Just to be a little pedantic for a second, isn't TigerBeetle a database management system (DBMS) whereas a TigerBeetle database would be actual data and metadata managed by TigerBeetle?
Every single day I go to sleep with my head buried in my hands because I am not immoral enough to figure out some way of ripping off audiophiles.
You can sell them 3¢ hunks of plastic that do nothing for $150.
It's not even hurting anyone. They're all rich old dudes with dozens of guitars they never play hanging from their walls in a room filled with records they never listen to.
If I could figure out how to sell them 3¢ hunks of plastic that do nothing for $150 I would be very happy, but my conscience won't allow it.
Maybe a CD deionizer? Kinda like homeopathy for electronics. That way it doesn't even need to contain any elctronics. In your workshop on a mountain in Japan you let some electronics imbue it with their spirit. It doesn't even promise to add or remove anything but just "align" the ions!
I got a bottle of Three Chord bourbon last year. Holy cow the blurb on that bottle... something like "One day during a show I noticed how my drink sitting on my amp was vibrating..." and they freaking claim to play music at the casks.
And certainly Mc is not what it used to be (the MC-1700 receiver for example, was great)... you are slamming an "empty box" unfairly. It has:
- A light, well, ok, pretty empty.
- Removable back wall. Eh, ok.
- A IR to turn on and off devices. Hrmm.
- It can control other DinkyLink devices (I did not make that up)
- Trigger control to control other audio devices. Hrmm.
- It is a sturdy metal box (go online and purchase a nice one, I bet they are hundreds of bucks)
Not that it is worth $1500, maybe $300, and at the same quality as that box looks with the glass front, probably $500, but again, saying $1500 for empty box is kind of unfair.
To be honest, I have paid $300 for nice rackmount enclosures with handles that were custom made.
In fairness, that's a cheap, powder coated, folded-metal box so we're not really comparing like-with-like. If one of your goals is to have a nicely-coordinated system that's on display in your home, aesthetics do matter - you're paying for what you're getting, not some unscientific claim of "performance".
This headline is kind of misleading. It's actually someone's personal (educated) opinion on a blog, not a statement of fact. Should be something more like "I think CrowdStrike will be liable" or "CrowdStrike should be liable"
the full headline (at this time at least) is more nuanced than seen here in hn: CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent.
