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If everyone turned off their lights 100% of the time they left their workstation, they could power those additional data centers for about one second.

Based on title, I was figured it was referring to USA moving to the metric system

I can only do a verse every 15 hours? Why the rate limit?

Seems like there are quite a few options out there. Looking for recs on something that can handle the various identity providers of a B2B context (e.g. Azure AD, Okta, etc), don't …

AWS just sent out a poorly worded sns announcement that looks like your Lambda credentials have been compromised. { "version": "1", "type":"NEW_FINDINGS", "findingDetails":[{ "find…

Still 256K input tokens. So disappointing (predictable, but disappointing).

Anyone else seeing latency issues with Azure OpenAI this morning? Status page says it's up but we're seeing timeouts. Specifically, on a gpt-4o models. Happening across multiple ap…

"Although I was invested in this project, I definitely wasn't "flirty sex chat with some random scammer" levels of invested. The thought also dawned on me that part of their playbo…

Without venture capital? Yes. Without $20? Probably not. $20 subscription doesn't need to cover costs of most active user. It needs to cover the cost of the average user (assuming …

Brian Chesky (Airbnb CEO) says he reviews everything before it goes out the door (I'm sure that's still at a high level). Product managers are the defacto but they can often always…

Nope, not a surprise. I've been doing cloud for a while. What I've never experienced from a cloud provider is a denial at creating infrastructure and told to use a different region…

We tried provisioning a database in US EAST. We were denied. We submitted a support request. We were told they could not provision the database due to high demand in that region (w…

The Guns of John Moses Browning. One of those where you didn't realize how someone you likely don't know much about has impacted every human on the planet.

If you're that close to publishing just publish already :) This thread is dead in the next couple hours.

Not the saddest; just the most recurring "just ship it" story ever.

$40k learning exercise. And great job shutting it down sooner rather than later when it would have been $200k and your marriage.