I've deployed a number of Laravel apps in both traditional and serverless architecture. I have to say I'm pretty excited about Laravel cloud. Not that deploying Laravel is hard, but for a full fledged app there's a number of moving parts that I'd rather not deal with.
Plus if you're building apps for clients handing off the whole hosting side of things sounds amazing.
I'm fairly excited too. It seems the target is "Vercel but for PHP" and the lack of a Vercel/Netlify-style deployment option has pretty consistently been used as an argument against using PHP/Laravel at my agency. I've already started seeing longtime Node/Typescript devs showing interest in Laravel and Laravel Cloud will likely only increase that.
My wife and I direct deposit the first 90% of our paychecks to a shared savings account. Our family's living expenses are transferred from there to a shared checking account on the first of each month.
The other 10% goes into our personal checking accounts to spend on whatever we want.
If it's limited to 8k context length then it's not competing with sonnet at all IMO. Sonnet has a 200k context length and it's decent at pulling stuff from it, with just an 8k context length this model won't be great for RAG applications, instead it'll be used for chat and transforming data from one type to another.
While that's true when you're dealing with a domain that's well represented in the training data and your return type isn't complicated, if you're doing anything nuanced you can burn 10k tokens just to get the model to be consistent in how it answers and structures output.
I've been using one of these for the last two years and definitely feel more rested on the nights I wear it. Never tried a CPAP so I can't speak to the comparative effectiveness. The brand I've been using is called Silent Nite.
Had a sleep study done years ago that showed mild sleep apnea, but at the time wasn't severe enough to warrant a CPAP.
Silent Nite mouthguards work great for snoring, best thing out there that I've tried for it. However, I've been cursed with the propensity to grind my teeth, hard. I've snapped every single one I've used after a few months. Mouth guards have been a very expensive outlet of my money.
I expect that locally installed models will quickly resemble how we think about drivers today. In the short term you'll install a notes app that requires Mixtral-8x7B so you pull that in through ollama. Down the line all operating systems will ship with various models preinstalled.
I see foreign keys the same way I see types. You may not need them, but they catch a lot of mistakes and give you more confidence in the integrity of your system.
I tried hard to get a bluesky invite a few months ago. Even put a few bids on ebay hoping to get one for less then $100. The fomo has since passed. Probably wouldn't bother signing up if I got one today.
Plus if you're building apps for clients handing off the whole hosting side of things sounds amazing.