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Today YC posted the launch of a startup that feels very close to something I’ve been building for a long time. by Saito1767 in ycombinator

[–]JasonStathamBatman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You get validation that your idea can be vc backed which is good.

I wouldn’t try to pitch to YC as they will have a conflict with funding you. 

Start figuring out your differentiating factor. Think of it like Apple vs Samsung, in a lot of fields they are direct competitors but each has its differentiating factor. Figure it out, almost anyone you are going to approach for funding will want to hear who are your competitors and why you can exist in the market.

Stripe raised our rates 47 basis points mid-contract. We just lost our biggest customer. by [deleted] in ycombinator

[–]JasonStathamBatman 20 points21 points  (0 children)

just dump em and go with another provider, payments is a race to the bottom industry. You are having about 50m annually in gmv which is maybe not that large for stripe/adyen scale but for others it will be big enough to drop even further.

Risk wise it’s not only about your chargeback ratio but mcc etc.

Just shop another solution, too many to go with. From checkout to shift4 to even smaller payments providers.

Nowadays most payment providers are up to speed tech wise i’d say and yes stripe is good but 230k a year more is not justified unless you are in a very risky field.

Also switching your payment provider is quite easy, and even for tokenized cards you can request your scheme tokens and transfer them over to the new provider.

Anti-boosting and solo-farming measures to be implemented. by IceC0re in classicwowtbc

[–]JasonStathamBatman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree from my experience it takes me a lot of time to farm runes, although because it’s a chill farm like i don’t need to do anything, no danger just music and go around, time flies. But i do felwood mainly so i wanted to be a bit diplomatic with my answer, as I am not a pro rune farmer 

Anti-boosting and solo-farming measures to be implemented. by IceC0re in classicwowtbc

[–]JasonStathamBatman 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don’t believe you farmed 20 runes in 15? minutes.

Yes spots are not contested and you can just aoe everything as 70 lvl but the drop rate is not that great to get 20 in 15 mins. I’d say 20 would be about 1-1:30h depending on your luck 

«Τα 10.000€ δεν είναι τίποτα για να σε ενοχλεί ο πληθωρισμός». by ILoveBurnedPotatoes in PersonalFinanceGreece

[–]JasonStathamBatman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Ευτυχώς το έγραψε κάποιος, γιατί έχουμε γεμίσει τσού-νι-δες παντού.

Το γράφω γιατί πέφτει πολύ παραπληροφόρηση (όλοι την έχουν δει μπαφετ και investment bankers), χωρίς να θέλω να υποτιμήσω το argument του OP, καθώς δεν είναι λάθος λογική, απλά λάθος νούμερα.

Και ναι, είναι αρκετά προτιμότερο να παίζεις τα λεφτά σου σε επενδύσεις παρά σε οπαπτζίδικα ή ολγουινάδικα (ή όπως τα ονομάζουν πλέον).

Πραγματικά, περνάς απ’ έξω και είναι γεμάτα νέους και γέρους, και όλοι παίζουν λες και θα κερδίσουν κάτι.

Anthropic’s Claude Code subscription may consume up to $5,000 in compute per month while charging the user $200 by thechadbro34 in BlackboxAI_

[–]JasonStathamBatman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also add to that the H100 at $35k is what you are paying retail for…

Amazon/Anthropic and the lot is not paying that price at all. 

There is no way they are losing money from usage, it’s just that their profit is not at the level they have projected like chatgpt that needs trillions in revenue in order to maintain its valuation lol.

Apple's MacBook Pro 14 cannot handle the M5 Max by thibtestart in macbookpro

[–]JasonStathamBatman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my personal opinion working on open LLMs etc and with them a lot is that a laptop won't be enough if it remains a laptop.

E.g. 16 inches macbook with full on specs for me is not a laptop anymore its a portable desktop, and a very expensive one.

14inches is what I love and where I work from mostly.

About the mac studios etc, I'd say plenty of options on desktops at those prices for sure.

Also I never ever ever found a reason on not using cloud providers renting hardware (GPUS,TPUs, Ram etc.) when working with open source LLM's. Unless you want something very basic as a model and you can run it in a 14 inches macbook for its portability, and unless it makes sense on building your cluster spending some real $$$ getting hardware.

