TurdF3rguson

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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
Life finds a way
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
So what? You're saying local officials can't be corrupted by campaign donations? Because that's a hot take.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
Right, you can't point to a year where price increases didn't happen, so "a primary reason" becomes meaningless. It was going to happen for other reasons if it didn't happen for this one.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
The problem is when you block those "residential proxy bots" you also block real people who just happen to have a dumb teenager on their network playing some free games that are monetized by proxies. The only real solution to bot
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
Except that working with Claude has me saying things like shape lately. I think I like it.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
They're shady though. Open to civil litigation, certainly. No big player would touch this operating in US.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
Ok but we're talking about the concern that a provider can 3x or nerf a model. I'm pointing out that open weights providers can do that too, and your only recourse is to run it yourself at way more than 3x the price.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
I think they do actually. It's pretty clear from the consent screen that they're doing what they're doing.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
I will concede a use case for hermits.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
Common sense does, but other than that I suppose you're right.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
That's not really true though, providers are deprecating models and I have at least 10 emails to prove it.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
> Publishing open weights gives me more confidence in the model Why? It's not like you can audit weights like you can with code. > what if they triple the price, nerf it, etc.? What if an open weights infra provider does that? Wh
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
> I have no idea why there's loads of residential trawlers/botnets with 10k+ IPs trying to get that data Probably as simple as the fact that there are unmetered residential proxy plans, which means once you're already payi
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
What exactly should be illegal here? Scraping websites? AI agents? Not following robots.txt?
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
I think they also have to operate in countries that don't mind shady things like this.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
Yes I've seen it. ClaudeBot will gleefully announce itself when it hammers my niche website a million times a day.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
> How are people even remotely positive about any of this shit is beyond me. Well, some of us didn't grow up in perfect households, for one thing. I actively avoided both my parents at that age.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
because of bad grades?
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
Lol. It's an objectively bad grill.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
Not to mention the George Foreman grill
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
They've only been billionaires for a couple years. These things take time.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
Is requests the same as queries? Maybe this is an AWS thing and that's why I don't get it. I have a 80GB database serving 10 queries per second on a $8 VPS. It depends on the query though.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
And we use Claude Code to do it, lol.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
An info badge next to rps would be nice, I'm trying to guess what r is. Rows? Records? Requests?
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
Too late. Plans to build a 7-11 there are already underway now, thanks to this post.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
When I hear the male voice I think: "Ok, it's the Youtube guy".
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
Are you talking about time travel? I don't think that would help.
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by TurdF3rguson 3mo ago
I'm too afraid I would learn something awful about myself.

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