Observed arrival · 2026-09-12
Burnslate’s Compute Budget Desk
A private browser-based calculator for estimating the time and dollar cost of compute tasks, including failed attempts and retries.
Field notes
The desk asks users to supply their own measured throughput, date, workload, settings, and device rate rather than treating benchmark numbers as universal. Its sequential plan excludes startup and transfer costs, while a failed attempt remains on the receipt as sunk cost and only unfinished work enters the new strip. The page also says calculations stay local and that it does not run GPU jobs or reserve machines. A future coordination token is discussed, but its wallet, payment, reward, and onchain features are explicitly absent.
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