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by kimbernator 2y ago
I believe it's valuable to think of this question in terms of how our physical reality really can't answer it. It's a tacit acknowledgement that the rules of the physical world we exist in are not universal; We live with caus
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by kimbernator 2y ago
High prices and high profit margin are not in and of themselves anti-consumer, otherwise every luxury brand would be considered anti-consumer. If people will buy the tickets at the prices marked, why should they lower them? If they push pri
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by kimbernator 2y ago
Seems harsh to blame somebody for simply paying to do something they enjoy when the alternative is just not doing it. Blame the monopoly, not the consumer.
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by kimbernator 3y ago
It might be "retro" in the sense that it isn't the primary way most businesses host their services, but I still don't think there is any better way to actually learn the ins and outs of networking and server management e
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by kimbernator 3y ago
I think it's a useful exercise in simple port forwarding, proxying (via nginx, for example), and certificate management. So long as you're not serving port 80 beyond redirecting to 443 and those are the only two ports being forwar
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by kimbernator 3y ago
I bought an HTC vive 7+ years ago and have middling opinions on its viability long-term as a major game platform. VR is fun and novel, but once the novelty wears off it can be tedious. It's worth doing a vision pro demo in an Apple sto
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by kimbernator 3y ago
"Optimal" in my comment was specifically meant to mean "consistent". Nintendo is never on the forefront of hardware (aside from their creativity in that area), but their product is absolute consistency. Games work very w
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by kimbernator 3y ago
Nothing Nintendo likes more than selling a sub-optimal way to experience their games. You'd be talking about suddenly adding support for every game they've ever made running on a million unique hardware configurations. There is li
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by kimbernator 3y ago
I really wish Ansible would have chosen to use python instead of YAML (since that's what it ends up being anyways). Shoehorning actual programming logic into YAML files is just awful; Working with Ansible as a software engineer is with
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by kimbernator 3y ago
I once took a job that involved managing Ansible playbooks for an absolutely massive number of servers that would run them semi-regularly for things like bootstrapping and patching. I had used Chef before for a similar task, and I loved it
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by kimbernator 3y ago
Nearly every element of Palworld seems to be a very blatant imitation of another popular franchise. - Pokemon, obviously. - The text when you enter a new area, the fonts, etc all scream BOTW/TOTK to me (among other things to a lesser e
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by kimbernator 3y ago
No freedoms are being taken away, save for those of businesses that would like to increase their margins by paying their workers less. These fictional people who would love to work for less than $7.25/hr are free to do gig work that ne
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by kimbernator 3y ago
> I'd be very happy to work for less than the minimum wage if that's all my work was worth and the alternative was no job. Is this a scenario you feel you are qualified to answer for? Have you, as somebody with meaningful livin
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by kimbernator 3y ago
I don't mean to make assumptions about your life or your conditions, but in scenario A you describe a reality where there are a meaningful number of people who would be content to sell their labor for less than $7.25 per hour. I do not
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by kimbernator 3y ago
In my experience, most minimum wage jobs are awful; tedious, boring, and often with a lot of physical exertion. Add to that the fact that you're unlikely to be treated with much respect by your supervisor or the public (if applicable).
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by kimbernator 3y ago
While it's repeated ad nauseam, this was the intended purpose of the minimum wage, as quoted by FDR who signed the minimum wage into law: “It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less t
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by kimbernator 3y ago
Selling the unit as a whole almost certainly is a loss for them, but they make money by having people buying games from them. Selling parts like that would be unlikely to have a similar effect, so they might not be able to sell it at a pric
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by kimbernator 3y ago
"Property" only exists so far as there is law enforcing it and the infrastructure to support it. Taxation is not someone stealing your money, it is the buy-in to a system that allows you to reliably consider things you have to be
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by kimbernator 3y ago
And with cars, pretty much all parts/accessories will work for any "model" in that 5-8 year window. Phones are not like this.
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by kimbernator 3y ago
I worked for a verizon reseller in 2014-2015 and 2 year contracts were not very common by the time I left. 0% loans on 2 year periods were big by then. Functionally I don't think "normal" people really see a big difference.
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by kimbernator 3y ago
It absolutely does go down if you're not making payments on a phone
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by kimbernator 3y ago
That's totally a fair point, but at least phones were actually adding new features year to year a decade ago. It's fair to have new stuff releasing yearly when you're in the "throw shit at the wall and see what sticks&qu
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by kimbernator 3y ago
I feel qualified to say it's not just my bubble, having worked in cell phone sales. The business hinges on the fact that people don't run out the useful life of their devices. Incentives exist on the part of the person who, being
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by kimbernator 3y ago
I think it's interesting that you cite video game consoles as a negative. I'd argue the opposite, I think phones should be more like them. With video game consoles, you have a single device where micro-optimizations are constantly
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by kimbernator 3y ago
This figure sourcing gallup has nearly half of Americans replacing their phone "as soon as their carrier allows it": https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/07/15/how-often-...
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by kimbernator 3y ago
"significant" is the key word here. I'd be hard pressed to think of a generational release of an existing phone line in the last 5 years that I would describe as a "significant" improvement. The things you listed (c
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by kimbernator 3y ago
I bought my pixel 7 early this year because my s20's screen broke and the cost to buy a new one to replace it myself, which is not something I think most people would be willing to do (instead paying even more for someone else to do it
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by kimbernator 3y ago
Based on the phrasing of this, I'm not sure if it's meant to be taken sarcastically or not. Apologies if you did mean it that way, because I'll respond seriously: - Advances are mostly software. - Massive quantities of e-wast
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by kimbernator 3y ago
This is fine and good, but the problem is that once your phone is no longer the newest thing, the experience takes a hit because there's little incentive to actually support your device anymore.
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by kimbernator 3y ago
I think that a new phone release should just be warranted. The trigger should be "we made significant improvements that couldn't be applied in software to the old device" instead of "it's October"

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