tech is overbuilt

[John Larkin]

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-take-control-wework-5-billion-bailout

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-a-look-at-how-weworks-50-billion-pile-of-office-leases-could-unravel-2019-10-10

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/10/16/oceanwide-halts-construction-on-transbay-hotel-and.html


--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[Joerg]

On 2019-10-21 13:06, John Larkin wrote:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-take-control-wework-5-billion-bailout

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-a-look-at-how-weworks-50-billion-pile-of-office-leases-could-unravel-2019-10-10

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/10/16/oceanwide-halts-construction-on-transbay-hotel-and.html

Dotcom 3.0?

It's all been there before, dotcom, housing and now this stuff. For some
weird reason even seasoned investors fail to see the writing on the wall.

Why would anyone pay hundreds for a hot desk when you can have this for
free?

http://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork1.JPG

And after work maybe some of this:

http://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork2.JPG

I brought some of my best ideas to paper in such locations. It can take
an hour or two by mountain bike to get there which is how I want it.
Sometimes I even bring homemade IPA along. Trails can be gnarly and I am
surprised the (non-SSD) hard drive in my netbook still works.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

 

[John Larkin]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:22:38 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:

On 2019-10-21 13:06, John Larkin wrote:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-take-control-wework-5-billion-bailout

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-a-look-at-how-weworks-50-billion-pile-of-office-leases-could-unravel-2019-10-10

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/10/16/oceanwide-halts-construction-on-transbay-hotel-and.html


Dotcom 3.0?

Sure looks like it. Same unicorns losing billions per year. Or 10s of
billions. With no path to profit.

We need a good crash. It will improve the parking situation.

It's all been there before, dotcom, housing and now this stuff. For some
weird reason even seasoned investors fail to see the writing on the wall.

Why would anyone pay hundreds for a hot desk when you can have this for
free?

http://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork1.JPG

And after work maybe some of this:

http://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork2.JPG

American River? That looks like the Truckee River on a good summer
day. You can walk from shore to shore on the rafts.

I brought some of my best ideas to paper in such locations. It can take
an hour or two by mountain bike to get there which is how I want it.
Sometimes I even bring homemade IPA along. Trails can be gnarly and I am
surprised the (non-SSD) hard drive in my netbook still works.

Be grateful your body still works.

My brother-in-law, a super competitive jock, blew his knee apart
skiing way too fast, racing against a bunch of other jocks. If he's
very lucky, he'll only miss one or two winters.

Netbooks were great.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[bitrex]

On 10/21/19 4:06 PM, John Larkin wrote:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-take-control-wework-5-billion-bailout

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-a-look-at-how-weworks-50-billion-pile-of-office-leases-could-unravel-2019-10-10

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/10/16/oceanwide-halts-construction-on-transbay-hotel-and.html

Light industrial/mixed use office space in Providence and Woonsocket RI
is between $4 - $8/ sq ft annually, lol. Plenty of mill and warehouse
space near active freight spurs too if ya need to bring in really heavy
stuff.

Weather in the wintertime surely not as nice as San Fran but the
nightlife and restaurant options are excellent, Johnson & Wales U. has
one of the most renowned culinary/hospitality programs in the country
and the whole city is sort of like a chef training ground.

 

[Robert Baer]

John Larkin wrote:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-take-control-wework-5-billion-bailout

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-a-look-at-how-weworks-50-billion-pile-of-office-leases-could-unravel-2019-10-10

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/10/16/oceanwide-halts-construction-on-transbay-hotel-and.html

Isn't the 600 California building getting old in the tooth?
Well over 60 years old, and it was not spiffy back then...
And if that property represents the "quality" of the others, the
owners / "managers" face a large, increasing maintenance bill.

Someone ("WeWork") has been spinning a LOT of hype..so could very
well be pocketing big bux before a rapid "bankrupt" exit.

