HakFoo

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[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Needs a sheet of rub-on tattoos with vaguely "I didn't serve in the military but really want to imply I did" to "outright white supremacist" themes.

My favourite is that "Three Percenter" design that effectively coopts the design of one of America's least-successful coins. I sort of want to talk one of their ears off about numismatics and watch their brain smoulder.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I suspect Intel has a broader product range than AMD to justify the headcount, but I'm not sure where the extra resources should go.

Their networking chipsets were gold-standard in the 100M and Gigabit era, but their 2.5G stuff is spotty to the point Realtek is considered legit.

They've pulled back from flash, SSDs and Optane.

There must be some other rich product lines that they do and AMD doesn't

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hyundai did it. Their rep was abysmal in the 80s/early 90s. Their ad slogan was literally "Hyundai. Yes, Hyundai." because you'd have to say that to anyone who asked what steaming pile you spent $5999 on. But they doubled down on warranty long enough to become a credible choice.

BYD also has the advantage of being able to enter a fairly green-field market. There's few to no cheap electric cars from established brands to conpete with.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 weeks ago

It can also throw things against the wall with no concern for fitness-to=purpose. See "None pizza, left beef".

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 weeks ago

So thry're saying they have plenty of licenses for the use case, but somehow people are still pirating?

Maybe their license management paradigm is just garbage. This could be the vendor, but also poor IT policy if the users can't requisition what they need.

As usual, service problem.

So much licensing fuckery-- dealing with floating or reissuing licenses, users needing to move to different machines-- could be solved via affordable site licensing. But that might leave dollars on the table if users don't overbuy.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

The appeal of state media is that the bias is obvious.

We know who's paying the bills at the CBC or Xinhua, but it's gonna be a lot more subtle for the local broadcaster who mysteriously drops their investigative series right after the target buys a premium ad package.

It also means you can triangulate. If the BBC and TASS both report the same details on a story, those are probably legit.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'd suspect Rifas before dust when I hear "exploded on first power up"

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Been trying to develop Emperor's Haki for Nissans.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Over time, won't the chances of grazing reduce-- they eventually slip into orbits too distant from each other, fall to the host star, or swing out until they escape the local gravity well?

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Once you get to 50k people, you have to set up Harbour Goth, and at 100k, Airport Goth.

I can see the former with merman/maid themes, but not sure how to implement the latter-- black fishnet pilot iniforms?

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 3 weeks ago

Wow. You get to remove code? I'd assume you just default it to 0 so the API contract doesn't change and break 20-year-old code.

[–] HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

There's also the self-imposed delays. How many days of waiting are racked up by Americans saying "let's see what happens" because of the prohibitive cost of accessing care?

I wonder what it looks like if you start the clock not at "You need hip replacement" but rather "My hip is acting up".

 

It said I should install putty to log in. So I got a big mess of plumbing putty from the hardware store and smeared it on my laptop. Now my keyboard feels mushy and it keeps beeping and saying "thermal warning". It's July, I'm not wearing anything thermal.

The putty is also getting hard, do I have to re-apply it every day?

 

At the time the original 5150 was released, there were already other 8088 and 8086 systems on the market. And it didn't really strain the envelope-- no IBM-exclusive chips, and the whole 8-bit bus and support chips angle.

It undoubtedly succeeded in large part because it was a "known quantity" for commercial customers-- an approved vendor, known support and warranty policies, too big to fail. I know even as late as the mid-80s, Commodore was still advertising "You're paying $$$ more (for a PCjr instead of a 64) because the box says IBM on it"

But I was curious if there was anything that it also offered that was uniquely compelling in the at the moment of launch.

There are a few things I can think of, but I'm a little skeptical of most of them:

  • The monochrome display (5151) was very well-regarded; 80x25 of very legible text and a nice long-persistence phosphor. I had one for a while in the 90s and it was quite good even though the geometry was shot. But was it much better than other "professional" machines, particularly ones using dedicated terminals or custom monitors which might also offer better tubes/drive circuitry than a repurposed home TV?

  • Offering it as a turnkey package-- there were 8086 S-100 or similar setups far more robust than any 5150, but you were typically assembling it yourself, or relying on a much smaller vendor (i. e. Cromemco) to build a package deal.

  • The overall ergonomic package-- I feel like there weren't too many pre-1981 machines that match the overall layout of "modest size, all-inclusive desktop box you can use as a monitor riser, and quality detachable keyboard" A backplane box and seperate drive enclosures would start to get bulky, and keyboard-is-the-case seemed to become a signature of low-end home computers.

If you walked into a brand-neutral shop in late 1981, what was the unique selling proposition for the IBM PC? The Apple II was biggest software/installed base, the Atari 800 had the best graphics, CP/M machines had established business software already.

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