- cheema33I am not going to shed a tear for ESR. He turned out to be a massive turd.
- AI doesn’t have much of a moat. People can and will easily switch providers.
- > $50 bucks gets you an EIGHTH of a vCPU, 1GB RAM, and 10GB SSD???
Apparently there are people who find this offering compelling. The lack of value is quite stunning to me.
- Are you telling us that the party of golden ballrooms... err.. fiscal responsibility is not actually being fiscally responsible?
- > down-votes can't stop China. Tariffs can though...
People like you and I pay tariffs. Not China. You realize that right? And how will that stop China? Tariffs mostly hurt American consumers and producers. Just ask farmers.
- I am not surprised. My Windows 11 systems with modern and beefy hardware frequently runs very slow for reasons unknown. I did use https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat recently and that seemed to have helped. Windows by default comes with a lot of crap that most of us do not use but it consumes resources anyway.
I have been considering a move back to Linux. It is only Microsoft Teams on Windows that I have to use daily that is holding me back.
- > Why does it matter if Netflix is using an open standard if every video they stream is wrapped in proprietary closed DRM?
I am not sure if this is a serious question, but I'll bite in case it is.
Without DRM Netflix's business would not exist. Nobody would license them any content if it was going to be streamed without a DRM.
- > What were originally consumer graphics expansion cards turned out useful in delivering more compute than traditional CPUs.
Graphics cards were relatively inexpensive. When one got old, you tossed it out and move on to the new hotness.
Here when you have spent $1 trillion on AI graphics cards and a new hotness comes around that renders your current hardware obsolete, what do you do?
Either people are failing to do simple math here or are expecting, nay hoping, that trillions of $$$ in value can be extracted out of the current hardware, before the new hotness comes along.
This would be a bad bet even if the likes of OpenAI were actually making money today. It is an exceptionally bad bet when they are losing money on everything they sell, by a lot. And the state of competition is such that they cannot raise prices. Nobody has a real moat. AI has become a commodity. And competition is only getting stronger with each passing day.
- Build trillion dollar data center infrastructure in Russia. What could possibly go wrong?
Ask the owners of the leased airplanes who have been unsuccessfully trying to get their planes back for about 3 years.
- > This article is an advertisement for what appears to be a networking service, something which is not really made clear until near the end.
I have been seeing an uptick of articles on HN where someone identifies a problem, then amps it up a bit more and then tells you that they are the right ones to solve it for a fee.
These things should not be taken seriously and upvoted.
- > Utility scale is 2x cheaper despite all that.
I think you mean cheaper for the utility. It is certainly not cheaper for me, the homeowner.
- I use GraphQL. It has a higher learning curve. But it addresses the shortcomings listed by the referenced blog article. It offers type safety, efficiency and modern tooling. And it is also human readable.
If you use good tooling, you can have a mutation change a variable type in the database and that type change is automatically reflected in the middleware/backend and the typescript UI code. Not only that libraries like HotChocolate for asp.net come with built-in functions for filtering, pagination, streaming etc.
- > I think this app is harmless..
It may be today. And you have no way to know for sure. But there is also no way to know what the app will do down the road when a politician you do not trust is in control of it.
- > Given the payoff and endless iterations resources will be thrown at it and it would eventually get better.
Allow the user to download and install it if it turns out to be great. Do not shove things down people's throat against their wishes, like an authoritarian govt. Otherwise you start to resemble Stalin's Soviet Union.
- > It's not like a backdoor, but safety of citizens, which is the prime mandate of a sovereign state.
This sounds great in theory. But in practice this sort of thing is rife for abuse. Say, I have complete control over what this app installed on your phone does in the background. And you were my political opponent. Would you trust me to not use this backdoor into your phone to my advantage?
Apps like Netflix, GMail are not forced on users by a govt. It is an open marketplace. Users have options. They are free to buy phones that do not have those apps pre-installed.
- Is the Supreme Court completely impartial in India? Is so, then this is credible.
At least in the US, the Supreme Court is anything but impartial. Judges typically vote along party lines.
- You can take out a data center in space with an accidental collision of a small runaway satellite. Taking out a data center in the middle of Oregon would be significantly harder and will invite massive retaliation.
- Even though I knew which RL was being referred to here, the (ab)use of initials in this ways annoys me to no end. I wish people did not do that.
- The difference here is that Anker will recall a faulty product. Lesser known brands will not. If you know of another brand that has a better safety and reliability record, please share.
- Agreed that RDP is very well designed. And we don't have an equivalent in Linux or Mac world. All competing protocols are a compromise. I am particularly impressed with good multi-monitor support in RDP. Competitions has had more than a decade to get it right. But I am unaware of any that does.
If I connect remotely from a 2 monitor setup, disconnect and re-connect from my laptop with just a single display, it all magically works. Everything readjusts automatically. I don't know of any other remote desktop protocol/tool that does this so well.