bojangleslover
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Comment · 16 days ago
To pick a dentist, I simply ring them up and ask
1) Does the dentist still have student debt? 2) What's the ownership structure of the practice? 3) How many years has the dentist been practicing (correlated with 1)
Comment · 1 month ago
There were two in the Greenwich CT library when I lived there in 2019, not sure if they’re still around.
Comment · 1 month ago
> there is no fundamental technological barrier to building a true SSD-based, disaggregated storage service with the durability, capacity, and pricing profile needed to serve as a general-purpose replacement for S3
There are a lot of very competitive alternatives around today are largely unknown. For example B2 Overdrive by Backblaze boasting up to 1 Tbps, Wasabi offering byte-compatible S3 storage with no egress fees for reasonable use and Cloudflare R2 also with no egress, all priced comfortably under S3 before egress (which the the real kicker...how do you even put a cost on lock-in?).
Not shilling any of these. We use R2 and Wasabi as our storage backends...so we obviously like them, but are not paid to say good things about them.
(1) https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/b2-overdrive (2) https://wasabi.com/cloud-object-storage/wasabi-fire (3) https://carolinacloud.substack.com/p/pushing-r2-to-its-limit...
Comment · 1 month ago
I think people are overthinking this. I'm the first one to criticize AWS (I run a competitor, carolinacloud.io) but I don't think we should hold it against them when they lost data due to their hard drives being physically bombed.
Comment · 1 month ago
I'm not sure if this is CF. Cursor, GCP and AWS had some errors. GCP AFAIK can route fully independently of CF. My money would be on a fiber backbone provider (Megaport, Zayo, Lumen).
Comment · 2 months ago
What are you using for this? We tried this a few years back, could simply not find a good diarization engine.
Comment · 2 months ago
Looking forward to trying this out: https://zed.dev/blog/introducing-delta
Comment · 2 months ago
This is unbelievably cool. How did you use AI for this? Absolutely not suggesting there's anything wrong with it - quite the contrary. I find AI is most useful for these lower level driver type projects such as yours that one knows are possible but that would be very onerous for a human to implement. For example the guy who re-wrote a driver from scratch for his HP Printer the other day.
Do you think you could have done this without AI? I've been migrating people off of AWS recently and it was absolutely made possible (or at least expedient) by AI.
Comment · 3 months ago
The only way CC credits will expire is if I (the founder) die and my beneficiaries liquidate the business
Comment · 3 months ago
That's not a like-for-like comparison. You need to compare CC to the c8a range of AWS, on-demand only. That's where the 1/3 comes from. For example:
c8a.medium (1vCPU/2GiB RAM/no SSD) on-demand on AWS: 5.39 cents per hour plus egress Carolina Cloud equivalent: 2 cents per hour with zero egress
If you don't have egress then the price is closer to 40% that of AWS. If you do have egress, the price could be far, far below 1/3.
Hetzner server auction is great for many use-cases, but it's not a fair comparison with EPYC Turins.
Comment · 3 months ago
This is aimed at CFOs, not hobbyists
Comment · 3 months ago
It's the case because once you buy cloud credits you are in an entirely unregulated space. At Carolina Cloud, that means your cloud credits are nothing more than an audited and backed up DB entry. Therefore, we can do whatever we want with them. We could double them every 6mo if we wanted. We settled on something more reasonable (SOFR).
Not unlike the hyperscalers giving $100k+ to startups and it not counting as income for C-corp tax purposes. Totally unregulated space!
Comment · 3 months ago
This is correct, if you put in $1000 you could basically run a small dedicated VM in perpetuity.
derek at domain of the company I founded