I don't know if that website works/shows full episodes in the US, currently I'm in a EU country and everything except the last two seasons seems available.

The end of the article has this:

> Consider custom infrastructure when you have both: sufficient scale for meaningful cost savings, and specific constraints that enable a simple solution. The engineering effort to build and maintain your system must be less than the infrastructure costs it eliminates. In our case, specific requirements (ephemeral storage, loss tolerance, S3 fallback) let us build something simple enough that maintenance costs stay low. Without both factors, stick with managed services.

Seems they were well aware of the tradeoffs.

> If you start Python and ask it how many CPU cores you have, it will count both kinds of cores and report 20

> Note that because of the speed difference between the cores, you will want to ensure there is some form of dynamic scheduling in your application that can load balance between the different core types.

Sounds like a new type of hell where I now not only need to manage the threads themselves, but also take into account what type of core they run on, and Python straight up report them as the same.

Probably exactly why they "determined" it to be out of scope :)

Also remembering when Firebug for Firefox appeared, and made so many things so much easier. Suddenly things that took hours took days, and it was so much easier when you had some introspection tools.

Seems most of the people one would encounter out in the world might not posses AGI, how are we supposed to be able to train our electrified rocks to have AGI if this is the case?

If no one has created a online quiz called "Are you smarter than AGI?" yet based on the proposed "ten core cognitive domains", I'd be disappointed.

Yeah probably, until they find the point where more people leave because it's too expensive than they'll earn by raising prices, then they'll oscillate or find a new direction. Isn't that how capitalism is supposed to work?

Unrelated, but fun example as South Park is probably the only show on TV that also let people watch the entire show (-latest seasons it seems) for free online! https://www.southparkstudios.com/seasons/south-park

Been like that (in many places) for many many years at this point too :)

I'd predict most of the piracy would again disappear quickly as long as it's better, faster and has virtually everything people wanna watch. Basically replicate what Spotify did, but more open, so closer to what Grooveshark tried to do I guess.

And even if you could get all the video itself, it's not guaranteed you'd get the right video+audio+subtitles combination that you want, as everything seems to be negotiated separately.

So while one service could offer the right audio and the right video but not the subtitles you want, another service could have the right video and the right subtitles but instead be dubbed without original audio.

It became a whole mess for people and eventually it was again simpler to just resort to piracy for the even the slightly technical consumers.

But aren't those made regardless if the people with old computers upgrade to them or not? I guess over time, they'll make less if people buy less, but the ones we'd purchase today has already been made, and might as well replace less energy efficient devices than just being added to the global count.

Do you have any links to public thoughts about this? As if it was true, could mean a lot of research could be invalidated, so obviously would make huge news.

Also feels like something that would be relatively easy to make reproducible test cases from, so easy to prove if that's true or not.

And finally if something is easy to validate, and would make huge news, I feel like someone would already have attempted to prove this, and if it was true, would have published something a long time ago.

Thanks for adding the additional context!

I'll try to replace bits by simplified versions though, probably could help at least getting closer to knowing where the issue is.

Anyone have more debugging tips I'd greatly appreciate it! Nothing is too small or "obvious", as I'm about to lose my mind more or less.