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Maybe use the bat method, made popular by the University of Coimbra: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/these-portuguese-libra...

I still have one. It still boots last time I checked a few years ago (either SuSE or Red Hat 5.x IIRC) although it's battery is now kaput and can only work plugged in.

It was my workhorse in college and it was amazing throughout years of regular use.

Her departure is about as material as having a second appendix. Her presence was to paper over the management failures of Elon Musk, and all she did was put them in stark relief by being a non-entity during her tenure (a sad debasement for her, and underutilization of someone with actual media/marketing acumen).

It's always amazing to watch those same people when the pendulum swings away from their hubris.

I learned MUMPS years ago at UC Davis (Dick Walters, one of the language maintainers, was tenured there) and I found it a really interesting, but deeply weird language. Walters himself was a considerate, patient dude with me, struggling to deal with at the time a truly strange beast.

It really was. It had a great UX, and was just a better experience.

I'd start by asking an ugly, but critical question: how do you intend to keep it funded?

If you don't want to allow easy enshittification, what does that site/product look like, for which users, and what is the value prop that makes that appealingAND at what scale?

I think most YC folks only think in "webscale" and not in any niche or boutique upmarket way and that acts as a forcing function for how much and how fast something scales, which in turn influences so much of the rest of what you do around that.

I don't want to suggest what Friendster ought to be, but I do think you need to decide how you want to ascertain that, and then look into the "how"

It's also not helped that some of the early hip hop musicians have themselves become highly sought after session musicians and producers, that have in turn seeded certain sounds all over the musical map; several members of the Sugarhill rap label (most notably Keith leblanc and Doug Wimbish) have literally over 1000 credits, including NIN's debut, Public Enemy, P-Funk, and Jeff Beck, so much like how Jeff Porcaro of Toto created a certain drum sound endemic to the 80s, such patterns are going to be exacerbated by use of much of the same limited musician/production pool.

Hip hop is no more derivative than the blues or funk, but they are definitely more sample-friendly.

Research IS future revenue. The total failure of current industry leaders to remember their history of taking pure R&D, largely from publicly funded research, and then put into applied research and development tracks, was (could be is, but we're dismantling all that) something that heavily influenced the post WW2 economic boom and it's aftershocks.

The EU and APAC nations who want to bootstrap a fold forward will take advantage of this.

"I get this is a joke but I don't find it accurate or funny." Oddly, I find it hilarious BECAUSE of it's accuracy.

Auction houses typically make a decent cut of the proceeds (in the US it's rarely lower than 10%, and usually closer to 20-25%) and the costs of authentication, chain of custody, etc probably eats up another smaller slice. Beyond that, I'm sure a few others will be making some retirement fund francs for it.

Fearful of crime, or of the "law of unintended consequences"?

These clownish morons.

The irony here is that for a guy who loves user telemetry he certainly doesn't seem keen when the lens is on top of him.

"Maybe he's right about WP Engine, but the way he has and continues to handle everything has been disastrous."

This is the best single line distillation of the current lunacy. I mean with every passing day, it all becomes more and more unhinged, and I see no good outcome in the long term. The overall damage to the ecosystem I think begins it's death spiral now.

It's a boon for competitors I suppose, but that's about it.

Both.

My cineastic friends who have seen it seem to think along these lines. Like it's so big budget some folks expect X, but it's really a very expensive, arch, art-house fever dream, and should be (and can very much be) enjoyed as such.

It's hilarious being downvoted for finding a bigoted, crass, imbecile...himself.

Must be a prereq for his 'fans'

...as is every version of Jeremy Clarkson

- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

- Bladerunner

- Alien 3 (also Alien, Aliens, Alien Resurrection, Prometheus)

- Pretty in Pink

- Breakfast Club

- The Exorcist

- Silence of the Lambs

- Inception

- Akira

- Ghost in the Shell

- Buckaroo Banzai

- Ghostbusters

- The Lives of Others

- The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

" The people training models seem to have that well under control." The people training the models are not the C-Suite, and that is an element of entropy there is currently zero accounting for.

Such an underrated book.

I remember in my undergrad (International Affairs and Tech Policy) covering his influence with some detail. His is a name that merits more "fame" for the lessons in his approach (both good and questionable)

...until they can find a way for it to be introduced without resistance.

Let's not pretend several decades of unscrupulous behavior is going to change now. Unless regulatory structures get implemented to brutally, exactingly, unflinchingly and relentlessly punish firms, they won't stop trying.

Punitively maul them into submission.

I still have a few issues in storage, and several of the albums released under their design and publishing arm (e.g. Grassy Knoll)

Great stuff.

"Google has entered into a phase where short term profits outweigh long term growth."

Indeed. The question I have is does that mean it goes eventually the way of Microsoft/IBM, or the way of SGI/Computer Associates?

The tech side, while having (IMHO) some quirks, did really well under the poor leadership. Chris Bolt was walking glue and baling wire, and I was always impressed at what he could keep going under a shoestring budget. Ryan Ford was a great UX guy.

So yeah, I have no disagreements with you there, but imagine what they could have done with a real product roadmap that didn't change on a whim?

There were always uneven applying of rules based on certain staff whims, and that of course, carries its own law of unintended consequences.

Now, with Wix in charge, and a handful of the roachier staff left (I'll name names, Realitysquared) the site has negative bupkes chance of content moderation/curation worth a wet damn.

I worked at DA in a volunteer capacity (Gallery Director mostly) from 2004-2008 and have been on the site since 2002.

I actually started writing a long screed about this on my own blog last year with the AI debacle but shelved it (now I feel compelled to return to it)

DA had plenty of small problems and a few big ones, exacerbated by incredibly green leadership at the top. It was pretty much run off the whims of the CEO, who even when he had good ideas, had no execution focus, and often outright ignored capable feedback from his lieutenants.

Things like having an app, an API, a GTM strategy that was remotely baked for feature releases was simply non-existent at BEST, and done in the most haphazard more typically.

DA eventually shredded its own community; exhausting most of its most dedicated members, and ignored offers for acquisition that made much more fiscal and practical sense then the pittance it eventually went for to that trashfire place called Wix, who in all likelihood will eventually sell off bits for scrap.

DA was a true gem for a decade, and then fell in spite of that due to categorical poor management and vision (or the execution thereof).

Instead the pitfalls are what gets implemented as 'features'

Because ultimately, journalists have followings, so they need to announce to 1. avoid confusing previous readership about your departure and 2. vent their spleen. The first is professionally courteous and smart, the latter is a tough call.