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by fallingbananna 2mo ago
>People understand instinctively that "just building more" is not working and never will. Wait. Why? Do they? If the problem is the lack of housing. Why wouldn't building more be a solution? Or are you refering that the ph
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by fallingbananna 2mo ago
I can imagine that all the tool calls that agents regularly make during regular software dev workloads would become the new bottleneck and so tasks overall won't be completed anywhere near 10x faster. However, I wouldn't diss the
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by fallingbananna 2mo ago
What's even weirder is that the substitution is explained in "How TOON works" section. Yet TOON never describes such behavior anywhere in its spec.
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by fallingbananna 2mo ago
I have a devils advocate argument: AI spend doesn't need to scale with salary. If a company was OK with paying 10k a month for an employee in the US because they considered their work more valuable. And the same company is only willing
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by fallingbananna 2mo ago
I don't mean to be disrespectful... but, why would you consider tech intended to save lives and resources less of a deal, than slightly faster flights over the Atlantic?
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by fallingbananna 2mo ago
Presumably, the data center usage could also be bursty, right? More people will be using AI during the (work)day, than at midnight. Then they could do half solar, half gas. Also "more expensive" when it comes to solar isn't m
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by fallingbananna 2mo ago
What if we used 100% of the brain all the time? As an end consumer, I don't care about the number of active parameters. I really do care only about the tracked metric (how well does it do the job, and how much does it cost... ideally a
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by fallingbananna 2mo ago
GPT 5.6 Luna is an extremely cheap and still very capable model. A chinese model being in the same ballpark of capability at half the price sounds believable to me.
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
Is there a theoretical reason why they can’t? As a layman I would assume nothing is preventing it, other than the large amount of effort it would take to implement.
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
MAI-Code-1-Flash is available via GitHub Copilot. I wouldn't be surprised if they added MAI-Cyber 1 there too.
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
The question may sound ridiculous. But isn't it more ridiculous that some company decided that the correct answer to such innocent and curious question is basically "That knowledge is too dangerous, you shouldn't ask that.&qu
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
We wouldn't be having any talk about AI Slop if it was impossible to tell AI apart from people.
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
You could... but I view JSON as a simple format that you could write a recursive parser for in a few hundred lines yourself. Bringing in compile-time code generation just for defining static JSONs (which is not that common outside of tests,
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
I would rather flip the question. Why not? If you watch streamers, there are going to be Vtubers on the same platform recommended to you. Are you going to discard/ignore those streams because the streamer is more privacy concious and d
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
Kilo is the top 3 option there, and that's a fork of OpenCode.
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
While I do agree that cost per task is what customers should care about, and not cost per token. Cost per token is an objective metric. Cost to do a task can vary a lot. Different tasks, different prompts, or just pure randomness nature of
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
In most countries, Wero is still in incubating stage. i.e., banks anouncing that in the next 3 years they will support it. Of course it's not widely used by vendors when it's still in development. I am hopeful that it will take of
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
I don't know who else is launching satellites, but many airlines do offer wifi, often via partnerships with telco companies. It's just expensive and slow. So the only moat I see (as a layman) is the speed and capacity. The one fli
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
I know that market, and people for that matter don't care, but the environmentalist in me questions the word "needs" in the context of using AI.
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
To me it felt no different from socialising nowadays as an adult. Some weren’t on social networks at all, and thus missed out on some of the socialising. But also saved themselves from many cringey trends, FOMO, etc. While some others were
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
Good catch! Disk reads do generate writes to cache. But the cache itself is in RAM, not on disk. So it shouldn’t cause additional wear of SSD.
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
Meta isn’t right now on the radar for most folks picking models. If they have a really good model, it makes sense to subsidise it, to gain users, before they align prices with competitors.
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
I don't know about you, but I don't treat people worse just because they dress differently. And similarly, I don't think it's reasonable to suggest OP is the wrong one for being treated worse for wearing clothes from the
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
The point about correct use being a status thing is such a good point, that you almost never see mentioned, but definitely feel it. Recently I saw a discussion on Reddit where the author made a minor mistake in the title, that sounds perfec
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
AFAIK a lot of the highly skilled German emigrants go to Switzerland.
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
You don't magically get language skills by living in the country. You still have to put in the time and effort. The utmost basics, A1, you could learn very quickly and those will get you through basic interactions (buying groceries, gr
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
I live in Austria, and from my experience it's the higher management that is almost exclusively native Austrians. But the highest (C-level) and lowest (IC-level) staff is international.
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
I was under the impression that English speaking countries are by far the most desirable for immigrants. Most people don't care that the current US, or UK governments are a mess, because grass isn't exactly greener back at home. A
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
It's less of a basic decency if you're in a country where almost everyone is fluent in English, you get by your life just fine in English, speaking the local language doesn't open new doors, as you're not going to be &qu
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by fallingbananna 3mo ago
With how much cultural weight law of Jante has in Denmark, I would hope so.

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