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by gbear605 8mo ago
At least theoretically, the bill would work on a “wallet” system, where you fill up your account with $X every month, and then you’re charged per use. That keeps there from being a huge bill, worst case you’re just on hold until the next fi
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by gbear605 8mo ago
I’m not familiar with the Claude Code subscription, but with Codex I’m able to use millions of tokens per day on the $200/mo plan. My rough estimate was that if I were API billing, it would cost about $50/day, or $1200/mo. So
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by gbear605 8mo ago
The bundle only works if it’s +EV for them. A lot of analyses (though not all - it’s complicated) say that the $200/mo bundle (and certainly the $20/mo bundle) costs more than that for most users, and the bundle is currently a los
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by gbear605 8mo ago
Bad news about Eshakti, the company shut down and didn’t deliver many outstanding orders.
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by gbear605 8mo ago
For me, I just stopped using Reddit. Turns out that I’m happier without it.
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by gbear605 9mo ago
Unfortunately large IP groups like mobile phones often need to be blocked because it’s the only possible way to constraint anonymous spammers.
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by gbear605 9mo ago
Dhaka muslin most famously isn't producible today due to a lack of knowledge. More broadly a lot of weaving techniques have been lost since they don’t make sense to do with machinery. I don’t disagree that there are a lot of gains, inc
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by gbear605 9mo ago
Personally, I'd like for copyright to be abolished, and then for LLM training to be made illegal for reasons entirely unrelated to copyright.
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by gbear605 9mo ago
Cloth absolutely has gotten worse over the last two hundred years since industrialization. It's also orders of magnitude cheaper, making it worth it, and certainly new types of cloth are available that weren't before, but we'
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by gbear605 9mo ago
> termux on phone via ssh I agree, but it also rhymes a lot with the infamous “why use Dropbox when you can just use rsync” comment. Convenience can be a game changer.
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by gbear605 9mo ago
It would be impressive in the sense of "Can I ask AI to make me money, and it does so autonomously?", since that's just a free source of money (until other people do it better than you and with more capital). But looking at e
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by gbear605 9mo ago
Ironically, Ghibli's adaptation of A Wizard of Earthsea (written by Le Guin, an American author) flopped in part because Miyazaki made it much more about heroes versus villains than the original story.
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by gbear605 9mo ago
Technically you can upload it to your phone for free, but you have to re-upload it every seven days, which makes it pretty frustrating.
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by gbear605 9mo ago
A related issue is “vote for my preferred candidate, or I’ll abuse you” as a way for husbands to control wives. That’s especially relevant when one party is favored by a majority of men while the other party is favored by a majority of wome
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by gbear605 9mo ago
Sure - the problem is that the almond farmers are being incentivized to grow almonds by giving them a significantly below market cost. If the the costs reflected reality, almonds wouldn’t be profitable.
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by gbear605 9mo ago
“Please revert that last change you did”, referring to like a smaller change that had just been done
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by gbear605 9mo ago
That's not just contrast framing. It's contrast farming.
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by gbear605 9mo ago
Just looking at my own usage at work, we’re spending around $50/day on OpenAI API credits (with Codex). With Claude Code I get higher usage limits for $200/month, or around $8/day. Probably the equivalent from OpenAI is aroun
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by gbear605 9mo ago
My 32 GB MacBook Pro sits at about 50%, even after months of being powered on, unless I'm running programs that use a lot of memory. That's at least what Activity Monitor reports, perhaps Activity Monitor reports it in a different
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by gbear605 9mo ago
Because Claude Code is not a profitable business, it's a loss leader to get you to use the rest of their token inference business. If you were to pay for Claude Code by using the normal API, it would be at least 5x the cost, if not mor
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by gbear605 9mo ago
> Developers want to use these 3p client and pay you 200 a month, why are you pissing us off Presumably because it costs them more than $200 per month to sell you it. It's a loss leader to get you into their ecosystem. If you won&#x
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by gbear605 9mo ago
Presumably Claude Code is a loss leader to try to lock you into their ecosystem or at least get you to exclusive associate “AI” with “Claude”. So if it’s not achieving those goals, they’d prefer if you use OpenAI instead.
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by gbear605 9mo ago
I’m not convinced that that’s an accurate view of Wikidata. Wikidata is a basically disconnected project. There is some connection, but it’s really very minimal and only for a small subset of Wikipedia articles. Wikipedia is 99% just text a
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by gbear605 9mo ago
IBM still makes a lot of money from large corporations that depend on them. But yet…
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by gbear605 9mo ago
Microsoft was sort of showing that a year ago, and then spent the whole last year showing everyone that they're just another IBM.
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by gbear605 9mo ago
You'll have to trust me that she's real, but I promise you that this is a real situation that she's actually concerned about.
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by gbear605 9mo ago
I have a friend who has someone who has repeatedly threatened to assault her, and her primary protection is keeping her address hidden from him. Should she never be allowed to own a house at risk of being assaulted?
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by gbear605 10mo ago
Look at the data - it had already been on the downslide for years before LLMs became a meaningful alternative. AI was the killing blow, but there was undoubtedly other factors.
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by gbear605 10mo ago
It’s essentially a federal law - if a state wants to get full federal funding for highways, they have to have a law restricting alcohol purchase and public consumption to 21+. It’s from the National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984.
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by gbear605 10mo ago
The journey it makes is 90 minutes and it can charge for that journey in 8 minutes. Offloading and onloading the thousands of passengers (and 220 cars!) takes much longer than the 8 minutes for the battery to charge.

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