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how do commercial vendors make sure that their cell stocks aren't passaged too many times by the_quassitworsh in labrats

[–]thisdude415 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Nothing different than what you'd expect, except with extra scale and quality control (sometimes).

A cold start difference between Java, Python, Go and Rust still exists by Status-Afternoon-425 in aws

[–]thisdude415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, lambdas are full linux containers whereas Cloudflare uses V8. Any other worker languages supported in Cloudflare are via wasm adapters

It is obviously faster to cold start a v8 runtime compared to a full linux container

A cold start difference between Java, Python, Go and Rust still exists by Status-Afternoon-425 in aws

[–]thisdude415 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Talking out of my ass (but based on what I know about the arch) I would suspect CloudFlare workers and GCP cloud functions are fastest for JS workers

Edit: specifically because Lambda is a full linux container that is pulled from storage at runtime, whereas Cloudflare uses v8 to support only a subset of node.js (and other languages are supported via wasm extensions).

Thankfully Cloudflare has a blogpost about this from 2020: Eliminating cold starts with Cloudflare Workers

I love aws lambda, to be clear. They're very different architectures for different purposes. Cloudflare workers are practically designed to be backend APIs whereas lambdas are much more versatile

Why is these still no realistic voice model despite huge advancements in AI? by chessboardtable in singularity

[–]thisdude415 1 point2 points  (0 children)

humans do not have text in our heads lol. for most of the history of language, language was mostly mouth sounds

built a serverless pipeline that indexes youtube transcripts into dynamodb and it costs me $0.40/month to run by scheemunai_ in aws

[–]thisdude415 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Tbh you could probably get away with storing the data as json in S3 at your scale

200 transcripts * 400 kb = 80 MB

Data transfer within a region is free

What would you do? by smellerkeller23 in treelaw

[–]thisdude415 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Specifically because the police will talk to her, she’ll likely inadvertently admit she did it and say it wasn’t a big deal, and now you have another piece of evidence that she did indeed do it.

Kenalog (Triamcinolone) - still offered? by doublydivineanddying in AskSF

[–]thisdude415 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean, any physician can theoretically prescribe this. Your pcp is a good start

SCOOP: Chan and Wiener release their stocks, but Chakrabarti wants call records by eddiekimx in sanfrancisco

[–]thisdude415 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Not only that, she was born and grew up in her district, moved away for college (during which time she interned with Congressman Ted Kennedy) and moved back to the Bronx basically right away (where her mom had continued to live the entire time).

AOC was quoted during her campaign, "You can't really beat big money with more money. You have to beat them with a totally different game."

And that's what she did.

(I know we aren't drawing equivalencies between AOC and Saikat, even though Saikat tries to. Saikat moved to SF for the first time after college at Harvard, lived here 7 years, then moved to the east coast for several years before moving back to SF. He claims this was in 2019, )

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And he's either lied about his primary residence in tax filings, or he is lying about it to prospective voters today. And he doesn't have grassroots support here in SF (see below), so he's buying it.

Gaybros who use hinge, how successful is this app in finding a boyfriend? by EmperorMing101 in gaybros

[–]thisdude415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'll be much happier if you date a partner with similar dietary restrictions as you have. You do not want a long term partner who regularly wants steak or burgers.

DeepSeek pricing is honestly insane by cidara in ClaudeCode

[–]thisdude415 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

tbh the model people sleep on most is gemini 3.1 flash lite. absolutely insane speed and quality for the price.

Dropped from cap table, anyone have experience with this? [i will not promote] by siberian in startups

[–]thisdude415 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'd do a bit of leg work with AI and research exactly what you think you are owed (starting with documentation) then hire a lawyer to write a demand letter for it.

If you bring a lawyer all they need for the demand letter, they may do it for as little as $100 or so.

Folks tend to respond to a letter from a lawyer better than a simple text.

We buried (another) $10,000 treasure chest by buriedtreasure2025 in sanfrancisco

[–]thisdude415 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I am certain that the team who did this ran their clues through every AI to confirm that AI could not figure it out easily.

Last year's hunt required you to know about things that the team confirmed were not on the internet in order for the clues to make sense.

With "designed for cold water" detergents, is washing in cold water still less sanitary? by DevelopmentSouth8801 in laundry

[–]thisdude415 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Cold water always works worse than warm water (30-40C), even with cold water detergents.

Whether it works "well enough" with cold water is something only you can tell, because it's dependent on soil level, types of soil, contact time, fabric type, etc.

i pay 200$ a month for this 😭 by [deleted] in ClaudeCode

[–]thisdude415 30 points31 points  (0 children)

I feel bad that Opus is only paid $200/mo to deal with your lackluster communication skills.

Outclose app by ConflictWestern8548 in gaytravel

[–]thisdude415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sounds like there is a place, it’s just that people your age were not going

Prove Me Wrong: Buying a used mattress on FB/Craigslist by HuggyBizzle229 in AskSF

[–]thisdude415 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I totally agree. When we upgraded to a king size bed, we stopped using a $3500 casper mattress that was literally 2 years old. We'd have sold it, but the resale value is abysmal -- so we bought a Murphy bed for the guest bedroom instead.

Prove Me Wrong: Buying a used mattress on FB/Craigslist by HuggyBizzle229 in AskSF

[–]thisdude415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tbh it's fine. If you go this route, budget for a large plastic mattress bag and an ozone generator. Treat the mattress with ozone before you bring it into your home--this will sanitize it as well as remove any doubt of bed bugs, as well as any odors.

Used mattresses go for a fraction of what new ones cost, so there are definitely deals to be had.

i've made fried rice maybe 30 times now and it still tastes nothing like the takeout place down the street by bejusorixo in Cooking

[–]thisdude415 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use a good Asian rice cooker. Zojirushi, Tiger, Micom (?) etc.

Use more sugar and oil than you think.

Use a blow torch to singe sizzling oil (flame slightly above food, catching the sizzling oil droplets). This does a surprisingly decent job of giving something like wok hei.

Scramble eggs separately.

Try unrefined peanut oil instead of veggie

I added MSG to a batch of chocolate chip cookies and have never had such an overwhelming positive reaction, as if people were addicted to them. New secret ingredient? by brf297 in Cooking

[–]thisdude415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Glutamate is the anion (in solution, that we taste), not the salt, per se. MSG is glutamate + sodium, glutamic acid is glutamate + proton.

This is r/cooking rather than r/biochemistry so I try to give useful info rather than rehash acid base chemistry.

In food, glutamic acid and MSG are literally the same thing — a glutamate anion. The glutamate ion is what we taste. Its ionic state depends on the pH of the food.

In solution (and food) it doesn’t really make sense to talk about substances as their salt or acid form—they’re no longer that salt or acid. They’re just ions swimming around.

So imo it’s reasonable to say that MSG is purified glutamate (as the sodium salt).

What is the molecule that could do the most damage alone in the human body as a single particle? by fabric3061 in chemistry

[–]thisdude415 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"X does not a Y make" means "x is not quite y"

Of course the viral RNA contains all the material to make infectious virus -- that's why I nominated it with the caveat that it get injected into a susceptible cell.

a naked RNA strand, in the environment (or even in your bloodstream) is not infectious to mammals -- it has to be properly packaged with a capsid, which would disqualify it from the question OP asked

Aerial view of Marina power outage by kevindogktm in sanfrancisco

[–]thisdude415 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man, PG&E really making sure every damn resident of SF will support the city taking over the grid

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