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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
One of the biggest arguments I remember being made back when net neutrality was a hot topic was that ISPs would bundle and sell specific websites as tiered plans. Infographics like this one [1] were shared widely. Has this happened in the U
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Examples like these highlight just how incredibly poor the return on investment for working at startups is. Very few will ever reach a $500m exit. Generously assuming a 50% tax rate, $175k before tax, spread over 8 years is ~$44k/yr. A
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
For what it’s worth, literally every vendor that operates in its customers’ AWS accounts does this. Create a cross account role, trust the vendor’s account, and give it read only permissions (although don’t use the built in “read only” role
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
> to ask for an insurance card Are patients required to disclose this? Or can I simply decline to provide insurance?
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
What about a freemium model? Allow users to get basic features for free, but add hooks into the UI prompting them to upgrade to access more advanced features.
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Did you read the article? The author understands this. They addressed it directly: > I was never so naive to believe that they’ll just let me go around forever, piggyback on their platform and reap most of the benefits. Even though what
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
It’s an extremely common pattern for the lights for one direction of an intersection to be visible from the other (usually at an angle). Very few human drivers would confuse the two. At the very least they would slow down until they were ab
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Security engineering - 10 years
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
If you want to balance personal liberties with reducing government spending, why not implement a large(r) federal tax on cigarettes which is refunded at tax time if you’re not a Medicaid recipient?
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
I understand if the full app experience doesn’t work on mobile, but at least consider allowing mobile visitors to view the landing page. I’d love to check it out, but am on mobile and get a full screen “not supported” banner. Edit: or maybe
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Anecdotal, I’m in the US (NYC) and the number of unsolicited inbound recruiter pings is back up to 2-3 per week (was getting maybe 1 every month towards the end of last year/early this year). Still down from mid last year when I was ge
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
It depends what you’re doing. I’ve run many side projects off a single Lambda function with the “public URL” config enabled. I pay $0 because of the free tier and updating the code is as simple as pushing a ZIP file. No SSH, no OS updates,
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
It’s technically prohibited by OpenAI’s ToS to share your key with any third party, so presumably options 1 and 3 could get your users’ accounts banned. That being said, until OpenAI releases some kind of OAuth, there isn’t a great option u
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Microsoft already owns GitHub. This is probably near the bottom of things to be concerned about.
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
I beg to differ. They worried about marketing (this article is marketing. Their tweets about building it are marketing). And you expect me to believe that they just lumped the example from the docs straight to production? No user management
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
I’ve seen this argument repeatedly. The example is just that - an example. It doesn’t cover anything related to productionizing the application, dealing with user management, rate limits, cost controls, hosting the service, data persistence
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
I suspect the major cloud providers will also each offer their own “enterprise friendly” LLM services (Azure already offers a version of OpenAI’s API). If they have the right data guarantees, that’ll probably be sufficient for companies tha
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
Of course not. My point is not about _how_ companies ban it, or how their IT security policies work, but rather that I think they need to offer an approved, internal alternative. Employees are clearly clamoring to use this type of technolog
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
I think we’re saying the same thing - companies are concerned about the data and security risk. I still don’t think they’re going to be able to universally ban it, and I think doing so without an alternative in place will drive them to even
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
I always chuckle when I see companies trying to “ban” new technology. On one hand, I understand (it’s impossible to ensure the proper data security controls), but there are 100 new AI based applications popping up a day. Ban ChatGPT and peo
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
I’ve started working on something like this as a side project: https://usagepanda.com It started originally as a way to limit costs (the proxy would intercept requests, estimate the token sizes, and block requests before they ar
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
There’s zero reason you need a masters degree to move into management.
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
I recently rented a car on vacation and they discovered damage after I returned it (I assume someone bumped it while I was parked somewhere since it was some light scratches that I didn’t notice). I’ve been using ChatGPT to write all the va
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by cddotdotslash 3y ago
I've been building Usage Panda: https://usagepanda.com/ My thesis is that lots of companies are going to want to enable OpenAI for their teams, but they'll need a way to do it safely/securely. Usage Panda act
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by cddotdotslash 4y ago
Not directed at OP, but it amuses me that software “engineers” are getting bent out of shape about the use of “prompt engineer.”
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by cddotdotslash 4y ago
I admittedly understand very little about the crypto ecosystem, but how is this not a death knell for USDC? Wasn't its entire premise built around maintaining 1:1 parity to the US dollar? That feels very binary to me. If one USDC does
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by cddotdotslash 4y ago
Here’s somethingI don’t understand. Say you raise $100m funding round. Investors just give you the entire amount, in cash? And companies just put that entire cash amount in a bank? It seems like it would be better for VCs to keep the money,
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by cddotdotslash 4y ago
Sounds like a simple service someone could provide. API with two endpoints: one that takes the hash of an email address + details about the chargeback (dollar amount, etc.) and another that returns some kind of score based on the same email
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by cddotdotslash 4y ago
I followed a similar path, turning an open source project I had started into a SaaS several years ago (it has since been acquired). Two biggest things I learned: use whatever technology you’re most comfortable with and keep everything dead
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by cddotdotslash 4y ago
I've been working on a GitHub App to help developers identify potential software supply chain security risks (pipeline misconfigurations, dangerous dependencies, SCM misconfigurations, etc.). Only has a handful of features at the momen

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