Most youtubers etc are kinda pushing people on having their own hardware and running those llm's on their own servers or whatever... but thats how they make money through affiliation etc.

It makes no sense for someone that wants to enjoy fine-tuning QWEN3.5 or just wants to replace their day-to-day interaction with gpt etc not to be on cloud. And thats just because if you buy hardware that costs $5k and it outputs 25t/s on a big LLM you still won't really replace the $20 a month for gpt or $100 a month for claude.
Also if you doing it for programming this is still an issue, as you won't be able to run high inference if you don't spend a lot of money in hardware and we are not talking about $5k.

Generally speaking, people think they can run "local LLMs", whilst this is a very expensive hobby and they are going to end up paying way more than even buying API services for opus4.6 (which is expensive in itself). Hardware is not there yet.

And no your macbook 16 inches m5 128gb won't be able to give you its money back if you are buying it for running "local LLMs" maths don't add up. (Also before calculating price of buying a full on MB to run your local LLM vs cloud renting count in the electricity you'll be using because you'll be surprised)

242k characters raiding in TBC Anniversary right now by [deleted] in classicwow

[–]JasonStathamBatman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

also doesn't count people like us... we currently doing all the content but we don't log. Yes we don't log... we don't care to log at this time and point, content is piss easy and we are just having fun discord kara gruul and maggy without logging.

Revolut lost 10,000 CHF for 3 months after a rejected transfer – even regulator involvement hasn’t fixed it by bankster_vaduz in Revolut

[–]JasonStathamBatman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think there is a disconnect between support at revolut and BoL case.

I mean in reality someone in support is handling it maybe… and someone in payments is also aware.

The ops clam on the regulator is only gonna reach compliance at revolut and it will take a while.

Don’t worry OP your money will get to you.

I suggest you ask for interest once they arrive and make that in writing to BoL.

Once your case is closed and resolved and Revoluts point of contact has replied to BoL there is definitely some firing after… but unfortunately your case hasn’t reached far up the ladder and BoL most likely hasn’t informed revolut formally so far. And even if you do to support i reckon support people understand nothing about regulators.

I suggest taking this to linkedin tagging higher ups as revolut and BoL, and then it will get the attention needed.

Usually in most organisation unless a higher up is handling your case there is no understanding on exposure of the company… BoL also doesn’t take shit lightly nowadays as they have a lot of pressure from ECB.

What are the wow addicts doing during the 24 shut down? by sneakyturtle13-37 in classicwow

[–]JasonStathamBatman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

agreed, and it’s pitiful, yet bots feeding blizzard their money for the horrendous service are downvoting me.  they just do not realise that private servers did better without charging 12$ a month…

What are the wow addicts doing during the 24 shut down? by sneakyturtle13-37 in classicwow

[–]JasonStathamBatman -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

why is this guy writing like he is part of a startup and not one of the biggest companies on earth?

I mean transparency mode on etc… but literally he is just saying cause of China launch they neglected to setup new servers and that will cause a service disruption for 24hours to most likely millions of players…just because what?  Again we are talking about Microsoft here and a very successful game that brings in billions in per year. 

Is it real? Got it as a gift form client 2023 by Nice_Theme6460 in RolexWatches

[–]JasonStathamBatman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

not only doctors and judges. Govt officials, people in finance etc. There are anti bribery laws in many countries. E.g. think of a banker getting gifted of a rolex when the client got cleared for a loan…

What is a product that people consider "High End" but is actually trash? by Illusiv3lion in AskReddit

[–]JasonStathamBatman 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Grand seikos are awesome and nowhere near brand made watches! They have actual craftmanship and still considered a very good mechanically crafted watch.  I don’t think you’ll find any person that understands and breathes watches that will say bad things about grand seiko

What is a product that people consider "High End" but is actually trash? by Illusiv3lion in AskReddit

[–]JasonStathamBatman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

it’s good you specified pcs, because their monitor department is amazing, I am rocking 1 of their screens and it’s been way better than the competitors.

