Adam

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Sony Flamingo (1983)

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Every competitive tech market has been through this kind of dick measuring contest. Eventually it gets to the point where it's just diminishing returns with these stats. In the end these charts appeal mainly to enthusiasts and investors. With the exception of certain use cases, the general public won't notice the incremental difference in their daily usage.

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Today's 'lock in and focus' soundtrack https://synima.bandcamp.com/album/illusion-of-choice

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https://warpcast.com/trigs/0x64294c93

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YB has a knack for tapping into the hive mind and formulating ideas I've been thinking about before I get a chance to write them. This latest article is exactly where I'm at. I already have a system for capturing various things I come across around the web, but turning those captured ideas into a newsletter is exactly the next step for me.

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Sony D-Z555 (1989) 🤌💿🤌

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If I'm overseeing a project with vibe coders then I'm making sure their set up is primed for debugging from the start. That means configuring their AI IDE with Task Master or Boomerang tasks. https://youtu.be/1L509JK8p1I

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It's thinking like this that gives Bluesky the competitive edge for brands to invest their time in long term. Farcaster had the right idea with channels, but since they dropped support to improve them they sadly now sit in this limbo state. It all leads to unnecessary confusion and friction for those who want to plant a flag here and engage with this ecosystem. Having said that, the Merkle team changes things up every few weeks around here, so maybe they're re-evaluating how they approach brands outside of an airdrop first perspective 🤷‍♂️

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I have a fascination with Toynbee tiles and the mystery of their origin https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/toynbee-tiles

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"Sony tackled skipping in the their discmen through mechanical & design improvements, reinforcing the chassis & refining servo mechanisms to stabilize the laser’s tracking. Still, the basic system struggled with vibrations, especially during movement, falling short for active users. By 1992, Sony cracked the code with ESP which introduced a small RAM buffer that pre-read and stored 3 seconds of audio data. In 96, Sony extended ESP to a 20-second buffer. Unlike later systems, its larger buffer relied on increased memory rather than advanced reading techniques. Sony’s anti-skip quest peaked in the late 90s with G-Protection, which combined a 40-second buffer with shock-absorbing mounts and refined laser tracking. By the end of its life cycle the CD Walkmas could belt out tunes for up to a whopping 115 hours on a mix of gum-stick and AA batteries." https://obsoletesony.substack.com/p/how-sony-solved-the-discmans-biggest

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It’s wild to think The Brutalist single handedly revived VisaVision, a format that had been dormant for 61 years.

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Don’t lose sight of compassion

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Reading about Mozi, who wander around playing pranks on other people's wars. He apparently once stopped a war using tabletop gaming. The ultimate in Chaotic Good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozi

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Buried in this article is this interesting fact on how long it took for the Euro to gain traction. Definitely parallels between this and stablecoins coming into prominence. https://qz.com/brazil-and-argentina-explore-the-idea-of-a-common-curre-1850019938

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Nothing makes you appreciate an LLM like having to deal with an outdated chatbot.

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We're now in the era where sanctioned airdrops come with trade offs beyond just going to zero. If you don't care and just want to claim, that's fine, but for those who want to know what digital waver they're agreeing to by claiming these tokens, here they are:

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Few people actually heard the background music from windows xp installation because it was set to play before the audio drivers were configured. Someone once said: “peak windows is setting the smooth club hit of the millenium to play BEFORE THEY SET THE AUDIO DRIVERS TO CONFIGURE in their own installation” https://youtu.be/SKricIeeru0?feature=shared

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10/10 would write an idea into existence again

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