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They don't like traffic from HN for some reason, and this childish reaction is because of that. In order to view the content, check this archive link: https://archive.is/I00Gh
What's wrong with traffic from HN? I mean, more readers = good thing?
Or in a saner format (when it loads): https://nitter.net/foone/status/1440375176604966924
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They don't like traffic from HN for some reason, and this childish reaction is because of that. In order to view the content, check this archive link: https://archive.is/I00Gh
What's wrong with traffic from HN? I mean, more readers = good thing?
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I always find it funny when people try to use "rent-seeking" as a pejorative. Like, yes, someone invested a lot of capital up front and hopes to make a profit by selling time-limited access to what they bought, thereby making the goods accessible to people who don't have the up-front capital. I can see preferring to own, but as a moral position, "rent-seeking" is synonymous with "risk-taking" and "access-providing."…
Wasn't rent seeking meant to be referring to a party which wedges itself between a buyer and seller and skims a fee off the transaction despite not really adding much value but in some way has made themselves difficult to bypass. Someone making content and renting it out wouldn't count, while say the App Store fee would.
As a developer, I made a couple of hundred thousand dollars from the Apple App Store. You know how much value the App Store provided me? Way, way more than the 30% I paid (this was years ago).
Without a portal that could direct millions of people to find my app, I probably would have made tens of dollars.
So we can debate fair pricing, but the idea that aggregators don’t provide any value isn’t an indictment of aggregators, it’s a confession of not understanding the business.
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> He believes that even the most open digital formats will become obscure and forgotten eventually and no one will really be able to playback lots of music that was only recorded that way. Oh please. Just use raw PCM audio. No one will ever lose track of how to play that. A 10.5 inch reel of 2 inch tape can be digitized just fine to 16 bit samples, 44/48kHz, 24 channels, most of an hour. That's about 7 gigabytes. So…
I doubt it. There’s a better chance we don’t even use modern computer architecture and everything about todays computers appear archaic and that all the knowledge is lost. And tons of stuff is left behind.
If we're worried about being unable to access the bits at all, we should consider etching them into metal or printing them on archival paper. Tape won't reliably last hundreds of years. But for now we can keep bits alive pretty easily, with low but nonzero sustained effort.
If you have a lot of tapes, a dozen digital copies will survive a lot more incidents than the originals, and be a lot cheaper than analog backups along with no generation loss.
What is it with the message to hacker news?
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Wasn't rent seeking meant to be referring to a party which wedges itself between a buyer and seller and skims a fee off the transaction despite not really adding much value but in some way has made themselves difficult to bypass. Someone making content and renting it out wouldn't count, while say the App Store fee would.
Kind of? You’re buying into the rhetoric though. As a developer, I made a couple of hundred thousand dollars from the Apple App Store. You know how much value the App Store provided me? Way, way more than the 30% I paid (this was years ago). Without a portal that could direct millions of people to find my app, I probably would have made tens of dollars. So we can debate fair pricing, but the idea that aggregators don…
Good point. Another often unappreciated point is that it's way easier to convince people to give their credit card to Apple than it is to convince them to give it to some random web site. Especially if they've already given their credit card to Apple, as many of them have.
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This is pretty much the only way 5.25" floppies are read today with modern equipment. While you can still get USB 3.5" floppy drives there are no USB 5.25" floppy drives. Modern PCs don't have the correct drive headers anymore, either, and even if they did, they wouldn't be able to read Commodore or Apple II floppies. However, there is hardware and software called GreaseWeazle that actually reads the magnetic flux tr…
The greaseweazle still looks like a connector for an existing 5.25" drive, is there any hardware you know of that replicates the drive itself?
That's because it connects to an existing 5.25" drive
> is there any hardware you know of that replicates the drive itself?
Why would you build a device to emulate a device that already exists, when all you need to do is communicate with it?
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The greaseweazle still looks like a connector for an existing 5.25" drive, is there any hardware you know of that replicates the drive itself?
> The greaseweazle still looks like a connector for an existing 5.25" drive That's because it connects to an existing 5.25" drive > is there any hardware you know of that replicates the drive itself? Why would you build a device to emulate a device that already exists, when all you need to do is communicate with it?
I don't want to have to buy used gear off eBay, and wouldn't need to for 3.5" disks or drives - you can actually find people producing new stock.
Why doesn't 5.25" hardware get the same treatment?
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Why don't you want people to link to your site?
Every time foone gets posted here, there is, in rough order: 1) Misgendering, usually out of ignorance. foone is aggressively agender and goes by they/them. 2) Someone correcting the misgendering. 3) The same circular discussion of why foone doesn't like being posted to HN. 4) The same circular discussion of pronouns and the culture war. 5) Culture warriors come out and do their thing and often get their comments fla…