alkonaut

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by alkonaut 2y ago
I'm sure it's one of the biggest questions asked by the Sonos C-suite: how do we get recurring revenue or make the moat wider. But that goes for every product company in the world.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
It's not about displacing other sugars . It's a cheap substitute for things not sugar. The argument about corn syrup is misplaced, it should be about sugars in general in US processed food. But corn syrup just happened to be that
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Here (EU country) the same sweeteners that are used in diet soda is found to replace up to half the sugar in some common non-diet sodas, to reduce costs. Because while its not much, it's a lot more than the cost of water+sweetener. Thi
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Needing cables between a "streamer" box and my amp, and then cables from the amp to the speaker(s) already makes it a whole different category of gadget from Sonos. The key thing Sonos sells is the single power cable setup. Wiim
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> It's less the app, more the business decision to tell people who had spent thousands and thousands of dollars on elaborate sound systems to go throw it all in the trash and start over, all at once. What does this refer to? Did Son
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Did they switch apps again, or is this still about the debacle when they switched from their original app to the second gen (S2) app many many years ago? Because while that was a shitshow, that's ancient history by now. Did they screw
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> the people who spend time directly with the customers Unless engineers spend time directly with customers, something is broken in the organization to begin with. If salespeople and customers dream up solutions and then hand the task
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by alkonaut 2y ago
But Sonos doesn't sell any services/subscriptions, just products, correct? So even if they wanted to have recurring revenue how would they do it? They sell gadgets?
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by alkonaut 2y ago
git is a great portable standard. But if I were GitHub, I'd make damn sure I didn't have issues, actions, and the rest of it be based on something users could just yank out in a portable format and take elsewhere though. Portable
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by alkonaut 2y ago
From a consumer rights and environmental standpoint I agree. But it's important that only the actual owner of the device can do this, and not just the person in possession of the device. You don't want to make stolen devices be
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I never heard any other meaning of Cargo Cult than Feynman's. In everyday speak it's an established term for "doing all the movements and expecting results but not understanding why the results won't materialize". &
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by alkonaut 2y ago
I built a sonos "clone" using a raspberry, the HiFiBerry board, shairplay, and an expensive amp/speakers that allowed digital connections (because doing anything with a raspberry and audio is pretty noisy when analog). Overal
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by alkonaut 2y ago
You can't ask a question. And even if you could start a new account, you wouldn't have thousands of rep points to spend on bounties, so the answers won't be as good or quick.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
What was the drop in 3070 pricing when the 4070 was released? We should expect a similar drop now I suppose?
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by alkonaut 2y ago
That's what I'm wondering. What's the actual raw render/compute difference in performance, if we take a game that predates DLSS?
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Come to believe, only. But the arguments for and against are pretty clearly laid out each time there is an election (and of course any other time like https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/voter-turnout-database&#x2
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Yes. It's important to vote IF you think the elections are legitimate and fair. By voting (blank, for yourself, for Mickey Mouse) you say "I didn't like any of the candidates, but I'm ready to accept the result of the ma
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> anybody that objects to the candidates presented You are missing the point. It's not about objecting to candidates. It's two separate signals sent by on the one hand abstaining, and on the other hand filling out a blank vot
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Yes I agree, in the US specifically it would proabably be the lesser evil to have compulsory voting. And especially if it was coupled with some sweeping reforms to convince everyone of the integrity of the election (The problem not being th
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Is that rhetorical? It's the de-facto choice in most liberal democracies for exactly the reason I mentioned.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> simply by casting a ballot that is functionally empty of choices. The signals are different. I cast a blank vote to indicate my support for the process/election, but my lack of support for any of the candidates. I cast no vote to
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Compulsory voting removes an important signal where participation indicates the legitimacy. Which is why very few democracies have compulsory voting. Having 70-80-90% participation with non-compulsory voting should be the goal of any self r
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Poor people don't drive, they're on the bus. This makes transit better for people who don't drive.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
> All congestion pricing does is dissuade people from driving That is true. And that is the point. Well, it also dissuades people from driving at specific times to even out traffic. > Subways are terrible and highly unsafe. Is this re
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by alkonaut 2y ago
How does "housing" relate to "cars"? They seem like completely separate things?
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Those walls are there also on airports that do have open space beyond the runway. But they’re typically fences. Significantly cheaper and doesn’t disassemble and airliner upon impact.
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by alkonaut 2y ago
Sure but if you have 3km of open water following the runway then don’t block it with a concrete wall (even if that wall prevents storm flooding 2 days every 5 years). Sea rescue is a lot easier than rescuing people who drove into a concre
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by alkonaut 2y ago
If it’s possible in any way to keep the next few km after a runway clear, then it should be clear. Ocean is great. Empty fields are great. If you are lucky enough to have empty fields but put a concrete wall there, then that’s almost malici
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by alkonaut 2y ago
This sort of thing seems you should be able to do already at compile time instead of using reflection?
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by alkonaut 2y ago
What would this change be that made parentlib stop compiling? Wouldn’t changes to the child lib just potentially stop parentlib from running properly (when an expected private field is missing or similar)?

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