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New comment by IsoldesKnight in "The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300"

IsoldesKnight — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 03:40:31 +0000

Only the delivery team had to actually lift a 400 lb TV by 1/2" sloped handholds. I'm the warehouse, we had forklifts and pallet jacks to handle that.

New comment by IsoldesKnight in "The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300"

IsoldesKnight — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 03:30:55 +0000

I remember the KV-40XBR700. Those suckers were heavy. I worked at Circuit City in 2003 delivering those behemoths to customers until I dropped two in a single day (the handholds on the side weren't very good) and got moved to the warehouse.

New comment by IsoldesKnight in "Original Pirate Material"

IsoldesKnight — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:27:59 +0000

Been awhile since I've thought about FSR. Back in the day, I used to listen to WoW on repeat while putting far too many hours of my life into that game.

New comment by IsoldesKnight in "Jobs you're applying to might not be real"

IsoldesKnight — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 04:30:39 +0000

I'm not sure that going for the candidates who are desperate enough is the winning strategy.

New comment by IsoldesKnight in "Ask HN: Has the tech recession affected you?"

IsoldesKnight — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 03:30:32 +0000

Yup. The company I started with last year had layoffs. I wasn't impacted, but I didn't like how they were done. So I applied at a few places and accepted an offer at a new company just last month. For context, my resume does not have FAANG on it.

New comment by IsoldesKnight in "Unblocking User Freedom: the right to use adblockers"

IsoldesKnight — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 17:49:36 +0000

The answer is probably related to why a paid premium tier negates the value of an ad-supported free tier. A person who can't (or won't) afford the paid tier is probably not going to pay an advertised product, and thus the consumers of the free tier are less interesting (e.g. valuable) to advertisers.

For value to exist in the free tier, it must reach the entire audience. Think about how radio or newspaper advertising worked. If one segment figures out how to avoid the advertisements, it reduces the value of the remaining audience more than proportionally.

New comment by IsoldesKnight in "A decade of Have I Been Pwned"

IsoldesKnight — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 18:50:40 +0000

Let me be the one to tell you not to look up tubgirl or meatspin. The turn-of-the millennium internet was a dirty place.

New comment by IsoldesKnight in "Daily energy expenditure through the human life course"

IsoldesKnight — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 04:45:49 +0000

Pretty sure if it was the American dream, it would be 7oz of chocolate.

New comment by IsoldesKnight in "Maids trafficked and sold to wealthy Saudis on black market"

IsoldesKnight — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 14:59:58 +0000

> it literally says 'we have a Filipino woman, who works for us'.

It _literally_ does not say that. You added a comma which changes the expression.

New comment by IsoldesKnight in "Email startup Superhuman lays off 22% of staff"

IsoldesKnight — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 02:22:09 +0000

Invites weren't what got me hyped about Gmail. My Yahoo and Hotmail accounts had 2-5 MB storage limits at the time. Gmail offered a 1 GB storage limit. The idea that I'd never have to delete an email again is what had me hitting up old friends on AIM for an invite.

New comment by IsoldesKnight in "Apple and Google must allow other in-app payment systems, Korean law declares"

IsoldesKnight — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:42:47 +0000

> The iPhone (or whatever phone you want) is the equivalent of a Walmart store.

The major difference here is that while I don't own the Walmart store, I do own my phone. What is allowed to be sold in the store is determined by Walmart, just as what's installed on my phone should be determined by me, the owner.

New comment by IsoldesKnight in "Why Robinhood disabled buys but not sells"

IsoldesKnight — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 04:12:38 +0000

Back office system in the financial sector? You're probably looking at COBOL, although I know Caché gets used as well.

New comment by IsoldesKnight in "SARS-CoV-2 Point of Entry into Cells Captured by Cryo-EM"

IsoldesKnight — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 12:40:10 +0000

I got zero ads when I opened it. I'm using Firefox for Android with uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger extensions.