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If what you're doing makes money, the last thing you want is to stop doing the thing making you money. If, instead, it costs you money, don't wait until a usage surge to consider how to handle that – set it up now.

You also don't need any latency in the loop or moving parts that could wrongly interfere with the reliability of making that money.

Fortunately, the last thing this is is "opaque". You have all the observability you need to do what you want to do with unexpected usage.

What AWS (and every CSP) gives you is all the instrumentation and out of band tools to implement your own angel of death, to API kill a runaway thing if that's what you want to do.

You can also find countless TF and CDK patterns for it if you aren't sure how.

But please, no, do not ask to make critical systems subject to the whims of some billing decision enforcer.

The "why did they cut me off" complaints here far outnumber the "runaway bill" complaints.


This article recommending scrabble letter brands seems sketchy.

Anker offers lovely soft silicone sheathed USB-C cables, in black or white and many lengths. They perform for data and do not get stiff or discolor. Our office specifies these unless TB4+ is required.


> This article recommending scrabble letter brands seems sketchy.

Amazon orders are banned from our lab supply list because you never actually get the same thing twice, and they vanish on first bad review.

Related, I've been buying the exact color, style, and brand of sock, from Amazon, for the past ~10 years. I have a sock drawer full of completely different socks.


If you don't know how to use a marketplace like Amazon, then by all means stay away.

I've had people in real life start to recommend some product, "oh you just buy it on Amazon" and that is a thought-terminating cliché, because that's like telling me to "go buy it in the shopping mall".

Anker has an official store on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/47CF0F10-7C80-4CCA-A398-A...

I personally love Belkin, also with an official store: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/C59F9C55-1122-462C-863E-D...

My Ethernet cables are Tripp Lite, so try their USB: https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/D85D7CDC-7E0F-4C9A-8829-2...

So many reputable vendors have established presence in the marketplace on Amazon now. But you must carefully inspect every item in your cart, because you will find lots of brand-items advertised from fly-by-night sellers with poor reputations. But once you see your reputable vendor name, and/or "Sold through Amazon, fulfilled by Amazon" then I've never needed to worry about the end result.


No, this doesn't work either, by the way Amazon operates [1], and they're aware of the problem [2]. There's no "Anker" store. There's boxes in your local Amazon warehouse that "Anker" labelled stuff gets thrown into and sold as Anker products (although I think they've separated the boxes a bit in the last few years). I've had several counterfeits from official stores, and avoid Amazon for easily counterfeit goods. I had a counterfeit controller from the official Sony store that I took it apart, posted all the silly nonsense contained inside, and was banned from ever posting reviews on Amazon again.

Anker has steps to prove the product is genuine and only guarantee non-counterfeit from offline stores: https://www.anker.com/eu-en/verify

[1] https://www.kuow.org/podcast/newsroom/2019-12-02/sellers-fig...

> When Amazon lists a product, that listing consolidates reviews for many different suppliers of that product. Some of them might be official Felco dealers, others may be arbitrage buyers who've picked up pruners from overseas suppliers at a discount.

[2] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1018724/000101872426...

See sections "We Are Impacted by Fraudulent or Unlawful Activities of Sellers" and "We Face Risks Related to Adequately Protecting Our Intellectual Property Rights and Being Accused of Infringing Intellectual Property Rights of Third Parties"


What is the model or part number for an Anker silicone cable that is faster than USB 2.0?

For data transfer performance and reliability in a cable with a white smooth sheath, we go with Cable Matters:

https://www.cablematters.com/pc-1640-180-intel-certified-80g...

aka: https://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters-Thunderbolt-Black-3-3ft...

But we prefer such be braided, so with CalDigit we use this:

https://www.caldigit.com/thunderbolt-5-pro-cable/

https://www.amazon.com/CalDigit-Thunderbolt-5-Pro-Cable/dp/B...

Or with Anker we use this:

https://www.amazon.com/Anker-Thunderbolt-Charging-Bandwidth-...

That said, we mostly use Apple TB5 for fixed work stations where cables don't get lost.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/mdw94am/a/thunderbolt-5-u...

We avoid gaming brand TB cables and the scrabble letter brands.


sweet list/yay!

What do people mean by scrabble letter brands? and I assume TB on the bottom there is just short for Thunderbolt?


How do you purchase them? Supply chain mixing is rough with a lot of retailers.

You purchase the ones labeled Anker?... They say Anker on the box and the cable... I don't think the supply chain is an issue as long as you get the intended product


> https://www.anker.com/eu-en/verify

I love how the path includes eu-en but then the list of countries where this is actually used:

> Europe: Turkey, Albania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Serbia, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, Azerbaijan

Looks like list almost half not in the EU and half in, but missing quite a lot of EU countries.

Anker themselves say they "promise that all the products purchased through our Authorized Retailers or Distributors and Online Channels are genuine" but the link to who those are is gone apparently.


If you purchase from the official seller on Amazon, you're highly unlikely to get a counterfeit unless someone committed return fraud. I think platforms that destroy returns aren't susceptible though.

This author has their own AM radio Americana narrative style with peculiar flourishes repeated throughout, but it's so refreshing compared to LLMs it's worth slowing down and noticing how they play with the language as the crow does a shiny wire, resulting in far higher perplexity at each bend in phrase than the machines seem capable of no matter the prompt.

Superhuman Attention is required to read prose so stilted it belongs in a traveling circus. Preferably traveling to somewhere else.

Noticing project name is decayfmt not damagefmt.

Might be visually cooler and a gesture at decayed compute history if the decay pixels land as black and white (1 and 0) instead of color.

