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Nothing is wrong with billboards, I can look the other way. When the billboards show up on my dashboard and I have to stare at it before I can turn off my exit then we have problems

I don’t mind watching a video with an ad. My child and I can preoccupy ourself. When it’s a 90 second ad we are forced to watch just to watch a 45 second video I’m gonna make certain we don’t watch that ad


Why should I have to look the other way? It's the billboard that's an imposition, an intrusion, and a nuisance. (Especially when there are multiple)

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2013/07/sao-paulo-city-with-no...


> Nothing is wrong with billboards.

Elaborate.


Benefit of the doubt that perhaps that was the entirety of the comment at the time you posted this reply, but they did elaborate if you could take the time to read the whole thing:

> Nothing is wrong with billboards, I can look the other way. When the billboards show up on my dashboard and I have to stare at it before I can turn off my exit then we have problems

> I don’t mind watching a video with an ad. My child and I can preoccupy ourself. When it’s a 90 second ad we are forced to watch just to watch a 45 second video I’m gonna make certain we don’t watch that ad


I once remailed emails to IEEE and ACM. I was ready to quit and take the L for such a bad mistake. Not write a blog post for Friday evening consumption

To be fair this was the norm 10 years ago. Just seems like he is stuck in the past. Really no excuse to provision an ec2 volume and dump all backups there. I’m not even in prod yet and have full backups to LTO to be ready for launch next month

This was never the norm for successful companies. This is only the norm for cowboys who have more pizza than good sense.

No. Never release/upgrade on a Friday. Had too many late night weekends when I should be happily drinking beer. Never release at eod Friday. Never.

I’m building my toy project and I have an LTO drive taking backups every night. Here I am complaining that having 2Tb of backups is too much.

lol good luck op


I would not use section 174 as a reason not to startup but rather as a way to ensure you are running a lean ship. It’s very possible the rule change could be retroactive. Thats just my poker take on this bluff. It may not be retrospective or it may not happen at all. But indecision will kill some startups, the ones who don’t will be a year or three ahead.

I am curious the need for 70 t/sec?


Waiting minutes for your call to succeed is too frustrating?


Depends entirely on the use case. Not every LLM workflow is a chatbot


no, but if you're not latency sensitive you should probably be using DeepSeek v3 (cheaper than flash, significantly smarter)


What makes you believe DeepSeek is smarter than Flash 2.5? It is lower on all leaderboards.


you're right, I should clarify that I'm talking about no thinking mode, otherwise flash goes from "a bit more expensive than dsv3" to "10x more expensive"


High concurrency voice AI systems.


Why are you self hosting that?

    Hourly_rate / 12 = 5min_rate

    If light_edit_cost < 5min_rate then savings=true


(from a companies perspective, this is true). As a developer, you may not be paid by the task -- If I finish something early, I start work on the next thing.


Sigh. This is yCombinator’s startup school or whatever it’s called where they teach you to launch a product and solicit engagement and feedback. This template is boilerplate for the last 3 or 4 I’ve seen. Then it gets posted to hacker news to solicit feedback from “real users”. Without fail the creators happen to haha stumble in and happily take your feedback. Absolutely nothing changes and you will return to the same product page as an old bookmark 2 years from now and realize nothing on the page has changed.

Instead, notice when this happens and then take away your own experience and use it to build your own product. Good luck!


Mate that was a big jump to a conclusion..


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