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None of the other 6502 machines could compete with Commodore in a price war because Commodore owned MOS technologies. The C64 was all custom chips, which is why it was much cheaper than other machines with similar capability. Apple may have been able to drop the price but they were never going to get down to VIC 20 and C64 prices.

Commodore failed to invest in R&D so by the time the AGA Amiga's came out they had to outsource the fabrication and it ballooned their costs.
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Genuinely curious and prioritize frugality, how will I save money buying any EV over a 2-3 yeard old Civic or Corolla? Gas is <$2 gallon here.
The solid state batteries from ionic materials (https://ionicmaterials.com/) seem very promising in a quicker timeframe. Ie I could imagine them being able to fit a much higher density in the same volume given the stability of the material.
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"Basically, everything should be a battery skateboard riding on asphalt by way of rubber." What a wildly narrow view on transportation.

Latency and efficiency matter.
Take two extremes. Air vs rail. Air (chopper) is wildly inefficient (maintenance and energy). Rail has twice the efficiency of a hybrid car.

If you make everything a "car" you end up with a world where the ambulance and the big rig are both stuck in rush hour traffic.
I find it hard to believe that the Commodore 8-bit line would be competing w/ the IBM PC in any real sense. The natural upgrade path from a Commodore 8-bit was an Atari ST or Amiga, not an IBM PC.
Until someone from 4chan figures out how to use reflections and patterns of lights and shadows on the floor (or who knows what else) to figure out exactly what's in your house, and where it's at.

Oh come on you paranoid luddi-

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Computer vision researchers have uncovered a world of visual signals hiding in our midst, including subtle motions that betray what’s being said and faint images of what’s around a corner.

Oh shit! So much for aiming the camera at the floor, unless you want to be watched and overheard.
It seems like graphene production at scale is something states should be putting money and resources into. It's the kind of thing much more amenable to a "new Manhattan Project" than something like AI.
> The AMA might not control it directly, but like any good union, they are politically active and have members on the relevant controlling bodies...

The first article you link claims (with no basis) that the AMA was responsible for the current funding shortfall. The second article doesn't mention the AMA at all.

In reality, the AMA has been pretty clear and consistent in advocating to increase funding for GME. https://www.ama-assn.org/education/gme-funding/save-graduate...
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Is the 65C816 running at 16 MHz competitive with a 68000, though? The 68k has a 16-bit data bus, compared to the 8-bit bus of the 65C816, and the 68k has a bunch of registers on top of that.

Although 68000 instruction timings weren't that great.
Provided your country is not inherently inhospitable to life, which in this case it isn't, I think it is reasonable for people to have a degree of national pride (in addition to numeric reality of emigration: only so many can go).
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There is very little erosion in the desert, unlike in cities, where acid rain and humidity will break down even the hardiest rocks.
I think the point is that admins are administering their network. Disallowing wireless clients from communicating with one another is SOP.
Ok, this is the 'theory' of the internet, and I'm inclined to agree with it.

But do you have any evidence that there are more talented musicians than ever?

Because they are lacking at my local hot spots - i.e. the bands coming to town are not showcasing much of this. Obviously this has a lot to do with pop culture tastes - and maybe this is the 'other side of the equation' ie 'demand'.

As for 'the commons' - no. There is no return sadly.

'Musician' used to be a job. If you wanted to hear music, it generally had to be live. When rock and roll came along, the number of horn player jobs dropped by 90% - because hey, now you only have a '5 piece' band instead of a '30 piece' band.

With electronic music - there are zero pieces in the band. Just a DJ to press play and to pretend he's busy with the knobs.

Tastes change, which is fine - and it's possible to do a lot with a computer, which is fine - but due to the lower barrier to entry - AND - the 'globalization' of music. FYI what is happening to pop is the same thing happening to Hollywood films, like 'Transformers' - there is literally no plot, just production values - a lot of music is being consumed in the developing world where often taste is simple.

So there are no jobs for musicians anymore, which makes it hard to be in the commons.

Another note on taste: music used to be pretty. It was something almost anyone could enjoy, on some level. All folk music is 'listenable'. All classical is 'listenable'. So is light rock, and easy Jazz. Broadway music - etc..

But some versions of rock, most of rap, 1/2 of hip hop - and a considerable amount of music is not 'unlistenable' to anyone but the people really into that genre. It's now really 'edgy' and contemporary.

For example - Trippie Red, SixNine - even a lot of JayZ - it's only going to ever appeal to a very small group of people. My Grandfather could feasibly listen to a Beyonce song. But he literally won't understand what the sound Trippie Red is making.

