Remember when they shafted the free plan, laid off some good people and redesigned their website to look like some garish notepad? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
Can you share the Pepperidge Farm story?
Readit Newsundefuser commented on PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases planetscale.com/blog/5-do... · Posted by u/ryanvogel
undefuser commented on VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong theregister.com/2025/09/0... · Posted by u/rntn
I was running about 1000 machines on VMware in my previous career. It was always a love/hate relationship with them. We were able to achieve a lot of our goals using VMware and it was hard not to be ecstatic about the results. At the same time, they were always a nightmare to deal with, the software was buggy and support wasn't great.
I always dreaded renewal time because it was normal for them to use it as an opportunity to extort us. Microsoft was a breeze in comparison. It's funny because Microsoft always had such a horrible reputation. I don't know if I was just so abused by VMware or what, but Microsoft was just easy. We had an annual true-up date and we always knew where we stood with them. We reported our numbers and that was it. No surprises ever and there was never an issue if we didn't report any growth. VMware was always pulling some kind of shit and was absolutely determined to push us over budget every time.
Did you switch from VMWare to Microsoft?
undefuser commented on Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI wheresyoured.at/why-every... · Posted by u/speckx
The first mobile phone, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000X, was launched in 1984 for $3,995 (more than $12k in 2025 dollars). So we should expect a 12x cost reduction in LLMs over 40 years.
IBM 3380 Model K introduced in 1987, has 7.5 GB of storage and costed about $160000 to $170000, or adjusted for inflation it is $455000 in 2025 US dollars, that's $60666/GB. A Solidigm D5-P5336 drive that can store 128 TB costs about $16500 in 2025 US dollars, that is $0.129/GB. That's a 470279x price reduction in slightly less than 40 years. So what is likely going to happen to LLM pricing? No one knows and both your example as well as mine doesn't mean anything.
undefuser commented on For algorithms, a little memory outweighs a lot of time quantamagazine.org/for-al... · Posted by u/makira
I think it is very intuitive that more space beats the pants off of more time.
In time O(n) you can use O(n) cells on a tape, but there are O(2^n) possible configurations of symbols on a tape of length n (for an alphabet with 2 symbols), so you can do so much more with n space than with n time.
I think it really depends on the task at hand, and not that intuitive. At some point accessing the memory might be slower than repeating the computation, especially when the storage is slow.
undefuser commented on GPU-Driven Clustered Forward Renderer logdahl.net/p/gpu-driven... · Posted by u/logdahl
Yeah, I use LODs already but as you say, even my lowest lod far away is too many vertices. Imposter rendering seems very interesting but also completely bonkers (viewing angle, lighting)!
have you considered using meshlets technique like Unreal Engine Nanite or Assassin's Creed? It could potentially open the door for better culling and more effective depth prepass.
I work for IPinfo. Thank you for raising a great point.
Integrations and maintenance were major issues when it came to users using the IP database. Usage of our IP database in software and platforms where data download facilities, maintainability (updating the database at regular intervals), and using an MMDB reader library were issues that were stopping us from universal adoption. For example, search/SIEM/threat intel platforms, distributed systems, firewall applications etc.
So, we just decided to launch an API to complement our data downloads. It is easier to use, and the unlimited requests make it a strong candidate.
We are rebuilding our backend in Rust and also developing a bulk enrichment API endpoint. The intention of the API system is to replicate the performance and features you get from a local database, with ease of use and minimal friction. Of course, the API is competing against the local database and will never be perfect, but I have to admit that using the IP database, particularly the binary database, and maintaining it is not as easy as using an API service.
How often does a given IP address changes to another country?
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undefuser commented on ArkFlow: High-performance Rust stream processing engine github.com/arkflow-rs/ark... · Posted by u/klaussilveira
Hello, I am the founder of this project and I am very happy that a friend has shared it.
ArkFlow is positioned as a lightweight distributed stream processing engine that integrates streaming batches. With the help of datafusion's huge ecosystem and ArkFlow's scalable capabilities, we hope to build a huge data processing ecosystem to help the community simplify the threshold for data processing, because we always believe that flowing data can generate greater value.
Finally, thanks to everyone for their attention.
I would like to understand more. What are the potential use cases for this tool?
undefuser commented on Zoho halts $700M semiconductor plan semiconductorsinsight.com... · Posted by u/akbarnama
More than 10 years ago, the "advertising company" Google started making chips called TPUs. So, what is your point exactly here? As an aside, there is a pretty big boom of semiconductor manufacturing in India (in the planning/commissioning stage) based on a government incentive program floated a few years ago where there's a 1:1 PLI matching scheme by the government (eg: $100M of spend will get you a $100M funding matched by the government). This has resulted in companies like Foxconn at one point deliberating [0] entering the semiconductor manufacturing space in India, besides other local high-market-cap companies like Vedanta and Reliance.
[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/11/tech/india-foxconn-exit-v...
It is important to not leave out the context that Google needed TPUs for their AI development. Now the question is what does Zoho email and office software gain from fabricating custom chips?