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Best Buy created a high margin stream in repairs and warrantys, while cutting down on low volume goods and basically becoming a showroom for large brands. Companies pay them to display their wares prominently. So if you’re looking for some minor obscure dongle, the stereotype is that if you go Fry’s, you’ll buy the dongle and a bag of candy. If you go to Best Buy you’ll end up buying a TV instead.
There was a lot of stuff going on in the corp level that really caused a lot of the problems with supply of goods.

https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Former-Fry-s-executiv...
At the Fry's in Fountain Valley California, I remember looking among the huge list of CPU price stickers for anything ARM-related, because I'd read on Slashdot that ARM was the future.

ARM, I glumly concluded, would be decades away. Now here I am with an M1; ARM is arriving, while Fry's fades.
I’ve been waiting for a stability release of macOS for YEARS. A return to Snow Leopard.

Alas.
The title credits Tengen, not Nintendo. Weren’t they infamous for releasing games not approved by Nintendo? I remember their NES era cartridges were black instead of gray and shaped differently.
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Thank you! Yes! I own a Dasung Paperlike Pro and Dasung Paperlike HD-FT. The Paperlike Pro required a driver to change modes/make adjustments. The Dasung Paperlike HD-FT is excellent; you don't have to install any drivers.

I've used the monitors for a few years now, and some adjustments need to be made and vary on the operating system used, the fonts/text being one of the settings to change.

The M-x e-ink-laptop-mode, was about emacs. I spend most of my time in emacs, and I intend to write an "eink-laptop-mode" that adjusts color, text, makes it more suitable for writing, etc.
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The New York Times will collapse first, given their lies about WMDs in Iraq that helped sell the war that led to thousands of people dying.

Followed by NPR, which falsely accused an innocent victim who had been threatened with a firearm during a protest of being a "white nationalist".

Followed by the Washington Post, which falsely claimed Russia hacked into critical US energy infrastructure.

There'd be no news left, because they profit from lies.
My god, the gall of you to claim that since you can't do something, nobody else can. Quite a preposterous and absurd claim. I'm sure you have seen this[1] image that tests for a phenomenon known as aphantasia. While I myself can only briefly hold the fourth image in my head, I know several who can hold the fifth or sixth in their head continuously with ease. Likewise, I practice lucid dreaming on the regular, and yes, photorealistic scenes frequently do happen, if you have the memory for it. I am also one of those people who remember entire conversations and snippets from years past. During sprint planning, often nobody could remember why something was done the way it was, but I pipe up and can give detailed reasonings and the history as to why even if I had very little to no involvement in implementing it.

[1] https://i.redd.it/exiht9hlb0c21.jpg
There's been a bunch of quality of life improvements over the years. Dark mode, file renaming by clicking the window title, Mission Control is more feature rich than Exposé, Desktop Stacks, native notifications come to mind. There's been a lot of practical security improvements too, with the permissions system and FileVault full disk encryption. By nearly all accounts APFS is a much better file system than HFS.

There's a lot to be said for Snow Leopard's simplicity and refined design, and plenty to complain about in Big Sur. But there have certainly been some improvements over the past 10 years. Even for grey beards, I'd say.
>Cavernous

Apropos, didn't the one in Sunnyvale become an REI?
Not sure about that reasoning, but skepticism may be warranted anyway:

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/health-officials...
Yet these highly integrated Macs have very long average service lives, high customer satisfaction and maintain high second hand resale values. So clearly that isn’t true.
Hey man,
I love your notes honestly they are so well organized and the stuff have there is amazing.

I just subscribed to your YouTube channel

And i wanted to know how did you generate a visualization
Buyers do not have a choice. It is either wait or don't buy. However if you create an auction system, you would know how much these people are willing to wait.

> why is this dangerous?

Economic inefficiencies lead to wastage. In this case people might put themselves on waiting list only to buy them for $150 and then sell it to someone for $500. The democratic virtue here is thrown out of the window and you have needlessly now employed a middleman who adds no real value to the process but as a remedy to the virtue signaling of the manufacturer.

