goatforce5
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Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
To be fair, that's exactly the sort of thing a dead person would say, if they were trying to trick you into believing they were alive.
Comment · 5 months ago
If this post from Cliff was a cunning strategy to increase sales of Acme Klein Bottles, well, it's worked.
I too just ordered one (having been meaning to do so for a good number of years at this point).
Comment · 7 months ago
I, too, have a TB-303.
It seems like there might be a disproportionate number of 303 owners here on HN.
Comment · 8 months ago
At some point in the 2000s I was buying a laptop at an Apple retail store, and just before we processed the transaction the salesperson asked if I was a student.
"Umm, I kinda look like a student."
"Good enough for me!"
I got a student discount.
Comment · 9 months ago
You can use the Apple Store app to purchase physical items at Apple retail locations (smaller items like cables or cases). I've used it a couple of times, and I feel very awkward using it, so much so that I'll walk out kinda waving the receipt/acknowledgement screen around so that staff/security can hopefully see I'm not nicking something.
Comment · 1 year ago
I came here to say this. Dave McCormack and Custard were in a popular indie band in Oz in the 90s. A couple of years ago he performed a couple of songs with The Wiggles, and came out on stage saying "Hello everyone, it's me! I'm from the 90s!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEeEjEdTqqk
He uses his normal speaking voice for Bandit, and you can very clearly hear the same voice when he's signing most of the Custard stuff:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP_LSm7FjRI
Wisenheimer and Wahooti Fandango are still both great albums (...and then I moved overseas and drifted out of the Custard orbit). For anyone with kids firmly in the Bluey demographic, I bet you could really confuse them by playing Custard at them.
I'm surprised they (i.e. record companies) haven't been trying to push Custard more, given there's a large fan based just waiting to be tapped. It would be fun to see Bandit do karaoke of a Custard song, or sing a few lines when he was in the shower, or just doing chores, etc.
Comment · 2 years ago
Or it might be a case of situational depression:
Comment · 2 years ago
> His personal security cost was part of his “All Other Compensation” which amounted to $6,802,824 in 2023, and also consists of his 401(k) or Roth plan, and personal use of company aircraft or car.
https://qz.com/google-amazon-apple-tesla-nvidia-ceo-security...
I suspect a large part of that $6.8m is the cost of operating private aircraft.
e.g. A previous slide in the above link states that Apple's board requires Tim Cook to use a private aircraft for personal and business travel.
Comment · 2 years ago
Can US auto makers (or even non-Tesla automakers generally) manufacture EVs at sufficient scale? Tesla seems to be far ahead of their competition:
https://caredge.com/guides/electric-vehicle-market-share-and...
BYD and Xiaomi in China seem to be catching up to Tesla far quicker than the US/European auto makers are.
Comment · 2 years ago
You can disrupt an office without entering the office. Just stand outside and block the entrance, yell at people trying to enter the office, or bang pots and pans and create a disturbance.
(I have no idea what happened at Google. The article is behind a paywall for me.)
Comment · 2 years ago
Where were you in Australia? And what sort of gambling machines are we talking about?
> The laws regulating the use of gaming machines in Australia are a matter for state governments, and as such they vary between states. Gaming machines are found in casinos (approximately one in each major city) as well as pubs and clubs in some states (usually sports, social, or RSL clubs).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slot_machines_by_country#Austr...
Comment · 2 years ago
Useful for people who primarily use their phone for phone calls.
Comment · 2 years ago
I popped into an Aldi in Portugal ~6 months ago, and I noticed they had some Trader Joe's products on the shelves. Unsurprisingly, Aldi Portugal is owned by Aldi Nord.
Comment · 2 years ago
I believe a share of revenue is not uncommon in shopping mall leases. e.g.:
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/clb-percentage-rent....
It was '96 or '97, and the dotcom boom was just getting started. Deciding to try my luck, I picked up one of the trade papers to look at the job listings. I bought myself a suit at Marks and Spencers and jumped on a tube to go to my first job interview. I took the tube home, and by the time I got to the other end I had a message waiting for me saying I got the job.
I found myself reporting to the brilliant Jack Lang (https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/news/farewell-jack-lang), tweaking software developed by Tim King's company, Perihelion. I really was just making minor tweaks to a bunch of perl scripts, so I managed to stumble through it and not make a total fool of myself. Even though I was working with folks with extremely impressive bodies of work behind them and I was just some scruffy backpacker dude, they were always kind and generous to me. I met some great people there.
I never did get a chance to learn how to pour a beer.