What?

Both my cofounder and I have 2-5 long Claude code chats going at all times, 5 days a week, big codebase (15k lines) in context. We have yet to exceed even 40% of our budget on the $100/mo plan How are people spending so much on tokens?

100% Free S3-compatible migration tool for Carolina Cloud Should we pay people's egress fees as well?

Honored to be targeted by Palantir Curious about why…

PSA American Airlines only allows car seats on the window seat. Was not the case last summer. Nasty surprise that we narrowly corrected.

These things are over $9100 a month, making it incredibly hard for me to counter accusations that the cloud is overpriced. Yes, there's value in EBS/IAM/the rest of the ecosystem, but not that much value, frens...

Literally have no idea how to find the “just ride” on peloton UI

Anyone in tech who thinks they’re good at design needs to use zip ties

carolinacloud.io/#/migrate AWS to Carolina Cloud migration calculator. I've been quoting that CC is roughly 1/3 the price of AWS before egress. I'd like to apologize because this is not exactly correct. It's actually much better because I didn't include the fact that EC2 only includes EBS storage and that if you want local NVMe storage (which is not only default, but the only kind of local storage we offer at Carolina Cloud, 5000MB/s read and write minimum) it's extra (how much extra? They don't show). If you're a heavy user of EC2, S3 and Glacier, and don't need the vast matrix of complex features, you should check out this migration tool.

Apparently DRAGEN on Illumina rounds up to the nearest hour, and is also ineligible for free trial credits. This means the cost of aligning one genome, despite it only taking 20mins to actually align, is actually a minimum of $30. On @CarolinaCloudIO with @sentieon it's under $2. Confirm or deny? @AWS @illumina

Egress fees are responsible for 180-200B of AMZN's 2.93 trillion dollar market cap. Roughly 2.5 of $NET. I think this is very bullish for $NET.

I'm certain the "scandal" around @getdelve was a hit piece organized by the compliance cartel. CPAs and consultants are pissed that there's finally some pressure on their little rent-seeking operation.

Thanks @latitudesh for putting your trust in me

Come meet us in RTP next week luma.com/kz2y2pvo

Neither of these things are true

Whoa

I often quote Carolina Cloud at 1/3 the cost of AWS. I want to apologize for making that quote. It's incorrect. We are actually 1/4 the cost of AWS. The reason why is because on a comparable machine AWS offers EBS storage only. EBS storage starts out at 250MiB/s. When I compare a Carolina Cloud dedicated instance to an AWS instance I've been comparing our local SSD-only storage to their base tier of EBS storage. Anything more and the nickel-and-diming begins from them. So actually, when you try to bump your EBS storage to a higher speed (ie gp3 or io2, still both inferior to a true local XFS SSD which we offer exclusively), we're more like 1/4 the cost of AWS. People often ask me "how are you so cheap". They assume AWS's "economy of scale" means they are the cheapest around. This is simply not true. We currently offer over 1000vCPUs and 3TB of RAM in a 1/2 rack in colocation. Fully bootstrapped, less than $100k all-in. The real answer is that AWS's profit margin is 35% and has been for some time. As a large holder of $AMZN via a couple of ETFs I can't complain too much. But that's the real answer. I wonder what would AWS's financials look like if you stripped out the surprise charges? Nobody knows, and a few analysts far more well versed than I might be able to take a stab at this. If so, let me know if I can help in any with. This is why Carolina Cloud wins for data science. Local NVMe storage all the time, auto-stop, full billing transparency and storage partnership with the like-minded (and criminally underrated) Wasabi.

Does Claude Code overuse the terms "footgun" and "belt and suspenders" or are these common engineering terms that I simply have not heard before?