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  • It’s BOSS Bottled Tonic. The idea I had originally was to not mix different scents randomly (soap, schampoo, deostick, EdT), potentially creating a dissonance or “frankensmell”.

    I don’t know enough about this to select a combo that works, but I can make sure to use the same scent across the board. BOSS Bottled Tonic existed as combined bodywash/shampoo, deostick and EdT. Unfortunately they seem to now have discontinued the deostick variant so I’m using the standard BOSS Bottled deostick as a replacement. It surprises and annoys me that companies aren’t consistent with the available scents across their product lines - did this mode of usage never occur to them? In my mind it should be a kind of baseline default.


  • tias@discuss.tchncs.detoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldModern lies
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    I have a nicer shampoo that’s about 3x as expensive, but it’s also at least twice as strong so I only need about a teaspoon for a shower (including neck, armpits and crotch). And it smells like a spa. Makes me feel great, and my partner often compliments how good I smell after I’ve taken a shower.

    So yeah, I think it’s worth it.










  • Let’s do some estimates:

    • An 8x H100 machine costs about $20 / hr to rent.
    • With a 70B model with 4K context, a H100 node can do about 300 requests in parallel.
    • A single response takes around 30 seconds to generate.
    • An average user sends about 300 messages / month.

    The throughput of a node is

    300 concurrent * (3600 / 30) = 36 000 messages / hour.

    The cost per message, then, is $20 / 36 000 = $.00055…

    With 300 messages per month, the compute cost for the AI vendor is 300*$20/36000 = $0.16 / month per user. By contrast, a subscription costs $20.

    So given these assumptions, it’s other things (like R&D, safety research, training runs, free accounts, etc) that represent the bulk of the cost and those could be scaled down to turn a profit. What will they do? Give how hyped AI is currently and the competitive landscape, I don’t think they’ll increase prices that much. We have products like DeepSeek on the horizon which are much cheaper, so it’s more likely that they squeeze money out of it by becoming more efficient.