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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • If you “vibe code” your way through trial and error to an app, it may work.
    But if you don’t understand what it’s doing, why it’s doing it and how it’s doing it?
    Then you can’t (easily) maintain it.
    If you can’t fix bugs or add features, you don’t have a saleable product - you have a proof of concept.

    AI tools are useful, but letting the tool do all the driving is asking for the metaphorical car to crash.



  • The CEO of Vow, George Peppou, is taking a very different approach from these competitors. Rather than asking customers to pay $71 a kg for frozen shredded “chicken”, he says the company is embracing the high cost of cultivating cells by creating products to match the price.

    “We selected going with these very high end products, very high end positioning … as a way of trying to shape and influence food culture as much as possible,” he says. While foie gras prices fluctuate significantly, at the time of writing Vow’s Forged foie was cheaper than the real deal.

    I like this, just like how Tesla’s first release was a roadster - it’s not supposed to replace a Camry, why make a Camry with half the range and 4 times the price?
    Start at the expensive end, match the quality and then work down.






  • Mountaineer@aussie.zonetoMemes@sopuli.xyzEasy sell
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    Me: Hi, I need some high quality components, you know better than office stuff, and I’m willing to pay a premium.
    Company: Great, we have a huge range. And as a bonus we’ve covered EVERYTHING in LEDs!
    Me: Err, can I get the good mechanical switches and silent fans without LEDs?
    Company: Ooh, that’s a SPECIAL item! 3x the price!









  • Lower peak prices will have corresponding higher peak prices.
    Part of the reason we have the current extreme lows is because the coal that we currently need cannot be turned off and on easily.
    In the long term, when we have sufficient storage to time+geo-shift the required cheap renewables to where they are needed, yes, everyone will benefit.
    In the next 10-15 years, I predict massive problems as the existing coal infrastructure is run way past end of life, regardless of our eventual goal being Nuclear or Firmed-Renewables.
    The only certainty is that coal is a shambling zombie.

    I do predict the connection fee going up, and if enough people disconnect (which they will at a certain price point), I see the connection fee being rolled into people rates like the local bin collection - you’ll pay whether you use it or not, just because it goes past.


  • A wide range of experts, including a former RBA deputy governor, are calling for the federal government to introduce household battery subsidies to encourage uptake.

    This is suggesting that we use taxpayer funds to offset the installation costs of people who own a house and likely a solar setup already - further reducing their running costs.
    But as battery uptake increases, there will be less demand on the grid, so the per kW/h and daily connection fees are going to increase. So any tax paying renter gets to benefit from this by… paying more for their electricity?

    To paraphrase Joe Hockey (and the broader Liberal party), I guess “Poor people don’t use much electricity.”

    Ooh, to quote that ball of shit honourable former MP again, maybe they should “Get a good job and buy a house”.

    Crisis Averted \s




  • They have good cause to believe you’re a Signal user, so they get a judge to authorize a subpoena based on your phone number, and Signal complies - and, yes, all they’re doing is confirming to the FBI that you have an account with them.

    Literally all they need to do is have their own phone with Signal installed, and then create an address book listing with the Suspects phone number on it.
    Next time Signal syncs, it will pop up “Suspect is on Signal!”.
    Subpoena-ing the Signal Foundation is not required.

    But it proves nothing, and if you are in a jurisdiction where the police can demand your phone or you are stupid enough to hand it over when they can’t, that’s not on Signal.





  • The OTHER thing that could cause stuttering is if it needs to be transcoding and that transcode is happening slower than realtime (unlikely to be happening here).

    You’d look in the logs for a transcode log for this sort of thing:

    frame=  408 fps= 82 q=37.0 size=N/A time=00:00:15.51 bitrate=N/A speed= 3.1x  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c875.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c876.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c877.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c878.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c879.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8710.mp4' for writing  
    frame=  796 fps=145 q=30.0 size=N/A time=00:00:31.65 bitrate=N/A speed=5.75x  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8711.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8712.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8713.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8714.mp4' for writing  
    [hls @ 0x5c9ae0dde940] Opening '/config/transcoding-temp/transcodes/2d181c04b2b6d7ab2bdc2405c6ae5c8715.mp4' for writing  
    frame= 1189 fps=198 q=20.0 size=N/A time=00:00:48.04 bitrate=N/A speed=8.01x
    

    if the speed drops below 1.0x, you’ll stutter.