That there is talentless, mumbling over noise on video and touring, and that it gets vast attention - more than many musicians ... is problematic. Which gives rise to my final point hinted at above and that it's really just about popularity, not music. Trippie Red makes a little more sound than Kardashian and wears a different label - but it's almost the same thing.

FYI there's a good anecdote about Puff Daddy and is AR guys. His guys would come back from the club and say 'we found a great new sound' and Puff would say 'but how do they look?'.

Getting a face tattoo today is more 'key' to getting acclaim than much else, because it really sticks out on instagram (ie visual) where the competition is.

I truly hope as you say there are actually more 'bedroom masters' than before, I don't see it but I hope I'm wrong.
You'll need a dedicated GPU as the post says
I'm really curious how many applications you will receive on this position. What a super opportunity.
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That's why they're building a factory in Shanghai right now: https://electrek.co/2018/12/31/elon-musk-groundbreaking-tesl...
> or the standalone systems, a constant per-energy-unit battery price of $209/kilowatt-hour (KWh) is assumed, with the system costs vary from $380/kWh (4-hour duration system) to $895/kWh (0.5-hour duration system).

Still seems very low to me. I'm looking at my own 2x powerwall estimate (24 kWh), and it's $450/kWh after all rebates and credits. Maybe they're averaging some state rebate in this methodology.
Looks to me like there's some SSL issues. Regular HTTP works normally but multiple browsers throw an error for SSL:

> An error occurred during a connection to www.framehealth.com. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG
> Gaining followers and financial success is usually a sideshow to the artist's message.

There's a subreddit devoted to the rather painful ridicule of this (unfortunately common) belief. It's /r/ChoosingBeggers and it has lots of tales of people who try and exploit artists for "the exposure" and accuse them of "selling out" when they demand payment for their work.

I know of no professional-grade artists who are happy to give away all their art. Even face painters at fairs charge for their moderately simplistic work.
I use Krita, though it's perhaps not quite the same use case.
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I don’t know what the environment impact per mile for other countries is, but
Norway is 98% hydroelectric, impact ought to be pretty low.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Norway
>> as people who rely on transit in the US are either big city urban elites, or the poor stuck in crappy burbs with shitty mobility.

Clearly we don't ride the same bus. A lot of the urban elites on my bus route are heading downtown to service jobs in hotels, restaurants, and perhaps day-care centers.
The peers can't discover each other without multicast.
> not move to a place without public transport in the first place.

I'm sorry, but that is absurdly bigoted and naive. Pretty much everything you use and own- from cotton, wood, glass, metal ore, food- comes from someplace that isn't a high-density urban city.

Most of those things are produced by people with middle or working class jobs, and public transit isn't an option to get there, nor are they buying extraneous cars to just have lying around. Not only that, but those people have needs too, and so many jobs are located near where they live- everything from grocery stores to car mechanics to regional hospitals.

If they go EV, they're going to get a smaller car, and it's going to cost substantially more than the equivalent ICE. Double the cost of ICE cars, and you're really doing is punishing them for not being wealthy.
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> I don't know if it's bad faith, but you're describing a property the entire society had at the time. Perhaps the unions were worse than most, but that's not the case you're making.

It's not true that lobbying the government to enact explicitly white supremacist legislation is "a property the entire society had at the time".

> Also, it's not clear how your claims and those of the article can't both be true.

It's disingenuous at best for the HN headline to read "Unions Did Great Things for the American Working Class" when unions systematically discriminated against working-class Americans of Chinese, Indian, Mexican, and Japanese descent.
Also the price of RAM dropping nearly tenfold from 1977 to 1981.
> Forward looking statements are speculative, especially when you're innovating new technologies

The innovation comes purely from the battery and associated electronics. The rest of the car is pretty standard and it's in this area where they are having problems.

There are plenty of car companies with electric cars today e.g. Jaguar, BMW, Nissan, GM and in 2019/2020 everyone else is jumping onboard e.g. Audi, Landrover etc. And they have managed to hit their targets.
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Ah, right, I/Q calibration can't suppress anything out-of-band. Makes sense.
> I find it unintentionally funny, as people who rely on transit in the US are either big city urban elites, or the poor stuck in crappy burbs with shitty mobility

So everyone not living in a big city center in the US are now considered the poor. And everyone living in a big city center with a car is now the Elite?
Actually it seems promising people this BS is a consistently reproducible way to make money on the internet. (just look at the number of options and amount of effort people put into all this)

It's a tad bit below my moral standards.
A movie famous (infamous, even) for it's significant non-verbal presentation? That sounds like an exception proving the rule.
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True, but Elon Musk led their series A, which is also when he joined the company along with J.B. Yes Martin and Marc created the company, but it would not be where it is today without Elon Musk.