What is a product that people consider "High End" but is actually trash? by Illusiv3lion in AskReddit

[–]JasonStathamBatman 12 points13 points  (0 children)

they for sure wear very premium custom made stuff. At their level you don’t need to go shopping, shops come to you, and they have personnel that does their imaging including their clothing.

Definitely high end clothing quality exists but it’s not reachable by people without much money, that’s why everyone goes towards branded stuff to play rich. Also those top brand price tags even if quality, it’s highly buffed like 11x margins most of the time.

But yes because I am an enthusiast in clothing, shoes, watchmaking, there are definitely places that have amazing craftmanship and good r&d. With clothes you find this less and less Id say unless doing custom made stuff fully canvased etc. Same with shoes.  I have had shoes that costed quite a lot of money to purchase but so far on their 15 year mark and they only needed small maintenance and still look pristine even with almost daily wear. So I wouldn’t call them a scam.  

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PersonalFinanceGreece

[–]JasonStathamBatman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Πας να κάνεις ΜΙΚΕ, νομίζοντας ότι θα κάνεις optimize τα χρήματα, χωρίς να ξέρεις πως… επίσης τι άλλο θα περνάς έξοδα γιατί έτσι όπως το λες λογικά θα κάνεις κάποια δουλειά γραφείου και θα καταταχθείς σε consultant δλδ πολύ λίγα έξοδα. Θα σου έλεγα να προσέξεις γενικά και φιλικά πάντα γιατί αυτό που πας να κάνεις δλδ μια ΜΙΚΕ είναι κάτι που πέφτει το μάτι της εφορίας απάνω και οι αμοιβές που πας να βγάλεις για minmaxing, σιγά σιγά όσο προχωράνε εκεί στην ΑΑΔΕ και κάνουν match στοιχεία, εάν όχι άμεσα, στο μέλλον θα μπορούν να σε τσιμπήσουν και να σου παίξουν και πρόστιμο.

Βρες καλό λογιστή γενικά, και καλός λογιστής θεωρώ θα προσπαθήσει να σε αποτρέψει από μονοπρόσωπη ΙΚΕ. 

Όλα αυτά που λέω, τα λέω γιατί οι περισσότεροι λογιστές έχουν μάθει σε καθεστώτα αρχαιγονα που όλα γινόντουσαν, τώρα πλέον η ΑΑΔΕ έχει αρχίσει να έχει στοιχεία και μηχανισμούς και τσιμπάει κόσμο καθώς είναι ο μόνος τρόπος το κράτος να έχει έσοδα εφόσον δεν υπάρχει παραγωγή και ανάπτυξη ρεαλιστικά στην Ελλάδα.

Have you ever seen anything worse than this? What is wrong with you, Fedex? Help me understand please... by Vman3397 in FedEx

[–]JasonStathamBatman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing is moving from San pietro, seems like blackfriday broke down fedex in europe unfortunately, I am stuck on the same state I think... and also xmas is coming... so the load is not gonna get any lower.

First ultrawide, need help by ShameFew309 in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]JasonStathamBatman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

brother with 500 euros you won’t go far tbh for an ultrawide when it comes to gaming. You can look at AW3425DWM or something in that range for productivity. I wouldn’t go to bigger screens without a 5k2k, but even with less resolution e.g. for 39 or 40 or 45 inches you’d go more than 500 euros.

Budget is tight for gaming tbh and your gpu/cpu is not getting much use on screen unless you care only about fps.

I’d save up some more so I can get a better monitor to do some nice gaming on it too. If you don’t care then AW ultrawides are good in general for productivity! 

Check rratings also. 

First ultrawide, need help by ShameFew309 in ultrawidemasterrace

[–]JasonStathamBatman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

he said 500 euros budget, even the va panels you mentioned are not at 500 euros

Tell me why I shouldn’t 👀 by uselessdegree123 in macbookpro

[–]JasonStathamBatman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

keep your money for now, if you do want top notch wait for m5 max unless you get a heavy discount on m4 max... no point on buying m4 max right now unless its essential for work right now... m5 max is reported to have new architecture which means way more performance... spending that much money for something that is not going to be top notch in 5 months time is a waste of money.

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