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cisophrene commented on VST3 audio plugin format is now MIT   forums.steinberg.net/t/vs... · Posted by u/rock_artist
coldtea · 2 months ago
customer: hello, I want to buy a piano please

yamaha: sure, here you go

customer: great, thanks! lol, I also need a motorcycle. Do you know where I can buy a good one?

yamaha: you're not gonna believe this...

cisophrene · 2 months ago
I don't think Yamaha Motor is producing any large trucks. They do a lot of things but mostly motorcycles, atv, boat engine, even car engines but not the whole car.

Also, you should note that Yamaha Corporation, the musical instrument maker and Yamaha Motor are now 2 distinct independent companies, even if were originally part of the same group.

cisophrene commented on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner   digitalsociety.coop/posts... · Posted by u/pingoo101010
cisophrene · 2 months ago
Dedicated servers on a host like Hetzer and OVH surely beats any virtualization based cloud offering on price and performance. The tradeoff is availability. It's a great choice for entities that are optimizing on cost, but not a great choice if your business cannot tolerate downtime.

A good example is a the big lichess outage from last year [1]. Lichess is a non-profit, and also must serve a huge user base. Given their financials, they have to go the cheap dedicated server route (they host on OVH). They publish an Excel sheet somewhere with every resources they use to run the services and last year, I had fun calculating how much it would cost them if they were using an hyperscaler cloud offering instead. I don't remember exactly but it was 5 or 6x the price they currently pay OVH.

The downside, is that when you have an outage, your stuff is tied to physical servers and they can't easily be migrated, when cloud provider on the opposite can easily move around your workload. In the case of Lichess outage, it was some network device they had no control of that went bad, and lichess was down until OVH could fix it, that is many hours.

So, yes you get a great deal, but for a lot of businesses, uptime is more important than cost optimization and the physicality of dedicated servers is actually a serious liability.

[1]: https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/post-mortem-of-our-longes...

cisophrene commented on Show HN: Companies use AI to take your calls. I built AI to make them for you   pipervoice.com/... · Posted by u/michaelphi
nmstoker · 5 months ago
Interesting because this empowers the user rather than making us the product - we need more of these use cases.

The one thing that seems unfortunate is the choice of name: Piper is already in use in a fairly related area, as a text to speech tool: https://github.com/OHF-Voice/piper1-gpl

I usually think such concerns are lawyers being OTT because they raise them for any potential clash, even when it's clearly very distant and unrelated but something like this is software and heavily using speech, so the potential for the average person misunderstanding and assuming a connection is that much greater.

cisophrene · 5 months ago
I agree that the name clash is an issue, I immediately thought of piper tts when seeing the name.

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