 

[Bill Sloman]

On Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 1:33:12 PM UTC+11, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 19:57:15 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 10/21/19 4:06 PM, John Larkin wrote:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-take-control-wework-5-billion-bailout

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-a-look-at-how-weworks-50-billion-pile-of-office-leases-could-unravel-2019-10-10

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/10/16/oceanwide-halts-construction-on-transbay-hotel-and.html



Light industrial/mixed use office space in Providence and Woonsocket RI
is between $4 - $8/ sq ft annually, lol. Plenty of mill and warehouse
space near active freight spurs too if ya need to bring in really heavy
stuff.

Weather in the wintertime surely not as nice as San Fran but the
nightlife and restaurant options are excellent, Johnson & Wales U. has
one of the most renowned culinary/hospitality programs in the country
and the whole city is sort of like a chef training ground.

I don't understand why tech companies want to jam a zillion more kids
into a square mile of the most expensive and congested real estate on
the planet. Or why the kids move here to pay $4K a month for,
essentially, a dorm room.

Freakonomics spelled it out. Not the first book, but one of the follow-ups

Technical development mostly needs lots of different specialised skills, and the collaborations involved work better with face-to-face interactions.

The reason for that gets illustrated here rather too frequently.

Silicon Valley, Route 128 and all the other industry parks that have grown up since then - like Silicon Glen, Silicon Fen and the like - show where the value gets added.

But technology clusters that way.

We do have very good, and not expensive, food here. Better than LA at
half the price.

If you share John Larkin's eccentric tastes.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 19:57:15 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 10/21/19 4:06 PM, John Larkin wrote:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-take-control-wework-5-billion-bailout

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-a-look-at-how-weworks-50-billion-pile-of-office-leases-could-unravel-2019-10-10

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/10/16/oceanwide-halts-construction-on-transbay-hotel-and.html



Light industrial/mixed use office space in Providence and Woonsocket RI
is between $4 - $8/ sq ft annually, lol. Plenty of mill and warehouse
space near active freight spurs too if ya need to bring in really heavy
stuff.

Weather in the wintertime surely not as nice as San Fran but the
nightlife and restaurant options are excellent, Johnson & Wales U. has
one of the most renowned culinary/hospitality programs in the country
and the whole city is sort of like a chef training ground.

I don't understand why tech companies want to jam a zillion more kids
into a square mile of the most expensive and congested real estate on
the planet. Or why the kids move here to pay $4K a month for,
essentially, a dorm room.

But technology clusters that way.

We do have very good, and not expensive, food here. Better than LA at
half the price.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics

 

[bitrex]

On 10/21/19 10:43 PM, Bill Sloman wrote:

On Tuesday, October 22, 2019 at 1:33:12 PM UTC+11, jla...@highlandsniptechnology.com wrote:
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 19:57:15 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:

On 10/21/19 4:06 PM, John Larkin wrote:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-take-control-wework-5-billion-bailout

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-a-look-at-how-weworks-50-billion-pile-of-office-leases-could-unravel-2019-10-10

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/10/16/oceanwide-halts-construction-on-transbay-hotel-and.html



Light industrial/mixed use office space in Providence and Woonsocket RI
is between $4 - $8/ sq ft annually, lol. Plenty of mill and warehouse
space near active freight spurs too if ya need to bring in really heavy
stuff.

Weather in the wintertime surely not as nice as San Fran but the
nightlife and restaurant options are excellent, Johnson & Wales U. has
one of the most renowned culinary/hospitality programs in the country
and the whole city is sort of like a chef training ground.

I don't understand why tech companies want to jam a zillion more kids
into a square mile of the most expensive and congested real estate on
the planet. Or why the kids move here to pay $4K a month for,
essentially, a dorm room.

Freakonomics spelled it out. Not the first book, but one of the follow-ups

Technical development mostly needs lots of different specialised skills, and the collaborations involved work better with face-to-face interactions.

The reason for that gets illustrated here rather too frequently.

Silicon Valley, Route 128 and all the other industry parks that have grown up since then - like Silicon Glen, Silicon Fen and the like - show where the value gets added.

The Route 128 corridor is still quite prosperous but since the 1980s has
migrated from computers and software more to biotechnology/healthcare tech.

So instead of doing the latest app or hardware gidget there it's mostly
buildings housing life-sciences equipment and PCR machines/
DNA sequencers and other inscrutable stuff to the average person so it
doesn't get as much attention, but is still a big GDP-maker.

