I don't see how this is even remotely true. Unless there's some super breakthrough into a fundamentally different architecture, there's not really a path to a 50% reduction in price, much less a 99% reduction.
And yet 90% drops for the same level of quality every 18 months have happened like clockwork...
And the technology already exists on the algorithmic front TODAY to lock in another 10x gain -> when, typically, algorithmic gains only account for ~30% of that drop and the other ~70% comes from better data (often synthetic) and knowledge distilation from frontier models.
That would require technology that hasn't yet been created to be created. Tbh I'm happy with just having enough token spend to use on side projects for now.
it really is too bad. All of the major tech companies' competitors are junk. Google Drive is the least bad of the bunch (out of, say, OneDrive, iCloud, and formerly Amazon Drive), but it's still not great to deal with. DropBox really does do a great job
Considering I have one friend who just lost data due to a OneDrive bug less than a month ago, I'm going to say no. I have zero tolerance for data loss.
Probably because the 1TB of storage you get with Microsoft 365 (or whatever it is called now) for <$100/year is more space than most computers come with.
I’ve had OneDrive for a very long time, and there was a couple of years where they didn’t have the files on demand feature as they rewrote the OneDrive client. It was a major regression for me.
If you don’t like that behavior, you can always just check the box to sync everything. I do that on my machine that has 2TB of storage.
I download an attachment from a colleague. I edit it and save it. I try to send the updated file back via outlook... And it says the file is not available.
This is one of the most basic operations that people do! Why does it not work?
Why would I need to go back in and tell it to keep it locally for when it was local in the first place!?
It's absolutely inane shit like this that drives me up a wall with Microsoft. Do these people use their own products?
The desktop client used to be just terrible. Has that changed? The Dropbox client does have its issues but it's really amazing at... Syncing files. I use it pretty creatively with large numbers of files and large volumes and it just works reliably.
I find Google Drive desktop to be just fine on Windows. Gave up a long time Dropbox sub for it and I have been happy. Dropbox just got too bloaty and unfocused for me.
This is more than S3 charges, but S3 will nickel and dime you aggressively for using that storage depending on your use case.
But $22/month buys an entire Google Workspace seat, which includes 5TB, for an effective $5.50/TB/month, which is quite a good deal. On the other hand, it’s rather lacking in flexibility.
I find this all somewhat confusing. At least one of these offerings does not reflect the underlying cost of the product.
It doesn't have a great cross platform support (no Linux client, and there are many complaints for the Windows client).
Personally, I dislike that you cannot restore an older version of a file on laptop/phone, and must instead use their web app, for which you need to disable ADP, which defeats its purpose.
While there isn't a proper Linux client, if you find yourself on a Linux box and need to sync to or from iCloud, rclone[1] works great. Just putting this out there in the hope that it might help someone.
It's also (ironically given TFA) what I used to sync all my files off dropbox when I cancelled my subscription because of their misuse of root to re-add their thing to special permissions on macOs after I had removed it.[2]
[2] https://qht.co/item?id=12463338 not trying to reopen a flame war, but for me personally, that was one of those things a company doesn't get to do to me twice. As soon as it happened, I copied my files off and cancelled. In fact I'm there somewhere in the comments on that article saying I was going to be cancelling and I immediately did.
The project is still alive but they've bifurcated into a v2 that uses a SQLite-based database backend instead of plain files (this was announced a couple of weeks ago). The new version has a number of QoL improvements and seems faster, but I haven't tested it with a large graph.
Short of societal collapse, there's no way the technology is going to go away or fade out of existence (unless it's replaced by something even better), that's just not how technological progress works. It's useful, probably in ways we haven't even thought of yet.
I don't get it, why would operating a datacenter needs massive amount of high skilled blue-collar labor. Datacenters are resource hungry. With so much automation in place I don't think there would be a need for large pool of labor.
You seem to suppose the building of those datacenters - even the power plants behind them - won't soon be automated. Almost as if robotics isn't happening.
I also understand that weight lifting can help reduce allergies, since the immune system is kind of a "luxury" system that cedes resources when the body is recovering from injury, and weightlifting is deliberate minor injury.
Maybe acupuncture could work through the same mechanism?
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