stephbu

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by stephbu 1y ago
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-code by hand. A baptism of fire that to this day that I&#
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by stephbu 2y ago
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 leaping exponentially.
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by stephbu 3y ago
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 share-holders and internal politics.
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by stephbu 3y ago
Landlords -> lobbyists of large real estate investment corporations. One of the biggest social crimes is enabling housing ownership companies to become large investment vehicles.
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by stephbu 4y ago
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-production/transit repairs before the car appears on the lo
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by stephbu 4y ago
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 right now - Ford, VW, GM etc. don't just nee
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by stephbu 4y ago
Datacenter mode - ~11yrs in the making - nice find
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by stephbu 4y ago
“Remove my details” that asks that I sign-in to Google. Privacy-washing.
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by stephbu 4y ago
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 Union and Uber in this instance - member welfare b
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by stephbu 4y ago
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 drove up the pricing, enabled exploitation by subpar producer
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by stephbu 4y ago
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 and high demand with having multiple competitors in
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by stephbu 4y ago
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 miles. To extend range to a ground-station beyond that will pro
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by stephbu 4y ago
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.
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by stephbu 4y ago
Maybe in 1,700yrs they'll see us...
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by stephbu 4y ago
Used magnet for years - absolutely gamechanging for OS/X when coming from Windows/snap-window
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by stephbu 4y ago
Came here to write the same - that was amazing...
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by stephbu 4y ago
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 events per day, for real-time, long and short-term user prof
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by stephbu 4y ago
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...
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by stephbu 4y ago
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 it unethical to study behavior of the populous? If an
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by stephbu 4y ago
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 and congressional action/in-action.
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by stephbu 4y ago
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 credibility in many many circumstances. I guess t
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by stephbu 4y ago
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.
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by stephbu 4y ago
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 prizes.
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by stephbu 4y ago
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 transcended beyond being a “pet project/toy” into a PR-problem o
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by stephbu 4y ago
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 eliminating capital expenses and some human toil especially in a
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by stephbu 4y ago
Fair point, I guess the point is that unallocated resources - space/power/servers etc. can become huge stealth money sinks, eating budget every hour of every day. Being cognizant of the consumption economics before you stump up f
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by stephbu 4y ago
I broadly agree with the statement that owning an OS in general is toil that applies any of these IaaS/VPS/BM scenarios. Owning a BM server different toil - server parts fail, the network it attaches to needs control and it fails
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by stephbu 4y ago
It’s pretty hard to generalize this without qualifiers. Electricity can be the most expensive problem, but it requires carefully planned control of the other factors - e.g large scale with highly automated servers, network, and meat-reduci
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by stephbu 4y ago
To add to this statement - don’t make any investment unless you have a solid plan to fully utilize it for the full length of the purchase terms. This applies as much to AWS @ minute terms, as it does to a rental @ daily terms, as it does
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by stephbu 4y ago
Watching the “Making of the Interstellar Soundtrack” is quite simply inspiring. The process and mechanics of making such moving art with such primative tools is amazing. “On the Nature of Daylight” by Max Richter used in the opening scenes

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