jnaina's comments

On: Dmitry Medvedev says editors of the Times are 'leg...

[jnaina]

It’s noteworthy that Medvedev managed to achieve a brief moment of clarity from his usual intoxicated state to make that statement.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13174145/Has-Putin-...

On: What should a logo for NeXT look like? (1986)

[jnaina]

Glad I bought a NeXT Cube. Still looks like a futuristic otherworldly monolith. That Ross Perot had something to do with its inception still blows my mind.

[QuantumG → jnaina]

Oh, so you're the sucker.

All sizzle, no steak.

On: AWS CEO tells workers to quit if they don't want t...

[jnaina]

This. The number of otherwise useless overlays upon overlays at AWS is staggering. And quite a number of these L7 (non-sales/customer facing) overlays can be pruned without much impact to overall team/BU output/Rev. Jassy seems to be correcting some of the excess from the Bezos era.

On: Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died

[jnaina]

BBS culture was a big part of my teen years. And Ward and his code played a huge part in that. XMODEM FTW. RIP.

On: Alleged M4 MacBook Pro unboxing video

[jnaina]

Apple is now making some of the MacBooks in Vietnam. Quite a bit of the Russian diaspora in Vietnam.

On: Stolen Ferrari worth $575,000 was found by trackin...

[jnaina]

Same here. especially useful to track if your sports car is being used for joyrides by the mechanics when I sent it for regular servicing.

On: Amazon employees are 'rage applying' for new jobs ...

[jnaina]

Along with the existing productivity dip due to lowering of the hiring bar to meet DEI KPIs, and with this brain drain of their top talent, it is going to be a rough ride for Amazon.

[Dban1 → jnaina]

yep just look at Ubisoft

On: Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses

[jnaina]

Around 10 years ago, in an obscure private close-knit investment chat group, a senior Apple engineer inadvertently blurted out how Apple has mostly solved iris gaze tracking and foveated rendering. When I pressed him why in the world Apple would be investing R&D dollars in this (I failed to make the logical leap to Apple mixed reality devices), he clamped up.

Apple plays the long game clearly. Wouldn’t be surprised if the Apple Vision Air already exists in an early beta form in their labs.

On: Amazon tells employees to return to office five da...

[jnaina]

this seems like a calculated move to thin the crowd knowing how unpopular this full RTO is going to be, after the massive over hiring during Covid.

On: Electric DeLorean DMC-12 Conversion Kit

[jnaina]

CyberTrucks are now being called the DePlorean

[rbanffy → jnaina]

Delorean fans should be offended by that comparison