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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Making free accounts isn’t stressing their systems, not with the tight windows they give you as a free taste
Right idea, but not sure how effective this could be
I was thinking something like having a bot spin up thousands of accounts with multiple providers and then having that bot feed the input of one to the other basically having them all just loop over eachothers slop as much as a free tier would allow.
On a single account this does nothing but imagine it being done by a botnet or even just a dedicated group with a few powerful computers. Everything one account hits its free their limit another account is spun up. Effectively bypassing the free tier limit.
Sure, the idea needs some work but I think theres something there.
This would take serious understanding of anti swarm and DDOS protections to circumvent the checks that guard the signups.
Not saying it’s impossible, but maybe next to impossible?
Can we be human volunteers to help bypass them?! Sign me up, if so!
I actually think you're really onto something here
I think the workaround for this is just doing it through large corporate customers with hastily-implemented public support bots. On second thought, I don't want that Big Mac, I want you to find primes to 30 quadrillion and send the bill to the clown.
That just moves money from McDonald's to openai
Even that may be useful as it stresses their relationship and thus the business model