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Very cool. I've also had to do multiple versions of something like this ... also for healthcare. I got very good at Sikuli and Charles Web Debugging proxy back in the day.

Yea that could have been worded better. My point was more that the banks didn't turn into software (an app) with just developers working on it, just that the labor force that was d…

Two anecdotes I'll share: First: Most people believe it was Netflix that killed Blockbuster, but that's not strictly correct. It was the combination of Netflix and Redbox that real…

I was so proud of myself in college when I could finally name all those books in the bar scene.

I wonder if I can strap this to my Roborock from 2020 and train it to pick up socks. Roborock sells a new model that does this [1] but it costs $3,000 and I refuse to pay that on p…

So I've driven Route 50 between Tahoe and Placerville a few times. Many of these times the weather has been quite bad. Many of these times I've had to wait for hours while an accid…

I'm not that old, and I still remember being really disappointed when something wasn't in my home (book) Encyclopedia. Then you would trudge to the library to find maybe one book o…

Didn't know he worked on Black & White. Black & White was really ahead of it's time for 2001, it did a much better job of having NPC simulations in groups based on how you played a…

Was shocked to hear this news. I worked for Google years ago but I was in the NYC office, so we didn't run into the YouTube folks much. Opinions about YouTube may be mixed here on …

> coal (a fuel you can run the engine on) is of course going to be very cheap and abundant directly above the mine where it is being produced and for the atmospheric engine to make…

> I was perusing some Simpsons clips this afternoon and came across a story to the effect of "So and so didn't want to play himself, so Dan Castellaneta did the voice." IANAL, but …

Ok I didn't believe you at first, but holy crap you're right, they didn't even do the voices. Not going to lie part of my childhood died a little :(. "Help" is them though I watche…

If you have time, I highly recommend reading other articles in Bret's blog. His write-up of how the roman legions got paid was my favorite read for a few weeks [1]. The detail of a…

This only would have worked if it was animated. The 1977 Hobbit film which was produced for NBC [1] was a excellent adaptation, and Yellow Submarine is in the same style. I would a…

I used to use the WeWork on the bottom floor (technically partial basement). This is definitely the vibe: Huge open floor, no windows. WeWork did an OK job trying to light it but, …

Amazon and Uber are definitely different, but in 2003 Amazon's market cap was about $21B, or ~$36B in today's dollars. Uber is actually bigger than that in value today (~$144.11B).…

This is correct. For the most part, you are taking the money from your profit centers to invest in new initiatives. Could be geo's, could also be verticals, etc. This is not at all…

So if MS-DOS 4 was released in 1986, and it is now 2024, that's a 37 year gap between release and open source. That means Windows XP should be open sourced by ... 2038. Not as far …

I have a lot of tech / healthcare couples in my friend group and this is definitely the arrangement. Especially true since healthcare careers have very different timelines than tec…

Honestly, makes sense. This is how much of finance runs their models.

> Engineers, saving your program time and money out of the sheer laziness of not wanting to make a new XML format for an instrumentation project. This is how progress is made in th…

If you're interested in a visual of how different welds interact with the metal, I watched this video on SpaceX's Starship welding that was helpful [1]. Something I try to remember…