Reminds of all bad things that happened when US government tried to subsidize baby formula.
Exactly. I'd even build upon Asimov a little: Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, and any sufficiently advance civilization would appear both magical technologically and would LIKELY trend towards being highly elusive.
Will all endup tubed in Oculus devices, scrolling on eye movements and play blinking games on Facebook?
How did we got here and what’s next?
Most North American dairy cows eat corn, wheat, barley, and oat plants. Everything from just above the ground, chopped and pickled (silage). Stalk, ears, silk etc. Sometimes food or brewing waste(1). Plus some vitamins and minerals and salts(2). Plus some palm oil(3).

1. https://www.usdairy.com/news-articles/do-dairy-cows-eat-food...

2. http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/themes/documents/PUB6/P620.htm

3. https://www.thetelegram.com/business/local-business/sylvain-...
I really liked Fry's years ago. It was depressing to see inventory go down so quickly last couple years. I would like a local Microcenter. Their prices are decent and they have good motherboard/cpu combos.
I wish I had a large e-ink display for coding. I imagine a large screen would be prohibitively expensive, and the latency will be terrible. Too bad. It would be nice for my eyes.
This makes me so sad. I was just there not too long ago and it looked like a ghost town, the selection all gone, mainly just empty spaces. I think to experience a store like that ever again one has to travel somewhere like Shenzhen [0]

[0] https://yandex.com/images/search?text=shenzhen%20electronics...
Also pilot here: I’d drop that figure to 90% as there are so many notams it’s easy to miss the needle in the haystack with the ridiculous volume of irrelevant notams out these days.

https://ops.group/blog/the-problem-of-bullshit-notams/
> Central Computer is still kicking around -for now.

I used to be a big fun of them. But their markup + must be a bundle, buy 3 more items rule for RTX30x0 cards, really put me off.
I think they owned their real estate (although there were probably taxes)
I expected this news would come along at some point but I'm still quite sad to hear about this.

I could do a lot reminiscing but I will leave that to others.
There are food services that are commoditized and physical, they just don't necessarily look like restaurants. Food trucks, the popup at a food hall, hot dog carts, the NY deli, etc. These various forms are commonplace all over the world, they're just less common in parts of America because they were largely made illegal. Here's cops in Texas shutting down a lemonade stand run by two girls: https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/11/politics/lemonade-stand-shut-...

Food delivery, even with all the complaints about how much they skim off the top, how much they underpay drivers, etc. still makes pretty meager margins. And consumers aren't blind to it; I know a lot of people who have grumbled about how much there is in fees.
To me it seems like the same thing that happens in real life; People are doing more talking than listening and end up repeating themselves.
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> I’m not surprised, but this makes me feel incredibly sad. I built my first PC using parts from there. I’m going to miss it.

Same, the last one I stepped foot in was in 2018 at the one near the Tesla factory in Fremont after my interview, and it looked absolutely dead. I thought with so many tech nerds in that town you'd be bound to see a bunch guys getting together after work and just buying up carts of stuff of the shelves and working on a side project.

But, nope... it was like 20 people max and it was actually really sad to me as years before I went to the ones in Orange County and we had lines out the door on certain days.

Well, COVID claims another retailer and thus the brick and mortar get another nail in it's coffin.
Very true. They also tried to serve so many different niches that it was often interesting to just walk around the store to see products I would never buy and often didn't even know existed.
Grammar is not rigid, it is just well defined. You can write a sentence in a dozen different ways, it is just that the meaning can be derived by a formal process.

Imagine you had to pass down a Java program (through oral tradition) to sort numbers and you had a Java Language Specification that remains unchanged. Now compare that to say English language where and you write an essay on sorting numbers. If both things are passed down orally over few dozen generations which one is likely to keep its form ?
Catlike coding is great. I’m also a fan of Alan Zucconi’s tutorials: https://www.alanzucconi.com/tutorials/
+! but ...

