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> I strongly suspect that the way major clouds do billing is just not ready for answering the question of "how much did X spend over the last hour", and the people worried about this aren't the ones bringing the real revenue.

See: Google's AI studio. Its built on Google Cloud infrastructure so billing updates are slow which peeves users used to instant billing data with Anthropic and OpenAI.

Exactly this - and how chatGPT behaves too. After a few conversations with search enabled you figure this out, but they really ought to make the distinction clearer.

Still no way to sync the "favorites" album between the default Android Photos app and Google Photos, yet they're busy building this slop.

Not to mention the dark patterns that attempt to trick you into backing up your entire photo library, over and over again.

Or the inability to exclude folders from the backup process.

Maybe get the basic expectations of a Photo app right before adding features nobody asked for.

I follow a bunch of YC founders on X. Lots of behavior that could be construed as 'growth hacking - or 'deceptive' depending on your bent: promoting open source libraries that don't work, rewriting tweets from smaller accounts, coordinated replies from mutuals and so on.

I guess that's the game, but they do seem a lot more cavalier about it of late. Increasingly resembles the crypto 'community' (derogatory).

> Almost every place I've been people absolutely detest black people.

Not an experience I can relate with, and I'm pretty well traveled. A cynic might say that you're projecting a personal view here.

Crazy that devs choose supabase and vercel when Google Cloud is right there.

Google were late to the game but they've built perhaps one of the easiest cloud platforms to work with.

Too bad they removed the ability to use Chat (rebranded as Ask) with your own API keys in version 0.47. Now every feature requires a subscription.

Natural for Cursor to nudge users towards their paid plans, but why provide the ability to use your own API keys in the first place if you're going to make them useless later?

Reluctant VScode user here. Sublime's speed make it the best editor to work with by far, but its package manager is in a sorry state. A good 70%+ of packages are outdated or don't work.

Fix this and I'd be back in a flash.

The clue is the name of the tools: "co-pilot".

Assistants that work best in the hands of someone who already knows what they're doing, removing tedium and providing an additional layer of quality assurance.

Pilot's still needed to get the plane in the air.

But even if the output from these tools is perfect, coding isn't only (or even mainly) about writing code, it's about building complex systems and finding workable solutions through problems that sometimes look like cul de sacs.

Once your codebase reaches a few thousand lines, LLMs struggle seeing the big picture and begin introducing one new problem for every one that they solve.

It does have a tendacy to meander or spend too time reflecting on a topic instead of distilling the details. However the new ability to add a prompt improves this greatly.

Some instructions that worked for me:

- Specifics instead of high level

- Approach from non-critical perspective

- Dont be philosophical

- Use direct quotes often

- Focus on the details. Provide a lesson, not reflections

- Provide a 'sparknotes' style thorough understanding of the subject

> I have had this feeling twice. Both times my overwhelming thought was "Wow, I've been an idiot."

Same experience here. I'm a beginner swimmer and got caught in a rip tide in Bali.

The thing was, it was terrifying yet so calm at the same time. Everybody on the beach continued to bathe, unaware, and a few metres away I was frantically but silently fighting for my life.

The helplessness is especially haunting. You exert this primal will to life, and the force of nature just brushes it aside.

Anyway, I made it out, spent that evening binging Youtube videos about rip tides, and have developed a healthy aversion to ocean water.

Microsoft continue to ship their Surface laptops with over-sized power bricks, which is enough to disqualify them.

Similar spec Samsung laptops (Galaxy Books) come with a regular USB-C cable and a fast charging power adapter that looks like any other plug.

Anybody know why Samsung can do this and Microsoft can't?

Only having to lug around a single cable and charger for all devices is a dealbreaker.