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by benced 10mo ago
This legislation has high costs and while it seems fair to impose them on the Apples and Googles of the world, this gets weirder with smaller services that might have trouble complying. My podcast player, Overcast (overcast.fm), is one guy.
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by benced 10mo ago
Agreed there's no free lunch, GH is moving from more generous than the industry to as-generous (or less-generous depending on your opinion of per-minute versus per-job).
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by benced 10mo ago
CircleCI charges for concurrent job runs (which include self-hosted runs), no? They (you, I guess) obfuscate that by saying you get "Unlimited" if you take the "Talk to sales" route but that's not the same as not ch
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by benced 10mo ago
Are there bring-your-own-agent CI platforms that don't have pricing structures like this? Buildkite and CircleCI do.
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by benced 10mo ago
I should have been clearer: it's a terrible single-digit percentage business, including the ads. The ads are cross-subsidizing the food.
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by benced 10mo ago
"You pay for this service and rides aren't getting any cheaper" - you can't just say things. You could very well be right but you need to actually look at their margin profile over time to know if this is true. To give a
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by benced 10mo ago
People optimize to what is scarce. Previously, developer time was much more scare than memory. Seems like that might change so folks might start to optimize to memory. It's not a moral judgement, it's a technical decision about wh
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by benced 10mo ago
London has had a housing crisis long before anyone ever dreamed of an LLM.
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by benced 11mo ago
Meanwhile, Python can sometimes verify if something is an int or a string.
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by benced 11mo ago
This is dumb. Obscurity doesn’t create security. It’s unfortunate if ffmpeg doesn’t have the money to fix reported bugs but that doesn’t mean they should be ignorant of them. I don’t see any entitlement out of Google either - I expected thi
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by benced 11mo ago
Rare comparative W for American ISPs?
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by benced 11mo ago
I do also wonder if this is because Indian security engineers can get good remote jobs working for American companies who are much more profitable than Indian companies. It places non-startup Indian companies in an odd position.
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by benced 1y ago
I really dislike this logic because it centers the farmers, not the people who buy agricultural products (everybody).
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by benced 1y ago
Game pass was never viable at its original price: it was always going to increase in price, just like subscription services that didn’t has big acquisitions (Netflix) have. I don’t think this acquisition helped gamers, I think it just didn’
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by benced 1y ago
Seems like the moral justification would be to encourage overthrowing the government? The literature on sanction is mixed but zero is overstating it.
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by benced 1y ago
You misunderstand enterprise GPUs. Their cost of ownership is dominated by electricity - they're already optimized for price per watt.
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by benced 1y ago
I don't think Nvidia cares about the CPU ISA.
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by benced 1y ago
I think literally just the cash is a big deal at this point. Additionally, this deal probably increases the chances that Nvidia at least uses some Intel Foundry technology (like packing) and maybe very down the road, fabrication.
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by benced 1y ago
The likelihood intel AI was going to catch up with efforts like AWS Trainium, let alone Nvidia was already vanishingly small. This gives intel a chance at maintaining leading edge fab technologies. I feel bad for gamers - I’ve been consider
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by benced 1y ago
I’m not frustrated that this happened, I’m frustrated that it seems likely this won’t get better (witness their protracted incredibly high constructions costs that have not improved). I hope they prove me wrong.
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by benced 1y ago
This isn't nearly as big of a deal as semiconductors.
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by benced 1y ago
If credit card networks disappeared today, would we want them back? If the answer is yes, then they deserve a fee. Unclear to me why a certain % is morally correct.
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by benced 1y ago
Parasitic takes for granted that credit card companies do nothing. Anyone who works in finance could tell you that's very false. (I'm open to the idea that this is a market inefficiency that needs government correction - but you n
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by benced 1y ago
That's false. It's 66.7% in the US. Only Iceland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Norway are higher. https://genderdata.worldbank.org/en/indicator/fin7-t-a?gende... (also, you answered - incorrectly - only
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by benced 1y ago
People always cite the first-order benefits of this regulation but don't look into anything else. To be clear, I haven't either but what I would look for is: - are real prices cheaper for consumers? - is economic activity higher o
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by benced 1y ago
I remember reading an article about a hospital switching computerized medical record system and the CIO had a killer quote along the lines of "every extra day I take on this migration, people die"
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by benced 1y ago
I think that's changed a bit - witness how reluctant the US gov is to be locked into Anduril Lattice. I think we'll see this start to change but certainly a lot of bad past decisions to make up for.
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by benced 1y ago
This will obviously settle down into something reasonable over time, it’s as bad as it will be right now. Renting cars is a competitive business and to the extent it isn’t (mostly via the chokepoint of airport parking garage leases), that&#
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by benced 1y ago
I'm sympathetic to most of the article but I really dislike when articles like this slip in things like "This is most readily evident in, say, the Mario Kart scourge of Tokyo". You can just ban those karts! It's not tour
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by benced 1y ago
As you point out, they mostly did this before they were large companies (where the public choice questions are less problematic). Seems like the breaking of these laws was good for everybody.

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