I think the parent understated how difficult D3.js is unless you're a front-end engineer (you need to know css, html, svg and js to get anything working.)

Start with wrappers that use D3.js, or Google Charts, first.

(With Google Charts you can later tweak the svg to get similar results as D3.js wrappers.)
Wow, TIL.

I'd never guessed that this would be something that requires a whole system or even a company to handle.

But after reading this it totally makes sense!

It's amazing the amount of stuff we (I) don't know about other industries and its complexities.

Cool stuff!
Shout out to https://docsify.js.org/#/ on which this site is based. Great tool to get a doc site ready in minimal time. My personal experience with this is also amazing :)
Thanks for the reply.

Yeah I just noticed, https://assalub.com/en/products/manual-lubrication/luberight... offer something similar but hopefully you can take it to the next level by reducing the friction and get passed the user adoption risk.

Best of luck!
- If you make the SSD replaceable, many more people will replace theirs.

Very few non technical consumers, which is the vast majority, ever upgrade their computer.
If they stop paying you, do they just lose the reporting, or can they no longer grease things? If they can still grease, I'd think that'd be easier to swallow. They can always stop paying if they're not seeing ongoing value.
I just want one for reading docs, specs, etc. Yeah the latency could be bad, but I recall reading somewhere that they can reach around 20hz overclocked which can’t be that bad. I’m pretty sure I’ve played games limited to 20fps before.
This again has nothing to do with whether "you only get to do what Apple lets you do."

I'm not arguing the M1 is an open platform (as, say, PINE makes), only that it is not significantly more closed than the Intel-based Mac. Nothing has changed with regard to Apple's lack of documentation. Nothing has changed about the ability of the platform to execute open source code. The pace of hardware releases, and Linux's preparedness to deal with the changes to the hardware, are independent from the openness or non-openness of the platform.

The fact that my router was hacked to run DD-WRT doesn't make it an open hardware platform. The fact that a newer model can't be hacked the same way doesn't make my router "more closed" in retrospect.

I don't know what standards they should conform to but I doubt there is a vendor-agnostic GPU driver that Linux has that works with every non-M1 computer. It wasn't that long ago that Wi-Fi support on Linux all seemed to depend on reverse-engineered Atheros drivers. Hardware support has always been a problem on Linux, regardless of vendor. Day 1 availability of hardware support in Linux is not the indicator of openness.
I don't disagree with many of his points. Snow Leopard was built when Apple was firing on all cylinders. It was a very solid release where everyone was doing good to great work.

BUUUUT-

Big Sur, while not perfect, is damn good to me. The UI is more consistent, if not more friendly. Compared to say, Snapchat, (which seems to build functionality only to befuddle non teens so that they can hide their activity) Big Sur is downright amazing.

I dont think that we should stray from concise, clear, and discoverable UI/UX. But I also dont think we should stop at what we all think was the best and never change. Keep in mind that even 60, 70, 80 and 90 year old users who never could deal with computers in the past are able to work iPads and iPhones now. My mom is in her 70s and uses her iPhone 7 for all her computing needs. To me that means we can push users a bit to adapt to newer UI standards.

Again, Snow Leopard was great- no disputes here. Big Sur is not perfect. But its better in my experience than Catalina, Mojave, heck even going back to the Lion OSes. I was pretty much disappointed to downright irritated on the first releases of say 10.8 to 10.15. I really expected Big Sur to render half of my software unusable. Fortunately it wasnt even 5% of my software that had a problem.
> I likely sound like a cheap doomsayer and a tinfoil hat but I firmly believe that the time for completely open general purpose computing is now. And I don't mean the SBC ARM toys like the RPi. I mean actual strong computers like the Ryzen 5000s or Intel 10000s / 11000s.

> It's time. But who will work on it? We're all so busy surviving and insuring our olden ages. Sigh.

