I threw a (much more limited) version of a "desktop" website together in about a couple of hours.
http://xgpu.net/ is about an ongoing project for an external gpu for the Atari range of 16-bit (and actually I even have plans to make it work on the 8-bit range) computers. It's somewhat in limbo at the moment because I just moved continent and most of my stuff is on a ship in the Atlantic. Once that arrives, and we start to settle in, I'll get back to it.
Can confirm that 6 right turns from getting into the car, comprising a single trip around the block was the full extent of my San Jose, CA driving test.
I left the DMV office significantly more scared of my fellow drivers than I had arrived…
If the laws in different jurisdictions are incompatible (for example with end-to-end encryption, which is either “end-to-end” or “not-end-to-end”) then the product offering that service will simply have to be different in the two jurisdictions.
I know that Apple, for example, has iCloud and iCloud-in-china. Seems like a pain to manage, but they could presumably offer iCloud-in-Europe and iCloud-in-UK (though the UK seem to have backed off with their demands now).
Where it becomes interesting is for interaction, if an EU person tries to (for example) use e2e-iMessage to a US person or vice-versa. With this decision, does the service simply disallow the message if the jurisdictions disagree on the definition of E2E ?
What about things like Gmail’s escrowed private keys in email ? Where the Gmail server owns the private keys (so the server can provide search etc. on encrypted email). This isn’t E2E by a strict definition, it’s only “almost” E2E and “almost: doesn’t cut it, but if the server can’t read the email, you lose a lot of Gmail functionality…
I work for a company that has over 50 different jurisdictional variants, deployed across a reasonably wide geographic range.
We basically just build the app as a superset of all possible features, and then configure each different jurisdiction with what they can and cannot support. Currently this is done by a bunch of Helm templates, but there are many other ways to do it
Yeah, not sorry I’m retired after 20 years at FAANG. Closing on a nice house by the sea [1] today with the proceeds of said two decades and looking forward to a much slower and relaxing pace of life
For the first time, ever, I’m wondering if I actually need the fastest service…
But it’s not 1.6Gbit - there’s a local service provider (as opposed to the generic list the estate-agents site uses) which offers 10Gbit (because it’s the UK you have to quote median speed, so they quote 7Gbit). I know because that’s what the previous owner had, he ran a business from there.
I’m sorry, I guess that really is rubbing it in :)
Congrats on your retired life! That said, I'm not sure if posting a link to the property you purchased is a good idea, considering that's akin to doxing yourself.
Not going to lie. The first couple of visits I turned left rather than right from time to time… Still awesome. Just got back from getting the keys after everything completed.
The proceeds which will only maintain purchasing power because others have to work 996? These index fund returns sufficient to keep abreast of inflation don’t materialize out of thin air.
Whereas I am not trying to take anything away from Woz (I’ve never met that Steve, but by all accounts he’s a really nice guy), I can’t help but feel that his personality and the ethos he espouses have been made a lot more possible by the fact that he had a lot of disposable income…
Yep. It's easy to be happy, bubbly, carefree and say money is not important to to you when you're set for life and don't ever have to worry about paying the mortgage, healthcare, childcare, bills, etc in one of the most expensive regions on the planet, but people without seven figures in the bank might disagree.
Sure, he's not Musk, Bezos or Zuckerberg levels of rich, but compared to average folk who need to work for a living till retirement, he's still very, VERY rich.
If you read his boks or others stories about Woz you would know that he was like this long before he had fortune in business. He spent a lot of time and money on setting up a quite popular answering machine service for delivering jokes and did attribute his success as an engineer to not having that much money [1] so he needed to make due with what he had.
>If you read his boks or others stories about Woz you would know that he was like this long before he had fortune in business
I don't doubt he said that, especially when you're young, healthy and carefree you don't need much money. But being a millionaire doesn't hurt that feeling when you're no longer in your twenties and don't want to live with roommates anymore, since everyone can end up with unexpected illnesses or issues that can be made batter only by money.
Set for life level of wealth (say, $2-3m) is achievable on a programmer's salary or for someone working in finance, and after only a decade or two of work. You just have to save and invest most of your salary instead of spending it all.
