> The one place where OpenAI does have a clear lead today is in the user base: it has 8-900m users.
There is no way that number is an accurate reflection of the number of actual human users of their service. I could believe they have 8-900m bot/fraud accounts in their databases, maybe, but not real users.
I suspect I am one of those 1bn users by their metric. I have an account, and I sometimes query it. I also query Claude and Gemini. I have zero loyalty, if I run out of tokens on one, I will just pick up the conversation on another provider. Perhaps I am using them wrong, but the amount of babysitting I have to do anyway, I don't find it that tedious to stay on the same topic during a swap.
There's no way I would spend $200 a month on any of them, not even $20 considering how few 'tokens' you get. I can see how these tools would be useful to my workflow, but I cannot use them as they are priced 100x too high for me to be reliable.
I have a feeling that would be true for the vast majority of these AI tool users. I really am not sure how these companies are supposed to become profitable. But SV is a bit insane that way.
i used to use them that way until I got a IDE with AI and is way better for my development than copying and pasting into the chat. It can have the whole project as context,plan features with me, etc. I use it a lot in a way that I cant see why I would go to programming without it right now. It takes time to adjust to it to learn how it works and all but it's worth it
The price of electricity where I am in California is pretty cheap for the energy itself -- I pay about $20/mo for generation -- but the cost for electricity delivery is absolutely fucking insane. It costs me $90 for "delivery" of that $20 worth of electricity.
Yes, I misremembered some things. Apparently Mono has more compatibility with .NET Framework (for instance 4.81) than dotnet (the current, modern recently released in version 10).
I mixed that up to mean that .NET Framework proper was released as open source, but that's unfortunately not the case.
I do not understand why Google doesn't just explicitly permit people who pay for premium to use yt-dlp or other tools to watch YouTube however the fuck they want. Put that in your terms, Google -- so people aren't afraid they'll lose their GMail because they wanted to watch a video -- and you'll get more paying customers...
Youtube used to have working download buttons on any video that the uploader licenced as creative commons.
The version of their app that used their V2 API also allowed downloading any video (local to the app, not easily copied) or even setting it to auto-download all of your subscription feed as videos came out.
Depending on the nature of your code, just throwing pypy at it instead of cpython can be a huge win. This very much depends on what you're doing though. For example, I have a graphics editor I wrote that is unbearably slow with cpython; with pypy and no other changes it's usable.
If what you're trying to do involves tasks that can be done in parallel, the multithreading (if I/O bound) or multiprocessing (if compute bound) libraries can be very useful.
If what you're doing isn't conducive to either, you probably need to rewrite at least the critical parts in something else.
Pypy is great for performance. I'm writing my own programming language (that transpiles to C) and for this purpose converted a few benchmarks to some popular languages (C, Java, Rust, Swift, Python, Go, Nim, Zig, V). Most languages have similar performance, except for Python, which is about 50 times slower [1]. But with PyPy, performance is much better. I don't know the limitations of PyPy because these algorithms are very simple.
But even thougt Python is very slow, it is still very popular. So the language itself must be very good in my view, otherwise fewer people would use it.
There is no way that number is an accurate reflection of the number of actual human users of their service. I could believe they have 8-900m bot/fraud accounts in their databases, maybe, but not real users.
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