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Comment Re: What we made ourselves .... (Score 1) 58

Most recent "art" is kitsch in the first place. More power to artists who create for themselves for the joy of it, but there is no entitlement to a receptive market. Most "art" was always "slop" because slop was fit for purpose, like illustrating dead tree adverts.

Dedicated hobbyists are free to make tools they enjoy and self-validate thereby. They know why they create.

Comment Re:telemetry (Score 1) 56

You'd think that you'd make your healthcheck systems scale proportionately to the number of systems you've got last reporting active. That seems like a good thing to do.

Personally, I'm not sure this would result in the remaining systems getting healthchecked more often, though. How would that work?

Let's say: you've got 1m servers and (say) 24 healthcheck system. They each send out one service API probe every, oh, 15 seconds, for something on the severely high side of things, with a 3 second timeout. If you suddenly only have 500k servers due to a network partiation, this doesn't cause healthcheck to occur at 2x against the backend services. Infrastructure isn't built this way, because if it was, the healthcheck would be meaningless.

Very different than what the client would see on the service facing side. Even then, it's going to cause 2-3x load to all the systems due to 2x the traffic to each system (assuming it was an extremely homogenous system) and cause things to be slow, and you'd have seen a different failure mode.

Comment Mozilla forgot the mission. (Score 1) 17

The single core mission stopped being the browser and the results speak for themselves. This may be painfully difficult for ideologue grifters to understand, but focus matters.

The people happy with Mozilla miss the point. Browsers require general user mind share. That requires computer enthusiast mind share because WE are who recommend and often installed Firefox so new users could enjoy it which they did in those days so long ago.

Comment Re:"Physical Copy" is just a download (Score 1) 56

Sure there is: it gives you several days to download it on a shitty internet link so that on the day of release you're able to play it. Some people are stuck at 50Mbit or less internet speeds, particularly in rural or financially depressed urban areas. You're going to have people tethering their phone to download it.

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