The logistics are the same at either end of the process.

If they expect to hire a salesperson once they have a product, why not hire a research panel vendor or a firm like GLG to get validation?

If they want to own their sales and customer acquisition channels once they have a product, they have to figure out how to build an audience to get validation.

Is it a dark art of hustle and luck, or is it just marketing, and most founders don't want to do that?

The only difference is what you're selling, but the process is equivalent.

(We had some company iPhones in our device lab, not on MDM, and people would attach them to their personal accounts, so this was an occasional hassle.)

If you put capacitive material in a unique pattern on the footprint of each piece, and the rest of the piece material was conductive enough to carry your body's charge to register a touch, the shape of that touch could be unique per-piece.

There's no mention of syncing pieces, charging pieces, keeping pieces in view of a wide-angle camera, anything like that, so that's my bet. (This would also mean moving a piece using a non-conductive material would be a way to cheat by having it not get registered!)

I just shared this on LI this morning, linking back to a video showing showing related touchscreen explorations I did for a colleague in early 2013, sensing different coins by their radii as you touch them: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/vmiliano_a-vertical-triptych-...

Archived Twitter thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1150798839294627842.html

Gist with links to the actual scripts behind the scenes: https://gist.github.com/vitorio/4e5d8de0db5c56b6816b95817c20...

In the underside photo here, it's CP1 and CP2: https://davidigreen.com/blog/ibook-g3-clamshell-logic-board-...

See page 29 of the service manual here: http://www.applerepairmanuals.com/the_manuals_are_in_here/iB...

(No third-party charger that used them was ever released AFAICT.)

https://anythingllm.com/

https://cherry-ai.com/

I couldn't reliably get iOS to do the same, and my tests of an Android-compatible tag found it was detected much less often than an AirTag riding along with it.

I haven't tried a new OS version since 22.10, I'll have to see if audio and touchscreen support have finally resolved on this one, too.

34 diatoms can be browsed using the left and right arrows in the UI. The diatoms of Yellowstone Lake can also be viewed in a separate section by clicking the link in the lower right.

Give out your regular number, and generate a unique extension for each business or individual.

Have an IVR, bot, or service answer the number. "Hi, you've reached blakeburch, if you have an extension number, please dial it now." Valid extensions get routed to you, invalid or expired ones go to voicemail.

(Neither of those are mirrored on their GitHub.)

That said, the Wayback Machine has one of the prebuilt toolchains, for macOS, mirrored here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170412065030if_/http://www.min...

Other downloads in the Wayback Machine can be seen here: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.minocacorp.com/down...*

It is Paul Valery, but per Adrian Kohn's A Way to Look at Things by Not Forgetting Their Names, Valery may be (intentionally?) misreading Blaise Pascal just to get a jibe in. See footnote 3, bottom of page 11: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2674801

"This is a text-only compilation of 4chan threads, primarily from the years 2006-2008. The total unique threads in this collection is roughly 10 million."