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When You Use A Nuclear Reactor To Power A Light Bulb

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1 month ago 205.8K views 1 shares

When You Use A Nuclear Reactor To Power A Light Bulb

Paying $1200/month to use GPT-4 to uppercase text. That's like hiring a brain surgeon to put on a band-aid. The real kicker? Someone spent their entire weekend auditing API costs only to discover they could've just used .toUpperCase() and saved $1000. The most expensive string transformation in history. Somewhere, a regex is laughing at us all.

Hetzner FTW: Crying All The Way To The Bank

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6 months ago 179.0K views 0 shares

Hetzner FTW: Crying All The Way To The Bank

Trading AWS for bare metal hosting like Hetzner is the tech equivalent of crying yourself to sleep at night... until you check your bank account. That moment when you realize managing your own servers is a royal pain, but the 80% cost savings makes you wipe those tears with cash. Nothing says "I've made questionable life choices" quite like SSH-ing into actual hardware at 3am, but hey, your CFO thinks you're a goddamn hero.