AWS is like one of the sci-fi portals, one moment you are carefully exploring it and the next moment it's crawling all over you and then pulling you in while you shout about costs.

The number of people managing people managing people who actually do the work is quite high in some of these firms. The partners are rolling in cash, while the actual consultants are hoping to climb the ladder. In some geographies, this has created cliques that keep each other in positions and they make money together while strangling any up and coming competition from below.

A lot of us use it in a very structured manner for code and other areas. It absolutely is value for money. I don't really get what people keep complaining about. I think the complaints mostly come from people trying to embed LLMs and expecting a human like output.

Decision support, coding, and for structured outputs I love it. I know its not human, and i write instructions that are specific to the way it reasons.

This is sort of useful, and it is how I have been using LLMs.

I don't think the companies betting on AI are burning mountains of cash because they think it will be a moderately useful tool for decision support, coding and such. They are betting this will be "The Future™" in their search of perpetual growth.

These days I dump code into an LLM, ELI5. Then ask it to tell me logical chunks and overall structure. I then go from there.

It's probably trying to figure out what it can sell at a large margin.

meh, expected from AWS from the way they sell their other products.

Even on the web, you have to explicitly request the desktop site using options. Else you get served dark patterns.

zigbee has been generally flaky for me, and I dont know if the problem are these tiny coin batteries or the actual sonoff hardware.

Billionaires buy elections, elected officials break funding for public facilities, billionaires get tax cuts, public facilities get bought out with tax cuts.

I wonder when they start introducing their own currencies like in the old mining towns.

Back to feudalism we go, election by election.

I mentioned this on another thread. I tried my best to avoid FB, but then they acquire products like WhatsApp to then hoover up personal data again. This shouldn't be allowed. PII and personal data should be bound to the original terms on which the product launched.

Zuck should find a quiet part of the internet or the metaverse to curl up and fade away. The guy just doesn't have any redeeming qualities.

My local DNS rules (PiHole) block all Google & Facebook products.

It's actually kind of fun seeking/using less-global alternatives, even if just for the different perspectives.

e.g. Bing maps is my favorite way to explore cities (yes, I know they're a MSFT product, their code/login doesn't permeate across my internets).

Why MS Bing maps? The UI is nice or are there extra features that make it great for exploration? And by exploration do you mean physical or digital?

>Why Bing?

I first saught out Bing Maps because the aerial views can be set askew from cardinal directions, which allows you to (sometimes) discover objects beneath tree-cover (hidden in top-down views).

I've continued using Bing for digital explorations because the physical printouts have more contrast (i.e. are easier to read; however, alltrails has the best printouts).

Bing seems to list more businesses than other platforms, and presents the information with less clutter.

But ultimately, I use Bing because I can use it while still blocking all other tracking products of its parent company (which is very difficult to do with e.g. Google products — which I just ban entirely).