It doesn't always matter who initially created the company. For example one of the co-founders of Apple was Ronald Wayne, whom the vast majority of people have never heard of. He left Apple very early and sold all his shares back to Jobs and Wozniak for $800.
The supply chain Africa needs is basically the equivalent of a mafia/cia for logistics. Nobody saw you deliver it, nobody knows you got it, everybody can be sure you deliver it onwards.

If people know, they will bleed you dry with social pressure. You can not hold onto wealth and investments if they know.

Have a shop? You need to be able to pretend you are not the owner, and will get fired if you are corrupt.

Are somebody working in a government office? You need the ability to fake that you are powerless.

Try to build infrastructure for that. Cant make a public ledger, where the owner of a asset is not public.
Zenni is pretty amazing but seemingly not well known. Many of my friends with kids buy many cheaper frames from them (kids tend to accidentally destroy glasses it seems)
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A few clarifying points:
* the author specifically said -1% Conversion. If this were AWS, that would mean a daily reduction of $6million in revenue!
* the author specifically says this is for IE users. This implies two things: a) webp is not an option and b) likely we are also talking about lower class of hardware (mom & dad). I would expect WebP had older hardware probably has the same kind of performance tax, but it's harder to identify because at least with IE/Edge there is an implied age-of-hardware
I'd love to see autonomous "pods" with docking behavior. You'd take one of the appropriate size, i.e. there could be scooter-sized pods for the solo commuter, cart-sized pods for when you've got luggage or groceries, family pods, sleeper pods for long trips. They would drive autonomously for the last mile (perhaps even being able to dock into elevators and take you directly to your destination), but could also merge onto arterials and dock with larger pod-carriers, the modern equivalent of buses. Thus, you'd maintain your privacy and last-mile flexibility, but still get the economies of scale of better aerodynamics and powerful engines for longer trips. You could even dock onto airplanes, i.e. instead of needing to drive an hour to the airport and wait 2 hours at the gate, your pods arrives at your apartment door an hour beforehand, whizzes you through town, docks into a bus for the trip to the airport, and rolls you onto the tarmac and into the plane. No need to manage baggage (it all comes with you), the pod scans you for security during the commute, and you maintain your privacy on the plane.
The one I went to in Philadelphia also did examinations, which I imagine is also a major drawing point. Get a prescription in-store, get it in their system, then you can order replacements online without much of a hassle.
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It's pretty ridiculous since GIMP is 22 years old and GEGL is 18 years old.

In a lot of ways gimp feels like it's perpetually stuck as a clone of Photoshop 4.0 or 5.0. If it can finally get adjustment layers that will help somewhat.

You can theoretically do almost everything in gimp that you can in photoshop, but since CS, photoshop has lots of functionality that makes things much easier (fewer steps), so the ergonomics of GIMP seem pretty bad in comparison now.
There’s a new Prius e-AWD [1] that should be good for driving in snowy conditions.

That being said, I live in New York, and I’ve never had a problem here. The government does a pretty good job of salting the roads, and cleaning up excess snow, so I’ve practically never had to drive on snow, even during snowy times.

[1] See: https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a24843141/2019-toyota-priu...
Rare earths are not rare, the word refers to concentration of the element in the ore, not the prevalence of the ore.

There are many countries that have large reserves, the US included, China has a monopoly because it subsidizes processing, in particular through dumping costs on the environment through little regulation of pollution, not because they are the only country with reserves.
The old SAT has a statistically significant correlation, but if memory serves (it might not, it's been a while) the correlation wasn't great, it has something like an r-squared value of 0.4 to 0.5, so a majority of the variance in outcomes was not explained by differing performance on the tests.
I would be very interested in it. If you don't mind me asking, do you have any resources you would recommend?
>Finally, the US invaded during an existing civil war, whereas the Soviets just straight-up invaded to conquer another region.

This is not true. The Soviets were defending already existing communist regime.
AutoHotkey[1] is good and OSS. AutoIt[2] is better for automation, it is free but not OSS. Neither lets you program completely interactively but the scripting is so simple that a computer literate layperson should be able to do simple tasks after maybe a day.

If the tasks are more complicated interactive programming wouldn't help you anyway in my opinion. For example there are several ways to identify a certain window. They all heave their uses and are more stable or more fragile depending on the circumstances. A workflow where you just click on a window wouldn't help you here and neither is a scripting language the biggest road block. The difficulty is to know enough about the inner workings of Windows and the software you want to control to create a stable solution. If your testers can master this they will be OK with a scripting language too.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoHotkey

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AutoIt