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Every time I try to use the platform feature I get it working well in one or two browser on either desktop, android or iOS and then later find out it works pretty badly on one of the other platforms

For visual and SAR, sure, but there are other missions like electronic warfare and signals intelligence that are still well served by aircraft.

1. The audience changed. Billions of people came online in the 2010s on smartphones, streaming works better for them.

2. For most people bandwidth did not increase at the same rate as video file sizes during that period, streaming could do smart things like serve transcoded media sized to fit your screen and internet connection. It's only recently with HEVC and AV1 that video file sizes have caught up.

3. Streaming can be easily monetized, p2p generally cannot.

I only charge my phone at my office desk typically. So I'll go a whole weekend without charging.

The CGNAT problem is solvable in the majority of cases via multiple solutions (tailcat/DERP, for example), but that certainly doesn't make a mobile connection's upload any better for sure.

Peer to peer died because (1) a lot of the world, especially outside the US, has terrible upload/bandwidth, (2) HTTPS CDNs got _really_ cheap, far cheaper that p2p technologies like BitTorrent+WebSeed.

There are a minority of users who care about being able to host videos that violate YouTube/TikTok/Instagram policies. Unfortunately, a significant part of that minority is working with infringing or illegal content, which both prevents ad networks from working with you and attracts attention from law enforcement.

Yes, the article also points out that the idea is not new, but rather that this research was focused on addressing practical problems, such as corrosion of the engine's parts.

Only local tyranny, like the county government.

Because the hard part of running it is making it highly available despite the inherent fallibility of distributed computing, which is an infrastructure problem, not an AI coding problem.

Temporal is fully open source, you can run the entire thing on your laptop or your own server. People pay for the SaaS anyway, because dealing with the distributed computing problems is hard.

(There are some other projects inspired by Temporal as well, but if you want to run something in-house, you're probably funding a minimum of 2-3 engineers to handle on-call, and for that price the SaaS is competitive).

The less-technical staff I mentioned would have wanted visual design, not text files.

Sadgely, this is a throwaway account that I don't want linked to my identity

Temporal doesn't run your AI compute for you, you bring your own hardware on prem or in your cloud account or whereever. Their SaaS is a control plane to coordinate and orchestrate the workers.

Another cool thing is it handles version rollouts. Say a customer started some kind of business process on v1.1 of your code, and then you deploy v1.2. You can configure whether that customer should continue that process on v1.1 - even if it's something that takes a long time in the real world - or whether they should be upgraded to 1.2. And it's not just one version but you can do this with an entire rainbow of versions across your business (think A/B testing, custom workflows for different use cases, lots of dev and staging environments, etc.)