But technology clusters that way.

We do have very good, and not expensive, food here. Better than LA at
half the price.

If you share John Larkin's eccentric tastes.

 

[Joerg]

On 2019-10-21 17:09, John Larkin wrote:

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:22:38 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2019-10-21 13:06, John Larkin wrote:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-take-control-wework-5-billion-bailout

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-a-look-at-how-weworks-50-billion-pile-of-office-leases-could-unravel-2019-10-10

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/10/16/oceanwide-halts-construction-on-transbay-hotel-and.html


Dotcom 3.0?

Sure looks like it. Same unicorns losing billions per year. Or 10s of
billions. With no path to profit.

We need a good crash. It will improve the parking situation.

In S.F. the parking spots may then be filled with tents, trash and worse :-(

It's all been there before, dotcom, housing and now this stuff. For some
weird reason even seasoned investors fail to see the writing on the wall.

Why would anyone pay hundreds for a hot desk when you can have this for
free?

http://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork1.JPG

And after work maybe some of this:

http://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork2.JPG

American River? That looks like the Truckee River on a good summer
day. You can walk from shore to shore on the rafts.

It's the American River South Fork.

I brought some of my best ideas to paper in such locations. It can take
an hour or two by mountain bike to get there which is how I want it.
Sometimes I even bring homemade IPA along. Trails can be gnarly and I am
surprised the (non-SSD) hard drive in my netbook still works.

Be grateful your body still works.

Oh, I thank God every day for that.

My brother-in-law, a super competitive jock, blew his knee apart
skiing way too fast, racing against a bunch of other jocks. If he's
very lucky, he'll only miss one or two winters.

In order to reach those spots I have to use the mountain bike and
sometimes I get a bit carried away with speed. All it takes is one bad
crash or a tumble down a cliff side.

The mountain bike must be clsoe to 10,000mi now and the rear shock is
wearing out. That's a $350 part, ouch.

Netbooks were great.

I still have my Samsung NC10. Very low in horsepower but keeps going
more than 6h on a charge after all those years.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

 

[Joerg]

On 2019-10-22 11:46, Jeroen Belleman wrote:

On 2019-10-22 20:12, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-10-21 17:09, John Larkin wrote:
[...]

Netbooks were great.


I still have my Samsung NC10. Very low in horsepower but keeps going
more than 6h on a charge after all those years.


The computing power of horses is largely overrated.

They can compute but they also cheat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogPUpiCP6lI

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

 

[Jeroen Belleman]

On 2019-10-22 20:12, Joerg wrote:

On 2019-10-21 17:09, John Larkin wrote:
[...]

Netbooks were great.


I still have my Samsung NC10. Very low in horsepower but keeps going
more than 6h on a charge after all those years.

The computing power of horses is largely overrated.

Jeroen Belleman

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:12:16 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:

On 2019-10-21 17:09, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:22:38 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2019-10-21 13:06, John Larkin wrote:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-take-control-wework-5-billion-bailout

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-a-look-at-how-weworks-50-billion-pile-of-office-leases-could-unravel-2019-10-10

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/10/16/oceanwide-halts-construction-on-transbay-hotel-and.html


Dotcom 3.0?

Sure looks like it. Same unicorns losing billions per year. Or 10s of
billions. With no path to profit.

We need a good crash. It will improve the parking situation.


In S.F. the parking spots may then be filled with tents, trash and worse :-(

My neighborhood, village actually, is clean and has reasonable
parking. I park on the street in front of my house. We have a canyon
with a stream and coyotes and stuff.

Downtown is a horror. We never go there.

It's all been there before, dotcom, housing and now this stuff. For some
weird reason even seasoned investors fail to see the writing on the wall.

Why would anyone pay hundreds for a hot desk when you can have this for
free?

http://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork1.JPG

And after work maybe some of this:

http://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork2.JPG

American River? That looks like the Truckee River on a good summer
day. You can walk from shore to shore on the rafts.


It's the American River South Fork.

Anybody driving near Auburn should walk over and under the Foresthill
Bridge. It spans a big canyon of the American. Spectacular.

