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by ascorbic 10mo ago
That number is misleadingly low, because it doesn't include Next.js which bundles the dependency. Almost all usage in the wild will be Next.js, plus a few using the experimental React Router support.
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by ascorbic 10mo ago
> An innovative product with no means of significant revenue generation. OpenAI has annualized revenue of $20bn. That's not Google, but it's not insignificant.
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by ascorbic 10mo ago
There are currently several hypotheses. Some say that it's just because it helps you lose weight, and obesity increases the risk of so many things. However while this is true, there are lots of examples where there are effects even whe
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by ascorbic 10mo ago
Google Photos isn't just the app
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by ascorbic 10mo ago
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/carbon-footprint-c...
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
The energy usage is minuscule.
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LLMs Position Themselves as More Rational Than Humans(arxiv.org)
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
raises hand I ran a small SaaS business in the early 2000s, pre-AWS. Renting dedicated servers was really expensive. To the extent that it was cheaper for us to buy a 1U server and host it in a local datacenter. Maintaining that was a rea
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
Netlify changed their pricing after that so that free accounts are always free.
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
Absolutely. And I never said that everybody should use the cloud. Contrary to OP, it's more complicated than that. Not every site has the same needs. Some sites need scaling. Some sites are fine with being hugged to death, others would
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
You're right that serving static files is easy, but OP is using WordPress, not static files. Disclosure: I work for Cloudflare.
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
My guess is your caching was misconfigured in some way. It's fast for me now, but before commenting I tried several times and it always took at least 10s to load, often more. Others have also reported very slow load times. I was surpri
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
Cheap shot maybe, but the fact that the page takes 10 seconds to load when it hits the HN front page is a great, inadvertant illustration of why you might want to use the cloud sometimes.
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
They're not independently moving if they're coupled together. You can fairly argue that the idea is bad, and I know it's not as fun a dunk as "you invented a train", but multiple wagons that can move independently (
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
"Independently moving" is the distinguishing part there
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
Nuclear
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
Reading the chip?
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
Where are ePassports checked, apart from at borders where they were already checked?
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
The only operating system that was killed was Mac OS 9, while NeXTSTEP lives on in billions of devices today
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
Apple bought NeXT and made it one of the most popular operating systems on the planet.
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
You did see how long it takes, right?
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
Anywhere with granite will have lots of quartz of various types
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
You should probably get a different domain
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
You said "Peanut Butter is not a very common food, except in the USA", and my comment was an anecdotal point that it's a common food in the UK too. That chart doesn't contradict that. I'd imagine most households wit
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
UK too. And roasted peanuts.
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
My daughter was in the original study, back in 2012. It was very interesting, but a lot of work. She was randomised into the early introduction arm, so she had a whole load of allergens that she had to eat regularly. iirc, as well as peanut
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by ascorbic 11mo ago
An aside to the aside: I did too, until I exported my Goodreads ratings and uploaded the CSV. Then it's pretty great.
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by ascorbic 1y ago
There's one in the bottom left, but there's not much detail so I did some googling
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by ascorbic 1y ago
You can: https://streetcat.wiki/index.php/Purrrr
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by ascorbic 1y ago
There's some good explanation of what this is all about here: https://streetcat.wiki/ Specially, details of the actual feeders: https://streetcat.wiki/index.php/Stray_Cat_Feeders

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