Yeah not really lol.

Only reason to buy this if you want to own your compute.

Experimentation and inference are all going to be cheaper on the cloud

Considering Apple pricing it actually might.

256GB model is $10k and the 512GB version will probably be double

I wonder how much network effects help here.

There's a lot of consumer surplus with the features GitHub offers. I'm sure they can have better pricing tiers to capture the surplus without losing too many users.

Some times I feel like a lot of people in tech independently go through the same things right around the same time with few people writing/sharing about it.

I am also creating this and enjoyed the post and comments all going through the same thing :)

Not only in tech. This is a common phenomenon. We're not that original.

I have created this in 3 different ways, also with e2b.dev (great service). And yeah, that is my problem - I spend 99% of time hacking cool stuff, 1% yapping about it. Should do more yapping.

Depressingly in todays attention economy, you absolutely should! It'll be good for you directly. At least one upside is it can help others too I suppose, I just get sad when I think about how important attention is now

This is a double edged sword for me, I've dabbled with the Antigravity CLI and it is better but I got a lot of LLM use out of google's chaotic decentralized quotas.

gemini-cli had it's own quota, antigravity had it's own quota, and ai studio had it's own free tier quota and I managed to make use of all of them super cheaply.

Now they're finally unifying everything and cutting down, which is less of a cognitive load to keep track of quotas but also fewer benefits

I exclusively use gemini models and this has been my experience.

I mitigate it by creating dense planning docs for everything and executing iteratively.

Lot's of time wasted on procedure unfortunately

Big side effect of these layoffs is that new talent is reluctant to join, even for more pay.

Stability is going to come at a large non-monetary premium these days

Lot of disagreement on this, but I agree. Sure there are lots of hungry juniors wanting to join but the experienced talent Meta really needs will avoid this company. I work here and the good people leave to places with better cultures.

I doubt it. There’s a very hungry work force ready to take any job available.

The cold truth is, there no such thing as "stability" in any job, as long as change exists in the market.

We need to stop treating jobs like a day-care because they are not. (Unless you are at Nvidia or Apple)

The fixes are unionization (solidarity) and forming worker-owned co-ops that emphasize stability, workplace decency, and fairness in TC. There can never be stability working for a corporation, only parasocial delusions of such. Worker-owned co-ops can be very lucrative and extremely competitive to join with very low turnover too... about the only downside is they don't scale to very large organizations* that should instead find and promote similar organizations to partner with on things.

* Which may not be ”bad" if one thinks like Richard Branson did on keeping organizations small, efficient, and nimble.

As your parents about stability. It's not a foreign concept. We just let America throw its labor away.

Layoffs have been the norm for the past four years. I don’t know if anyone who is looking at the job market really takes in stability seriously at this point.

H1b don’t care, they will take the jobs

Stitch has been very good for me to prototype some designs, and the exporting design feature is great.

But jeez, is it buggy, slow and unintuitive at times.

Complete shift in google's old engineering culture of high quality - they seem to be shipping quickly in favor of stability

That culture died forever ago, google has been launching half-baked shit that they kill in 18 months after no updates for a decade now.

"in favor" is hard to parse; "instead"?

The amount of RAM needed for this is crazy to think about. And then there's Youtube...

Silver lining of current RAM prices is that it changes the cost-benefit analysis of improving underlying software which (hopefully) gets implemented in open source.

I tried a 1000 IU vitamin D pills to no avail. Bumped it up to 5000 IU and still saw very marginal bumps in my blood tests

I think I might try daily 10000IU after showing my doctor how little it's moving the needle for me

I was put on prescription vitamin D2 50000 IU and it caused a bunch of side effects for me including heart palpitations for over a week and then a paradoxical reaction to magnesium causing them to be even more intense.

Proceed with caution and listen to your body. Doctors were accusing every other thing than accepting whatever it did to my calcium / other electrolytes bothered my heart.

Interesting, my levels have always been chronically low and I feel no effects from daily 5000IU

That's still 15000 IU under my weekly dose so maybe you just haven't hit the threshold I hit.

It's expensive in the US because one company has exclusive sales here (patent protection?), but you could try calcefidiol, weekly dose and is supposed to get levels up rapidly. Apparently it's the common form to take in Spain, and it's further down the metabolic pathway vs cholecalciferol. (I take but still have to get levels checked)

thank you, will have to check this out