valker43

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by valker43 8y ago
I would argue that there is a huge segment of users that would technically be interested in playing actual AAA games but can't be bothered to put up the initial investment. Many friends of mine don't have TV's or a beefy PC.
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by valker43 8y ago
Maybe a dumb question. But why run those VM's (or the development tools) strictly locally? I have a small server at home for that. Or alternatively there are free tiers on GCP/AWS/Azure. The advent and maturity of WebAssembly
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by valker43 8y ago
Well, one could argue that the ad campaign was made in bad faith. Warrens people knew it would be flagged automatically by fb's algorithms because of the logo. No one at Facebook actually decided to pull the ad. And it wouldn't ha
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by valker43 8y ago
> When it's in their own self-interest I'm not sure whether they're being friendly or not. Can't really tell. Does it have to be mutually exclusive. Sure, Google is hoping you're going to go GKE for your Kubernet
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by valker43 8y ago
Two ways of looking at it. Many see it as a betrayal of Google's ideals. They left in 2010 because there was a breach in gmail originating from government affiliates and consequently endangering customers. Also, it the west this was pe
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by valker43 8y ago
It all comes down to economics. The population is OK with the CCP's policies because they brought unprecedented growth. The GDP growth chart since the cultural revolution is really almost hard to believe. The part of the population tha
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by valker43 8y ago
This is relevant. But Google is also held to a higher standard. Not necessarily by the user base at large, but by the (tech) media. When I saw articles describing Amazons and Microsofts continued support for military and government contract
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by valker43 8y ago
That's what I don't get. This seems to be true in a more general sense as well. Amazon just keeps pushing things out at an insane rate. Be it through acquisitions or native dev. Google Assistant for example is mostly superior to A
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by valker43 8y ago
In essence, yes. Except the human assistant could technically be coerced to spill the beans on you. Via bribes or blackmail, etc. Gmail dosen't. The ads you see have nothing to do with your mail activity. They haven't for a while
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by valker43 8y ago
Except this is a book store pretty much everyone on the internet visits daily. And the books aren't photo copies but small synopses and blurbs. If you want to go further you get the whole thing on the creators page, which, surprise, is
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by valker43 8y ago
So, Medium?