This is what i do.

Building is half the battle. Knowing what to build is the other half.

Most IC6/7+ would not code anyways - in fact a friend of mine said "we had our own agents we just called them IC4/5" - which was ironic but funny.

I am curious if we would ever get a new programming language like rust or go, without this creativity.

In a way, we have different products that does more or less same things (postgres vs mysql for example). The reason is there's difference of thought in the process. I doubt this will go away.

> we had our own agents we just called them IC4/5

This is what bugs me the most. Those who are now at IC6/7 rose through the daily grind of coding and debugging from L1. But now that those jobs are getting automated how will someone rise to IC6!!? It’s as if first 10 rungs of a ladder are missing and only someone with an exceptionally good athleticism can jump up and start from 11th rung.

I think in the coming decades we will see IKEA effect in woodworking. Like it’s extremely easy to build cheap furniture whose individual parts are really compressed papers. There’s hardly any good carpenters left to do the real wood carpentry. Those who are left will cost a bomb (rightly so) and can only be afforded by rich people.

Hetzner really shines with their dedicated stuff.

Yeah, a $45 hetzner box would probably be at the top of all these charts, but it's a little more work to provision.

If only they offered dedicated in the US.

There are plenty of other dedicated server providers that do.

Which comparable US dedicated server providers do you prefer?

I tend to mostly use dedicated servers from Hetzner for my own projects and for my client's projects. Whenever they explicitly want US servers, I tend to go with Vultr's dedicated servers which been serving us well for many years.

OVH has dedicated in USA and Canada

I've read several reports from customers saying that their customer service is really bad. Difficult to know with online reviews of course. Does anyone have positive stories to share? I am looking at Australian hosts specifically and Hetzner doesn't have any data centers here.

We use them heavily for test boxes and running experiments. Standard off-the-shelf machines are provisioned almost instantly, and never had any problems.

More custom stuff (eg 100Gb/s NICs) takes a bit longer, but they've always been super responsive and quick to sort out any issues!

The price / performance you get from something like their AX162 is just crazy, although unfortunately with the whole RAM / NVMe shortage the setup fee has gone up quite a lot.

Using them for production for years, never dissapointed.

What you should be aware of is their new exploration of s3 storage. I mean, the s3 works and everything but it's still too eaely - the servers are kind of slow and sometimes fail to upload/download. They are still tuning out the storage architecture. The api key management is kind of too primitive (although much more headache free than configuring aws), and the online file browser is lacking

But for vps servers - they are battletested veterans

Important to have a partner that you can just be yourself with.

can't tell if you are serious or not.

It should be obvious, particularly from this line:

> It is truly the next thing, and the future, probably happening in the next 2 years, or in 2 years in 2 years.

Surprised noone mentioned refunds going back to the sellers, when in reality customers have paid for it anyways.

The original link has nothing to do with any recent tariffs. The study period from 2018 through 2022 and specifically looked tariffs on wine driven by the Airbus/Boeing kerfuffle happening at the time.

Yes?

What? Why? the government is the bad actor in this situation. doesn't that just reward the criminal with all the gains?

Well, at least it can be used to offset something.

Now companies will get the money back, then what? They will not even reduce prices, probably, so why should we give them the money?

So reading the article, let me get this straight.. The producer is losing money, the importer is losing money, the distributor and retailer had the temerity to not accept losing money and pass on a cost but aren't really making any more money. Due to which you're so upset that the sheer injustice of it all you'd rather see the corrupt government that levied the illegal tariffs to begin with keep the money than accept that the importer might actually come out ahead by happenstance.

Yeah, sure. that's totally more fair.

Microwave/directed energy fixes this.

negativity rarely gets you far in life, however. Think about it. I don't use openclaw, don't see the need in my personal life, but i am also not shitting on it.

like foundation db probably.