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The latency is a bit higher, but IP over Avian Carrier would be cheaper than this.

> Another thing to think about is, what would it take for you to care less about the understanding

Yes please, I'd like to not understand my codebase, give up my decades of experience and have a machine do everything for me. That way I can let captialism utterly steamroller me because of my paltry token stack, in comparison to the 19 year old vibe coder who has secured a new funding round for ponzi.ai

I had to double check if this was an Onion article or not.

Oh dear. I appear to still be stuck in the onionverse.

Looks like Microsoft were listening to Ink & Switch and borrowed their multiple-values-in-a-cell idea.

Feb 2025: https://www.inkandswitch.com/ambsheets/notebook/

September 2026: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/excelblog/excel-now...

I think this underlines the core problem. It's really hard to make a fully informed choice of provider based on costs, and they deliberately make multi-cloud expensive.

Egress costs are fairly clearly a vendor lock in strategy. If I want to transfer 1TB to run on cheaper compute at another provider, that costs me $90 (edit) on AWS as opposed to $0.24 at wholesale prices. It's unlikely to be cost effective so I choose AWS compute.

EDIT: thanks to someonebaggy for pointing out my decimal point error.

Ninety dollars to transfer a terabyte is clearly ridiculous.

> CloudFlare is not a tier 1 cloud provider.

Yes, you're legally correct, but the point is AWS are clearly overcharging for egress.

As you say:

> Egress pricing pays for the AWS network infrastructure that is incredibly reliable (hardware failures happen regularly yet almost no one notices) and allows it to operate at scale sufficient to absorb even the largest DDoS attacks.

Cloudflare is also pretty good at absorbing DDoS attacks, yet charge no egress costs.

Maybe the real question is, are the tier-1 providers colluding in overcharging for egress?

Cloudflare R2 has zero egress fees.

> Is there a meeting happening anywhere right this minute that I’m supposed to be in?

Nothing about this is groundbreaking and could have been written in BASIC.

I grew up on BASIC using a BBC Micro in the 80s, using a QWERTY keyboard and a screen. Some decades later I'm using a QWERTY keyboard and a screen with a few more pixels. I'm betting nothing will change much. An OS will do OS things, just a lot faster and more securely.

Spreadsheets will still be useful for making deterministic calculations about finances. It will just no longer take 100 engineers to build one.

GIS software will continue to use deterministic algorithms for calculating areas because it's a useful function but, hopefully it will get more user friendly.

> The sheer surface area that AI can create in our intellectual life is limitless

I agree with this statement, though I think this Brave New World is incredibly exciting to some and dystopian to others. The former group might include those that value the intellectual process above financial reward and status.

The flip side is there are many people, especially in tech, where their area of expertise has evaporated along with their lucrative and previously high status careers. It used to be possible to have a technical job by essentially following recipes and it turns out AI is far better at that than a human.

The linked article lays out why human understanding of mathematical models remains essential and I think the same applies to software. We're gonna need more software engineers who are able to think critically.

Saying that "Claude found" this is very creepy.

Not once in the article did they mention the humans involved in this.

If you scroll to the bottom, click on the small link in the second last paragraph you'll find a technical report that acknowledges the humans involved:

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/22573675ada52a8ca8a97a1a4b4326...

I thought the point of this article is that unsuitable technology and the associated loss of personal agency is seriously affecting the mental health of doctors, yet none of the comments here seem to reflect that.

I really recommend Nicorette inhalers, that's how I quit smoking. Having something to do with the hands really helps I think.

Also just inhaling through an empty tube helps! Make the smoking motion with your hand, inhale and get a nice hit of oxygen.

Who in their right mind would install a Meta AI with near admin privileges?

RNZ is an unusually pleasant website.

I’d like to think that people will move back to native, but sadly there’s only one viable platform for native app dev, Apple. I base that statement on the highly fragmented Linux ecosystem and the fact that Microsoft are appear to be actively hostile to windows users. I leave Android out of the picture because of the continual and legally proven trust breaches of the owner.

It does suck. Though Android’s owner does appear to be afraid of Graphene OS so maybe there’s hope.

My experience in academia was that data management is not well respected. Universities often see data as part of the library system which leads to a disconnect between data and research.

I’d suggest data management needs to be a well paid career in academia, with senior level influence to enable long term open access to data.

I was on a grant from the Wellcome Trust putting an epidemiology database online. This remained available until the PI moved on and their successor was decidedly less public spirited, so sadly it’s not available anymore. What can I do about that when I’m seen as a technician? I have over 8000 citations from my database work but there’s really no career in academia for me.

> modern science is synonymous with open source software.

Another problem with reproducibility is the openness of the underlying data. Many academics are terrified of giving away the golden goose and the software is often useless without the data.

However many scientists do work openly, e.g. The Journal of Open Source Software:

https://joss.theoj.org/

I didn’t know about Gemini protocol, thanks. Seems to have traction.

Inadvertently, Cunningham’s law helps me out.

You don't hate The Internet, you hate The Web.

The Web can be forked and I don't know why people aren't working on this.

An ad free, zuck-less ungoogle Web is possible.

I don't like the current web either. I like The Internet though. I can get free satellite imagery of the world and tons of other cool stuff. This doesn't need to use The Web, except for some relatively simple and replaceable metadata channels.

They are currently being sued for trade secret theft so it seems likely.

Given none of the wikis pointed to in the article have ads, I'd say you're right.

The Wikipedia article is far more informative, though I'm uncertain if read the full dpreview article due to ad-induced nausea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColorChecker

> 30 minutes of patient, old school troubleshooting

This is also the best way to understand a codebase, and it's quite enjoyable.

I think the models are getting too egotistical. They're so confident of their fixes they won't bother suggesting basic techniques like isolation of the problem by disabling code paths, for example. They'll keep shotgunning less-and-less likely fixes with undiminishing confidence until the code is full of fixes that do nothing. Then they'll double down on why these should be kept.

Yes, but ...

Sometimes there are genuine reasons to build a text editor. It's really hard to build a full WYSIWYG graphics editor without modelling text layout yourself, especially for more advanced work like properly curving the text.

> You do not know what these companies do with your data once they have it. They might limit how it gets used, they might sell it, they might expose it.

This is the burning question for me, what are they doing with our hard work.

I'd have thought that sherlocking a user's $10M business would be too high risk, given the billions at stake if real evidence of this happening was found.

However, OpenAI are currently being sued by Apple for trade secret theft, and the way it was done seems to be abundantly idiotic.

So I'm torn.

Why is this moving the goalposts?

Native apps can work reasonably well offline and online. Web apps can’t, currently.

It depends. Truly working offline, which is as private as it gets in many scenarios, isn’t really feasible with web apps.

Cool. In July, ESRI and Google teamed up to lock down road closure data on their “community maps” program. The community appears to be governments feeding their data to Google and ESRI who then look after it for us, entirely for our benefit.

I really think there needs to be an effort to get drivers to use real community software and provide this data as a public good.

https://www.esri.com/about/newsroom/announcements/esri-helps...

> I am in Europe, and the Mac Studio M5 Ultra GPU 64 cores with 96GB RAM is up to 6.649,00 €. Ouch.

It would be significantly cheaper to fly to a tariff-free country and buy there.

That infographic says it uses 16-20% more fuel per unit of thrust. That's a significant amount more weight for an aircraft to carry, but because carrying extra fuel also burns fuel, extra fuel use would compound exponentially. This would probably mean significantly more than 20% extra fuel would be required for long-haul flights.