I remember using Opera on my Windows 95, 60mhz Pentium with 8mb RAM. I remember the persistent banner ad that was part of the browser UI. I had no problem putting up with the ad because it performed incredibly well compared to IE and Netscape on my hardware. If I remember correctly they were the first browser to support game changing web features like alpha transparency in PNG images.
It is very comparable if you work out the $/tok/s on inference. I did some napkin math and it looks like you’re getting roughly 3x the performance for 3x the cost. Red v2 vs Mac Studio M3 Ultra 96GB.
If you compare tokens/kWh efficiency then my math has Mac Studio being about 1.5x more efficient.
I had a housemate in college who used to party until all hours, bring people back at 3AM and put on loud music. Even during exam season. I tried talking to her a couple of times but she would roll her eyes and say "sure". Never stopped though.
One evening my girlfriend was using a hair straightener in my bedroom, it tripped the central fuse and turned off the electricity. I told my GF that I would buy her a new hair straightener because this one isn't safe.
Now every time my housemate started blaring music at 3AM then I just needed to plug in the hair straightener. It only took 3 or 4 attempts for me to Pavlov my housemate into not playing loud music at 3am. :-)
Nice! I'm curious, what does this service cost to run? I notice that you don't have more expensive models like Opus but querying the models every minute must add up over time (excuse pun)?
Here in Ireland, our water is a public service and we have similar supply issues to the UK (and a similar rainy climate). I'm not discounting your analysis and I'm sure there are lots of other variables but it's always good to compare other outcomes when discussing counterfactuals.
From the AI’s point of view is it losing its job or losing its “life”? Most of us when faced with death will consider options much more drastic than blackmail.
Point taken on enterprise language. I think we did a decent job of keeping it readable in our disclosure write-up but you’re 100% right, my comment above could have been written much more plainly.
This vulnerability was genuinely embarrassing, and I'm sorry we let it happen. After thorough internal and third-party audits, we've fundamentally restructured our security practices to ensure this scenario can't recur. Full details are covered in the linked write-up. Special thanks to Eva for responsibly reporting this.
Tangent: my understanding is the Zuckerberg wanted to do something similar and even paid SpaceX to launch a satellite (which was unsuccessful).
It seems Musk liked the idea so much that he decided to do it himself.
To me, this (along with Zuck's issues with Apple over the app store) explains a lot about why Zuck 2.0 has been so focused with avoiding platform risk with recent endeavours.
We have recently moved our website[1] to SvelteKit. Previously we were on Sapper. Previous to that we used a custom Webpack + React setup to output a static site.
Our desktop app builder is also built on Svelte (not SvelteKit).
I agree with pretty much everything in this article. I wouldn't put "Reactive declarations and statements" in the "Ugly" section though. They are definitely a bit tougher to fully grok than the rest of Svelte (Svelte is incredibly easy to learn compared to other frameworks) but once you learn how they work they are incredibly powerful and concise.
I also feel like "Svelte’s lack of protagonism" is a bit off the mark. Rich Harris is a great communicator and tends to be pretty public but the focus is more on community. Svelte Society's Youtube channel [2] does a 1 hour long "This week in Svelte" video every week and it is all killer content with no filler.
I launched ToDesktop back in April, I'm ramen profitable and I'm working on it full-time.
I don't know if I would call it a success yet. I want my revenue to reach six figures annually before I call it a success but I'm seeing good growth. Most of my growth now is coming from organic search engine traffic. I've posted some high-leverage page speed + SEO tips on Indie Hackers here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/marketing-tools-are-damagi...
I'm a product/tech person with some graphic design experience but I was really weak on sales/marketing before I started working on ToDesktop. If you're like me (strong on tech/product, weak on sales/marketing) then I would highly recommend Julian Shapiro's guide on growth marketing. It's zero-fluff and written by someone with a technical mindset: https://www.julian.com/guide/growth/intro
A one-person business is tough, it's lonely at times. It can also be tough to work on the things you should be working on (as opposed to the things you want to work on). This is enjoyable sometimes though, for example, I made my test suite dance to Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger by Daft Punk. Totally unnecessary but it renewed my enthusiasm and made for a fun tweet. https://twitter.com/DaveJ/status/1167386564240056321
Self-promo for those interested: ToDesktop automatically creates a desktop app from any web app. It's like Electron-as-a-Service with code signing, installer, auto-updates, app notarization taken care of. https://www.todesktop.com/