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Why couldn't old reddit make money? Just going by my napkin math, serving 125M DAU compute and storage shouldn't cost more much than $2M/mo in cloud hosting. If I serve a single ad…

Because if you need something in 2 days in the United States its often your _only_ option. I begrudgingly maintain a prime membership because its typically >2 times per month that …

I think this comes from our rather nebulous definition of "consciousness". We have this natural tendancy to impose our feelings of self on the definition of consciousness. Its hard…

Many of the traditional SEO players are now figuring out how to game the system to get their customers to show up more frequently in LLM responses. Once the pressure to turn a prof…

Don't rule out possibility 1. Sometimes you have to learn how to frame the problem in a way to get the results that you want. These tools need lots of context, not just about the r…

Or the ~100% of users who wouldn't understand anything you just wrote will shell out for a premium subscription.

The out of the box track selection is quite weak. The game depends on community made tracks to make it playable in the long term.

Personal data point, I see their dogs at defense-adjacent trade shows all the time.

Twitch Turbo only has two tangible selling points AFAIK: 1. No ads 2. 90 days to store recordings of your live streams instead of 30 days. I think if you take out that first sellin…

It used to be $8.99/month. I was a pretty casual twitch viewer and I paid for it then. When they announced the move to 11.99/month I didn't re-up it and I just don't watch twitch n…

I am a right leaning American who subscribes to the New Yorker. I find a lot of their essays to be surprisingly non-partisan. I especially enjoy the fiction pieces.

I thought this was a joke at first. I guess her story adds up!

Awesome to see you here Ali! You may or may not remember, but we used to run similar tech YouTube channels as young teenagers and worked on a few videos together. I've been followi…

Not sure if OP is the author but my love of learning languages was also unlocked through Esperanto when I was a teenager. Its possible that my journey has been a bit longer, I did …

That is the precedent that this case is currently arguing against.

Interesting. Since you are running it locally do they still have to put up all the legal guardrails that we see from Chat GPT and the like?

What are the dangers of graphite lubricant? I lubricate my keyholes with it but there is always some that gets left on the key, and I tend to fiddle with my keys at my desk sometim…

Agreed! I have absolutely no idea how a combination of grammarly and a specific gif would cause a browser crash though… Anyone here use the grammarly desktop app? Any additional cl…

Clearly you haven't seen the entire fediverse. There are tons of "free speech" instances along with a garden variety of other "alt" instances that are as active as the mastodon aff…

There has been some criticism of Analogue lately from the retro gaming community [1] for continuing to announce and release new products while they remain months behind on fulfilli…

Forgive me if this is a stupid question, but how is it determining how to color the inverse side of the wings of the butterfly in the animation? Did he keyframe that in and exclude…

Link to the actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01390-9

I actually liked the one time zone system in China when I lived there. It made scheduling work across different cities a little more convenient, and I didn't mind that the sunrise/…

I had an API integration written to convert an English language security rule into an XML object designed to instruct a remote machine how to comply with the rule programmatically.…

Tildes is quite pleasant from what I've seen, I understand why but the invitation only nature is limiting at the moment. I've yet to be able to register.