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DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS. I downloaded (not Shattered) Pixel Dungeon and then Shattered, and nearly a decade later I'm still playing. In fact it's 70% of my non-work computing time. No…

His beginnings were humble enough, so I'm not sure what your point is. I don't believe for a second that any of NVDA's success was handed to him or them - they effectively helped c…

This.

I managed to see him perform several times around that era. One concert I recall Shane managed to sing only three or so songs. He fell backwards, and was eventually dragged off sta…

It's also much more usable than the UX mess that is Google Maps. I don't use either enough to specifically triage what's going on with Google Maps - all I know is the last half doz…

Is this a modern wood stove or insert? I recently bought one for a new home we're building, and from my research they're incredibly efficient these days. Not installed yet so we wi…

The hard work I'm referring to is all the effort to get to place where you have even be "lucky" or serendipitous. For example, professional networking is a tremendous amount of wor…

Luck in my experience, is really hard work. Getting to a place you can leverage opportunities really, but yeah.

Exactly! In whichever market that you can sell dirty bathwater, I think they may have an advantage over my sales of "Smelly Old Nerd dirty bath water". I'll either find a better ch…

Distribution channels are endless, and as large as Amazon is, they are only one amongst many, albeit with plenty of vertically integrated advantages. In the case of a firepit, loca…

Neither did Amiga. Also OS/2 was performant on equivalent hardware at the time.

I remember meeting NVIDIA in the late aughts (2007?) first launching their CUDA efforts. Really the product was a re-branded 780GTX or whatever their high end gaming card was at th…

This organisation was big on that conspiracy (??) theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

A rising tide raises all boats. North and Central America will be an economic power house soon. A few regions just need to get more of their collective sh!t together.

They've employed a "Amazon is the first and best customer" for most of the services they've launched. Amazon.com / AWS is an example.

No. Architects are about end results and "vision". General contractors, while imperfect, should be about getting it built. So an architect you should roughly expect getting somethi…

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I think the Japanese language has a pregnant pause that's part of the language. Or I think that's the intent (I barely understand Japanese). But in many a meeting someone will say …

Nope. :( To add some context to those not from that era. Dejanews was the only practical way to search USENET at all, so it was effectively a USENET search engine with a crude web …

Google in many ways helped sink USENET by acquiring Dejanews, then slowly replacing the USENET functionality with Google News. Dejanews, in hindsight could have been a pretty reaso…

In the US and the Americas it won't have a severe impact. Most countries in America should hold up, and Canada has relatively high immigration levels, so there's that. Much of Euro…

It isn't dissimilar to other missteps they made in the past as well. Early tablets powered by Windows XP. Windows CE and embedded. Phones. Their wins are massive. Really enterprise…

I'm betting by next week.

The Laserwriter was one of the first accessible laser printers. And also the first with Postscript. It was super expensive (easily more than the Macintosh needed to print to it) bu…

They may not necessarily be lazy OR entitled. Every business has it's laundry list of problems. Every business. Your list of problems and worldview may differ a great from their da…