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I think you didn't fully understand their post.

> and if you’re not a core contributor who’s proven you’re willing to stick around when shit hits the fan, a +3000 PR is a liability, not an asset.

And in the context of high-value contributors that GP was mentioning, they are never going to land a +3000 PR because they know there is going to be a human reviewer on the other side.


The problem was already there with lazy bug reports and inflammatory feature requests. Now there is a lazy (or inflammatory) accompanying code. But there were also well-written bug reports with no code attached due to lack of time/skills that now can potentially become useful PRs if handled with application and engineering knowledge and good faith and will.

Well, IDK, I have used CC with API billing pretty extensively and managed to spend ~$1000 in one month more or less. Moved to a Max 20x subscription and using it a bit less (I'm still scared) but not THAT less and I'm around 10% weekly usage. I'm not counting the tokens, though.

> The leap hour will be in 7200 years, around year 9226

You mean 09226, I believe. [1]

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...


Yep, I was there too! HN thread from the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4188412

I think social skills are mostly just like any other skill: you have to practice them to get better at them. And while you might be more or less naturally gifted at any skill, there is a minimum level which every abled human out there can reach with some effort. You will never be a showman,a car seller or the king of the party but you can have interactions with other human beings and connect with some of them. Just like you can learn to play guitar, juggle 3 balls or do basic algebra.

Yeah I expected this benchmark to include hosted "metal" hardware with the "per instruction cost" benchmark to see how provider like Hetnzer fare against classic AWS VMs. It's a bit apple to oranges I know, but I think nowadays is what most people compared pure performance cost are interested in. I'm not going to migrate from AWS VMs to GCP or Hetzner VMs, but I might be open to Hetzner hosted servers instead for a massive enough cost reduction.

> ... but I might be open to Hetzner hosted servers instead for a massive enough cost reduction.

Don't use Hetzner for anything actually important to you. :(

As to why: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45481328


A good business would send you a warning a month before your credit card expires, not after the fact.

For some reason parent is using the word "expired" when they really mean "cancelled by the issuing bank".

To be honest, I find it hard to believe this is common. They have been around for ages and are quite beloved by many. Maybe something went wrong in this case?

Guess I will find out, think my cc expires soon.

Also, you can pay by bank transfer, at least for dedicated.


> To be honest, I find it hard to believe this is common.

I agree. But it still happened, with literally no warning (I actually checked), and their support staff refused to even call me to get updated card details when I was in the middle of an actual cyclone. ie phone service worked, internet didn't

Directly impacting our customers, who were extremely unhappy (to say the least).

"Fuck Hetzner!" is not nearly strong enough to convey the sentiment.


I mean, the context here is that a company stopped providing services after a bank cancelled a credit card they had been charging.

For all they know, your legitimate charges were the fraudulent charges that triggered the cancellation.

I cannot fathom why you keep using the term "expired" when that is a very different scenario to "cancelled by the issuing bank".


> For all they know, your legitimate charges were the fraudulent charges that triggered the cancellation.

Literally years of paying the bills. ;)

> I cannot fathom why you keep using the term "expired" when that is a very different scenario to "cancelled by the issuing bank".

That seems like a you problem. No worries, hope your day is going ok.


> That seems like a you problem.

I dunno man, it wasn't me having a breakdown in public because I forgot to update a biller after I cancelled my card.


Thanks for the clarification. On top of that, being an issue in the 'uv' GitHub repo (uv installs packages from PyPi) made my brain easily cross the letters.

> I'm in my 60s and retiring this summer.

Congrats! I'm in that age where I'm envying more the ones like you than the 20-something :)


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