The difference was that Amazon knew how to make a profit, but was reinvesting into infrastructure plays and bigger fish.

If they had to, they could have been a modestly profitable bookshop in 2002. AWS and monster logistics might not have developed to put them in the 13-digit club though.

Does any AI-centric play have that fundamental fallback? The services that seem to be most effective at direct monetization, the coding tools, are typically running at huge losses. If they raised costs to cover, precious few firms will pay basically the salary of a senior dev for an emulation of an enthusiastic junior dev with an affinity for footguns.

The less enterprise-focused products-- parasocial toys, image and video gen, will likely try to dip into consumer subs and advertising, but can that generate the cash volumes these platforms demand?

All the best firms continvoucly morg these days.

Why are “round videos” a feature?

The “default” mode for a USB keyboard allows submitting 6 keys + modifiers. Some boards define nontraditional input descriptors that allow more, but that mode is not guaranteed to work in places like the BIOS menu or naive KVM switches.

To avoid phantom keypresses when you hit three keys in a “square” on the matrix, a diode can be placed in series with each switch so current can’t go through an “indirect” route.

There’s also an execution problem.

Truly knowing your customer might produce very different outcomes than the current compliance checkbox approach.

“I know Fred just sold his old car. The idea he suddenly has $12k in cash is not suspicious” or “Jane’s been talking about going to Montreal for momths. We should not block her card when it lights up there.”. That’s real KYC, but it requires human connection and human judgement, which doesn’t scale and doesn’t provide the right paperwork for demonstrating compliance with arbitrary mandates.

I think she did a poor job of saying what she brought to the table. I understand not wanting to throwJoe under the bus, but opening some daylight on policy would have given her a chance to deflect the affordability problems the last months of Biden had, for example.

I’m pretty sure it’s actually those shoulder pads.

During thr gold-standard era, 1GBP was around 5USD, but a halfpenny was 1/480 of a pound, so a little more than a cent. The large-format cents issued up to 1857 were similar in size to the halfpennies of the late 1700s.

Mostly Goodwill and Craigslist finds.

JVC JR-S301 receiver (rebuilt) Three tuners (Sansui TU-717, JVC T-X55, and MCS 3050) because they’re a cheap source of lights and knobs Sony TC-RX79ES tape deck (belts replaced) Sony DVP-CX860 300-disc changer (not great at feeding discs, I mostly use it as a depository after ripping the discs to FLAC) Onkyo CP-1030F turntable (automatic mode is wonky- it keeps resetting after 3 seconds of play)

One thing that dawned on me… maybe CSD and some of the “new” window management paradigms (tiling, card style, etc.) are symbiotic. If you aren’t using the title bar for manipulating the window on a regular basis, you feel free to ignore or outright scramble it.

It creates a clear heirarchy of information too. The system owns the title bar, so any operations there are system operations.

At one point browsers did something similar for security awareness-- real permission prompts, etc. were set a few pixels over into the main UI to establist that they were “real” and not part of the page content.

Most of the time, we’re not so starved for pixels that we have tp be stealing from the title bar.

Hell, we lived thtough 640x480 desktops without even the cheat of hamburger menus.

Minotaurs have some potential for badass imagery. Reverse Centaur sounds intentionally clunky.

I have a 7900X3D and the Peerless Assassin 120 worked well. I swapped for a Zalman CNPS20X because you could get it for next to nothing at the time; it’s not much better (the RGB fans look neat but it’s so big it doesn’t fit well in some cases and the fans are prone to chattering noises at specific speeds)

The benefit I can imagine for an AIO is that it reduces cramping around the CPU, so you can essily release RAM or the GPU slot clip. But I suspect VRM cooling suffers; some vendors made an add-on fan to compensare IIRC.

If you could pull it off, cycling through schools every few decades probably is s viable way to keep up to date with broad advances in sciences and the arts, and get exposed to enough current culture to blend in more effectively.

Although the opportunities to blow the masquerade are intense.

You’re nominally a 17 year old whose family relocated from Topeka for the labour market. You really should not be chastizing Mrs Finster’s history class with your strong, intensely personal feelings about Martin van Buren.

It smells more like Facebook than Steam to me. they can print money for now because they have established scale and customer base, but it feels a bit slimy to where it might not be that appealing to new users. Dating services in general have a bad vibe-- bot problems, low quality matches, dark patterns, so authenticity is a big selling point, something AI drives a huge stake into.

I’d expect that thr gay community, after decades of being a target for abuse, tends to be a bit more sensitive of red flags and looking for truly safe spaces. The Facebook comparison breaks down there, as it has 700 million Aunt Martha users whose most politically sensitive post is in defence of Miracle Whip on salads.

I wonder if the next generation of memory will only have a SO-DIMM pinout so they don’t have to split limited supply. Maybe larger “desktop or highend laptop” modules will be physically longer like 2230/2280/22110 SSDs

There was also a period where you needed 3.5 AND 5.25 drives to use off the shelf software.

It was a literal 100-level course project in my CS programme in 2000 or so.

You didn’t even do it with a programmed CPU, you used 74xx logic gates and counters wired on a breadboard

Microsoft was probably the only firm with the resources to keep a Chromium fork current while uneinding Google’s enshittifications. But their incentives are too similar for that.

I always liked the premise where the countries that do the necrocacy stuff-- promoting dead generals and leaders to ever higher ranks and titles, still treating them as head of state…

It’s because they’re not dead. Kim Il-Sung is just biding his time in a coffin, gradually getting shoulder cramps as more and more brass is fitted to his uniform.