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10mo ago
As an early Tailwind Plus / Tailwind UI customer I don’t think it has anything to do with AI. The product and technicals are there but from a business and user perspective Tailwind the paid product was trash and still is. It tried to d
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10mo ago
MUI sells paid components paid monthly. Definitely doable for the paid product.
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10mo ago
Why not? Tiktok certainly needed engineers?
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10mo ago
> it's already there So it should be free? The bank already has "money". It's already there so you can take it? That's not how it works. Do you not get a managed service where someone upgrades it, deals with outa
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10mo ago
> Presumably they're talking about the egregious price of NAT on AWS. Maybe. I agree AWS is over-priced. However it shouldn't be "free". > It's next to free self hosting considering even the crappiest consumer
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10mo ago
They said "instead of charging more than free", which means should be free. Please read it again.
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10mo ago
> so they have to have reasonable pricing that actually reflects their costs instead of charging more than free for basic services like NAT How is the cost of NAT free? > Cloud services are actually really nice and convenient if you w
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10mo ago
> Have the laws of supply and demand been suspended? There is the law of uncertainty override it eg trade wars, tariffs , etc. No 1 is going all in with new capacity.
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10mo ago
> The U.K. needs to wake up and start innovating to take back control. That's a nice dream.
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10mo ago
> Do you not think that some DRAM producer isn't going to see the high margins as a signal to create more capacity to get ahead of the other DRAM producers? They took the bite during COVID and failed, so there's still fear from
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10mo ago
> Why do we think it will be different now? Margins. AI usage can pay a lot more. Even if they sell less than can still be more profitable. In the past there wasn’t a high margin usage. Servers didn’t charge such a high premium.
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10mo ago
Plenty of titles that support ray tracing eg wuthering waves. Many gacha titles now offer amazing pc graphics on nvidia cards compared to mobile.
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10mo ago
> Maybe colleges should use some of that tuition money That's going away too with the ban on immigration. A large amount of high margin tuition is from overseas students.
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10mo ago
Do you hallucinate as a kid?
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10mo ago
> See, this is a clear example why hypercynicism is not at all helpful > lose your ability to differentiate in your cynical zeal to cast everyone as Somehow calling 1 party out fits your example? Where is the everyone? In no way do I
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10mo ago
> but I don't think it's going to last much longer. Not happening. It's been sold out until 2027, maybe even 2028 (all memory producers). They may increase capacity but demand could also increase. Unless the stock market c
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10mo ago
> Is it even possible to truly own everything yourself? Even if you do there's still more to it e.g. blacklists of different kinds e.g. known proxies, spam listings, etc that would still mean you need to kick out your client. Then t
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10mo ago
> at which case we owned everything. We had Google Fiber So you didn’t own everything. Google owned the IPs and network. It’s the same colocating in that your network providers can be shut down.
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10mo ago
> Many places would offer you a gigabit pipe directly. i.e. you don't have redundancy? A gigabit is nothing these days sadly. You can get a surge in traffic (DDoS or not) and be stuck quite quickly. You always need extra capacity to
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10mo ago
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10mo ago
> they can shutdown your account if threats persisted That problem can NEVER be avoided at any level unless you run absolutely everything (which is almost impossible). What everyone does is have a system to quickly pass on and also shutd
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10mo ago
> Steve Jobs wrote code early on, but he was never a great programmer. That didn’t diminish his impact at all. I doubt Jobs would classify himself as a great programmer, so point being? > So I’m not convinced mastery is about skill de
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10mo ago
> the "markets" are anything but rational No, they are rational. At least those with a lot of money. > None of the investments going on have followed any semblance of fundamentals - it's all pure instinct and chasing hy
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10mo ago
> everything is flocking and concentrating around AI related hardware due to better ROI And they flocked to crypto and whatever else before. i.e. this "consumer" economy is always last. It's never going to have better ROI.
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> If you could predict a stock market correction before it happens, you'd be very, very rich. Same goes for if you can predict the price of a stock... but analysts do it anyway and set targets for stocks. > The fact that correcti
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10mo ago
Next up: blog healing
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> Wall Street believes current $$$$$ capital investments will create massive long-term value Clearly not. The stock market has a correction at least every few years. So Wall Street only believes they can sell the stock for higher within
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10mo ago
> What is the current AI/data center mega-boom Short term extraction. The long term value is in AI research not scaling LLMs.
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> when they are very stressed DDR5 has gone up so much it just isn't worth it. 4-5x the price. Is this just "stress"?
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10mo ago
> can learn these things pretty fast within few months. This totally misses the point. You can learn anything pretty fast in some ways. The point of what my comment replied to was about not learning at all. It was about learning somethin
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