jeffwilcox

Was always wanting to do something like this before they swapped ours out for a SaaS+hardware butterfly mx thing.

Those Doorkings have had to get replaced at so many buildings in Seattle now that criminals figured out how easy they were to override.

Plus the Wachowskis have Chicago street names throughout.

Love it - was walking with a friend near Martin Place they pointed out the "Reflection" sculpture that was in the movie during the red dress training exercise.

Any leak with your mobile and name pair could have done that. As a non-AT&T customer, I get the my-speecific-name pig butchering texts, too.

I think it's a mix. We're learning a bit each time. I'm bummed in the rush to get this finally published we made a few errors. We first found what looked like the source back in September last year.

Having the source on GitHub feels like a nice way for some people to peek through it... but there's clear compromise between archival and sharing some source.

The binaries for the multi-tasking bits did come from an external source; however, the source code is from our corp source code archives team. Even that was a bit less formal back then...

The percentage structure - while I want to agree with you, we can then look to things like ... the struggle now of delivery food percentages and tipping. If I order a $15 pizza and tip $3, I'm tipping 20%, but that is seen as "cheap" for a tip in 2023... yet if I order a $4,000 bottle of wine at dinner, and tip 20%, the staff will enjoy an $800+ tip for that meal. Worth 20% to pop the cork, really?

Thanks for the suggestion. We do have a "MicrosoftArchive" organization that we could consider transferring this sort of thing to...

As far as games, and the broader collection of earlier closed source applications: it's incredibly difficult to clear rights if there's third-party intellectual property that was written without the intention of being open, or licensed content, etc. It also takes a bit of an army to clean/review code and comments to get them ready.

[Source: I run our open source office... we help advise internally, but aren't staffed to do nostalgia open sourcing and so need to partner with people and teams who can help]

FTX's Excel spreadsheet has entered the chat.

Sigh. I have "bought" so many of my favorite movies so many times over the years. (Just piling on at this point, sorry).

Since this article was published, Washington State finally has a right-to-charge law, too, with the passing of HB 1793 - 2021-22, hopefully making things mildly better in Seattle.

While the article claims there is no money to be made in EV charging to incentivize and align with building owners, there's plenty of similar "amenities" that easily can help differentiate a "luxury" apartment building, hopefully they become more common.

Some of us have calculated it... and it is frightening! I have an Excel sheet of all the cars I've ever purchased or leased, and the cost per mile of them, and it is staggering. Thankful to have enjoyed some fun cars, I cannot imagine just how much of this economy is powered solely by this car dependency we have in the US.

I've also estimated my cost to commute to my tech job in the suburbs (thankfully full-time remote now), and it was staggering how much that was including insurance, maintenance, tolls, electricity, etc., compared to free options/transit/corporate bus/remote work/my daily mortgage cost.

Agree, to a point. This was how I justified purchasing a relatively nice stereo setup 13 years ago.

Today, I look at the math, on a cost-per-day or cost-per-use angle, and I'm so happy that I went for something nice that I enjoy.

I do feel like cost-per-day amortized is probably more interesting for a lot of decision making.

We probably over-estimate how often we'll use a product or service.

Happy to learn more, ping me in some form. The Windows Terminal is building a community on GitHub and it's pretty active.