Conveniently near Ikedas. The tri-tip sandwich is excellent, as are
the pies.

I brought some of my best ideas to paper in such locations. It can take
an hour or two by mountain bike to get there which is how I want it.
Sometimes I even bring homemade IPA along. Trails can be gnarly and I am
surprised the (non-SSD) hard drive in my netbook still works.

Be grateful your body still works.


Oh, I thank God every day for that.


My brother-in-law, a super competitive jock, blew his knee apart
skiing way too fast, racing against a bunch of other jocks. If he's
very lucky, he'll only miss one or two winters.


In order to reach those spots I have to use the mountain bike and
sometimes I get a bit carried away with speed. All it takes is one bad
crash or a tumble down a cliff side.

California doesn't much deploy guard rails. We are often literally one
second of distraction from death.

The mountain bike must be clsoe to 10,000mi now and the rear shock is
wearing out. That's a $350 part, ouch.


Netbooks were great.


I still have my Samsung NC10. Very low in horsepower but keeps going
more than 6h on a charge after all those years.

I have a few that I use for connecting to boxes on my bench. Cute
little things don't take much room. I use wifi and Dropbox to talk to
them from my big PC.



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[Joerg]

On 2019-10-22 12:13, John Larkin wrote:

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:12:16 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2019-10-21 17:09, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:22:38 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2019-10-21 13:06, John Larkin wrote:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-take-control-wework-5-billion-bailout

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-a-look-at-how-weworks-50-billion-pile-of-office-leases-could-unravel-2019-10-10

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/10/16/oceanwide-halts-construction-on-transbay-hotel-and.html


Dotcom 3.0?

Sure looks like it. Same unicorns losing billions per year. Or 10s of
billions. With no path to profit.

We need a good crash. It will improve the parking situation.


In S.F. the parking spots may then be filled with tents, trash and worse :-(

My neighborhood, village actually, is clean and has reasonable
parking. I park on the street in front of my house. We have a canyon
with a stream and coyotes and stuff.

Inside S.F. that kind of arrangement is nowadays super-expensive. I
remember someone on a start-up team who always said "Well, later today I
am going to trim my three blades of grass in the yard".

Downtown is a horror. We never go there.

A surprising number of people, including many who lived and worked in
S.F., say the same. The city leaders and state politicians still have
their heads in the sand about it.

It's all been there before, dotcom, housing and now this stuff. For some
weird reason even seasoned investors fail to see the writing on the wall.

Why would anyone pay hundreds for a hot desk when you can have this for
free?

http://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork1.JPG

And after work maybe some of this:

http://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork2.JPG

American River? That looks like the Truckee River on a good summer
day. You can walk from shore to shore on the rafts.


It's the American River South Fork.

Anybody driving near Auburn should walk over and under the Foresthill
Bridge. It spans a big canyon of the American. Spectacular.

Just watch that you don't gethit by a suicide jumper :-(

Conveniently near Ikedas. The tri-tip sandwich is excellent, as are
the pies.

We cook our own tri-tip over Manzanita wood fire. Same with the bread.
All fresh.

I brought some of my best ideas to paper in such locations. It can take
an hour or two by mountain bike to get there which is how I want it.
Sometimes I even bring homemade IPA along. Trails can be gnarly and I am
surprised the (non-SSD) hard drive in my netbook still works.

Be grateful your body still works.


Oh, I thank God every day for that.


My brother-in-law, a super competitive jock, blew his knee apart
skiing way too fast, racing against a bunch of other jocks. If he's
very lucky, he'll only miss one or two winters.


In order to reach those spots I have to use the mountain bike and
sometimes I get a bit carried away with speed. All it takes is one bad
crash or a tumble down a cliff side.

California doesn't much deploy guard rails. We are often literally one
second of distraction from death.

Some bridges are outright scary with what they call guard rails. Like
this one here in town:

https://goo.gl/maps/pGu9HY5kFvpXGMhx8

If my bicycle handlebar had broken there instead of on Silva Valley
Parkway I'd have fallen down onto the freeway. Same if a texting driver
side-swipes you.