So, buy from vendors that are working toward similar goals, like System76.
It's sad to see them go. When I moved to the Bay area 20 years ago it was the place to go to see what was the coolest things in tech. I built my first PC from components that I got there, generally had a pretty good price. It was good talking with a lot of the store staff because they knew what they were talking about. They were generally younger kids who you knew were going to move into tech so it was fun chatting with them.

I went to the Palo Alto store about a year and a half ago and it was so empty it was depressing. I also stopped off at the San Jose store on Hamilton around the same time and there were more employees than customers, It was funny/tragic some older gentleman was walking his dog in the store and it took a s*. Someone almost walked on it and said I thought this place had gone to s* but I didn't think that they'd taken it this literally. I never went back again, it felt too painful.
Going to Fry's without a VERY specific shopping list was always dangerous for me.

I could blow 3 hours in a Fry's just browsing and barely notice the time that had passed.
What mystified me was how they thought the consignment shift would pan out, and didn't immediately reverse course when it didn't: Fry's was always heavily trafficked with people purchasing there every time I was there prior to the consignment shift.
Yep, here's a comment of mine before the COVID lockdowns:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21949585

And the only reason I went in is a friend mentioned it was a ghost town a month before, I had to see it for myself. I'm still curious why they even bothered to pretend to be a business at this point.
If you have an item to sell and if people are willing to pay for it more than the price, if you do not increase the price someone buys it cheap and simply sells it to the highest bidder making a profit.

This is a bit like low cost government subsidized housing in bay area. Joe gets it but then rents to Kumar and continue to live as homeless. Now you have subsidized Kumar. It is dangerous in a sense, it assigns virtue to bad economic sense, creates incentives for needless middleman and prevents goods from going to people who really need it.
Ah weirdstuff is gone? I suppose the only businesses left along those lines are the startup graveyard furniture stores
I think he's suggesting maybe we're in a simulation and the people writing the code are testing in prod.
Central Computers can have decent pricing on items, it can be really convenient. They also were reserving gpus for instore customers for awhile, albeit marked up.
> I've used the monitors for a few years now, and some adjustments need to be made and vary on the operating system used, the fonts/text being one of the settings to change.

I found the Mac desktop didn’t work particularly well. I was considering trying a text only setup - e.g. Linux with i3, but never got around to it.

> The M-x e-ink-laptop-mode, was about emacs. I spend most of my time in emacs, and I intend to write an "eink-laptop-mode" that adjusts color, text, makes it more suitable for writing, etc.

That’s what I guessed. I agree e-ink needs software adaptation to get the best out of it.
I agree with how you've painted GameStop and Bitcoin as the nihilistic struggle against the establishment. However, I disagree with your conclusion. You make a pretty bold argument that underpins the whole conclusion so that's what I'll focus on:

> Bitcoin doesn’t work, it’s a naked speculative bubble based on a technology that doesn’t scale can’t and can’t replace any existing financial service

When you say Bitcoin doesn't work, what are you referring to? As a medium of exchange, you're correct: it doesn't work. But the narrative in crypto communities is that Bitcoin is becoming a store-of-value. Under that narrative, Bitcoin is "working": it's replacing gold as a store of value. We're seeing institutions expand their portfolios to include BTC. There are additional arguments for why Bitcoin may be a better hedge against inflation than gold or oil. Here is an interesting analysis by Winklevoss twins [1]

There's more to cryptocurrency than Bitcoin. Today, there are over 4,000 crypto tokens out there and they're each solving various use cases with varying success. One particular thriving area is Decentralized Finance (DeFi) which creates decentralized exchanges, market makers, lenders/borrowers that aim to disrupt traditional (centralized) financial structures. As proof that there's something here, decentralized exchanges are taking market share from centralized ones - which are valued at $100B.

