hapless

Barbituate withdrawal won’t kill you.

Benzodiazepines, and alcohol, can actually induce death if you withdraw too quickly

Didn’t Cringely pass away recently?

The XT came out in 1983, it was a real piece of shit by 1989 standards

Not to mention, the PC was a pretty, uh, "challenging" platform for video games. It amazes me someone managed to port something as graphically sophisticated as PoP to an 8088 with CGA.

when the author mentioned playing prince of persia on a pc-xt, i assumed this was some kind of ai-generated nonsense

but no

they actually did port the game to the lowest-end hardware available in 1989. you could actually play prince of persia on an 8088 with a cga card!

Specifically, no one will earn a promotion by talking to another team or improving customer service

Anxiety is a common comorbidity in depression patients and buprioprion can dramatically raise anxiety levels

It is a second-line treatment for a reason. Great when it works. Harmful when it does not.

turns out there is more involved in performance than just clock rate

who knew? (everyone)

definitionally that's "for some intents and purposes" my man

clearly german regulators and/or voters disagree, as is their right

nevertheless it is very easy to start a business, and this man is complaining about an entirely separate problem (it is difficult to create and incorporate two shell companies)

"Most people are not autodidacts because most people have no material reason to learn a specific topic (i.e. their job does not require it) and the problem with learning for the sake of learning is opportunity cost: there is no a priori reason to learn one thing over another, so better to do nothing and wait for something to appear which actually grabs your interest. Again, this is likely rational! Could you imagine if you found everything interesting? You’d spend years living in a basement curating a wiki of late Soviet military hardware or something."

uhoh

i've been spotted

SpaceX and Tesla’s not-so-arm’s-length transaction are like, textbook cases for fraud

It amazes me investors or the sec will put up with it

10g-base-T is a sick joke

high latency, high error rates, and terrifying heat output from SFPs (which the author noted for himself)

the only cat6 left in my home network is the link to verizon's ont, because in their infinite wisdom the ONLY connectivity offered was 10g-base-t

the best/worst part of this is that it is obviously not written by steve blank. it does not look, read, or track like a steve blank blog piece

he obviously generated large parts of this with claude or chatgpt or whatever.

i don't know what that means for the rest of us, but boy it's a big ole spike of signal