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Iroh 1.0 1 month ago

Sounds good, but the first step in your quickstart is getting an API key, and I'm oh, so I guess your sales pitch was a lie and this is really just another Cloudflare-like play to build another intermediary in the internet. If that's not the case, then I shouldn't need an API key for hello world...

It's the ultimate product for marketers. It inserts itself as an advertisement into every conversation now and defends itself against criticism. Just crazy. There's no hope for the rest of us.

Giving the oil companies, some of the richest companies on the planet, MORE money is a benefit? Is that your idea of good governance? You don't think there's better uses of that money that's coming right out of your pocket and everybody elses?

I stumbled across this a few weeks ago via Google or Kagi. One problem I have with a lot of AI tooling today is that I can't tell if it's a legit product, or just a toy that somebody vibe-coded in a day. AI can easily crap out a website that looks like this.

This is all just my 2 cents, so take it with a grain of salt, but I see trust and authenticity as a huge issue (made worse by LLMs), and it's doubly so with AI-based companies because it attracts flies.

One question I have is it's not clear to me that this all just doesn't boil down to plain old SEO. Does your platform generate recommended actions on how to improve your ChatGPT ranking? (and how is that different from just improving your PageRank?)

If this is a business, which it sure seems like it is, then this is such a messed up idea. Exploiting whistleblowers and the whistleblowing system for profit. And they're trying to incentivize whistleblowers with money too.

Whistleblowers take all of the risk here, and only get 20% of the proceeds. Seems like a pretty shit deal, besides being confoundingly greedy.

There already are people you can trust, who aren't anonymous, who are professionals bound by ethics, and who aren't out to sue for profit: Journalists. investigations@icij.org

How is C meaningfully more accessible than rust

They've been teaching C in universities for like 40 years to every Computer Science and Engineering student. The number of professionally trained developers who know C compared to Rust is not even close. (And a lot of us are writing Python because it's easy and productive, not because we don't know other languages.)

DOOM CAPTCHA 2 years ago

What kind of monster doesn't give us WASD or at least ctrl to shoot?

Awesome captcha though :)

I appreciate the response, but that's not what I was asking. I'll rephrase as a workflow question: After I make a design in your editor, I'll want to reuse that for future emails. Is there a way to load a saved design back in (that I previously made in your editor) so I don't have to redesign every email from scratch?

This software is low key the best open source CAD software. Although it looks ancient, it's under active development and has a much lower learning curve than FreeCAD IMHO. It's a really good fit for the skill level of someone who has a 3D printer. I've designed dozens of parts for my printer and random crap around the house with Solvespace. It's a very useful tool.

If you're running a 4 TB Postgres database, but you still have to worry about this level of maintenance, what's the value proposition of using a hosted service? There's usually insane markup on any hosted Postgres instance.

If you want to pay multi-thousands dollars a month for a database server, it's WAY cheaper just to slap a server with a ton of drives in colocation.

Aquafaba 6 years ago

Does anyone know if that liquid is jam packed full of Bisphenol A, since it's stewing in direct contact with the edges of the can? I'm always suspicious of that.