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Gasp0de··on We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
You're right, I didn't pay attention there. Still seems that there a many solutions better suited than S3. Probably a classic case of "We need an MVP fast, let's optimize later".
Gasp0de··on We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3"
Exactly, my first thought was "Why in earth would anyone think that S3 was the right service to store millions of tiny ephemeral files?" and now it seems they have invented their own in-memory store instead of just using something like Redis. I also wonder what happens if their DIY thingy crashes, are the videos lost? Why not send to Kinesis or SQS in the first place?
Gasp0de··on Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage
The propaganda machine is called X and he bought it to brainwash people, so don't feel to bad about it. Good that you realized!
Gasp0de··on [dead]
To be honest I have never used Cursor nor do I know their pricing, but isn't revenue kind of a stupid metric if you're just a frontend for a paid API? Like wouldn't almost all of this revenue just go through them towards OpenAI or Anthropic?
Gasp0de··on Rising young worker despair in the United States
The only thing missing is replacing the head of the federal reserve bank with a mindless puppet so they stop standing in the way of success (inflation).
Gasp0de··on Gemini CLI
I just get downgraded to 2.5 Flash after like three prompts and can't seem to find an option to switch back. So much for "60 requests per minute are free".
Gasp0de··on Scientists genetically engineer a lethal mosquito STD to combat malaria
It is a fungus that is harmless for humans, so I assume not that much. Of course it is always dangerous to artificially mess with an ecosystem. It has backfired more often than it has worked as intended when humans did that.
Gasp0de··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
That is not my experience with AliExpress. I usually just got my money back when I complained.
Gasp0de··on Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court
What's the use case for using Telegram over Whatsapp? At least the latter has proper end-to-end encryption of content?
Gasp0de··on Googler... ex-Googler
So what you're saying is your company had a customer that breached contract and didn't pay. I wouldn't compare that to being fired?
Gasp0de··on Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
Sry, what I meant to say was "No one spoke about the complete heating being broken. Heating is a basic requirement in a car imo. Remote-controllable, engine-off heating is not."
Gasp0de··on Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
No one said anything about anything being broken, just about the ability to remotely heat up the car before starting to drive. Having a heating and having a remote controlled heating that works with the car switched off are two separate things.
Gasp0de··on Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
I wonder if the OBD alternatives mentioned in the article actually work? I'd imagine that they wake up the entire CAN bus frequently, quickly draining the cars 12V battery?
Gasp0de··on Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
Daring to call cookie banners a benefit.
Gasp0de··on Show HN: Nissan's Leaf app doesn't have a home screen widget so I made my own
You know you can just scratch the ice off, right?
Gasp0de··on The guide to reduce screen time
I could live with not being able to access reddit from my private phone, I am not logged into my personal reddit account on my work PC.
Gasp0de··on Tesla Solar Sales Declined for 4 Qtrs. Then Tesla Stopped Publishing the Numbers
Why use a Powerwall if you could use a better and cheaper inverter battery combination? Just because the app is beautiful?
Gasp0de··on Tesla Solar Sales Declined for 4 Qtrs. Then Tesla Stopped Publishing the Numbers
You can have up to 2000W panels with an inverter up to 800W. Note that the 800W is what you're allowed to produce, not feed in, but it can still be beneficial to overprovision panels because with 800W of panels you won't produce 800W of power in mornings, evenings and winter. Panels are also cheap af in Germany currently, about 60€ for a 440w panel.
Gasp0de··on A guide to reduce screen time
I already moved away from the reddit app, but now I have the problem that I can not set up time-based constraints that don't block the rest of the browser.
Gasp0de··on No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
The new ChatGPT image generation is insane. It's available on the free tier, just strongly rate limited.
Gasp0de··on No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
I love using LLMs to generate pictures. I'd call myself rather creative, but absolutely useless in any artistic craft. Now, I can just describe any image I can imagine and get 90% accurate results, which is good enough for the presentations I hold, online pet projects (created a squirrel-themed online math-learning game for which I previously would have needed a designer to create squirrel highschool themed imagery) and memes. For many, many websites this is going to be good enough.
Gasp0de··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
Why not? Multiple politicians have already mentioned IP as a possible method of retaliation. Also, the goal is to hurt Trump, his voters and his allies. Tech Bro's are Trumps allies nowadays.
Gasp0de··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
The price is not for using it, but for serving ads on it. They'd increase the price for ads that target European customers.
Gasp0de··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
A possible retaliation by the EU could be to not enforce US intellectual property rights in the EU anymore. Or we could start taxing cloud companies, who, until now, have not paid taxes in the EU for profits that they generate in the EU.
Gasp0de··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
Looks like he learned that from Putin, who also surrounded himself with yes-men which lead to him thinking he could take Ukraine in 3 days.
Gasp0de··on Show HN: Factorio Learning Environment – Agents Build Factories
Did you read the page? Because they did give rewards per item produced, and more complex items gave higher rewards.
Gasp0de··on Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)
Depends on time, weekday and which highway. But in general you are correct, which doesn't stop people from claiming that they do and that a 130kph speed limit would be horrible.
Gasp0de··on Apache iceberg the Hadoop of the modern-data-stack?
The costly thing is the intial writing already. S3 is our cold storage, we don't often read from it. So compaction would only make reading cheaper, but create a writing cost in the process.
Gasp0de··on Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)
Your math is so far off, it isn't even on this planet anymore. In what world does an EV use more than 100kW? It's closer to 20kWh per 100km, so about 20kW on the highway probably. That would make your heater be 5%, not a fraction of a percent.
Gasp0de··on Tesla created secret team to suppress driving range complaints (2023)
As a German, I love how you call 75mph speeding. There is a huge discussion going on in Germany of introducing a 80mph speed limit on the highway and many people claim that that does not work for them as they regularly drive 100mph average.
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