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I switched to Windows/WSL because of this!!

It's awesome job but what ruined the whole thing is to placard a sticker on the front bezel instead of 3d-printing and painting a rainbow Apple logo on the bezel


The bible king james version translation.


I started reading the original edition of Don Quijote in Spanish with two years of high school Spanish under my belt. Ten years later, I finally finished the first book.


Same! It was such a wonderful book (both volumes) and in Spanish I found myself absolutely laughing out loud (and I don't think I ever did that in my life).


Egypt's tourism revenues hit a record high of $13.6 billion in FY2022/2023. Spending less than 10% to increase the purpose of choosing this country as a destination sounds reasonable, but as long as the P&L balances, I don't see why not.


The problem is the rest of the balance sheet is pretty red. The government is spending $60B it does not have to build a new capital, and has already taken IMF lending. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/08/world/middleeast/egypt-ne...


Egypt’s debt to GDP ratio is falling and is lower than the USA.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/377984/national-debt-of-...


That's a pretty low bar, and more importantly, Egyptian debt is by and large not in Egyptian pounds, meaning they can't just print their way out of trouble.


The middle of the graph, the peak, is the current year.

It has not started falling yet, and it won’t particularly if they keep announcing new projects.


You need to worry about the rest of the spending. This project will bring many many times of its cost as profit over the years.


I think it is pretty safe to have doubts about Egyptian government profit projections. They also said the same thing about doubling the Suez canal but revenues did not meet projections and now they are planning to expand it again. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-plans-expand-suez-c...


It won't if the rest of the country collapses from being overleveraged.


revenue is not profit


it is sort of for the government, most of it will end up being taxed one way or another, or at a minimum support people so the government doesn’t have to



I skimmed around that three-hour video and couldn't find the part you're referring to. Could I maybe get a two-sentence summary?


The summary under the reference article above states this:

About a minute in, he talks about the work he did at Western Technologies, programming VCS/2600 Raft Rider and Qbert. He also mentions WT getting the contract to make home versions of a Mylstar arcade game that wasn't released called Qbert Circus. I'm not sure if he's confused and was talking about Q*bert's Qubes (which a VCS version was released) or possibly Circus Charlie (which a VCS version was planned but never released).


Very mentally exhausting presentation with all that background music, audio effects, screen flashes, and this awful narrator's voice quality.


Please drop the background music. It takes the attention away.


Perfect closed-loop application of crypto coins.


Multicast storms happened regularly back in 2004


True, there were tons of crappy hardware still in production at that time. The first job I had out of college consisted of crappy 3Com hubs (not switches) so something like Norton Ghost could take down the whole network since multicast would get flooded everywhere. Nowadays this is a less of a problem as hubs are long gone and most switches have IGMP snooping by default and would only forward mutlicast frames that someone wants.

A bad client can still cause problems though, like sending a high rate of multicast packets with a TTL of 1.


Amazon was definitely not run off of crappy 3com hubs, not even back then.


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