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techterrier
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Startup software engineer. http://terriertech.io
- techterriergenerating private profits are the best use of public money?
- they should get someone who paints warhammer or similar to do it, they'd look amazing!
- from the tweet [1]:
"We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback.
1. We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach.
2. We are continuing to reduce hosted-runners prices by up to 39% on January 1, 2026.
We have real costs"
^ theres more in the actual tweet, but the preview that gets unfurled on discord cuts off there. That last lines a killer, poor olde microsoft
- yes, but who got the Netflix Peace Prize?
- Dutch gov is one of our recent customers! govs are big things and have lots of parts that dont always talk to each other.
- And are rushing to get away! I work on a product thats source available and self hosted. Many of our new customers are EU gov agencies.
- sorry
- Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/904/
- HN: social media is as bad as smoking
AUS: we agree, and like smoking, won't be letting our kids do it
NH: but freeze peach!
- It's a way for SaaSy companies to do business in Europe.
- At this point im just going to move to Shetland, live in a hut and spend the next 30 years making wooden boats. It's the only way to be free of this nonsense.
- Never happened in the wild. The only recorded incidents of Orca attacking humans were in the aquariums.
- it's another $5 wrench situation
- He means that robotaxi companies will make more money if they can fit more 'rides' into a given period. It won't be long before some mba big brain figures out lobbying for increased speed limits will do just that.
- Deployed recklessly, inevitably cluttering our pavements, filling our canals amoung other antisocial externalities that taxpayers get the bill for?
- in which case I apologise :)
I've seen plenty of robotaxi huckers advocate for speed limits 'appropriate for robot response times'
- Hopefully some genius will figure out a way of joining lots of these together into a 'gigapod'. That might have enough capacity to actually work at city scale.
- no thanks, I don't fancy dodging 120mph robots when I'm crossing the road, or breathing in the extra pollution that this would create (even if its an EV!)