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by swyx 11mo ago
> 30 minutes of downtime > this is tenable as long as these services are reliable do you hear yourself, this is supposed to be a distributed CDN. imagine if HTTP had 30 minutes of downtime a year. and judging by the HN post age, we&#x
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by swyx 11mo ago
same guys worked on temporal as aws step functions. they just learned over time.
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by swyx 11mo ago
did they tweet about doing the thing while not doing the thing?
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by swyx 11mo ago
and they've done super well without it. makes you really question if this is really that core.
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by swyx 11mo ago
the blog doesnt actually say the word "honda" anywhere on here. would probably advise that
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by swyx 11mo ago
> data centers often use potable drinking water hmm why exactly? mineral content?
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by swyx 1y ago
its higher
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by swyx 1y ago
can pretty much triangulate across openrouter x feedback from the top 3 model labs to compare with internal usage and figure that out
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by swyx 1y ago
yeah its not fair to call it a finetune because finetune carries connotation of "there wasnt that much extra compute and data added". RLFT has a lot more added to it as Sasha alluded in his talk https://www.youtube.com&
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by swyx 1y ago
fwiw the current going rate for frontier agent labs and model labs is 50x. 30x is actually a discount presumably for size. obviously that can go down, but if you avoided investing based on multiples you were an absolute fool for the last 3
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by swyx 1y ago
i think its a bit of a VC lingo that i dislike seeing adopted by actual... operators. it casts the world into two: either you own a business, or you operate one. that makes it look like a 50-50 choice that is usually a valid option for a pr
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Cursor.so: The AI-first Code Editor (2023)(latent.space)
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by swyx 1y ago
fyi sometimes its because anthropic may have disallowed it. oauthing with your plan to bring the anthropic subsidy to non anthropic products is understandably a tricky deal unless you're scaled enough to make it make sense for both sid
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by swyx 1y ago
because you're ex YC i feel ok giving some tough love that i dont think this is a good plan because cursor and v0 will eat your lunch if you get any traction, however, happy koding and may you find the thing you were meant to do.
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by swyx 1y ago
is the ultimate plan to become like a "Cursor for React"?
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by swyx 1y ago
btw ryanair charges you like $75 for printing at the desk haha
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by swyx 1y ago
i mean did you see the cross-tile numbers
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by swyx 1y ago
intellectual property has value and an owner. that ownership can change hands. for money. open source means you have a license to freely use and commercialize it. not that it has no owners.
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by swyx 1y ago
i cant believe i'm about to defend Ryanair but just fwiw it seems quite normal to do a custom app specifically for tickets, for anticheat purposes + the nicety of putting your ticket in Apple Wallet is nice enough that i willingly do i
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by swyx 1y ago
thanks dang! just wondering is our banlist public? could be useful for my work as well.
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by swyx 1y ago
there's several dudes named Jeffrey Epsteins out there who i assure you have far more negative associations
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by swyx 1y ago
this post is filled with ads and is a low effort rewrite of the OP post: https://www.challengergray.com/blog/october-challenger-repor... which has more info and did the original work. suggest swapping link for this pos
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by swyx 1y ago
she seems a force of nature for sure. appreciate you sharing
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by swyx 1y ago
simon has said multiple times he has hidden tests he runs for precisely this eventuality (because of course it will happen someday, and he'll write a banger article calling them out for it)
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by swyx 1y ago
you forgot to PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE now the program doesnt terminate
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by swyx 1y ago
just cahtted internally turns out our dev actually had a PR for it but wasnt sure it was valuable you just helped tip it over the line. see it in next release
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by swyx 1y ago
we dogfooded this with some v large customers i cant name before launch so .. yeah reasonably confident, but ofc no guarantees overall.
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by swyx 1y ago
one of my earliest blogposts at Netlify https://www.netlify.com/blog/2018/08/23/how-to-easily-visual...
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by swyx 1y ago
theyre not gone, just havent had a waves type thing to do in a while
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by swyx 1y ago
we obviously agree but one of the problems i had with onboarding as a key proposition is that onboarding "seems" like a onetime problem. i lacked the datapoints or anecdotes to convincingly pitch "onboarding = context switchi

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