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931.
by benterix 2y ago
> If the iPhone would have true user-swappable batteries, their business would collapse. It's not entirely true: apart from hardware measures, they also use software to enforce phone upgrades.
932.
by benterix 2y ago
> Slack threads are a failure imo For me they are the reason I use Slack. They allow us to have a meaningful conversation and not overlook anything important and at the same time allow interested people to dive into more detailed discuss
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by benterix 2y ago
Seems interesting! Anyone has any practical experience on how it compares to Zulip?
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by benterix 2y ago
> existing/entrenched societal stereotypes and expectations are the moral norms (and framework) of that society. That's interesting, I've never thought about it in this way. In the culture I was born, there was an visible
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by benterix 2y ago
People are already trying that with CAD and so on. Still, the main challenges are still there: enormous power needed to train the model (within reasonable time) and relatively powerful hardware to actually use it, inconsistency in output, b
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by benterix 2y ago
Having read the article, I still can't relate to the choice of the adjective in the title and subtitles ("moral"). The author also uses the term "moral framework" for some outdated views. These are societal stereoty
937.
by benterix 2y ago
The problem is, the larger your organization is, the more difficult is to break free from vendor lock-in.
938.
by benterix 2y ago
That's why people here love HetznerCloud. You can create a VM in seconds and be absolutely sure that you will pay no more than €4/month for it, something that AWS can never guarantee.
939.
by benterix 2y ago
> Microsoft will have moved on to pushing some other nonsense that nobody actually wants. This is the one thing they're quite consistent about.
940.
by benterix 2y ago
Hardware is so cheap these days you can just have a separate machine for Windows-only tasks like gaming in your case (in my case it's macOS for music production) - and enjoy the freedom for all other tasks.
941.
by benterix 2y ago
This opinion poll was funded by Civo. I remember they advertised everywhere how fast their K8s startup times are: https://www.civo.com/kubernetes So I decided to try it to see it with my own eyes (EKS takes often half an ho
942.
by benterix 2y ago
The initial rush for what is now called the public cloud was caused by many factors, the main ones being "you don't need to manage things as we will do it for you" (=you save on operations) and "you can scale up and down
943.
by benterix 2y ago
As it is, the article is a bit confusing because it's the third one in the series just focusing on NetBSD. The original one[0] offers a better context, especially this bit: > The idea is to create reverse proxies with local caching.
944.
by benterix 2y ago
The first article in the series offers a better explanation of what and why: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/08/26/building-a-self-hoste...
945.
by benterix 2y ago
Everybody needs to learn this lesson themselves, and it needs time to sink in. The result is you more consciously choose how you spend your precious time.
946.
by benterix 2y ago
I really got moved just by reading this. Honesty is so rare these days. I can easily imagine if it happened today, the person responsible for that would be both fired and sued by the company for acting against its best interests.
947.
by benterix 2y ago
I've been using their services for over a decade (first physical servers, now their cloud) and have little to complain. It just works, and if something breaks, they help you real fast.
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by benterix 2y ago
I often hear people complain about Hetzner for two reasons: (1) their attitude towards crypto, (2) ID verification.
949.
by benterix 2y ago
It's true the title is clickbait and VMs and serverless are completely different beasts. However, there is something right in this title: when you take into account how serverless was originally marketed ("you save costs as you ru
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by benterix 2y ago
In the old days, we used .htaccess and htpasswd for that.
951.
by benterix 2y ago
A few decades ago an organization was founded specifically to address statements such as this one. That's why some early Microsoft attempts at competing with OS had to be called "shared source", not "open source".
952.
by benterix 2y ago
I disagree with the parent's choice of using metaphors because it was imprecise and should express a lie rather than an insult. Nevertheless, the intent is easy to understand: the powerful twist the meanings of words and the weak can d
953.
by benterix 2y ago
I observe a weird patter in your replies - you twist the intention of OPs in the way that they didn't intend. In this particular case, meta's models are not "open source" although Zucks calls them as such. And because of
954.
by benterix 2y ago
That's a vast overgeneralization. Sometimes instead of being sociopath the opposite is needed: the so-called emotional intelligence and knowing where the wind blows from so that you can act accordingly. I good example is Mira Murati wh
955.
by benterix 2y ago
This is a tough one. Guido was excellent at his role, and his decision to hand it over was a mature one. It was everybody's hope it would help to guarantee long-term future for Python, independent from corporate greed. Now these new fo
956.
by benterix 2y ago
> demonstrates... malice Not demonstrates, hints at. In each of these cases, Google is very careful that you can easily come up with an alternative plausible explanation. It's hard to use the en masse argument if each of these pro
957.
by benterix 2y ago
I don't think it's ridiculous, it's just they might not necessarily care enough. They will consider it a bug if there's enough uproar, for now there are just a couple of unhappy users here and there, no reasons to revert
958.
by benterix 2y ago
> absolutely love their tzars whoever they may be I don't believe it's true at all. I frequent some Russian forums to get a general sentiment and although people are quite careful to be not too open so that they don't get
959.
by benterix 2y ago
Yeah, I'm still confused how someone can write a whole article, link to other things, but not include a link to the prompts that are being discussed.
960.
by benterix 2y ago
Am I the only one who gets mildly annoyed by the plural in the title? Singular would be just fine - true, precise, without any vague implications.

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