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  • Unity has had over a decade to establish itself as the main game engine. They have passed the growth phase and are now in the exploitation phase.

    AWS and Azure are currently in the growth phase. They charge more for worse performance than self hosting and traditional third party hosting, but it's close enough execs on the hype train are switching as fast as possible so as not to be left behind by their peers. Once they have destroyed traditional hosting options, they will absolutely move into the exploitation phase and pull this same move, and the ramifications will be much greater than just gaming.

  • This age discrimination is a clever right wing ploy to remove Bernie from office and to hurt Biden's re-election. And I can tell from the responses here and in real life that it's working.

    There are plenty of people on the right who are willing to stooge exactly like McConnell does, but highly principled lifelong public servants with almost no skeletons in their closet like Bernie are pretty much impossible to replace.

    In any matchup against Biden, besides Trump, age favours the GOP. In a matchup between Trump and Biden, they are both the same age, but since the media has been using Biden's stutter and unflattering video cuts to make him look senile, it still favours Trump.

    Ultimately people need to stop voting for bad people, especially ones have already proven that they do a bad job, regardless of their age.

  • No, we are suggesting that the automobile market is one of the few industries that isn't a monopoly yet, which is why BMW couldn't get away with it.

    But also, the automobile market is getting more concentrated so it won't be long until the 4 companies left legally collude to force this stuff on us. Just like every other industry.

  • This is actually probably a big reason why. The USA has tons of high quality natural resources, and the prisons (formerly slavery) provide the free labor. Syphoning 20-30% of everyone else's paycheck for the military presents an image of strength as well.

  • If you (in the general sense) don't believe that Trump and his cronies committed crimes, then you would likely believe that the justice system is being used to attack him. If it's being used to attack him, then him doing the same to his opponents is equivalent and fair.

    Whether or not you believe he committed crimes is dependent on your news sources, ability to fact check and think critically, and your trust in the justice system.

    A very significant portion of the population doesn't believe he committed crimes.

  • I cancelled pre-emptivly as soon as I heard. But I was probably too early to count since that was January. I also ticked the box for "too expensive" despite writing in the account sharing as the reason and now they keep emailing me about the ad supported plan.

  • I am tech savvy and I've never heard of SMR or CMR. After reading up on it, I don't think it really matters. SMR is newer technology, and is maybe more reliable in the short term, but the drives fail faster because of the extra wear and tear, and the drives are slower than CMR.

    https://history-computer.com/smr-vs-cmr-hard-drives/

    Edit: I missed that SMR is supposed to be worse, despite being newer. So I guess WD is putting slower and sooner failing drives out to save a buck.

  • Seagate drives should never be used outside of a RAID because the failure rate is so high.

    WD is absolutely abusing their power as the only reliable spinning HDD company left, but I have no choice but to continue to buy their increasing overpriced drives because there is no alternative.

  • When I was an intern at a large company, the CIO talked to our small group of interns. He said he worked around that much, and I don't think he was lying. He told us about his typical day.

    The company was located in a big city and he lived in the suburbs with a long commute by taxi and train. He would get up at 5AM to start the commute. He worked on the train and taxi. Then he would leave the office at 5PM, work on the commute home, have dinner and family time for 2 hours, then work until bed at around midnight. He said he was lucky he only needed 4 hours of sleep and how much he treasured the 2 hours he spent with his family every day. It was the only time he refused to take calls.

    I think part of the problem why executives mistreate their workers so much is that they themselves are overworked and exhausted. Despite having a ton of money, they don't get to enjoy it, so it becomes meaningless.