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asib commented on Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale   blog.opensecret.cloud/why... · Posted by u/anthonyronning
gausswho · 12 days ago
Not necessarily. Netlify told me as I had blown past 20 bucks for 1TB of traffic that paying 50 bucks for every additional 100GB was 'a good problem to have'. Well no, not at all. If your project is one of love, the end game is not subjecting your audience to boatloads of ads.
asib · 12 days ago
I hear you on that, but I would say "usage-based pricing" does not equate to "increasing marginal cost" at all. There are both usage-based providers that have increasing marginal cost and those that don't.
asib commented on Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale   blog.opensecret.cloud/why... · Posted by u/anthonyronning
anthonyronning · 12 days ago
Yeah, at a certain point it's just always running 24/7, which they charge you usage-based if your company is over 750 hours in a month.

If you're running databases continuously, I find a lot of their original unique selling point pretty moot, especially if you're paying them extra for it.

asib · 12 days ago
Maybe you were referring to specifics of Neon's usage-based pricing.

The bullet I quoted makes it seem like you feel punished for having to pay more because you used more resources. That's, like, the fundamental idea of usage-based pricing. If you feel punished, it seems as though you misunderstood the whole idea.

asib commented on Why We Migrated from Neon to PlanetScale   blog.opensecret.cloud/why... · Posted by u/anthonyronning
asib · 12 days ago
> Beyond reliability, we faced other challenges:

> - Usage-based pricing that punished our success, the more users chatted, the more we paid

This is such a strange position on usage-based pricing and seems telling.

asib commented on Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act   use-their-id.com/... · Posted by u/timje1
jojobas · a month ago
Clamping down on freedoms is not conservative policy.

Crap like Communications Act 2003 and Ofcom has been Labour policy for decades.

asib · a month ago
Laughable. Allow me to introduce you to the anti protest legislation brought into law by Suella Braverman.
asib commented on Why Elixir? Common misconceptions   matthewsinclair.com/blog/... · Posted by u/ahamez
maratc · a month ago
Elixir's syntax is very intimidating. We maintain a fork of "bors-ng", I'd very much like to hack around a fix or two, but just stare at the code in awe.
asib · a month ago
What part of the syntax is intimidating? To my mind, it's not all that dissimilar from e.g. Python, which is not a language about which people express the same feeling.
asib commented on Meta announces new data centers   engadget.com/ai/meta-anno... · Posted by u/ksec
ksec · a month ago
If the water is only used for cooling then it should be a closed loop system and doesn't "used up" any water?

Unless Data Center uses water in a way we dont know?

asib · a month ago
Hmm bit of googling indicates one example: at least some data centers use cooling towers which dissipate heat via evaporation, i.e. loss of some water from the system.

I suppose not all water cooling systems (especially of this scale) work exactly like e.g. a water-cooled PC.

asib commented on Kiro: A new agentic IDE   kiro.dev/blog/introducing... · Posted by u/QuinnyPig
NathanKP · a month ago
Hello folks! I've been working on Kiro for nearly a year now. Happy to chat about some of the things that make it unique in the IDE space. We've added a few powerful things that I think make it a bit different from other similar AI editors.

In specific, I'm really proud of "spec driven development", which is based on the internal processes that software development teams at Amazon use to build very large technical projects. Kiro can take your basic "vibe coding" prompt, and expand it into deep technical requirements, a design document (with diagrams), and a task list to break down large projects into smaller, more realistic chunks of work.

I've had a ton of fun not just working on Kiro, but also coding with Kiro. I've also published a sample project I built while working on Kiro. It's a fairly extensive codebase for an infinite crafting game, almost 95% AI coded, thanks to the power of Kiro: https://github.com/kirodotdev/spirit-of-kiro

asib · a month ago
FYI: I'm trying Kiro out now, and the IDE keeps popping open the integrated terminal window of its own accord. Has done it multiple times, including when I don't even have the IDE window focussed on my desktop. Every 5-10 minutes it seems.

Neither VSCode nor Cursor do this, so even if it's an extension triggering it somehow, the behaviour in Kiro is different to those other two.

asib commented on OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google   theverge.com/openai/70599... · Posted by u/rcchen
asdev · a month ago
are people viewing file diffs in the terminal? surely people aren't just vibing code changes in
asib · a month ago
Yes or running claude code in the cursor/vscode terminal and watching the files change and then reviewing in IDE. I often like to be able to see an entire file when reviewing a diff, rather than just the lines that changed. Plus it's nice to have go-to-definition when reviewing.
asib commented on A simple comma is going to cost Apple billions in Europe   cafetechinenglish.substac... · Posted by u/pseudolus
asib · 3 months ago
Is it "a simple comma"? Or is it a very intentional comma? The courts debating commas, at least in circumstances of this sort, strikes me as a particularly farcical consequence of modern justice systems.

Can't we ask legislators to clarify their own legislation?

u/asib

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