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Thanks for the recommendation. I just downloaded the 431 page pdf on the game engine. It's even got a foreward by John Carmack.

There are plenty of tools like these. Why does this particular one require browser requests to:

- facebook.net - google.com (and related tagmanager domains) - paypal.com - paypalobjects.com - twitter.com

Is this some kind of data harvester?

This is a good question for any provider like AWS--what kinds of information do I leak with seemlingly mundane choices like bucket names.

The other attack vector is from insiders. Many organizations "shield" identifiable information behind UUIDs or some other scheme. In the event of a breach, the UUID might mean nothing to most (it's not foolproof, though), but opens more doors for an insider.

Maybe they were trying to save money. There's another quote where Satoshi suggests being frugal:

> It might be a long time before we get another donation like that, we should save a lot of it.

Or just above the age of 35 or so?

> The VPS has 320MB RAM, 50MB of which is currently free. There's also 500MB swap space.

Every MB counts!

Well summarized. Anti-competition has become the new standard operating model.

> Current performance and test counts on a 40 core system are: $ time make -j $(nproc) check SUBDIRS=. 13s $ # time make -j $(nproc) check RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes 1m22.244s for 9 extra expensive tests

That's pretty respectable, given that coreutils include 98 programs (some are simple like yes(1) and true(1), but most of them are used millions of times a day to do real work: ls(1), kill(1), cat(1), wc(1).

In fact, I used wc(1) to count the number of separate programs inside coreutils.

Sometimes, procrastination pays off!

I expected to read a paper about some obscure Excel trick to manipulate stats output. Instead, this is just old-fashioned manipulation by hand or "imputation" as the paper describes it.

> In email correspondence seen by Retraction Watch and a follow-up Zoom call, Heshmati told the student he had used Excel’s autofill function to mend the data. He had marked anywhere from two to four observations before or after the missing values and dragged the selected cells down or up, depending on the case. The program then filled in the blanks. If the new numbers turned negative, Heshmati replaced them with the last positive value Excel had spit out.

You still have to pay for cross-connects to connect to exchanges in datacenters.

> In North America, the median cross-connect price is $300, more than five times higher than $58, which is the median price in Europe.[1]

Of course, that difference means nothing to a hyperscaler, but it's led to a difference in pricing culture between the smaller providers.

1: https://www.fiercetelecom.com/telecom/study-u-s-fiber-cross-...

European providers benefit from lower cross-connect fees in datacenters and more internet exchanges for easy peering. It's not surprising they offer more bandwidth at the same cost.

Right. Egress is an imperfect, but reasonable metric for overall utilization. If they started charging for CPU hertz above a certain threshold, that'd be a harder sell.

Right. $15K is about the difference between the rent stabilized price and the market price per month, multiplied by 12 months.

That's true, but there's an interesting parallel with GitHub's corporate parent, Microsoft, and Microsoft's other platform company LinkedIn[1]. LinkedIn sued scrapers for retrieving data from the site.

LinkedIn isn't a content company either, nor do they really own any content posted there (they don't right?), but a large part of their business moat comes from the network of people posting content there. Scrapers and bots undermine this, something the AI boom facilitates.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn

I think this will be the new normal.

There are a lot more AI projects hungry for data to train their models on. This puts content companies in an uncomfortable situation: trademark infringement claims, loss of intellectual property, and more.

Yes. Some of them are are only a couple thousand lines of code[1]. No background "activities", no keyboard shortcut stealing from other apps.

1: https://git.suckless.org/dwm/files.html

Even as early as 15 years ago, MIT switched from scheme to python. The reasons are detailed in an interview[1] (see HN discussion[2]): the educators belived the future of programming would be snapping pre-made libraries together instead of engineering from scratch.

1: https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-f...

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14167453

I'd check out an open source JRE like https://adoptopenjdk.net/ and compare your workloads there against the Oracle ones if possible.