Why does Vercel provide Next.js? Aside from talent & tightly coupling Astro to their services, their North Star might be similar to Weekly Number of New Domains Hosted On Cloudflare. Sponsoring a framework that helps ship performant websites feeds into that metric.
Vercel is a platform that, simplified, sells compute by time and by query.
Static optimized sites take very little compute, and little queries.
Since they have the most used framework (nextjs), they made it more server-heavy and changed the paradigm to one where a single page is built up using multiple queries for even just the html.
They then made sure that self hosting that monstrosity is terribly complex for anything serious, and incompatible with the "serverless environment" of their own platform, unless you have devops maintaining it.
And then they severely overhauled the pricing and gimped the included limits. (We were on <1% usage before. And now at 95%< while changing nothing...)
It could of course be a coincidence, but if that were the case, they would be very bad, yet lucky, business people.
100% will never put anything new on vercel and have been avoiding nextjs like the plague.
Feels odd that two feature-equivalent plans are segregated with neighboring duplicates into monthly and yearly branches. I would consider monthly Enterprise & yearly Enterprise the same plan, with modified cost & billing frequency.
> I would consider monthly Enterprise & yearly Enterprise the same plan, with modified cost & billing frequency.
How would you then call the objects that store costs and billing frequency? :)
Here's what Stripe uses:
- Product: "describes the goods or services". This is where you define a (plan) name and features.
- Price: defines the amount, currency, and (optional) billing interval. Since interval is optional, Prices can be used to define both recurring, and one-off purchases.
Technically, using Prices for recurring, and one-off payments is a brilliant idea. The problem is, no one refers to recurring payments as "prices". Everyone calls a "$50 per year" option a "plan".
There's very little in the article about "how" sound reshapes "networks" in the brain. It's pretty reasonable to expect that hearing different sounds can cause different neurons to fire, though (considering you can upload information into somebody's brain by talking to them).
The important discovery is not that sensory experiences correlate strongly with specific areas of the brain. That's been known for decades. What I think is possibly new here is that the musical waves are genuinely getting "in sync" (temporally). Neuron firing is too slow for this to happen due to the normal conventional interpretation of how the brain works, which is that info travels from synapse to synapse. It essentially disproves the "calculational" (synapse based) model of consciousness, and it proves that even qualia itself is based on waves.
Sure it's possible that something akin to simple harmonic oscillator spontaneous synchronization could be happening (i.e. this: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RYeNu159Sgc) but even if this 'dumb' sync is playing a role it still isn't evidence against the wave-based nature of qualia.
I remember some "How it's made" videos where conveyor belts and automation were put to very good use in baking cookies, and such. I take it that this implementation is more artisanal?
edit: The gummies are special because they can potentially glow and deform in a unique way. Interactivity is possibly overstated in this case.
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