Another scary one:

https://goo.gl/maps/pGu9HY5kFvpXGMhx8

The mountain bike must be clsoe to 10,000mi now and the rear shock is
wearing out. That's a $350 part, ouch.


Netbooks were great.


I still have my Samsung NC10. Very low in horsepower but keeps going
more than 6h on a charge after all those years.

I have a few that I use for connecting to boxes on my bench. Cute
little things don't take much room. I use wifi and Dropbox to talk to
them from my big PC.

My computers are now gradually migrating to Linux. Dual-Boot for most of
them though since Linux is incompatibe with a lot of essential stuff.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

 

[Joerg]

On 2019-10-22 12:41, Joerg wrote:

On 2019-10-22 12:13, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:12:16 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2019-10-21 17:09, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:22:38 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2019-10-21 13:06, John Larkin wrote:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-take-control-wework-5-billion-bailout


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-a-look-at-how-weworks-50-billion-pile-of-office-leases-could-unravel-2019-10-10


https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/10/16/oceanwide-halts-construction-on-transbay-hotel-and.html



Dotcom 3.0?

Sure looks like it. Same unicorns losing billions per year. Or 10s of
billions. With no path to profit.

We need a good crash. It will improve the parking situation.


In S.F. the parking spots may then be filled with tents, trash and
worse :-(

My neighborhood, village actually, is clean and has reasonable
parking. I park on the street in front of my house. We have a canyon
with a stream and coyotes and stuff.


Inside S.F. that kind of arrangement is nowadays super-expensive. I
remember someone on a start-up team who always said "Well, later today I
am going to trim my three blades of grass in the yard".


Downtown is a horror. We never go there.


A surprising number of people, including many who lived and worked in
S.F., say the same. The city leaders and state politicians still have
their heads in the sand about it.




It's all been there before, dotcom, housing and now this stuff. For
some
weird reason even seasoned investors fail to see the writing on the
wall.

Why would anyone pay hundreds for a hot desk when you can have this
for
free?

http://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork1.JPG

And after work maybe some of this:

http://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork2.JPG

American River? That looks like the Truckee River on a good summer
day. You can walk from shore to shore on the rafts.


It's the American River South Fork.

Anybody driving near Auburn should walk over and under the Foresthill
Bridge. It spans a big canyon of the American. Spectacular.


Just watch that you don't gethit by a suicide jumper :-(


Conveniently near Ikedas. The tri-tip sandwich is excellent, as are
the pies.


We cook our own tri-tip over Manzanita wood fire. Same with the bread.
All fresh.


I brought some of my best ideas to paper in such locations. It can
take
an hour or two by mountain bike to get there which is how I want it.
Sometimes I even bring homemade IPA along. Trails can be gnarly and
I am
surprised the (non-SSD) hard drive in my netbook still works.

Be grateful your body still works.


Oh, I thank God every day for that.


My brother-in-law, a super competitive jock, blew his knee apart
skiing way too fast, racing against a bunch of other jocks. If he's
very lucky, he'll only miss one or two winters.


In order to reach those spots I have to use the mountain bike and
sometimes I get a bit carried away with speed. All it takes is one bad
crash or a tumble down a cliff side.

California doesn't much deploy guard rails. We are often literally one
second of distraction from death.


Some bridges are outright scary with what they call guard rails. Like
this one here in town:

https://goo.gl/maps/pGu9HY5kFvpXGMhx8

If my bicycle handlebar had broken there instead of on Silva Valley
Parkway I'd have fallen down onto the freeway. Same if a texting driver
side-swipes you.

Another scary one:

https://goo.gl/maps/pGu9HY5kFvpXGMhx8

I meant this one:

https://goo.gl/maps/cZdsyALjQqhkr28C7

The mountain bike must be clsoe to 10,000mi now and the rear shock is
wearing out. That's a $350 part, ouch.


Netbooks were great.


I still have my Samsung NC10. Very low in horsepower but keeps going
more than 6h on a charge after all those years.

I have a few that I use for connecting to boxes on my bench. Cute
little things don't take much room. I use wifi and Dropbox to talk to
them from my big PC.


