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dustyventure | 1 year ago | on: Consumer-grade routers on puny power supplies (2024)

I think the original Broadcom chips were overstock in the normal market because they were somewhat a nuisance of unnecessary checkboxes that would reward you with further testing/diagnostic complications in return for paying too much..

dustyventure | 1 year ago | on: Doomsday Book (2006) [pdf]

So the other 8 types of exemptions must exempt virtually every agency with a meaningful role, but wait, no, they don't. Agencies are expected to judge every request against these exemptions.

dustyventure | 1 year ago | on: Doomsday Book (2006) [pdf]

All agencies have process for handling FOIA requests for issues that are often of a more serious nature than some data possibly arriving fresh enough for front running..

dustyventure | 1 year ago | on: Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?

You've just explained to me how Samsung can maintain a good reputation in a way that Apple cannot using what I referred to as dumping..

I don't really understand how everyone on this thread can explain the nuances that should be what is interesting while claiming everything is the same.

Either technology/politics has changed and organizational structures we claimed in the 1980s to be both unethical and inefficient are now only unethical, or they have not changed and we are in the same cycle with these organizations as before but somehow elongated..

But no, what is interesting to HN is that there's a lot of fine detail in the physical market, but somehow when searching for any interpretation, a widget is a widget and Apple is WD and nothing interesting will ever happen again.

dustyventure | 1 year ago | on: 87.4% of population experienced a decline in freedom from 2020 to 2022

> All these investments are only worth anything if someone buys them from you at a higher value.

The index fund may be over priced but much of the market has actual productivity that leads to dividends eventually, so whether someone will buy that off you is not about the next sucker or betting on an increase in wealth among suckers.

dustyventure | 1 year ago | on: Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?

In the long term, Apple was on a cycle of market failure and then rejuvenation attempt because they either can't make high volumes of questionable components or they ruin their whole brand selling them. They have no dumping capability like a PC brand, I.e. I didn't even know what compromise Samsung's non-Pro models made vs EVO and they are obfuscated in searches by the PRO models. Great for dumping garbage for scale and testing out cost cutting tricks..

Intel leaving the SSD market probably has more relation to Apple than WD or Samsung.

I'm not asserting that Apple succeeds in making high quality, I'm saying their hardware trust makes them uncompetitive with the entire PC market where some brands will deliver high enough quality and all brands have access to low quality dumping to reach scale, etc.

dustyventure | 1 year ago | on: Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?

So I'm wrong that Samsung is a possible example of what Apple could be that doesn't make WD a realistic example. Apple would have no more experience designing and selling trash than a UNIX vendor would have had with IDE and that makes it harder to sell top end that uses cheap performance hacks some of the time.

dustyventure | 1 year ago | on: Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?

Still, it's confusing to use WD as an example of high end. They have dramless which is like the winmodem of SSDs, and even in this case no encryption. Clearly they are a budget manufacturer that happened to have something that worked out for some people.

Samsung is a much better example of a manufacturer that Apple would be emulating, investing in their own controllers, etc, and certainly not leaving out security features with no plan.

dustyventure | 1 year ago | on: Java in the Small

A lot of people learn to program from declarative languages like spread sheets. We should all be happy we have access to defective versions of assembly at too high a level but be angry that we had to use too low level an editor?

dustyventure | 1 year ago | on: I taught rats to drive a car, and it may help us lead happier lives

That's what the original experiment was about the first time it made it to the mill, but the article is all about conclusions from the experimenter about rich environments. If you taught your dog a trick I hadn't seen before would you expect me to have a heightened belief that you knew the science of mammal emotions? I would just assume that you had a good treat and had or developed an understanding of some of their more direct physical/cognitive limits.
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