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Yes and that is just the bot background radiation of the internet. I run a primary source of information site and these botnets are aggressive to a DDOS level. All to do some sort …

The same criticism can be leveled against a signed session token. Also comparing decryption with a local redis get which is still much slower is wrong. The criticism against long e…

The main reason is more tangible to people. It is more reliability and simplicity. For instance the Toyota Tundra used to have a V8 that was pretty bomb proof. But over the years, …

>I don’t require glasses (yet) One day try throwing a pair on you'll be surprised. The small thin font is causing this not the text contrast. This and low light scenarios are the f…

Well it depends. Being that the federal government constitutes 20% of the US economy, telling federal agencies you cannot contract with someone because they are adversarial to the …

Do you need 80+ tools in context? Even if reduced, why not use sub agents for areas of focus? Context is gold and the more you put into it unrelated to the problem at hand the wors…

The "OK, let's not start sucking... yet " is the one that comes to mind during production fires but can't use that one at work unfortunately

Consumer Windows for those that care is an almost worthless business. Nobody will pay what was once paid for a windows license anymore. They will squeeze existing users who know no…

China has a huge deflation problem that they export to the world via cheap products. They have a lot of capacity and not enough consumers. So in China, an unstated mild Keynesian a…

Somehow his company is worth ~1.6 trillion dollars, with most of that valuation being confidence in his predictions. He is predicting humanoid useful robots soon. Tesla's valuation…

It is almost unanimously agreed upon that impact factor is a flawed way of assessing scientific output, and there are a lot of ideas on how this could be done better. None of them …

It is on acceptance almost universally. This is why more selective journals have higher APCs. The overhead of reviewing and processing more papers when less ultimately convert cost…

Contracts for data with OpenAPI or an RPC don't come with the overhead of making a resolver for infinite permutations while your apps probably need a few or perhaps one. Which is w…

I remember when the N900 came out other phones including the iPhone could not process a web page with AJAX or most javascript and Flash. It truly gave you a desktop experience on a…

Agentic crawlers are worse. I run a primary source site and the ai "thinking" user agents will hit your site 1000+ times in a minute at any time of the day

The real mover for lower retirement plan fees was lawsuits. There have been loads of 401k excessive fee class action lawsuits and this got almost every employer negotiating to avoi…

Not at all. My scintillating counter will do 300 cpm as background. The most concerning thing here will be the ingestion of the water. Even low level emitters can be very bad when …

Rentec is still world renowned after pioneering the quant business 40+ years ago. I don't think the rested on their laurels with some easy thing that they just stumbled on early

It was the biggest contributor to folding @ home at one point. It came bundled with the PS3 and played relaxing music and showed a heat map of the world ps3 compute nodes as it wen…

And if you are consistently winning they will ban you! They can legally back off (reduce max bet to a tiny amount) or straight up ban people who bet smart. These books also market …

Because making it easy to run and monitor NextJS is never in their interest. The difficulty of that is what pushes people that make it to production with Next onto their platform. …

People get funneled to their paid plans out of necessity. While NextJS is open source, the back-end to run it is not. That is where all the complexity lies. Even on Netlify, you ru…

I will tell you that we have had bot super fight mode on for a year and since then we have not had to address abusing traffic nor deal with legitimate people blocked. There is no w…

I run a site that is a primary source of information. We also have customers that subscribe and are very sensitive to heavy handed controls. Before cloudflare and after "AI" we had…

One factor around this is private equity buyouts. PE has been snapping up a lot of well established smaller companies and squeezing more profits out of them. Part of this is value …