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> I strongly suspect that the way major clouds do billing is just not ready for answering the question of "how much did X spend over the last hour", and the people worried about th…

Exactly this - and how chatGPT behaves too. After a few conversations with search enabled you figure this out, but they really ought to make the distinction clearer.

Still no way to sync the "favorites" album between the default Android Photos app and Google Photos, yet they're busy building this slop. Not to mention the dark patterns that atte…

For low cost, there's also Cloudflare Vectorize ($0.05 per 100 million stored vectors), which nobody seems to know exists: https://www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/products/ve…

I follow a bunch of YC founders on X. Lots of behavior that could be construed as 'growth hacking - or 'deceptive' depending on your bent: promoting open source libraries that don'…

> Almost every place I've been people absolutely detest black people. Not an experience I can relate with, and I'm pretty well traveled. A cynic might say that you're projecting a …

Crazy that devs choose supabase and vercel when Google Cloud is right there. Google were late to the game but they've built perhaps one of the easiest cloud platforms to work with.…

Too bad they removed the ability to use Chat (rebranded as Ask) with your own API keys in version 0.47. Now every feature requires a subscription. Natural for Cursor to nudge users…

Reluctant VScode user here. Sublime's speed make it the best editor to work with by far, but its package manager is in a sorry state. A good 70%+ of packages are outdated or don't …

The clue is the name of the tools: "co-pilot". Assistants that work best in the hands of someone who already knows what they're doing, removing tedium and providing an additional l…

It does have a tendacy to meander or spend too time reflecting on a topic instead of distilling the details. However the new ability to add a prompt improves this greatly. Some ins…

Backups stopped working a week ago. A visit to their site shows the message: 'We have a planned maintenance event that will impact the availability of SpiderOak One and SpiderOak G…

> I have had this feeling twice. Both times my overwhelming thought was "Wow, I've been an idiot." Same experience here. I'm a beginner swimmer and got caught in a rip tide in Bali…

Microsoft continue to ship their Surface laptops with over-sized power bricks, which is enough to disqualify them. Similar spec Samsung laptops (Galaxy Books) come with a regular U…

"There Are No Successful Black Nations" was the original title of this article in Foreign Policy: https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/08/09/why-black-people-must-h... It's an uncomforta…

Exactly. It's ChatGPT, equally lobotomized and devoid of fun. Perfect for Microsoft, less so for an app with a young demographic.

> it makes sense to evaluate states not just on their immediate utility, but on the utility of future states they make possible or exclude, and the states necessary to pass through…

Likely sarcasm, still I'll bite. I saw the exact same commentary around the no-code hype of the past few years and it made me increasingly cynical. No-code tools made it super easy…

> average ppl do not give a fuck/doesn't help them that much I shared this opinion no more than a month ago. Then I decided to keep a ChatGPT-4 tab open for a week and lean on it f…

This is awesome (and deserves more love), well done. Any insights on what's happening when user visitor clicks 'Go'? Is the video transcribed via OpenAI Whisper and then passed thr…

> we’ve already handed over the core societal function of information search and retrieval to them. Have we? For many people, ChatGPT3 is a curiosity. Talking to a bot is inefficie…

Including something like "7 results from sources you blocked are hidden. Click to show" would solve this nicely.