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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
> “Tokens” don’t have an intrisic cost or value. i am pretty sure these services know what it truly costs them to serve you tokens, maybe not in realtime but at least periodically. however, what they charge us is a constant exercise in p
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
> If Google isn’t carefully they’re going to push people away from their golden goose. we have moments like this every few years (almost as frequent as crypto waves in recent memory), but they keep chugging along. couple years back it wa
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
context: i work closely with the "proposed". people dispute the 1k per seat number. i have seen cases where that is the amount billed, while the actual engineer might be paid even less so. the point we seem to forget is the local
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
the improvements for sarvam was with the amount of tokens used to represent words in english vs non-english languages. the great thing about the current momentum is that someone can test this hypothesis by applying the T-Bank approach to th
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
haven't done it physically in a long time, but surely virtually. my 0.02 on the matter: things are stacked against you even if you are not strapped for time. a vast majority of the stack is changing too fast and non-digital versions ar
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
may not be the most efficient way to go about things, but there remains a seemingly obvious use case for non-latin languages to do things from scratch. see sarvam.ai and their tokenisation improvements on local languages [1]. not every llm
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
for the non opinionated, duckduckgo with an adblocker has served me just fine for the better part of a decade. you can simply set the search as you like and save as a search url [1] that can be set in the browser once and forget. their bang
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
as a personal syncthing user, i get it. although its clients in non-linux os can be better, especially on ios. on the other hand, the accompanying video did mention rsync and a future video on syncthing, which might shed some more light on
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
the psychosis has gone off the charts! anything that sounds odd to someone can now be labelled as an LLM text "smell"? why scoff over someone doing assisted writing? i might age myself but kids back in the day would try to sound b
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
for the most part, unless soldered down, it has been hard to find higher than dual channel (maybe quad for a massive odm gaming laptop). each stick and platform having set maximum memory capacity has put a glass ceiling for those machines.
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
paid a bit more than that just for a half-decent 16 gig stick recently :) i compensate by never paying for AI
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
interesting choice to use syncthing instead of rsync, given the OP is already comfortable with it. equally curious to see why it was not even mentioned nor discussed for regular readers/viewers. my main concern with the setup was with
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
my device just missed the window, and pre-covid it had a battery issue. back then, when i requested amazon to replace the battery, they simply offered a discount on a new one similar to the affected users instead. it magically started keepi
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
bun was never the recommended js runtime when they first announced its need for yt support [1]. in fact they recommended deno over all, even regular node. depending on the environment of choice, these runtimes are only used to bypass certai
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
while it looks like outlandish fantasy today, looking forward to their competitors dumping consumer memory in a couple year's time. regardless, this industry goes through such cycles (which have killed weaker companies and made the sit
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
no honor among thieves. while their mission (or their predecessor's) to make knowledge accessible to all have had positive impact in many of our lives, calling it "our data" is very misleading. these libraries, especially AA,
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
> In the Site Search section, click Add and fill in the following: > Name: Kagi > Shortcut: k > URL: ` https://kagi.com/search?q=%s ` looks like one can do this and use search without needing to be logged in. plea
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44643038
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
finally one of the things from the past i could say inspired me, like in the obituaries made by the vets in other posts! while the content had zero relevance to my daily life, the data storytelling was quite inspiring during the time i was
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by rldjbpin 5mo ago
to be more precise, it is just replacing the step where instead of entering a 2FA code from your (registered) phone no., it is you who has to send google a text. had this happen several months ago already when trying to log into my google
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
this is like a weird flex moment of stating that you are not famous enough if an AI cannot tell between your writing. regardless, who stops someone from just rephrasing their messaging with a local LLM before posting online? another examp
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
crazy to see the og 84 plus still shown in the comparison, still unchanged from all these years! do they only refer to the web app whenever they mention "online" as an adjective for the calculator? just a weird situation to be in.
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
quite interesting comparison and well designed. but while we are speaking about a decent device, sometimes it feels like we are giving its maker too much credit. tim's apple has been about the supply chain, with many past "parts b
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
> The base tier one always gets the fun colors not universally true for all of their products. the new iphone pro max to the apple watch ultra got the bright orange going for them compared the typical muted colours for the base one. the
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
this was bound to happen but the knee-jerk changes recently is just hilarious. having seen tens of millions of tokens (total; albeit not split by type) for a plan-agent workflow of a simple few line change, they should be also spending time
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
all of the grievances resulting in this move is a simple outcome of the cost of convenience. but it should not need going full opposite end to get something good enough. dedicated servers, as hinted by others here, addresses the vast majori
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Vision Banana | Google DeepMind(vision-banana.github.io)
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
context: previously worked for an automobile oem the current trend in the industry (before ai everything) has been software defined vehicle [1]. while the ux has been horible, the things hidden away from us are also becoming very bloated, a
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
context: using student pack's "pro" plan for a long time, with exposure to enterprise "pro" plan also. given the recent changes that kneecapped the plan for students [1], i feel less bad after seeing this. always ha
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by rldjbpin 6mo ago
for the company that is one of the major players in tracking similar data across the web, i don't see much wrong with this. if they continue to share their work through open releases despite the leadership change, i hope we get to bene

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