Is that really “set for life” amounts in the US these days? Sounds quite low. I can imagine it being a ton of money in the early 2000s, but not these days (unless you also have a fully paid out house on top of it, at least)
It depends where you live and what your lifestyle expenses are. You can easily be set for most of your life on $3M if you live in a low CoL area and keep your expenses under control. Old age could wipe you out if you need a lot of care though.
> It's easy to be happy, bubbly, carefree and say money is not important to to you when you're set for life
I’m not sure this is true. I know plenty of miserable rich people. What is easy for someone who to look at a rich person and say “I’d certainly be happy if I had that money”.
>I’m not sure this is true. I know plenty of miserable rich people.
Because those rich people are only driven by greed and don't know when to stop. They don't see money and and means to and end, but their life purpose is just being richer than the other rich people which is an exercise in futility, leading to misery. Kind of like the men who's life purpose is being an "alpha male".
Having more money doesn't make you more happy, but having a lack of money can definitely make you more unhappy.
Here in the EU I never had to worry about any of those things by design even though my parents had nothing. I made a fortune without ever having to worry; sure I will never make billions but why would I be interested in that? Happiness does not require that and you can still make 10m in the EU without worrying about the things you summed up. The US is more risk for more reward but is that worth it? Never for me.
Yes, everyone working in Europe can easily makes millions just like you, that's the norm here and definitely not flex on niche survivorship bis or cherry picking, that's how the average EU income is €37,900 and youth unemployment is at peak, everyone's too busy making millions.
It's still remarkable because so many people with that amount of money are still on the grind, still chasing the siren's call, still feeling miserable because it's not enough, still feeling tiny because they compare themselves to the billionaires
Very few people get to that point and then choose happiness instead of ambition
Of course, it goes without saying. But on the other side, not many people would have what it take to not let that kind of wealth go to their head. This désinvolture has to be praised.
I do wonder if the relative ease he might have had with his craft early on contributed, too. He doesn't strike me as someone who's ever really struggled to learn or produce, just met a steady stream of interesting, surmountable challenges (and was blessed to be able to eschew anything that would have been troublesome). Such a combination of prodigious talent and a keen awareness of where it ends probably makes for a pretty happy existence.
Got it! I’ll explain them simply using only the 1,000 most common English words (like in the style of “Simple English” or the “Up-Goer Five” idea).
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Water:
The clear stuff that falls from the sky as rain. We drink it, wash with it, and it is in rivers, lakes, and the big blue parts of the world. It has no color, no taste, and no smell. Without it, people, animals, and plants cannot live.
Motorcycle:
A road car that has two wheels instead of four. You sit on it, hold the handles, and move fast. It is smaller than a car and can go between other cars. You need to wear a hard head cover to stay safe.
Comedian:
A person whose job is to make other people laugh by telling funny stories, jokes, or acting in a silly way. They often talk to groups of people and try to make them happy by being funny.
Sea-Doo is a derivative of Ski-Doo. Both are made by Bombardier Recreational Products; the Sea-Doo is a “personal watercraft,” and the Ski-Doo is a snowmobile. The Ski-Doo came first, and I’m guessing the name is a pun on “twenty-three skidoo”, which Wikipedia says originally referred to “leaving quickly”, something like “skedaddle”. Obviously, a snowmobile allows one to travel quickly over the snow.
So the etymology appears to be Skedaddle -> 23 Skidoo -> Ski-Doo -> Sea-Doo.
(Edit: I’m wrong! Wikipedia says the Ski-Doo was originally supposed to be called the “Ski-Dog”, but someone made a typo and they stuck with it! So much for my attempt to reconstruct a derivation!)
Jet Ski is also a trademark used by Kawasaki for their personal watercraft. It was designed by the same guy who designed the Sea-Doo for Bombardier.
Wrong. Sorry, but totally, completely wrong. 99% of people with the kind of money he has are nowhere near as happy as him. Many "poor" people are just as happy as him.