RBG noise damage does happen digitally for image damage, while hue protected noise damage is more organic -- a more filmish look. Most people prefer hue protected noise (saturation and lightness variance fine). It's likely this would look older and more decayed given our biased association with film grain.

For this, monochrome noise with a target grey level (e.g. 20% grey) would be visually nice, but the 1s and 0s would be even more old timey computer museum decay.


The bubbling froth at the open edge is getting user adopted at a crazy pace, by the early adopter persona trying them all within hours to days. This persona loves taking apart and putting together novel things, and telling others.

Fast follower persona clusters around emerging zeitgeist across the tellings. At the moment, arguably that's mostly Qwen for everyday hobbyists, and GLM for those that can run 512GB to 1.5TB of memory. This persona is seeking viable applied results: "I have frontier at home".

The early majority pick things up after models are curated into apps like LM Studio or one's platform app of choice, usually at least one major release behind because it takes that long to choose and package into mass distribution.

This is the step where early majority persona "has no idea" what the parade of weird names is about, they care about qualia of the conversations they try to have.

This persona is, at present, very under-served, and likely to remain so until mass devices can perform feeling like 27B at Q4 large quality better, or workplace devices can achieve a pragmatic utility like 135B at Q8 or better.

Harnesses that work where the workplace persona lives bridge this. This persona doesn't care the Chinese model name, they care "does it code?" For that, the applied harness and model take time to be matched, as JetBrains did harnessing a tailored Qwen 3.6 in the IDE. More efforts like https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/ are needed for the majority persona to perceive value from changing their workflow again.

HN's "job" is better outcomes with less friction at each persona.


In raw numbers of humans... "the early majority" surely would be those that use ChatGPT or Gemini (aka Google) and pay between $0 and $20 a month?

I would be surprised if the specialist that knows that various Chinese models exist and/or that a user might choose a harness and model separately are a "majority" even of the early variety... in terms of revenue, humans, tokens, or any metric.

(Happy to be proven wrong)


Indeed, and reply to comment seemed a "yes and" -- As with humans.

It's curious how much of these could apply to either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstructive_memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation_effect

And many mechanisms exacerbate issues by entrenching preexisting issues.


I don't understand. The comment said if humans want to change the route, this tech makes it more difficult. Human inertia is X, inertia with this tech is X ^ Y. The Y is the issue being discussed.


Note that modern Macbook Pros can drive crazy screens.

A Macbook Pro M4 or M5 drives TWO of these at once, well, for equivalent of quad 4K configured as dual super ultrawides:

https://www.samsung.com/us/monitors/gaming/57-inch-odyssey-n...

Per Apple support page, MBP with M5 Max handles:

Two external displays

Two displays up to a native resolution of 8K (7680 x 4320) at 60Hz, 5K (5120 x 2880) at 120Hz, or 4K (3840 x 2160) at 240Hz over Thunderbolt or HDMI

Three external displays

Two displays up to a native resolution of 6K (6144 x 3456) at 60Hz or 4K (3840 x 2160) at 144Hz; plus one display up to a native resolution of 8K (7680 x 4320) at 60Hz, 5K (5120 x 2880) at 120Hz or 4K (3840 x 2160) at 240Hz over Thunderbolt or HDMI

Four external displays

Four displays up to a native resolution of 6K (6144 x 3456) at 60Hz or 4K (3840 x 2160) at 144Hz over Thunderbolt or HDMI

https://support.apple.com/en-us/101571

PS. Use TB4 or TB5 dock from Cal-Digit (match the TB version of your mac), or this or one of the rebranded versions of the same OEM: https://www.owc.com/solutions/thunderbolt-dock, or an Ivanky Fusion dock if you want to go nuts with up to SIX displays, Quad 6K@60Hz and Dual 4K@60Hz:

https://www.amazon.com/Thunderbolt-Monitor-Docking-Station-A...


Yes, and..

Just Tailscale into the Studio from iPad Pro 13" with magic keyboard and Kit Knox's rootshell:

https://github.com/kitknox/rootshell

Note that the iPad Pro can also drive a 4K second screen if you like, and most anything else a Macbook with a single port could drive.

Why not Macbook Air? Because the iPad Pro is also a tablet, touch screen, and 5G...


this is exactly my setup! the ipad pro 11 m5 cellular is such an amazing device especially with the 5G. only downside is obv the iPadOS, it's still very limiting and shortcuts and power tools (like easily prefilling passwords) are non-existent. for passwords, you still have to manually click the pre-fill and/or enable full keyboard to be able to tab into it but still annoying.


thanks for this link! I was constantly struggling with remote-ipad setup - tried so many things (including paid options), but everything was _iffy_ at best (on-call4live, lol)

And I'm also gonna ride my M1Max Studio until it dies (hopefully it will outlive me xD)


> “motivated entirely … to stuff his pockets”

Someone's pockets, must be gnomes:

• PHASE 1: COLLECT UNDERPANTS. (tariff "foreign" goods desired by Americans, collect upon import from companies, clarify spiked prices experienced by consumers ‘entirely’ due to prior admin policies)

• PHASE 2: … (let simmer)

• PHASE 3: PROFIT. ("return" tariff costs to companies)


April 2: Trump "liberates" Americans from low-cost goods by placing tariffs at 46% on Vietname

May 16: Vietnam approves $1.5B Trump hotel project (https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-trump-golf-estate-investm...)

July 2: US lowers tariffs on Vietnam to 20% (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202500738/pdf/DCPD-...)


The underpants gnomes. Well played!


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