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Yeah me too in 1982, using the Melbourne House Z80 reference, aged a young 10 years old. Working with POKE and no macro-assembler, I wrote mnemonics then translated them to machine…

Ironically the power per cycle is decreasing - power and thermal dissipation are really the limits NVIDIA is exploring. It’s what the software does with those cycles that is leapin…

You're right, it's astroturfing a placeholder in the market in the absence of product. The difference is probably just the target audience - feels like this one is more aimed at sh…

Landlords -> lobbyists of large real estate investment corporations. One of the biggest social crimes is enabling housing ownership companies to become large investment vehicles.

Post-production QA is an industry problem in general - the difference between systems is who does the QA. In the dealership model - after transit, they do a once over and post-prod…

Doesn't matter if you like or dislike the T-word or EM-himself. Fact is they have built one hell of an experienced/industrialized muscle in this field. That experience is priceless…

Datacenter mode - ~11yrs in the making - nice find

“Remove my details” that asks that I sign-in to Google. Privacy-washing.

Consider what the Union goal is - expansion of membership and increased funding/power/leverage. Uber’s goal is brand-washing. Fighting employment law is a cynical win-win for the U…

Funny thing is this cycle seems broken. So many deep pocketed competitors have stomped in and skewed the content market by showering money on all the producers. In turn this has dr…

I spend more time on Netflix looking for things to watch than watching things. This isn't necessarily a Netflix thing - it's a streaming industry problem - driven by short supply a…

At 550km altitude, each Starlink satellite in low-earth orbit has a visible horizon of only about 700mi, and I suspect usable range that is much smaller, probably low 100’s of mile…

Seems unlikely, more probable is that you’ll have other problems. I suspect there are other differences in the equipment and service delivery to tolerate ocean conditions.

Maybe in 1,700yrs they'll see us...

Used magnet for years - absolutely gamechanging for OS/X when coming from Windows/snap-window

Came here to write the same - that was amazing...

I spent a couple of decades in big-tech, and of-that did adtech for about 5yrs - we captured, aggregated, cooked out activity streams from billions of toolbar, browser, and beacon …

Ads is just one of their businesses, consider FBLogin and 3rd party data-access e.g. full-name, date-of-birth, email address, friends, the list goes on...

Pretty much every cellphone/app user dimension is available for a price on the open market. What you do think Facebook et.al, sells when an app user allows background tracking? Is …

Headline feels a little misleading, they didn’t track phones per se, they bought data from one of the dozens of cellphone data-brokers that continue to operate despite legislation …

At what point are "eyewitness testimonies" and "identity parades" going to legitimately be called out as questionable. The science certainly points towards their lack of credibilit…

They already do - Residential Energy Code - 402.1.1 TLDR - R21 in the walls, R49 in the roof, R30 in the floors. It’s paired with credits for retrofitting to a reasonable level.

This is probably the most insightful answer, the system is geared to rewarding creation of the next greatest technology . Sustaining what ever your predecessor did just doesn’t get…

It feels like Google’s attention span, leadership longevity, and product development patience is roughly 3 years. Any product that survives longer than that probably has transcende…

I think I covered those poin in calling out the cost model elements - renting the “bottom third” of the costs via managed facilities, BMaaS etc. helps in terms of reducing or elimi…