 11ty very much as well as of lately. Most of the things have worked for me first time around as well. One thing which has tripped me up has been the flexibility of the different template engines, and in what order files get processed during build when one mixes markdown, njk, liquid etc. That section is worth reading carefully in the manual. Other than that, simple as heck with very few constraints.
Thanks for sharing, this brought back some great memories. I grew up in Wuppertal and took the Schwebebahn all the time, fantastic ride to avoid traffic. You can still book the classical Kaiserwagen I believe for special occasions, although I think it may not be possible now during COVID.
This is a very interesting question. With everyone fabbing at TSMC (amd, nvidia, apple, google?, amazon?, aspiring startups) I could see a bidding war for volume guarantees if there is a volume problem going forward. Some of these players have deeper pockets and margins than others.
Used to work at Computer City in the mid 90s. It was not always that easy to verify if you had the right product in the box even when opening a returned item, especially if you were not familiar with the product being returned. Looking things up on the internet was not always possible / slow.
Every store did have a shrink wrap machine which were used nightly. Hard to say how many improperly returned products were resold back then, or even how many goods may have been repackaged in the back warehouse on reception before ever hitting the floor.
I agree on PC being much better in tracking investments and performance especially as net worth increases compared to mint. I have also found it to be more solid connection wise vs. Mint over the last year where mint has really gone downhill for me for some reasonwith many unresolved issues, whereas the PC support tickets I filed were resolved rather promptly. Not all is great, categorization and tagging of transaction is terrible, and you can't have sub categories, so if you need that, you need to use something else, which is not great.
This seems about right. Also, there is a time frame when a new complex after completion transitions from a short term builder/construction loan to a long term permanent loan. For that loan as mentioned above the building is valued at theoretical sum of it leases by the bank. Thus for that loan it is better to show high actual rents and extrapolate to secure a better loan value / term.
Thanks for the input. I was assuming things may have improved since I last used them a few years ago. My experience was similar to what you mentione above, back then. This may save me some time evaluating options for future ventures.
Good for them. Used them for startup a few years ago. Worked really well and super simple to use when all employees were in a single state and we only utilized their payroll services. Once we started venturing into offering health insurance to employees though and our employees spread across multiple states / countries we were not able to customize the plans to our liking (we had some very specific ideas about how we wanted to subsidize insurance) and ended up switching to different provider. We ended up trading the nice Gusto (ZenPayroll) interface for a much more clunky one and most likely a higher premium, but the other provider was able to customize our packages without us having to devote much time to it, which at that point was worth the trade off. I'm sure Gusto has improved hence, and I would likely give them another try today as needed. By the way, for those switching payroll providers, in my experience it is better to do either on a quarter end or year end - while not necessary by any means, it can make it easier to gather all needed documents in case there are tax questions down the road.
A good follow on to this study, along the lines of tennis, would be how the introduction of polyester strings to the pro game about 20 years ago [1] impacted the game, for younger and older players - to see if similar conclusions can be reached. For myself as an older tennis player with a well developed game, I had a much harder time adjusting to this newer type of strings than many younger players. Even though the theory and what had to be done made sense, overcoming muscle memory and ingrained habits proved very difficult - of course I'm just a sample size of 1.
Reading through your blog entry: "When the data to be processed is sensitive, Snark Infer will dispatch the task only to Privacy Shield Verified GPU providers." - can you shed some light as to a) what a privacy shield verified GPU provider is? b) how data sensitivity is specified or determined? (I did not see either mentioned in the docs yet)
Still using the 640 as my primary phone for the exact same reasons and really can't complain. Picked up a few of them when they were giving them away practically for free, simply because of the quality and sturdiness of the device - and the fact that I seem to rough or incapable of keeping nice and expensive device in proper operating condition. It has pretty much all the apps that I would need, with the one exceptions, as someone noted in another comment, some of the banking apps. Funny enough, for that problem I keep an old android phone around to use in wifi mode. I do get a bit of crap when someone notices it is a windows pone, but hey, it is a good conversation starter over a few pints.
Good idea from the perspective of not exposing the code base. However, technologies such as remote Cuda/OpenCL which rely on remote execution of compute kernels in general require high-bandwidth and low-latency connectivity - this is especially true for deep learning / AI workloads, not necessarily for other applications which may have a higher computer to data transfer / synchronization ratios. The latency on a typical internet connection will likely stall the GPUs on a remote system, yielding little compute benefit.
This would be the equivalent of a month to month lease, and many landlords will be open to that, although for a slightly higher price as they have to account for a potentially higher turnover. Additionally, many lease contracts have early termination clauses that leave a door way open to early termination by agreement of both parties, thus as long as the tenant and landlord are willing to work out something, what you suggest above is clearly attainable, and much preferred over an eviction - it just requires a conversation between the two parties. Now if either of the parties is unreasonable of course or unwilling to even entertain a conversation, no sort of contract will help.
^ exactly this - evictions can be very stressful and overall very expensive. Although most contracts are written such that they make it seem that the landlord will go after you should you need to get out of a lease early - most smaller landlords would rather you part willingly as soon as possible and would rather turn the property around as quickly as possible without having to go through the eviction process.
This is a valid concern, which is one of the reasons we publish these AMIs through the AWS marketplace. Each of these AMIs had to go through the AWS security checker script as well as a manual review by the AWS marketplace team, please see the "Securing an AMI" section here.
Going through the AWS audit does take a few days to say the least and can be a hassle at times, but usually we are pretty close to the latest master / release.