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The people I know who put together Altairs in 1975 used ASR-33 teletypes as terminals to run BASIC.

Teletype and all, the Altair looked and worked like an cut-down entry-level version of the minis that were popular in engineering and science.

Not as powerful as a PDP-8, but less than a tenth of the price.

It was the perfect aspirational project for the electronics hobbyist community of the time.

The fact that you could barely do anything with it wasn't the point. It was a real computer you could set up at home and use without time restrictions or hourly billing.

The S-100 bus market turned into a preview of the PC market. S-100 systems soon sprouted real terminals, floppy drives, and workable memory, and began to appear in the offices of accountants and other non-tech professionals.

The IBM PC probably wouldn't have happened without it. It normalised relatively affordable computing, and the idea of a third party market of expansion cards on a standard bus.

According to Perplexity, he is 308 pounds! Wow!

> Apple always has been like that

They were better in the pre-Mac days. I was a big Apple fan until the Mac came out.

So basically Apple II days?

So, you liked the Lisa?

Very few people read the articles on Hacker News, no matter what the source.

Why is this sad? He's realized that the best language is C# and the best platform for games is Unity! This is progress, and that's good.

I'm always amazed that people are allowed to drive again. I had a friend who was killed by an impaired driver. The driver got a 3 year sentence, no jail time.

I followed the case closely, all the public records on the hearings, etc.

A few months after the incident, while still on probabation, she got her driving privileges back. The judge agreed it would have been an undue hardship on her not to drive.

Really? How?

The base layer is just electronic circuitry. As long there is electricity it will do stuff (like a radio producing noise). GPU, CPU, is mostly software embedded in hardware.

Primarily, processing input.

Logic gates aren't coding? Could have fooled me!

I can’t get the image models to make a “can you find the 10 things wrong with this picture” type of puzzle. Nor can they make a 2-panel “Goofus and Gallant style cartoon. They just don’t understand the problem.

As a person who owns two Teslas (and has no plans to get rid of them) I don't think the author is saying that these protestors were potential customers, I think he's saying that the brand has been impacted negatively by them, and that potential customers are starting to look at the alternatives. (Even I am noticing how nice some of the new GM and Kia and Ford and BMW electric cars look).

I own two Teslas as well and was waiting on new Y to upgrade, not happening right now as my wife would divorce me that same day I went to pick it up :)

Musk successfully alienated his customer base (rich liberals) to the point that I do not believe the company will survive this unless he leaves... and of course he cannot leave because Tesla is a meme stock now, if he left the stock would tank (only he can sell fantasies like robotaxis and robots etc to justify triple-digit P/E ratio...)

Musk has to leave for Tesla to have a shot at a future. There's an ever-shrinking cadre of "investors" willing to buy Musk's "promises" in lieu of delivered results. That's unsustainable. Get rid of Musk and absolutely their stock price is going to "tank", or I should say re-adjust to what it should have been all along.

Part of sending Musk on his way would involve Tesla owning up to what they are: an EV auto company with massive vertical integration on the charging side that allows their customers to charge at home, off-grid, and during their travels.

Robotaxis and robots are a distraction from their core competency, and in my mind, makes their stock less valuable.

But their valuation was based on those distractions, not on being "an EV auto company..."

that’s exactly it… and Musk’s margin calls would kick in hard if Tesla stock starts going where it should be. This is a pickle they are both in, can’t move on from each other and can’t stay together

That's why I began with "Musk has to leave for Tesla to have a shot at a future." Tesla needs to decide if they're going down with Musk, or whether they're going to slog through a market correction and likely come out the other side well positioned for growth. The choice is theirs.

"I don't think the author is saying that these protestors were potential customers"

Yes he is. He wrote ( and I quoted above ): "people would rather go to his dealerships to wave angry signs than to buy cars."

Yes, of course the brand has been impacted negatively. Which Musk must have seen coming.

I think he wants to be right, not popular. To a level bordering on mental illness, and wholly unsuited to someone leading a company that needs to attract customers.

It would be a problem even if he was right. And on many things, he is not.

> people would rather go to his dealerships to wave angry signs than to buy cars.

That statement means people are more likely to protest then to buy. They don't need to be the same people.

"would rather" means they are making a choice, so they are individual people.