The kind of money he has ruins the personal lives of so many people. I've heard him speak a few times and he's been happily married, happily taking care of his dogs, and just spreading joy and enthusiasm wherever he goes for years and years now. That doesn't require a lot of money at all.
I worked at Fusion-io and he was sort of an employee there early on. We opened a tiny office in San Jose and he sat there and basically worked as a receptionist at that office for a while, just happily greeting people as they came and went. He's just a chill dude without pretension.
I think we should compare the two sides in percentage and reason:
How many people as percentage from the wealthy people are really unhappy and not just saying so because of (insert here guilt, peer pressure, fear of losing it all …)
How many people as percentage from the poor people are happy (and not just saying so because they are trying to cope mentally with their helplessness situation)
And I know that all this points to mindset.
So lets ask the real question: On average how easy (as in having time, access, …) is to fix your mindset (whatever that fix is) when you are healthy or poor?
yes that's true, but the but the guy had every opportunity to become a soulless money grubbing prick with hundreds of millions (or maybe even billions) instead of just tens of millions if he didn't have a good sense of compassion and generosity. But at some point he decided he had enough money and success and that it was important for other people who had been with Apple to get their fair share.
In other words, he was a kind soul before the money and the success. The money and the success did not change him, but in fact, amplified his generosity and other good qualities. And to this day he remains a warm charismatic pioneer of Silicon Valley.
Jobs, on the other hand, boy that guy was selfish to the bone, and though he was not as money hungry as other CEOs, the success really amplified his ugliest traits that allowed him to treat people as disposable including his own friend Wozniak.
Worst thing he ever did, if you ask me, was deny his daughter Lisa even when he had the means to give her mother and his daughter a better life. He seemed spiteful in principle. I understand being skeptical at first about being alleged as the father of a kid, especially while you're trying to make it early on in your career, but after the paternity test proves you're the dad, and you have the means to provide, and you still don't then you are trash.
Maybe, but recently I came across an article where he had reached out to scam victims who fell prey to scammers who used AI to copy Woz's likeness to dupe people into depositing cryptocurrency so that they could get it much more of it back. It's a classic scam that would have almost anyone blaming the victims for falling for it. But what was touching is that Woz had read some emails from victims who were confused.
I think almost anyone would have ignored it, but he decided to at least try to fix it by filing a lawsuit on behalf of victims. I think the lawsuit ended up getting stuck since the scam relies on shady ads on YouTube. But I thought it was cool that at least he tried arguing that it is weird that scammers can make ads that impersonate others and it takes quite a while for them to get taken down.
I've been to a lecture he gave, and Q&A session. I was left with no doubt that his ethos of joy and honesty predate his wealth and are entirely independent of it.
> I've been to a lecture he gave, and Q&A session. I was left with no doubt that his ethos of joy and honesty predate his wealth and are entirely independent of it.
Don't most young people start life this way?
It's the influences of time spent in the rat race and a society fighting for scraps that beats it out of us.
I find those who struck it rich early and still turned out assholes more noteworthy.
I started life in a family where money was often an issue, and it did give me some issues with it, which my chill dev job has actually helped me get over (I feel rich, so I'm generous).
So sometimes it's the opposite, you start out needy and the 'rat race' actually brings you to a more abundant world-view :)
Perhaps. I think it’s perfectly correct English, personally. If you’re American then your grammar rules might differ, I don’t know…
“Whereas” can be used at the start of a sentence to introduce two contrasting clauses - in this case the first being his own statement, and the second being my rather more cynical money-based reasoning for his continuing wonderful personality.
The atari 8-bits did a similar thing, it was called "artifacting" [1] and was used (amongst other things) by Ultima IV [2] to produce a high-res 'colour' display - at least if you lived in the USA. It was more of a "mess" if you lived in the UK...
http://xgpu.net/ is about an ongoing project for an external gpu for the Atari range of 16-bit (and actually I even have plans to make it work on the 8-bit range) computers. It's somewhat in limbo at the moment because I just moved continent and most of my stuff is on a ship in the Atlantic. Once that arrives, and we start to settle in, I'll get back to it.
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