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by asciimike 4y ago
> My recollection is that progress on Firebase stopped when Google bought it, and I haven't followed it for almost a decade. Firebase launched an alpha in April 2012 and got acquired in 2014, so I'm not sure how you've sto
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by asciimike 4y ago
I believe they mean mobile push notifications (e.g. APNS/FCM), which ultimately flow through Apple and Google.
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by asciimike 4y ago
> A silly mistake can cost you so much money and they tend to word the e-mails strongly. They tend to word emails strongly to affect action. As for the cost overruns: I don't know anyone who wrote one of those blog posts (or emailed
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by asciimike 4y ago
> I've talked with multiple ex coworker developers at Google about the 3 to 6 months it takes to actually figure out how to deploy something. In typical developer environments, you end up with a bell curve of "easy things are r
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by asciimike 4y ago
> The first application I wrote for Firebase was back in 2015, before it was acquired. I don't remember the specific issues, but I know I spent about the same amount of time trying to keep it running post-acquisition as I did buildi
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by asciimike 4y ago
The RTDB APIs have remained stable and available since ~2012. Storage has existed in the same way since ~2016. Do you have some specific examples of build APIs changing on you in ways that break your applications?
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by asciimike 4y ago
You can't sell to people buying Macallan 12, you have to sell to people who _don't_ currently buy Macallan 12 because $REASONS (significant price difference, ESG angles like lower carbon footprint, they can't get it in their
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by asciimike 4y ago
Same. I keep a bottle of Blue Label that I refill with Green/Gold/Platinum (depending on how generous I'm feeling) that gets served to guests who visit my home bar and ask for Blue Label because they know nothing about scotch
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by asciimike 4y ago
Short answer is likely "yes" though I think there's a surprising amount of variation even there. Longer answer is that I'm not sure the direct comparison ever really happens because in a spirits tasting competition where
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by asciimike 4y ago
Interesting article, I've got a few thoughts on this space. Endless West ( https://endlesswest.com/ ) has a "molecular whisky" (they aren't legally allowed to call it whisky because it wasn't distille
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by asciimike 4y ago
This is the route Intel is going down: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/intel-launches-new-bitc... Time will tell if it works out (different chain, etc., etc.)
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by asciimike 4y ago
There are a few of these type of things, e.g. RNDR token ( https://rendertoken.com ) and rent a flop ( https://rentaflop.com ) in rendering, and golem ( https://www.golem.network ) and sonm ( https://
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by asciimike 4y ago
I consider a long term PPA a hedge against near term volatility. C.f. https://www.fia.org/marketvoice/articles/derivatives-markets...
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by asciimike 4y ago
My understanding is that for their own data centers (e.g. us-east-1 or us-central1) they are able to negotiate excellent costs of power by soliciting 100MW+ long term contracts, so they don't really need to. Energy is a lower margin bu
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by asciimike 4y ago
Odd, I just tested on Safari mobile and it went through without issues. Mind sending me an email at mike at crusoecloud dot com and we can get you set up?
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by asciimike 4y ago
See above post, but the TL;DR: is "we capture methane that would otherwise be flared." Agreed that a lot of carbon offsets look like, "we were going to cut this section of the rainforest down, but if you pay us, we won't
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by asciimike 4y ago
TL;DR: we run data centers on-site at oil wells and take natural gas that would otherwise be flared (it can't be economically transported as natural gas in a pipeline or turned into electricity and transported) and combust it completel
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by asciimike 4y ago
If the goal is to increase the GPU vRAM (which I believe it is, given that's the constraint on image size), the answer is "not really" for consumer cards. You need NVLink bridges for pairs of PCIe cards (which they have, but
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by asciimike 4y ago
Morgenrot Cloud ( https://morgenrot.cloud/ ) is the main consumer grade AMD compute provider I know of. Not quite vast.ai in that they're centralized, but they've got the hardware.
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by asciimike 4y ago
Lots of good options for cheap GPU clouds, including Paperspace (mentioned above), Coreweave, and Crusoe Cloud (crusoecloud.com). Crusoe Cloud's angle is that our GPUs are powered off otherwise wasted energy and are carbon-reducing; ru
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by asciimike 4y ago
This is true in X-Plane as well though, right? I would kinda expect a better default Cessna model, though I admit that most people probably aren't going to either flight sim for lots of time in a Cessna (though I'd actually be rea
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by asciimike 4y ago
Here's a great example of why the flight model is... lacking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GX9lTvKuqU It's perfectly fine for most things, but _really_ bad with things that could actually kill you. Meanwhile,
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by asciimike 4y ago
I have an ergodox and a moonlander, and I shared the same frustration on initial use; however, after about a week of pecking around and doing a good number of typing exercises (e.g. https://www.keybr.com/ , https:/&#x2
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by asciimike 4y ago
Japan also has Furusato Nozei where (TL;DR) you can choose which province your taxes go to. In exchange, they send you local goods (crab, beef, etc.). This website shows some of the items available: https://www.furusato-tax.jp&#x
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by asciimike 4y ago
Crusoe | SWE, SRE, Hardware/Firmware, Networking, Product, Design, Devrel | ONSITE SF Bay Area, Denver/Boulder, Chicago | Full-time https://crusoeenergy.com and https://crusoecloud.com Crusoe is hiring engi
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by asciimike 4y ago
(Disclosure, I worked at GitHub at one point) > Github is a great example in saas area. Utterly trivial for most customers to switch away or self host. They have no moat so they can't really jack prices. I'm not sure I agree wi
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by asciimike 4y ago
Adding a few I know of: https://groq.com/ - From the team that built the original TPU at Google https://lightmatter.co/ - Light tubes instead of copper
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by asciimike 4y ago
Crusoe | SWE, SRE, Hardware/Firmware, Networking, Product, Design, Devrel | ONSITE SF Bay Area, Denver/Boulder, Chicago | Full-time https://crusoeenergy.com and https://crusoecloud.com Crusoe is hiring engi
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by asciimike 4y ago
> As someone only a little older than yourself, I would say this: your job will never love you back, and especially in the software realm, it may not be as fulfilling as something like woodworking or therapy. It does pay the bills, thoug
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by asciimike 4y ago
Throttle is drive by wire, brakes are hydraulic (as is the clutch), and steering is hydraulic. That said, I'm not railing against computers in the car, I'm mostly saying I like manually shifting my gears.

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