parasec

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by parasec 10mo ago
Anthropic shared some approximate numbers on their Smart Contracts post. A 5h research assignment currently has an API cost of ~3.500USD.
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by parasec 10mo ago
That's great! Now show us the cost, the time it took, and how much babysit... sorry, "human supervision" was necessary.
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by parasec 1y ago
Beside all the helpful comments: If this is a serious problem for your business, invest in Cloudflare or other professional bot-protection. They do fingerprinting and similar stuff. Also, if you implement your own methods, do shadow-banning
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by parasec 4y ago
yes. The ADHD fulfilling dopamine rush has a consequence on your brain chemistry. I started reading books in addition to blog posts, articles, etc. and it had a positive outcome on my mood. I'm reducing my internet-dopamine time more n
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by parasec 5y ago
professionally printed ones, yes. However, finding a good print service has become a real hassle and most photos that I printed start to fade after 10ish years.
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by parasec 5y ago
That's security by obscurity - either do it right (if your data demands it) or don't put any effort in it at all, IMHO.
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by parasec 5y ago
I did the analysis as well, calculated everything and ended up paying 500 bucks for an external service. Everything else would have cost roughly the same (with buying a good and used slide scanner and selling it afterwards) plus the countle
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by parasec 5y ago
First, I'd recommend thinning out - multiple terabytes sounds very extensive and can be thinned by removing duplicates and by using better compression like webp or x265, removing unnecessary raw-files, etc. My personal backup is the us
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by parasec 6y ago
Would also be interesting for me in German - and on android. Or you skip Google's and Apples price fist and also create a web-only version.
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by parasec 6y ago
While you're right, I'd recommend against both for the specific use-case. You just added another layer. The extra software needs to be available, maybe it's not developed anymore and won't compile on your system, maybe t
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by parasec 6y ago
The backup part is quite easy - generate a well-known file with 1kb of data and include it in your backups. After the backup completed, validate that you can restore the well-known file and compare the content of the original and the restor
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by parasec 6y ago
The more complex your system grows, the more often it will fail and shoot you in the foot. I'd advise against systems like Hashicorp Vault - they just increase the complexity and while they have their merits in complex setups, you seem