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by bdefore 1y ago
Thanks. Appreciate your support, and very glad it brings you value.
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by bdefore 1y ago
I'd rather not involve Microsoft but I recognize there are other options. It is additional work/complexity I'll probably have to take on.
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by bdefore 1y ago
To clarify the math. Netlify bills $50 for each 100GB over the Pro plan limit of 1TB. Which is the barrel I'm looking down just this month before others get the same idea. So yes, I'm squeezed on both side unless I put the work in
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by bdefore 1y ago
Please believe me that it is not a step I want to take.
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by bdefore 1y ago
I created and maintain ProtonDB, a popular Linux gaming resource. I don't do ads, just pay the bills from some Patreon donations. It's a statically generated React site I deploy on Netlify. About ten days ago I started incurring 3
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by bdefore 3y ago
ProtonDB started with a lunchtime reddit post and a public Google Sheets link I seeded with three of my own tests. Came back from work with a thousand rows in it. In a few weeks I built a frontend around it. The 30k row data migration was b
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by bdefore 4y ago
Not who you responded to, but I thought you described your case elegantly neutral to the God question. I suspected you were coming from that perspective, but your argument stood on its own. Now that said, if we did find alien life, how woul
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by bdefore 4y ago
Tried your beta out and enjoyed it for a while but then got hit with the auth wall after ~10 messages. Kind of irrational but I felt insulted that even after I did so my conversation was nowhere in chat history. People get attached to bots
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by bdefore 4y ago
I'd be curious to hear of your experience. Let me know how to reach you?
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by bdefore 4y ago
Interesting I had no idea. This was also the first crewed mission following the Apollo 1 failure. There's some explanation of what they disagreed on here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7#Conflict_and_splashd
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by bdefore 4y ago
Fascinating he would choose to retire at 39, in a position of what sounds of great influence in the space program. Anyone know the context around this? Was it mandated?
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by bdefore 4y ago
That great innovation is at the root of the market's disregard for negative externalities such as climate change. I'm not in support of jailing shareholders, but say a tax on the dividends of shareholders who front the capital for
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by bdefore 4y ago
Aside from the well written article itself, it's remarkable the thought and time put into the commentary that follows. This reminds me how much the quality of commentary has reduced on most places that use them. As well as how much eff
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by bdefore 4y ago
A powerful engagement and influence was left by MySpace, but it's not put up in protective glass for ticketed visitors to take snapshots of. I appreciate the nuance of its impact on the world, but... we've moved on.
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by bdefore 4y ago
You're proposing then that Google is in a disappointment loop. I think that's much more true for the technologically versed than the broader public. If they shut down Gmail/Maps/YouTube/Chromecast that'd breach
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by bdefore 4y ago
Irony bells are ringing with the New Yorker magazine chasing its own TikTok dreams, autoplaying an utterly unrelated video halfway down the article.
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by bdefore 4y ago
That's an odd comparison. Unlike Stadia, if the Pixel phone division shuts down you still have a working phone. Forums will be forums and the trolls get the spotlight. Pixel phones, particularly the cheaper 'a' models, are ve
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by bdefore 4y ago
Absolutely agree. XBox Cloud gaming took the "Netflix for games" strategy and with inferior quality was able to decently establish itself. How to fund the development of a risky but long-term valuable new platform? Whomever was ca
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by bdefore 4y ago
But standards can be low or high. Can one firmly stand on unfirm ground?
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by bdefore 4y ago
Neither the post you respond to nor anyone I've spoken with make claim that assault rifles represent a significant portion of gun deaths. That politicians gravitate to 'banning assault rifles' is lazy governance. Much tighter
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by bdefore 4y ago
Why is there a belief that the provider of content should also be the source of quality recommendations? I also see this disappointment with for example Steam and gaming. Or Spotify and music. But the days of walking into department stores
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by bdefore 4y ago
This is really good thank you. Worthy of a follow-up submission on HN of its own since we're pretty deep into comments here. Note that this study is specifically focused on North Carolina. I'm curious if similar research has been
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by bdefore 4y ago
Sorry i misstated, it was the article at the second link from post i responded to. first image of that post, under where it says 'Get Chrome - Download Chrome Today' there is a green text that shows www.google.com. I thought that
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by bdefore 4y ago
I wonder if this extensive testing could be funded by a tax on leaded fuel. Seems like this would benefit everyone.
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by bdefore 4y ago
In the second link above, a Bing ad is presented to download Chrome while describing a domain of "www.google.com" but when clicked takes the user to googleonline2018.com ... maybe my expectations are out of date, but how is that p
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by bdefore 4y ago
I'm no expert, but I'll express a wish: that modern supply constraints mean Lycoming O-360 engines may be noncompetitive to an engine design conceived today. Perhaps these old engines are suppressing the investment into an inventi
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by bdefore 4y ago
Thanks for this context. I'm not a pilot but I can absolutely relate to the joy such a machine could give. I'd like to ask one thing further: Do you think the existence of these older cheaper planes is holding back the development
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by bdefore 4y ago
Unity has learned all the wrong lessons. Their success was largely from the verdant asset store and the asset developers who augmented a creaky platform with wonderful and useful tools to shorten development time. They never figured out how
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by bdefore 4y ago
I feel like there's room to innovate on monetizing gaming hobby projects without ads. And that Kickstarter and Early Access have polluted the well by asking for a one-time payment for an unknown final quality. I'd be more inclined
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by bdefore 4y ago
Right? It disparages not putting profits first in the act of creation, but doesn't explain how its offering solves this problem. Instead it describes how to improve feedback loops. It leaves as an exercise to the reader how user acquis

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