I assume they mean how easy Plex makes it to share content across the internet. I setup a server, you download a client. No port forwarding, VPN shenanigans, etc
I did a hackathon many years ago (before LLMs) where I spent a serious amount of effort training a conventional machine learning algorithm and integrating it into a react native app. I had a genuinely impressive team to make this possible given it was 2016.
The winning team bought a bootstrap theme for $35 and made a landing page for a nonexistent app.
That doesn’t matter when you have the average. Even if you are somehow able to get 10000tok/s during off peak times, by virtue of how averages work, you’re still only getting 52M tokens per month (as calculated above).
While tone often portrays poorly over text, I think this is an example where the sarcasm is very overt. I don’t think anyone would think the comment is serious.
How many times will people fall for this? Public voting is a false sense of democracy, when every ballot looks like, “Do you want us to lower taxes, cure cancer, and [in small text] install surveillance at every intersection?”
The pricing doesn’t render properly on mobile. The responsive design puts what is presumably a table into a vertical stack, which means I have no idea which price corresponds to which feature.
I was hoping this was an app that forced you to learn languages before opening instagram. Doesn’t seem to be the case at all, in which case I’m not sure why this is titled “Duolingo for screen time”.
Instead this looks like a clone of any of the many screentime apps, with similar egregious pricing.
I don’t think gamers are as price sensitive as believed.
How many people purchased computers that cost in the same realm as a mortgage payment? I personally know a several people who paid >$1500 for a GPU during COVID.
The price hike sucks but I doubt it will convince people to transition to a different hobby.
When the iPhone first launched, it had to pull a lot of weight to convince people that a touchscreen keyboard could work as well as physical keys. One of the tricks it used was to predict the next letter and invisibly adjust the hitbox of each key.
If you type “h” and then hit the space between “w” and “e”, it will assume you wanted “e” and register that.
This could easily be implemented by dynamically adjusting the ranges where a letter can be selected from the joystick. You don’t even need to render it differently; just adjust which letter registers at a particular angle.
Nvidia also created a GPU tier to manipulate prices years ago.
Most people remember the 3090 being a flagship card that was overkill for most people. So why did so many gamers spend $2000 on it? Because Nvidia told them to.
Prior to the 3000 series, the card existed in the form of a Titan. If you wanted the best gaming card, you’d get a 2080. If you wanted a card for scientific computing, rendering, etc, then you could splurge for the Titan. Two different audiences. No one was buying a Titan for gaming.
Nvidia realized if they throw some RGB on the Titan line (so to speak), gamers will happily pay the premium for it, making them more money AND anchoring a much higher price bracket for video cards in the future.
Your time does have value, but it’s in terms of opportunity cost, not hourly wage. Presumably you wouldn’t have made $200 had you not gone to the Apple Store (unless you went when you were supposed to be working and have a job where that time becomes unpaid).
I think it also sets a precedent. All the news publishers who lobbied for the bill expected it to be an easy payday, and now they lost one of their largest platforms.
If you run a similar Facebook-adjacent company, you’ll think twice before trying to squeeze any money from them.