GoDaddy always struck me as a company ran by a "jock" (think Revenge of the Nerds) and all the technical people there are just there to collect a paycheck and don't care about the customers or going above and beyond, and it shows.
Just search for GoDaddy stories on old Slashdot. I've known since I had my own computer that GoDaddy=NoDaddy.
It's funny, the only time I can recall a programmer describing something as sexist (towards women) in the early/mid 2000's was somebody describing GoDaddy's booth at a convention. That really stuck with me for some reason, lol.
GoDaddy has also been blocking entire countries from being able to access all services.
And to make it far worse, IIRC, at a certain point, those blocks applied not only to GoDaddy's own website, but even to the DNS services that are provided for the customers, e.g., your own website wouldn't necessarily work from the "wrong" country, either.
Honestly, I dunno why anyone would use their services. High price, very low value.
I switched to zero sugar about a year ago, but all the zero sugar sodas use aspartame (yeah yeah not proven to cause cancer, but still not a great sweetener)
for now (out of laziness), I just grab plain sparkling water and add Stur drops
Also didn’t expect to be pulling recipes off GitHub, but I’ll take that any day over those paywalled sites
It definitely varies from person to person. I'm on the more sensitive side of tasting bitter substances, although I do like bitter foods like Brussels sprouts, grapefruit and kumquats, and I'm okay when food is sometimes bitter, as happens with cucumbers and eggplant, but when foods that aren't normally bitter are sweetened with bitter sweeteners, I really don't like them, even if it's a natural sweetener, like stevia.
Monk fruit is quite expensive, so I'm afraid it will not become very popular in commercial products like candy bars and soft drinks. But for DIY it is certainly a nice option.
yeah, another way to put it: if you don't want factories, that's fine; just don't buy manufactured stuff .. the same with data centers, if you don't want data centers then don't go on the Internet because by doing so you're becoming part of the problem.
I don't know if I get you're points because lobster farms are tied to certain external factors in a way things like data centers aren’t.
but either way, the argument feels very NIMBY: it’s not ‘no housing,’ it’s ‘just not here.’
so when someone say ‘let someone else host them,’ it really comes across as: I want the internet, just let other communities pay the environmental cost.
The cost of running a datacenter and the impact it has is also tied to external factors. The environmental cost is not the same in all locations. There are differences in land use, environmental requirements, power generation methods, and the downstream impact of all of those.
idk what it is about them that every "tech bro" type guy around me follows them, but I never followed them myself, so I was surprised to know they only have 300k on Twitter.
https://talimio.com/ Generate fully personalized courses from a prompt. Fully interactive.
New features shipped last month:
- Adaptive practice: LLM generates and grades questions in real-time, then uses Item Response Theory (IRT) to estimate your ability and schedule the optimal next question. Replaces flashcards; especially for math and topics where each question needs to be fresh even when covering the same concept. - Interactive math graphs (JSXGraph) that are gradable - Single-image Docker deployment for easy self-hosting
i was delighted to see your comment at top... I am working on the exact same thing, generating concept DAGs from books and letting a tutor agent use it for structure and textbook reference.
can we discuss this somewhere else?
https://talimio.com/ Generate fully personalized courses from a prompt. Fully interactive.
New features shipped last month:
- Adaptive practice: LLM generates and grades questions in real-time, then uses Item Response Theory (IRT) to estimate your ability and schedule the optimal next question. Replaces flashcards; especially for math and topics where each question needs to be fresh even when covering the same concept. - Interactive math graphs (JSXGraph) that are gradable - Single-image Docker deployment for easy self-hosting
The IRT angle is interesting — most adaptive learning tools just do basic spaced repetition, but using Item Response Theory to estimate ability level in real-time is a much more honest approach to "personalized." The JSXGraph integration for gradable math graphs is a nice touch too, that's a hard problem. Quick question: how do you handle subjects where the "right answer" is more ambiguous? Does the LLM grading struggle with open-ended questions outside of math?
yeah we use an LLM for the grading .. (for the free form questions)
the flow is basically:
When practice questions are generated, the model generates the question + the reference answer together, but the user only sees the question. then on submit, a smaller model grades the learner answer against that reference answer + the grading criteria.
I benchmarked a bunch of judge models for this on a small multi-subject set, and `gpt-oss-20b` ended up being a very solid sweet spot for quality/speed/structured-output reliability. on one of the internal benchmarks it got ~98.3% accuracy over 60 grading cases, with ~1.6s p50 latency, so it feels fast enough to use live.
for math, it’s not just LLM grading though:
- `SymPy` for latex/math expressions, so if the learner writes an equivalent answer in a different form, it still gets marked correct; so `(x+2)(x+3)` and `x^2 + 5x + 6` can both pass. (but might remove that one since it might be easily replaced by an LLM? And it's a niche use that add some maintenance cost)
- tolerance-based checks for the JSXGraph board state stuff; so on the graph if you plotted x = 5.2 instead of 5.3 it will be within the margin of error to pass but will give you a message about it
I also tried embedding/similarity checking early on, but it was noticeably worse on tricky answers, so I didn’t use that as the main path.
Google Workspace API(s) keys and Roles was always confusing to me at so many levels .. and they just seem to keeping topping that confusion, no one is addressing the core (honestly not sure if that is even possible at this point)
Jan 2017: [Godaddy has issued at least 8850 SSL certificates without validating anything](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47911780)
Jan 2019: [GoDaddy injecting JavaScript into websites and how to stop it](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18894792)
Aug 2022: [Tell HN: Godaddy canceled my domain, gave me 2h to respond, then charged €150](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32470017)
Dec 2022: [GoDaddy buying domains when they expire to extort their own users](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34153448)
Jul 2023: [Godaddy just stole my domain](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36854166)
Jan 2024: [Tell HN: GoDaddy Stole My Domain](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39209087)
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