do people still watch live TV? I’m only exposed it to when I stay in hotels and it seems to only be Seinfeld reruns and Shark Tank
Sports fans watch a lot of live TV.
Readit Newsericabiz commented on YouTube TV, which costs $73 a month, agrees to end "$600 less than cable" ads arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/thunderbong
ericabiz commented on Texas Power Prices to Surge 800% on Sunday Amid Searing Heat bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/myshpa
And here in continental 'not Texas shithole', I'm paying the "exorbitant" rate of $.10916/kWh , less than the Texas rates. And mine are stable. None of this funny stock market bill crap.
Yep, deregulation is better for SOMEONE. I wonder who that might be.
I live in Austin (well known for its high energy prices relative to the rest of the state.) I’m at $0.09 for the first 300KWh (I’m including all fees/markups/charges in this calculation.)
For the next 600Kwh it goes to $.10, and then the next tier I used 882KWh at $0.12.
I find the rates reasonable. Texas is also leading the way on both solar and wind adoption. This is keeping the power supply at peak much more stable.
ericabiz commented on Texas Power Prices to Surge 800% on Sunday Amid Searing Heat bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/myshpa
Well that's one way to discourage EV adoption
If you live in Austin, there’s a $4.17/mo charge you can add to your bill for unlimited charging at Austin Energy-owned Level 2 chargers. They’re installed all over the city. Many people commenting here don’t live in Texas and are unaware of initiatives like this.
ericabiz commented on LastPass users locked out due to MFA resets bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/jonathanzufi
I am completely over the idea of storing secrets inside of one of these 3rd party systems. I've currently got a team member writing an internal secret storage app for our organization.
Creating a SQL schema with a "Secrets" table and maybe some audit logging and organizational extras should take a seasoned developer ~30 minutes. Throwing a CRUD web app on top of this and making it accessible to your employees - maybe another day or 2.
I really don't know why you'd risk this sort of stuff with a 3rd party. It just boggles my mind. What are they doing that you can't do? Even a 3 person startup can probably find time around a weekend to knock this out once and for all.
Edit: clearly I missed an important point. We don't care about browser integration. I am not going for 1:1 feature replacement. If you seriously believe "a safe place to keep internal text" is an extremely hard problem that absolutely must be outsourced, I don't know why you would even be involved in technology.
Why would you spend dev time on this when you can set up something like Bitwarden across the org and have all the same benefits without wasting precious dev time on it?
FWIW I’m on 1Password and it hasn’t had any of these issues, either. I would not spend dev time on this as a startup/software company founder.
ericabiz commented on The unsung hero of the Apple Watch is its hidden buttons theverge.com/23743095/app... · Posted by u/zdw
I've been hanging on to my original band from when I bought my Series 7 watch, partly because I'm not sure I trust amazon bands that seem to cost a fraction of the price of the OEM bands. If they fail, I'll get a ding on the watch at best or a broken screen at worst.
This did make me trust the off-brand bands a little more, since they seem to require a better mechanism that my previous swappable-band watch had.
I have owned Apple Watches since the Series 2. (Currently on an SE 2) I have always used third-party watch bands I get off Aliexpress--much cheaper than Amazon if you're patient with shipping. Zero issues with the latch mechanism.
ericabiz commented on OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over wired.com/story/openai-ce... · Posted by u/labrador
Does this mean we’ve reached the next AI winter? This is as good as it gets for quite a long time? Honest question :) perhaps this will postpone everyone’s fears about the singularity…
Many years ago, there was an image that floated around with Craigslist and all the websites that replaced small parts of it—personals, for sale ads, etc. It turned out the way to beat Craigslist wasn’t to build Yet Another Monolithic Craigslist, but to chunk it off in pieces and be the best at that piece.
This is analogous to what’s happening with AI models. Sam Altman is saying we have reached the point where spending $100M+ trying to “beat” GPT-4 at everything isn’t the future. The next step is to chunk off a piece of it and turn it into something a particular industry would pay for. We already see small sprouts of those being launched. I think we will see some truly large companies form with this model in the next 5-10 years.
To answer your question, yes, this may be as good as it gets now for monolithic language models. But it is just the beginning of what these models can achieve.
I’ve never seen a sandwich store sell sandwiches (talking normal sized sandwich not whatever small bite size they sell as “regular size” with shrinkflation) for less than 12-15 bucks in big cities.
I guess it depends on the city. I live in Austin (metro population 2.28M), and most places price sandwiches around $10 or less here.
Here’s Thundercloud, a popular chain (often described as “a step up from Subway”):
https://thundercloud.com/main-menu/
I also checked Jersey Mike’s, another familiar chain, and a regular size “original Italian” is $9.95 here.
I will say that generally Texas tends to have lower prices on food than coastal metros like NYC/SF/LA, but the airport prices mentioned in the article for NYC still seem absurd.
ericabiz commented on I don’t want a new phone, but I’m probably buying one kooslooijesteijn.net/blog... · Posted by u/janvdberg
I run phone repair shops and the app starting up slowness is often caused by a failing battery.
In fact, at our shops, on older iPhones, I can test the battery state by opening the camera app. If it takes 10-20 seconds to open, it’s usually the battery causing it. (The other cause is storage being close to full.)
This won’t help the app resetting issue, which the author correctly identifies as a RAM problem (that I also encounter on my personal iPhone 13 Pro. Apple is horribly stingy with RAM even on the Pro models.)
In general, if you use your phone daily, I recommend getting the battery replaced every 2-2.5 years.
ericabiz commented on Refurb weekend: Cobalt RaQ 2 oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
As a former Cobalt employee, it made my day to see someone resurrecting old RaQs! What a fantastic piece of equipment for its time. I worked there in 1999 through the Sun acquisition and then at Sun for a little while before I started my own business—a web hosting company, started with a glorious rack of RaQs, of course. :)
ericabiz commented on New York could become first state with a ‘Right to Repair’ law spectrumlocalnews.com/nys... · Posted by u/jiwidi
>I am a bit surprised that someone would want to argue with a person who runs shops that do this for a living, but maybe this explanation will help other folks understand.
By how many $ will this affect your 'living'? # serious question.
You mean the passing of Right to Repair? Completely unknown at this point. We're hoping it will be helpful to raise awareness of independent repair and offer more choice to people who want to get their devices repaired.