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by noizejoy 6y ago
Why not use iPad plus Raspberry Pi? - the combination would seem to cover a very wide spectrum of computing and learning.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> For example, https://www.kimsufi.com/us/en/servers.xml currently has 500GB hard drive servers with Intel Atoms available for $5/mo in both Canada ... It says “currently being replenished” for the 2 lowes
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Thanks for that link - relatively short read, hinting at the multifaceted nature of doing something like this — and it’s not totally obvious what’s selfish and what’s altruistic.
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... and Tim Cook spent 12 years with IBM around the time when you joined.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
there was even a kind of "cloud computing": "time share computing"[0], since mainframe computers were financially our of reach for anyone but the very largest companies. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Agreed - since MacOS is even more of an entire eco-system, moving in and out of that is much more of a long-term commitment for most regular users. People who are multi-platform in daily life, are much more likely to switch - and that'
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by noizejoy 6y ago
... and IBM was King Dingaling until people moved to desktop computing p.s. and thus we have doxxed ourselves just a little bit: age group :-)
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> the enemy of my enemy is my friend My analogy is more: When the giant dinosaurs are fighting amongst themselves, us little mammals can scurry about and survive :-)
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> anyone of any age and intelligence and education and intellectual curiosity and non-working time and energy/stamina ... That Venn diagram ends up with a pretty small number of humans ...
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Maybe you should quit your current career arc and help companies change their attitude and thus unearth extra billions in profits? And I don’t mean that cynically - since if it’s as easy and guaranteed profitable as you say, why wouldn’t yo
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Haha - I like your thinking!
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by noizejoy 6y ago
... even with countries who are committed free market economies, social institutions are wisely tolerated.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
I generally agree with your arguments when the customers are medium to large businesses - and I assume that’s where your experience is. In the consumer and small business space the dynamics are very different.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Not all M1 chips are in laptops. I’m kind of intrigued by the potential of a cool and quiet linux server.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
This is probably a more nuanced set of circumstances. Google is the big shark, and all the other fish have an economic interest to impede Google in addition to philosophical and other business model differences. So the situation isn’t quite
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Context matters: It's a very different dynamic, depending on who approaches whom. If the venue owner does the approaching (as in the context of the post raising this sub-thread) like Apple, Microsoft or Google approaching extension dev
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Not every business environment is captured by grand sweeping general statements. Reality is a lot more nuanced than that.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
Not all sales and service opportunities have positive ROI
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by noizejoy 6y ago
x% of support requests are of questionable nature - to mention just a few categories: * people expecting to use a sophisticated tool (for doing complex business processes requiring special know-how) without paying for and spending time on a
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> "We can't pay you, but you'll get exposure" ... said the venue owner to the musician. It’s a frighteningly common invit^H^H^H^H^H^H exploitation providing free labour to owners of gathering places benefitting from t
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by noizejoy 6y ago
A long time ago I had occasion to visit Wales and witnessed harmony singing at a very grand scale. But that may have been because a high percentage of individuals were in smaller choir groups as part of local culture. And if only half of t
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by noizejoy 6y ago
> someone projected her beliefs You may be right about some projection going on, but your comment ignores the critical fact that she is one of presumably relatively few humans with experience as a composer with significant hearing loss.
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by noizejoy 6y ago
On our planet, I’m very much in favour of hurrying to ensure our planet remains a lot more habitable than Mars. And I’m hard pressed to believe that keeping our planet habitable is more difficult than making Mars habitable, so escaping to M
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by noizejoy 6y ago
The word “dumping” in this context is a well defined term, not a colloquial English word. Making cheap products from cheap materials (at a presumed profit) isn’t the same as loss-making pricing schemes even if the high level motivation to b
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by noizejoy 6y ago
I’ve discovered Lua only very recently as it has a good presence in some music making applications for scripting e.g. for the Steinberg HALion sampler/synth and for Native Instruments Creator Tools. And more recently I bumped into the
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by noizejoy 6y ago
It doesn’t miss the point, because the point was that non-developer humans will do better with 1 based indexing. Side note: As a former developer, turned regular human being who scripts from time to time, I don’t find switching between 0 ba
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by noizejoy 6y ago
That’s not dumping. This is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
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> What if I as a consumer like the "dumping"? What if as consumer you benefit for a little while until all competition is dead - and then prices increase beyond prior levels? Will you still like “dumping” then?
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> delaying space travel In the context of space and time in the universe delaying things by a century or two is like delaying something in our life by a blink of an eye.
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Parent post also said the following > A divergent platform needs a basis in the culture And arguably TikTok found that.

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