Or consider the more visionary take on cryptocurrencies: decentralized computation networks that create economies for network participants. Centralized businesses must act in the interest of shareholders and are built to extract as much value from their product as possible. Decentralized computation networks, on the other hand, do not. They can (and are) constructed to be minimally extractive, taking only what is needed to reward network participants & secure the network. Thus, the value capture is distributed across all network participants, enabling new forms of humans organizing together to achieve a common goal. Check out [3] if you're interested in learning more.

I hope this spurs your curiosity to dig into cryptocurrencies beyond just the surface. Thanks for writing the article!

[1] https://winklevosscapital.com/the-case-for-500k-bitcoin/
[2] https://defipulse.com/
[3] https://smartcontentpublication.medium.com/the-purpose-and-v...
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In my experience, management never thinks their maintenance team doesn't need improvement, because single failures cause so much financial pain.

It's true they don't want to spend more money on labor. And sometimes that means more downtime. But if they can spend some money on something that's not labor and improve uptime, they'll be all over it.

I would use this but we buy autolube systems everywhere we'd need it.

Industrial maintenance in general is a great market to be in - huge, huge spends.
Had you been to a store within the last few years?
I remember growing up seeing own in Atlanta, but never got a chance to visit one. A few years ago I was in KC and visited a Microcenter. It was neat, I was able to pick up a few things that otherwise would have taken shipping time. I live in Florida now and was surprised when I couldn’t find either of those in the entire state. The things I need are often extremely limited or non existent at consumer electronics / business stores and if it’s not available via Prime it means waiting a week or two to get.
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Because what those particles in a supercollider are doing is way simpler than what a neuron is doing, let alone a brain full of neurons. It's like the way you can simulate and predict billiard balls but if you take the billiard table apart and build a Turing machine out of the parts, suddenly all bets are off.

I believe we'll finally figure out some 'Maxwell's Equations of Consciousness', stare at them for a while, then collectively say 'ah crap' because seeing the maths doesn't equate to understanding what it means.
I can hardly wait to bring this up with the local LA Fitness manager. Gyms seem to be a Petri dish for bad experimental music which, to my ears, is noise.
Yes agreed there is room for low end disruption. I would also agree that consumers can choose between Apple and Android but the perception I’ve encountered especially on HN is that it isn’t so easy to move which is why people call for regulating Apple.
This blog is interesting because the author is clearly on the cusp of achieving a greater level of understanding. He's thinking about a lot of things as deeply as possible in the normie intellectual framework, and he's running into its limits.

For example, his post "Dividing Tasks" has some pretty good insight into the advantages/disadvantages of gender roles, but he just barely fails to make the leap to the next level of understanding, which is to analyze these tradeoffs in terms of (multi-round) auctions in the sexual market. Instead he falls into the very normie suggestion of "what if we used time tracking?"

Same with his article on tickling; he notices that reality violates his expectations here, but he doesn't quite make the leap to understanding why his prediction was wrong.

The author is clearly very smart, but he seems to be stuck with an ontology designed to serve less intelligent people
Sony wanted high-performace integrated graphics a full generation before such things were really feasible. I think that's ultimately why the CELL was such a failure - it was trying to do way too many things too ineffectively.

Also, building a GPU out of multiple tiny CPU cores on a ring bus just seems incredibly wrong. Even back then, the way you built a GPU was to have one instruction stream controlling many ALUs and register files. Intel made the same mistake with Larabee too - I guess everyone just assumed all the fixed-function bits would disappear eventually? (Meanwhile, ray tracing means even more fixed-function units...)
There is some new Eink phones out that have colour! But wihtout google play store, and they are still probably a long way off from having 10" + screens with colour. https://goodereader.com/blog/reviews/hisense-pro-cc-color-e-...
Hmm. Perhaps my experience with my nook and kindle are biasing me here. But those are also using the screen as a touch interface, which might be the bigger source of latency.

I'd mostly emacs in it, which seems pretty suitable for e-ink displays.
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What's interesting is Thai food is actually part of a massive soft-power promotional campaign by the Thai government.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/paxadz/the-surprising-reason...