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   by sbarre 3y ago

   Yep, when everything was available on 1 or 2 services, of course everyone signed up.. Canceling your $200/month cable subscription (for hundreds of channels you didn't watch) in exchange for a few $20/month on-demand service
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   by sbarre 3y ago

   Honestly, I feel like you zeroed in on a tiny, and insignificant, part of my actual comment which in itself feels a bit disingenuous? At least that's how it comes across to me. It's not as if using a well-known nickname for a pub
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   by sbarre 3y ago

   It's a nickname, and I certainly didn't make it up. It's widely used.
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   by sbarre 3y ago

   Fair enough! I guess my take here is that I see this "pay to get your replies boosted or in front of more people" is roughly the same as "pay to feel important" in my mind... I think they do know what they're doin
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   by sbarre 3y ago

   Are you sure you're reading the same comment as me? I'm not disagreeing with anyone, in fact I am agreeing with the parent.
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   by sbarre 3y ago

   > I think "Pay us money to feel like you matter." could be shortened to "Pay us money." For sure, I'm just pointing to the how you convince people to do it.
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   by sbarre 3y ago

   Sorry, can you be clearer about which guideline you believe I broke?
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   by sbarre 3y ago

   I was making a bit of a joke there, sorry. It was more about the rather rare scenario of setting up a data centre in a hurry than about the long-term quality of the result. Elmo's experiment came to mind so I tossed it in there.
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   by sbarre 3y ago

   I wonder if we'll see this space you describe grow as AI startups and scaleups - or even internal departments in large enterprises - start to increase in number... I know there's already plenty of concerns about giving cloud-based
10. 670.▲
    by sbarre 3y ago

    > Soon there'll be a caste system where the only actual discussions will be between people on the same subscription tier. This would actually be great, it would make it easier to filter out.
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    Yeah I came here with the same thought. Pay-to-win seems like a bad idea for Xitter (pronunciation left to the reader). Imagine if Hacker News allowed people to pay to have their replies show up first? This just tells me that Elmo doesn&#x
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    That is the most popular opinion I think.
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    geez, if that's your biggest complaint about discussion forums, you live a pretty blessed life. We're talking about Internet discussion forums here.. The amount of fakery, lying, bullshit and outright awfulness that happens on for
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    What about the hardware?
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    Part of the problem here is that the people who make the purchasing decisions (like this CTO guy) don't care about "the experience" because they're not the ones unpacking boxes and plugging in cables. They pay other peop
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    Source?
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    I'm not affiliated with Ampwall (or even American) but I'm curious what the objection is here?
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    And yet, stories like this one are not uncommon: https://www.propublica.org/article/homicide-detective-st-lou...
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    > > A software emulator can not run a physical ROM cart, right? > It absolutely can. Cool, I have bsnes running on my PC, where do I plug in the cart? ;-) You misunderstood my point there, which is probably my fault for not being
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    Analogue's devices seem to be widely loved and well regarded both by consumers and reviewers. Are you really just mad about their choice of words? I think it's pretty clear that Analogue's offerings are significantly differen
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    Words can have multiple meanings? In the market space they play in, and the audience to whom they speak, "emulation" is well known to mean software emulation targeted at dumped ROMs. And since there are lots of hardware devices o
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    Context matters. We are coming out of a ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) period where debt was effectively free and lots of companies borrowed and grew very quickly (some/many/most probably knowing they might eventually need to sh
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    I think because the effort bar becomes too low when providing answers. The gamification of the Stack Exchange sites is a double-edged sword, and I think it relies on an assumption about the effort threshold required to provide an answer. Ty
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    Sure, like any other high-level fictional situation you can surely come up with many valid fictional counter-points of your own, but cloud hosting is popular for a reason. And I think in most cases companies want to focus their employees
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    The question I've often heard asked when deciding on build vs buy (which can apply to cloud vs. bare metal) is: Are we in the business of building, maintaining and operating <thing to build> or do we want to buy that as a service
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    Not according to the law, and that's what is being discussed?
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    Yes but a very public tweet about it in the middle of this Unity debacle was not accidental timing or just a random reminder of this fact.
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    Thanks for pointing this out, I probably would never have dug further into his blog otherwise, and there's a ton of other fascinating posts.
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    The point he's making is about the sensor and the glass, not the mechanics of the camera body?
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    by sbarre 3y ago

    At least one publisher jokingly (but not jokingly) said "developers: make sure you include which engine you're using next time you pitch us a game!"...