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		blowski on April 12, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Terence Tao on GPT-4 I run Mastodon on a $5 VM. If I hit HN homepage, my site will probably be slow as well. I don’t see how that reflects on Mastodon though.

endisneigh on April 12, 2023 [–]

what am I saying is that there's a way to design a site on a $5 VM that serves static text that wouldn't be slow even if it was #1 on HN.

if you disagree with that then we'll have to agree to disagree.

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