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by notatoad 10mo ago
if you were only paying to use your own compute, you could just use your own compute - you don't have to use github actions, you can trigger actions on your own systems without github. the control plane clearly has value to people be
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by notatoad 10mo ago
as a canadian, i always thought the official canadian spelling was to arbitrarily switch between the british or american spelling of words whenever you felt like it, including interchangeably in the same writing.
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by notatoad 10mo ago
probably not at the prices that video streaming devices typically sell for.
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by notatoad 10mo ago
video decoding on a general-purpose cpu is difficult, so most devices that can play video include some sort of hardware video decoding chip. if you want your video to play well, you need to deliver it in a format that can be decoded by tha
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by notatoad 10mo ago
i'd have a lot more respect for apple's "cautious" approach to AI if they didn't keep promising and then failing to deliver siri upgrades (while still calling out to cloud backends, despite all the talk about local
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by notatoad 10mo ago
this is the reason articles exist, and contain more information than the headline does. you might not know what AV1 is, and that's fine, but the headline doesn't need to contain all the background information it is possible to kno
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by notatoad 10mo ago
given the vagueness of the available information, i'm guessing they haven't actually defined its capabilities yet. They can accept that building a smartphone is doomed to fail, and they want to build some hardware, so they're
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by notatoad 10mo ago
being the tech industry's conduit to the US president pays well.
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by notatoad 10mo ago
I understand that sometimes the HN titles get edited to be less descriptive and more generic in order to match the actual article title. What’s the logic with changing the title here from the actual article title it was originally submitted
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by notatoad 10mo ago
anybody care to speculate on how long this is likely to last? is this a blip that will resolve itself in six months, or is this demand sustainable and we are talking years to build up new manufacturing facilities to meet demand?
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by notatoad 10mo ago
which is, of course, what i mean by "how does it work"
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by notatoad 10mo ago
what site does it check? what api does it call? one of the examples is to see if a new coffee shop is opened in town. what's the API to call for that?
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by notatoad 10mo ago
>How it works # YesNotice works by periodically checking the status of the item you care about okay, but how does it work ? how does it check the status of things?
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by notatoad 10mo ago
if anything, siri has gotten worse over the years, which is wild. it used to be able to set a timer or alarm 100% of the time, now sometimes it decides it needs to ask chatGPT for help.
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by notatoad 10mo ago
yeah, i get why people were doing the DIY air purifier thing during covid when air purifiers were hard to come by, and the box fan version at least has cost-effectiveness going for it. but 5x arctic cooling PC fans is ~$100. the commercial
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by notatoad 10mo ago
HTTP semantics aren’t hard enforced but that only means something if you always control the client, server, and all the middle layers like proxies or CDNs that your traffic flows over. Your GET request can modify state. But if your request
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by notatoad 10mo ago
i have zero experience with linux system programming so i'm probably missing something, but what's the point of an application restricting itself at runtime? if the application were compromised in some way, wouldn't it simpl
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by notatoad 10mo ago
yeah clippy absolutely would have sold your data if he'd been clever enough to do that.
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by notatoad 11mo ago
if you are selling user accounts to a spammer, they want to buy accounts that have been "aged" - that is, they have some comment history and weren't created on the same day they start spamming, so they're a bit less obvi
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by notatoad 11mo ago
“If you are meta” in this case means “if you have a billion dollars already, and a credit rating that you don’t want to destroy. Nobody is trying to pull one over on a bank here. Pricing the risk of the loan is a bank’s whole business, the
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by notatoad 11mo ago
this was supposed to be the business model for alexa. amazon had all the pieces - they had the product listings, marketplace, ordering infrastructure, the smart speaker in your home always listening to you, and they built exactly that prod
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by notatoad 11mo ago
i don't imagine there will ever be a time when it will be unambiguously true, any more than a boss could ever really unambigously say their job is "manager who directs subordinates" vs "manager who fixes subordinates&#
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by notatoad 11mo ago
the market has provided. they provided me with a managed NAT gateway service for a price that i'm willing to pay.
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by notatoad 11mo ago
WSJ was available on blendle (pay-per-view microtransactions). Washington Post was available on scroll (monthly subscription, divided up amongst the publishers you read each month). neither service still exists. i don't believe NYT h
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by notatoad 11mo ago
>Every site could set their own price, or specific tiers, which users can agree to, just like they do with subscription-based content today. you're describing the model of a product called blendle, a service which i loved but which
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by notatoad 11mo ago
The PPV model has been tried a bunch of times, and it always turns out that the rate people are willing to pay per view is not a rate that is high enough to be a viable revenue source for the content owners. it takes a lot of $0.10-$0.25
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by notatoad 11mo ago
running a VM where? on an ec2 instance? who's going to keep that updated for me? who's going to reprovision it when aws retires the underlying hardware? who's going to monitor it for PCI compliance for me? i don't
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by notatoad 11mo ago
ahah oops. yeah, it's a problem. i've got two projects ongoing that each rely on one of them, and i can never keep it straight.
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by notatoad 11mo ago
it seems like a good chance that despite thinking their status page was completely independent of cloudfront, enough of the internet is dependent on cloudfront now that they're simply wrong about the status page's independence.
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by notatoad 11mo ago
i think anything that makes it clear they've done that would be a lot worse PR than failing the pelican test would ever be.

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