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sundache··on The Dutch community where people live on strips of land in a lake
You're not allowed to live there officially, but some people do.
sundache··on AI has fixed my productivity
> At a surface level they look good but if you actually scrutinize them they fall apart.

This is true for a huge amount of AI output in my experience.

sundache··on France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.
I use AWS and OVH at work and this has not my experience.

AWS has more services, but a lot of those are of dubious quality. I'd love to never have to use redshift or EMR again for instance. OVH is more basic, but what it has tends to work at least.

sundache··on I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
But most hosting providers allow you to just rent a server for a day or a few hours, so it's not really an argument why you have to use the cloud.
sundache··on I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
> If running on your own data center, or renting physical/virtual machines from ie Hetzner, you will pay for that capability overhead for 30.5 days per month, when in reality you only need it for 2-3 days.

I keep seeing this take on here and it just shows most people don't actually know what you can do off the cloud. Hertzner allows you to rent servers by the hour, so you can just do that and only pay for the 2-3 days you need them.

sundache··on Building a Personal AI Factory
I only see 148 lines of assembly and a dockerfile that's 7 lines long. Am I missing something or should that take a human less then several weeks.
sundache··on DeepSeek R2 launch stalled as CEO balks at progress
A problem they face in building their own capacity is that ASML isn't allowed to export their newest machines to China. The US has even pressured them to stop servicing some machines already in China. They've been working on getting their own ASML competitor for decades, but so far unsuccessfully.
sundache··on Booking.com is moving its customer service staff to an outsourcing company
They CS people in Amsterdam aren't getting fired though.