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Re:New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper on Saturday April 25, 2026 @09:53AM (#47901579)
TIL that DAS stands for "Direct Attached Storage." In the olden times we called them external hard drives.
Re:Sam 2: Segment Anything in Images and Videos on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @08:47AM (#41108586)
Same :(

Just a guess, maybe it's the VideoFrame API? It was the only video-related feature I could find that Chrome and Safari have and FF doesn't.

https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_videoframe

Re:3D Gaussian Splatting as Markov Chain Monte Carlo on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @06:05PM (#40722590)
It's a video. Right click and click play.
In Finland, speeding fines are based on your income. Can we have that, but for corporations?
Misconception: police solve crimes.

Truth: police protect their employers.

Re:Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) on Saturday March 02, 2024 @12:31PM (#39574098)
If you enjoy Wintergatan’s clever marble videos, check out Ivan Miranda’s marble clock project: https://youtu.be/JLD_Nl12oac. Ivan relies on 3d printing vs. Martin’s emphasis on machining and welding, but they are both charming and instructive creators.
Re:Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) on Saturday March 02, 2024 @12:21PM (#39574009)
I enjoyed watching his videos for a few years, but I eventually had to stop because it was so hard to watch what you describe. You put it very kindly; I would have called it a channel documenting a slow descent into madness. Maybe it was my own latent perfectionism that made me so uncomfortable watching him obsess, repeatedly restart, second-guess, overanalyze, self deprecate, etc. It’s a hard thing to relive vicariously.
Re:Nile, Serverless Postgres for Modern SaaS on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:12PM (#38016957)
How interesting. Does that mean the same is true for deployment_mode? As in, assuming 'customer 2' was originally made 'dedicated', is this how we'd move them back to shared deployment mode?

   update tenants set deployment_mode = 'shared' where name = 'customer 2';
Does that mean some downtime or broken connections for that tenant while data is shuffled around?
Maybe that’s where the luggage should go then…?
Re:Godot 4.1 Is Released on Thursday July 06, 2023 @09:10AM (#36615190)
Let's see if the laws change in time to be relevant. Good thing it's not required for EVs to have an attendant plug the charging cable in for us.
Re:Around the World with SQLite3 and Rsync on Friday June 23, 2023 @08:34AM (#36445989)
Why rsync and not Fly.io's own https://fly.io/docs/litefs/?
I don't know if this is any better but if you prefer reading: https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=7-RgOUT3zeo
Re:6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-Locked on Monday December 26, 2022 @07:32PM (#34143485)
Here’s a 6 minute explainer published 4 days ago from the channel Half as Interesting: https://youtu.be/Dr2a5YdQXX4
Reminds me of how Van Halen’s “no brown m&ms” contract rider was actually a concert venue technical competence canary.
Re:Render Price Hike on Friday December 02, 2022 @12:58AM (#33827328)
I'm disappointed. They're tripling egress bandwidth overage (from $0.10/GB to $0.30/GB, yikes) and making autoscaling a premium feature. Here's an excerpt from the email received 4 hours ago (8:39 ETT) (not sure comment limit length):

• The Individual Plan is meant for personal projects, indie hacking, and for exploring Render without a credit card. It includes free email support, 100 GB in free bandwidth, and 500 free build minutes every month. There is no fee for this plan beyond compute usage.

• The Team Plan is ideal for smaller engineering teams building on Render. It can have up to 10 users and includes autoscaling, preview environments, email and chat support, 500 GB free bandwidth, and 500 free build minutes per team member. It costs $19 per user per month, plus compute usage.

• The Organization Plan is best for larger engineering orgs and teams with special compliance needs. It includes everything in the Team plan, along with prioritized support, custom compute instances, and 1 TB in free bandwidth. It costs $29 per team member monthly, plus compute usage.

• The Enterprise Plan includes everything in the Organization Plan and adds volume discounts, contractual uptime guarantees, strict support SLAs, and access to dedicated customer success engineers.

We're making two other changes to allow us to offer sensible compute pricing that scales with you:

• Egress bandwidth usage beyond a plan's free allowance will be charged at $30 per additional block of 100 GB. Inbound bandwidth will remain free.

• We're removing Starter Plus and Standard Plus instance types. Services already on these instances can continue to use them through 2023.

Re:How to Sell Tickets Fairly on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:24AM (#33670313)
Apparently not. Some have already reached out.
Re:How to Sell Tickets Fairly on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:23AM (#33670305)
Yep.
Re:How to Sell Tickets Fairly on Saturday November 19, 2022 @09:07AM (#33670155)
That was not my intention, sorry. Thanks for your perspective.
Re:How to Sell Tickets Fairly on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:27PM (#33666595)
Interesting, thanks for the link. Similar outcomes perhaps. I guess the difference is that the auction clock is public so it may feel a little less arbitrary than an opaque algorithm.
Re:How to Sell Tickets Fairly on Friday November 18, 2022 @10:21PM (#33666554)
This really made me reconsider my phrasing, and then the basis for my assumption about “fairness”. Thank you for your thought provoking comment.
I didn’t realize it wasn’t Enzo until reading your comment just now, and that’s after skimming the article for several minutes. Now I’m wondering if I’m dyslexic or what.
Re:Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed? on Sunday August 14, 2022 @11:05AM (#32459856)
I made DBaaS Review: https://www.dbaasreview.com/

It started out as a hosted database price comparison tool on my personal blog and then just sort of grew. It’s not abandoned, but also I’m just not sure what to do with it.

Re:Godot 3.5 on Friday August 05, 2022 @01:31PM (#32359224)
Not OP but educated guess: Tesla's mobile app. https://twitter.com/AlexGuichet/status/1528149807709048833
Re:Modern cloud for multiplayer games on Thursday June 30, 2022 @01:57PM (#31936098)
I'm rooting for you guys, truly. Congrats on the launch and thanks for offering a free trial.

However... personally I clicked around looking for pricing, found nothing. I understand it's early and you don't have it figured out yet, that's fine. I get it will cost more than if I tried to roll my own solution on bare metal, sure. But how much more? AFAIK it will be somewhere between ten cents and a billion dollars a month, or per player, or cats per donut, who knows.

I'm starting to think that new services silently loose far more users through the uncertainty of opaque or nonexistent pricing ("contact us!") than they will gain with free trials.

Agree with you in principle. However, it sounds like OP was doing security theater, which is demoralizing to perform.

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