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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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. :)
Go to any developer meetup here in Austin and you'll find plenty of companies hiring. There are 50 startups here at Capital Factory (many funded) in downtown Austin and most of us are hiring. No one with decent talent at Zynga will have any problems finding another job here in Austin.
My startup is based out of Capital Factory, and if you even just walked in the door during Friday happy hour and announced that you were a developer here in Austin looking for a job, hungry funded startup owners would descend on you like wolves.
All that to say: You have nothing to be worried about. And also, come to more events...especially ones held at Capital Factory. :)