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by film42 1mo ago
I guess it might be relative, but switching from VertexAI endpoint to OpenRouter was like 2-3x faster for us.
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by film42 1mo ago
It depends on how you're querying Gemini models. OpenRouter is the fastest by far. I'm guessing they bought the dedicated pipe from Google. Gemini via VertexAI and consumer API has pretty bad latency.
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by film42 1mo ago
Curious if this suffers from the same hallucination problems as Chirp or not. For example, if you pass chirp some audio with noise or even no audio, it will barf text at you like "I don't know. I don't know. I don't know
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by film42 2mo ago
This. I own a small company with 5 people. I pay Github $250/m. I'm sorry but the narrative of, "look at this burden we have, it's hard to take care of all of this code!" is pretty insulting when I'm paying $50
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by film42 2mo ago
Or rather, Stripe will find a way to make me pay for it as a Stripe and OpenRouter customer.
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by film42 2mo ago
What you're not seeing are the subsidized Google Cloud startup credits, which includes Gemini. If you're in that program, you choose Gemini because it's essentially "free" and consistent.
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by film42 2mo ago
Completely agree. Seems like a weird decision by Stripe. Opt-out or automatically pay more is not good.
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by film42 2mo ago
> The version of Radar you've been using is closest to Standard, and you've been receiving it for free. Starting today, you'll receive a free trial of Radar Standard, which now includes broad protection across all payment
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Stripe Radar no longer free, migrates free tier to paid plan(support.stripe.com)
3 points by film42 2mo ago|4 comments
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by film42 3mo ago
The postmaster is effectively your supervisor. It could see the child segfault and abort the whole DB, but that would be deferring supervision to your init system. Not ideal.
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by film42 3mo ago
You are correct! TIL, and thank you. Connection processes get a SIGQUIT, shared buffers cleared, and WAL replayed, but postmaster stays alive. It's effectively an online restart.
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by film42 3mo ago
A million users? Hell, I'd bet 99.999% of live postgres databases in existence serve less than 5 users on average. Even among products that actually make a profit, I bet 99.9% of them serve less than 100 customers a day. We hooligans o
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by film42 3mo ago
A thread per connection is a almost always the correct decision for performance, but by choosing a process per connection, postgres is able to let you load whatever sketchy extensions you want. Worst case you crash the process, not the data
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by film42 3mo ago
I've seen companies put a percentage of the team on a PIP as a "this is not a layoff but we do need to cut costs" situation. Hopefully Elastic is just being honest about it?
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by film42 4mo ago
I'm surprised they didn't do this the first time around. Like, a user says they forgot their password and you tell them they don't actually have an account, that's an information disclosure vulnerability. Not automatical
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To be honest about software(film42.substack.com)
1 points by film42 5mo ago|0 comments
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by film42 5mo ago
Acquisitions change priorities and layoffs put the squeeze on people. AI is for sure in the mix there, but open source decay is a result of no room in budgets for anything but maximizing revenue.
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by film42 6mo ago
To be honest, I think it's just a more honest score of what Opus 4.6 actually was. Once contexts get sufficiently large, Opus develops pretty bad short term memory loss.
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by film42 7mo ago
I hope it comes down to the NTSB recommending more controllers (or better conditions for controllers) to avoid task saturation, not just more process. It's incredible what a single controller is capable of doing, but for major areas li
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by film42 7mo ago
Camera cuts to a tech bro at his desk with 3 jobs and 5 instances of Claude Code running: > I had [the Register] explain to me three times what [Kim] got arrested for because it sounds an awful lot like what I do here every day.
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by film42 7mo ago
Maybe. When it comes to actual payments, fee structures don't allow for this outside of the laboratory.
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by film42 7mo ago
Maybe so. OLED comes with a risk, but I've run mine at 70-75% brightness with no issues. I probably drive mine ~2,500 hours per year, so if we make it 4 years that is a huge win in my book for something I stare at all day long. Plus, c
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by film42 7mo ago
I bought an LG 32" 4k OLED for $999 and it's hands down the best display I've ever used. No burn in even with lots of static browser/terminal windows for days and days. The fact that it's $3k and _not_ OLED is insul
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by film42 9mo ago
Just 10 minutes ago I was working with a very large semi-malformed excel file generated by a mainframe. DuckDB was able to load it with all_varchar (just keep everything a string) in under a second. I'm still waiting for Excel to load
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by film42 9mo ago
I made the switch on a new project and I don't regret it but it's still early days software despite the marketing. Concurrency control is fantastic, but it doesn't always work. I've woken up to see all threads occupied w
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by film42 9mo ago
I spend a lot of time out of reception and starlink has been fantastic. So much so that I leave it on anytime I'm driving where I have cellular reception because it's just consistently good. I get ~100Mbps whether it's a fore
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by film42 9mo ago
Same here. I was told it would take a at least year on the waitlist. A month later I had 2 friends offer me their spot. They weren't impressed with the truck after a few reviews came out showing bad towing performance. I opted to buy a
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by film42 10mo ago
Is open router still sending all OCR jobs to Mistral? I wonder if they're trying to keep that spot. Seems like Mistral and Google are the best at OCR right now, with Google leading Mistral by a fair bit.
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by film42 10mo ago
Installed _on_ an engine that operates at 200ºC!
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by film42 11mo ago
This is why I migrated my apps that need an LLM to Gemini. No model degradation so far all through the v2.5 model generation. What is Anthropic doing? Swapping for a quantized version of the model?

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