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by notatoad 28d ago
The monopoly on the use of force has gotten kinda blurry as well these days. As long as people keep electing anti-government governments, the risk of technocracy is very real.
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by notatoad 1mo ago
i can't remember where i read it, but a few days ago i saw they didn't expect a restock until next year
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by notatoad 1mo ago
if you've got an enterprise contract, doesn't that include pricing? a temporary discount on the base API rate probably isn't super relevant to that.
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by notatoad 1mo ago
if you're picking AI models for long-term sustainability you're doing it wrong. There's really no point in locking in model choice for anything more than a month or two these days.
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by notatoad 1mo ago
what the spec says doesn't really matter though, the spec is just nonsense people wrote down to try to back-explain decisions that the browsers had already made. pixels are pixels, and no browser implements them as a fractional-inch me
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by notatoad 1mo ago
px is still a useful unit. the user's operating system applying a scaling fator doesn't make it not useful. if the user's operating system is configured to draw pixels at a 1:1 ratio, your pixels will be drawn at a 1:1 ratio
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by notatoad 1mo ago
>reaches out to service.com/agents.md for a fresh copy every so often and uses that to resolve the relevant tool calls. that is basically what MCP is. except it answers all the questions that your version handwaves away - how often
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by notatoad 1mo ago
it's not easier for agents to work with. it's easier for organizations to work with. for agents, they're essentially the same thing - remote endpoints, and instructions on how to call those endpoints. what MCP brings is cen
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by notatoad 1mo ago
Lots of smart people have tried to implement micropayments like this, and it has never worked. Publishers would rather have the chance at $10 than give up the chance at $10 for 10c. And readers don’t want to be thinking about their credit
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by notatoad 1mo ago
yes, but the GLM subscription gives you barely more usage than you'd get just paying API rates. it's not subsidized like the claude or chatgpt subscriptions are.
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by notatoad 1mo ago
i don't think that's an issue. it's still a perfectly good rule. use what you're familiar with, until it stops working. then use something else. postgres just goes a lot further than a lot of other tools before you ge
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by notatoad 1mo ago
if your highest performing ad is against searches for literally the title of your book, isn't that a signal that you don't need to buy ads? people are searching for your book. they will buy it whether you advertise or not. so w
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by notatoad 1mo ago
no, at subscription prices claude is a better value than GLM. They're only a better value if you're paying API rates
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by notatoad 1mo ago
I think I generally agree with you - OpenAI and anthropic will probably succeed here. If the ai bubble pops, they’ll come out on top. I just think the whole “moat” discourse is silly. OpenAI and Anthropic’s success depends on the same thi
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by notatoad 1mo ago
Isn’t almost all of anthropic and OpenAI’s compute leased? If compute is the moat, that doesn’t really make their position any less precarious.
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by notatoad 1mo ago
probably not all that much... the market would dip, just like every time a new open weights model gets announced. but hundreds of millions of people aren't going to immediately self-hosting their own models. the biggest winner in tha
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by notatoad 1mo ago
$100b is payment volume, not revenue. Stripe gross revenue from those payments would be on the order of tenths of a percent of that.
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by notatoad 1mo ago
no. i don't know if openrouter even guarantees consistent protocl across models. the value of openrouter is it offers centralized billing. you can route your calls to any provider you want, test a whole bunch of models against each o
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by notatoad 1mo ago
this all seems to fall into trap of most UI design writing, where people write blog posts about what users want, what users think, and what users understand, without actually doing any user testing. unlike everybody else in this comment sec
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by notatoad 2mo ago
nobody is saying. just "more". but openrouter says they don't expect the price to change other than through the deepseek api, other people hosting the same model will keep charging the same price.
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by notatoad 2mo ago
"all of them are tagged with transponders" seems like a very dangerous assumption to base a system on.
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by notatoad 2mo ago
yeah, it really feels like the economics of AI are going to settle on trust - who do you trust to act on your behalf, because that's where the real value comes in. and at the same time, it feels like all the AI companies - not just elo
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by notatoad 2mo ago
brick pavers need a tamped gravel base, then bedding sand, and then polymeric sand to lock them together. the cost of install is not just the cost of pavers. and installation is something that requires enough skill that it's possible
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by notatoad 2mo ago
sort of. they have a local model, it does some things. they also have significant cloud infrastructure backing it, and most tasks are going to be sent off to the cloud for processing, not be handled by the on-device model. Siri is not on
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by notatoad 2mo ago
yeah, i tried out GLM-5.2 when the news was all full of hype for that, and it's fine... definitely better value that API rates for claude. but comparing the value i got from that to the value i get from a claude max subscription... cl
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by notatoad 2mo ago
that matches my experience with their GA stuff though.
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by notatoad 2mo ago
Does that mean anything at all? They released it. Customers paid for it. Sticking a preview label on it doesn’t change that it was released
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by notatoad 2mo ago
>build reliable software this feels like "make no mistakes" level of prompting. reliable software isn't as simple as making it reliable, it's about choosing the trade-offs in the areas that don't matter as much
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by notatoad 2mo ago
there was a significant impact on the market because the market assumed that a strong cheaper model would have a significant impact on the US AI companies' business. That didn't happen.
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by notatoad 2mo ago
these questions all have easy answers that could be quite easily discovered by simply trying to use passkeys, instead of trying to find reasons not to use them.

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