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k3liutZu commented on Operating Margins fi-le.net/margin/... · Posted by u/fi-le

alexpotato · 4 months ago

This article is very timely as I was just thinking about margins given that I run a couple small websites that use Amazon Affiliate marketing.

The margin on most items is 4% (some lower, some higher e.g. luxury items are 10%).

4% is not terrible in and of itself.

But then you factor in:

- advertising costs

- conversion rates on clicks from the above

- taxes

and you get a real appreciation for how hard it must be to run high volume/low margin businesses.

Sure, you can do organic marketing etc but then you are just trading time for dollars.

k3liutZu · 4 months ago

Shouldn't you include the ad costs in your margin calculation?

k3liutZu commented on Forking Styled Components github.com/sanity-io/styl... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

blabla1224 · 6 months ago

For the rich SPA, styled-components is one of the best things that happened to the Web (CSS-in-JS)

k3liutZu · 6 months ago

One of the main "problems" we solved with adopting styled-components back in 2016 was styles colocation where more junior members managed to create a several thousand line CSS file with a mess of selectors which we couldn't safely figure out which is used where.

My current plan is to transition to CSS Modules which should allow preserving most (if not all) of the current styled-components DX and advantages.

k3liutZu commented on How well do coding agents use your library? stackbench.ai/... · Posted by u/richardblythman

metadat · 7 months ago

The skip-to-the-end answer: Context7 MCP is so good it seems like magic, even to many well-informed, highly capable hackers. Simply wildly good for libraries and SDKs. All it takes to start using it is to add the MCP provider to your agent config and save your arms, "Use Context7 for this".

https://context7.com/

k3liutZu · 7 months ago

What is the best approach to have something like context7 for internal tools and libraries?

k3liutZu commented on Do LLMs identify fonts? maxhalford.github.io/blog... · Posted by u/alexmolas

Workaccount2 · 7 months ago

Maybe I simply don't know how advertising works, but wouldn't it be totally possible that these fonts are just one-off drawn in text?

k3liutZu · 7 months ago

My fellow designer friends would often do this. But they would start from actual fonts and do slight (or more than slight) adjustments to them to match what they wanted as an outcome.

k3liutZu commented on GitHub Copilot Coding Agent github.blog/changelog/202... · Posted by u/net01

antihipocrat · 10 months ago

That's exactly what senior executives who aren't coding are saying everywhere.

Meanwhile, engineers are using it for code completion and as a Google search alternative.

I don't see much difference here at all, the only habit to change is learning to trust an AI solution as much as a Stack Overflow answer. Though the benefit of SO is each comment is timestamped and there are alternative takes, corrections, caveats in the comments.

k3liutZu · 10 months ago

> Meanwhile, engineers are using it for code completion and as a Google search alternative.

Yep, that's the usefulness right now.

k3liutZu commented on Study finds that once people use cargo bikes, they like their cars much less arstechnica.com/cars/2024... · Posted by u/ossusermivami

k3liutZu · 2 years ago

I might have like a cargo bike if I didn't like on top of a hill. And if I didn't have 6 months of cold dark weather with snow / ice covering the roads.

k3liutZu commented on The laptop that won't die clivethompson.medium.com/... · Posted by u/ShikhaM

k3liutZu · 2 years ago

I just booted up my 2009 MacBook Pro since it's the only machine I still have with a CD/DVD drive. Some keys are not working (eg R, T, P, probably others) so I had to use the accessibility on screen keyboard.

I was surprised it still booted up and I was able to use the optical drive.

k3liutZu commented on Copilot for Docs githubnext.com/projects/c... · Posted by u/irakeshpurohit

rapnie · 2 years ago

4. Hallucinate the satisfied customer.

k3liutZu · 2 years ago

5. Hallucinate receiving money from hallucinated customers

k3liutZu commented on Now add a walrus: Prompt engineering in DALL-E 3 simonwillison.net/2023/Oc... · Posted by u/simonw

pmx · 2 years ago

You need to make sure you select the correct model to do it. Hover over GPT-4 and select DALL-E 3. Should work then!

k3liutZu · 2 years ago

Thank you for this, I had trouble figuring out how to try out Dalle from ChatGPT

k3liutZu commented on Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water news.mit.edu/2023/desalin... · Posted by u/abathur

davideg · 2 years ago

> In the meantime, the leftover salt continues to circulate through and out of the device, rather than accumulating and clogging the system.

I don't want to detract from the innovation of this, however my understanding is that one of the largest unsolved problems with desalination is what to do with the waste product: usually incredibly salty brackish water. Dumping it back into the ocean can be disruptive to the local ecosystem.

A quick search turned up this Scientific American article about the issue: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/slaking-the-world...

"The excess salt decreases dissolved oxygen in the water, suffocating animals on the seafloor"

"In addition to harming sea life, extreme salinity also makes desalinating the water more difficult and expensive."

k3liutZu · 2 years ago

I wonder, wouldn't we be able to dump it into some flat spaces, allow the water to evaporate and then harvest the salt that remains?

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