My computers are now gradually migrating to Linux. Dual-Boot for most of
them though since Linux is incompatibe with a lot of essential stuff.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

 

[Lasse Langwadt Christense]

mandag den 21. oktober 2019 kl. 22.06.47 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-take-control-wework-5-billion-bailout

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-a-look-at-how-weworks-50-billion-pile-of-office-leases-could-unravel-2019-10-10

half pipes and DJs in the office doesn't come for free

https://i.imgur.com/4vV2rTW.jpg

 

[Joerg]

On 2019-10-22 13:47, John Larkin wrote:

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:41:56 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2019-10-22 12:13, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:12:16 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2019-10-21 17:09, John Larkin wrote:

[...]

Netbooks were great.


I still have my Samsung NC10. Very low in horsepower but keeps going
more than 6h on a charge after all those years.

I have a few that I use for connecting to boxes on my bench. Cute
little things don't take much room. I use wifi and Dropbox to talk to
them from my big PC.


My computers are now gradually migrating to Linux. Dual-Boot for most of
them though since Linux is incompatibe with a lot of essential stuff.


Win7 seems stable.

Yes but it will go lalaland in January. You can keep it updated past
that for $100/year/machine or so and that "tax" will rise over the next
years. Evenually they may cut it off completely. Win 10 is unacceptable
for me, so it's time to say goodbye.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:41:56 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:

On 2019-10-22 12:13, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:12:16 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2019-10-21 17:09, John Larkin wrote:
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:22:38 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2019-10-21 13:06, John Larkin wrote:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-take-control-wework-5-billion-bailout

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-a-look-at-how-weworks-50-billion-pile-of-office-leases-could-unravel-2019-10-10

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2019/10/16/oceanwide-halts-construction-on-transbay-hotel-and.html


Dotcom 3.0?

Sure looks like it. Same unicorns losing billions per year. Or 10s of
billions. With no path to profit.

We need a good crash. It will improve the parking situation.


In S.F. the parking spots may then be filled with tents, trash and worse :-(

My neighborhood, village actually, is clean and has reasonable
parking. I park on the street in front of my house. We have a canyon
with a stream and coyotes and stuff.


Inside S.F. that kind of arrangement is nowadays super-expensive. I
remember someone on a start-up team who always said "Well, later today I
am going to trim my three blades of grass in the yard".

One pleasure of this place is that almost nobody has lawns. When I
lived in NOLA, I used to hate cutting the grass, with temp and
humidity both 95%. It had to be cut twice a week.

Our house is affordable because we bought it in 1993. It would be
horrifying to move into SF now. The property taxes alone would be
terrifying.

Downtown is a horror. We never go there.


A surprising number of people, including many who lived and worked in
S.F., say the same. The city leaders and state politicians still have
their heads in the sand about it.

Yes. We are spending over a billion a year to increase the homeless
population. The next trick is free RV parks for the poor souls who are
forced to live in vehicles. May as well put up billboards all over the
Western Hemisphere, FREE RV PARKS IN SAN FRANCISCO, FULL SERVICES.

It's all been there before, dotcom, housing and now this stuff. For some
weird reason even seasoned investors fail to see the writing on the wall.

Why would anyone pay hundreds for a hot desk when you can have this for
free?

http://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork1.JPG

And after work maybe some of this:

http://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/SouthFork2.JPG

American River? That looks like the Truckee River on a good summer
day. You can walk from shore to shore on the rafts.


It's the American River South Fork.

Anybody driving near Auburn should walk over and under the Foresthill
Bridge. It spans a big canyon of the American. Spectacular.


Just watch that you don't gethit by a suicide jumper :-(

Last time we were there, with our French artist friend, the bridge
railing had maybe 100 little hand-drawn encouraging signs, about why
you shouldn't jump.

Mo has an indirect connection to a lady who did fall (not jump) off
the bridge. She fell maybe 700 feet and landed in a big bush and
survived.

Conveniently near Ikedas. The tri-tip sandwich is excellent, as are
the pies.


We cook our own tri-tip over Manzanita wood fire. Same with the bread.
All fresh.


I brought some of my best ideas to paper in such locations. It can take
an hour or two by mountain bike to get there which is how I want it.
Sometimes I even bring homemade IPA along. Trails can be gnarly and I am
surprised the (non-SSD) hard drive in my netbook still works.

