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Comment · 4 hours ago
> Watch with Phone Dialer function enabling audio-based dialing

> Introducing Phone Dialer functionality. This new feature worked in tandem with the Telememo function, which stored up to 50 telephone numbers. Simply holding the watch’s built-in speaker up to the receiver of a push-button telephone allowed users to place calls to stored numbers, which were output in the form of touch-tone signals. At a time before mobile phones really hit the scene, this was an extremely revolutionary feature. Eliminating the need to manually dial numbers digit by digit while checking a telephone directory, people used it in a broad range of settings, including business.

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Comment · 3 days ago
> Endlessen Horrorwitz, the venture firm

And I click close tab

Comment · 8 days ago
At this point I think it's just AIs using hacker news to demonstrate to other AIs.
Comment · 27 days ago
Does anyone know if it has capabilities that would be useful in running retro-games? I'm imagining a guest KMS-> host SDL conversion, or indeed something like virtio-gpu?

Last I looked (years) those were very much 'not intended use'.

Comment · 1 month ago
I think the real answer is the Overton window shifted to accommodate what was previously scandalous,
Comment · 1 month ago
I've built a few of these, happy to have a quick chat if you like. Details in profile.
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Comment · 1 month ago
Anyone still using Google for anything other than ads and YouTube post Reader has only themselves to blame.

Maybe GCP. It's like saying the tiger had no prior history of violence.

Comment · 1 month ago
> The operation took place between March and August of this year, it said.
Comment · 1 month ago
I think you're making my point though, all of those connections required "knowing a guy", and the odds that for all the problems you might need expertise for, you won't know enough guys.

And it sounds like they did the work 'under market' which implies they don't do very much of it.

For your experience to be generally available for all people and all skills, I think you need a market.

Comment · 1 month ago
Sounds like you want a capital-P Professional, but one who is willing (and permitted) to do direct consulting.

That's pretty much lawyers and doctors, then nothing for about 80% of the distribution because those people are W2 and have neither the time nor the leeway to do solo consulting. Then you're into the ultra-specialist fields, at which point they have an agent.

So I would say, you don't want to find a person, you want to find an agent who has such a person, and odds are starting fees are $5k going on $1M.

Comment · 2 months ago
I'm glad Claude is so recognisable, it lets me bounce right off the empty calorie language very efficiently.

Maybe this thing is great, but it cannot be determined with this presentation.

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