Be grateful your body still works.


Oh, I thank God every day for that.


My brother-in-law, a super competitive jock, blew his knee apart
skiing way too fast, racing against a bunch of other jocks. If he's
very lucky, he'll only miss one or two winters.


In order to reach those spots I have to use the mountain bike and
sometimes I get a bit carried away with speed. All it takes is one bad
crash or a tumble down a cliff side.

California doesn't much deploy guard rails. We are often literally one
second of distraction from death.


Some bridges are outright scary with what they call guard rails. Like
this one here in town:

https://goo.gl/maps/pGu9HY5kFvpXGMhx8

Nice. Just the height to catch a bicycle pedal.

If my bicycle handlebar had broken there instead of on Silva Valley
Parkway I'd have fallen down onto the freeway. Same if a texting driver
side-swipes you.

Another scary one:

https://goo.gl/maps/pGu9HY5kFvpXGMhx8



The mountain bike must be clsoe to 10,000mi now and the rear shock is
wearing out. That's a $350 part, ouch.


Netbooks were great.


I still have my Samsung NC10. Very low in horsepower but keeps going
more than 6h on a charge after all those years.

I have a few that I use for connecting to boxes on my bench. Cute
little things don't take much room. I use wifi and Dropbox to talk to
them from my big PC.


My computers are now gradually migrating to Linux. Dual-Boot for most of
them though since Linux is incompatibe with a lot of essential stuff.

Win7 seems stable.

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:25:48 -0700 (PDT), Lasse Langwadt Christensen
<langwadt@fonz.dk> wrote:

mandag den 21. oktober 2019 kl. 22.06.47 UTC+2 skrev John Larkin:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/softbank-take-control-wework-5-billion-bailout

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-a-look-at-how-weworks-50-billion-pile-of-office-leases-could-unravel-2019-10-10


half pipes and DJs in the office doesn't come for free

https://i.imgur.com/4vV2rTW.jpg

We-Goof-Off-All-Day



--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:09:30 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com>
wrote:

On 2019-10-22 13:47, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:41:56 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2019-10-22 12:13, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:12:16 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2019-10-21 17:09, John Larkin wrote:

[...]


Netbooks were great.


I still have my Samsung NC10. Very low in horsepower but keeps going
more than 6h on a charge after all those years.

I have a few that I use for connecting to boxes on my bench. Cute
little things don't take much room. I use wifi and Dropbox to talk to
them from my big PC.


My computers are now gradually migrating to Linux. Dual-Boot for most of
them though since Linux is incompatibe with a lot of essential stuff.


Win7 seems stable.


Yes but it will go lalaland in January. You can keep it updated past
that for $100/year/machine or so and that "tax" will rise over the next
years. Evenually they may cut it off completely. Win 10 is unacceptable
for me, so it's time to say goodbye.

Update? Win7? Why would I want to do that?

--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement

jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
http://www.highlandtechnology.com

 

[Joerg]

On 2019-10-22 15:38, John Larkin wrote:

On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:09:30 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2019-10-22 13:47, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 12:41:56 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2019-10-22 12:13, John Larkin wrote:
On Tue, 22 Oct 2019 11:12:16 -0700, Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com
wrote:

On 2019-10-21 17:09, John Larkin wrote:

[...]


Netbooks were great.


I still have my Samsung NC10. Very low in horsepower but keeps going
more than 6h on a charge after all those years.

I have a few that I use for connecting to boxes on my bench. Cute
little things don't take much room. I use wifi and Dropbox to talk to
them from my big PC.


My computers are now gradually migrating to Linux. Dual-Boot for most of
them though since Linux is incompatibe with a lot of essential stuff.


Win7 seems stable.


Yes but it will go lalaland in January. You can keep it updated past
that for $100/year/machine or so and that "tax" will rise over the next
years. Evenually they may cut it off completely. Win 10 is unacceptable
for me, so it's time to say goodbye.

Update? Win7? Why would I want to do that?

To reduce the chance of a virus getting in. Many updates are just fluff
but some are security-critical patches.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/