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by stanac 3mo ago
Last time I used subscription I hit a usage limit in 20 minutes (gemini). I switched to openrouter and have enough prepaid credits to last me for months with Chinese models. I spent about $30 in last two months.
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by stanac 3mo ago
For personal use I don't care if I get access to it. Tokens are becoming too expensive. I am using Chinese models. What worries me is that my company may never get access. I work for a well known US company, but from Europe, we also ha
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by stanac 3mo ago
> Just last week finally I had to buy a new phone ... this time no AI was mentioned anywhere It's not surprising given that "Sixty percent of US consumers say ‘AI’ in brand messaging is a turnoff, survey finds" https:&#x2
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by stanac 3mo ago
Yup, if we take OSI as defacto authority on open source definition > 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor > The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, i
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by stanac 3mo ago
This works if the account doesn't have 2FA. On my last side project app users can login only via email OTP. There are security downsides with that, someone can send phishing link and use OTP submitted to the fake site, but the app does
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by stanac 4mo ago
Not GP, but here is how I know. Messi and Steve Carell did an ad for local chips brand, (market size < 10 million people). There is no way that brand could afford them. Searched online and found the same ad for Lay's. Turns out Peps
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by stanac 4mo ago
Ben Syversen > Documentaries featuring stories from the history of math and science https://www.youtube.com/@bensyversen Integza is no longer small, but still good, home built rocket engines https://www.youtub
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by stanac 4mo ago
> Some are even offering API rates at 3x lower than the official ZAI api rates Looking at openrouter [1], some of the cheaper offerings are for quantized models. Not sure how much intelligence is lost in quantization. And they are not 3
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by stanac 4mo ago
> Token leaderboards are a ridiculous idea We have this at work, it's insane. Today I used opus high thinking to write a jira ticket for simple API endpoint. Every code change, every bug fix, every single code review, I have to util
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by stanac 4mo ago
"Sign up for free access to this post". There should be a rule about this kind of posts. If there isn't already. https://archive.ph/1YRCE
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by stanac 4mo ago
I am not sure what is forbidden. There was a YT video about computer they were using for business. It was stripped down OS (windows xp?) that only had office apps, or something like that. I am unable to find the video, but here is an intere
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by stanac 4mo ago
Yup, people who are into niche hobbies can be almost obsessed with it. Like a guy having 50 zippo lighters, or someone having collection of retro consoles. Same here, people are building more than one keyboard because they love it.
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by stanac 5mo ago
> Employee owned co-ops are more humane Speaking as someone born in Yugoslavia. That's almost how it was in Yugoslavia. Companies where "owned by society", but workers had voting rights. Whenever there was a vote to decide
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by stanac 5mo ago
> The default sign in flow with the app enabled is email + authenticator. No password required Isn't this only if browser have some cookie from previous session or IP didn't change? Edit: just tried (new IP + private window fir
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by stanac 5mo ago
I think they were comparing CLIs, not VS extensions.
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by stanac 5mo ago
Most of these problems could be solved with something like wasm/wasi where you can limit access to web, disk, etc... WASI is made to run code you don't trust, you could even limit compute third party is using so they can't mi
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by stanac 5mo ago
That's why we have "youtube.com is now full screen" message.
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by stanac 5mo ago
I worked for a payment processor in Europe, we provided SEPA and some other payments, but not card payments (so there could be some difference). Difference is in fees and licenses. Payment processors that process high risk payments (adult i
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by stanac 5mo ago
And domain is different than original Notepad++, now it makes sense.
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by stanac 6mo ago
I charge my s25 to 80%. Previous phone (pixel) was also limited to 80%, but radio stopped working after 2 years so I had to buy a new phone.
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by stanac 6mo ago
In both cases I get https://example.com/ in FF.
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by stanac 6mo ago
I think they are saying passwords are salted and we use multiple rounds of hashing to prevent rainbow tables and slow down brute-forcing the password (in case of db leak). We don't need to do that for randomized long strings (like api
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by stanac 6mo ago
I am just confirming that CAPTCHA still works against most basic bots.
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by stanac 6mo ago
I added custom captcha (simple math as slightly distorted pictures with audio alternative) on one of my forms, it prevents ~80% of spam submissions. less than 1% of spam passes, other ~20% are blocked on key words (like "sex", &qu
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by stanac 7mo ago
It's interesting, couple of things you can fix/change: 1. It's annoying to be asked to provide username every time I complete a level. Can you simply remember my previous choice? Instead something like next level button would
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by stanac 7mo ago
So is local stack dead? Is this situation the lesser evil? Or is it not dead and we will see a villain rise? Edit: I see now, they have commercial offerings: https://www.localstack.cloud/pricing I am not sure if my corp wil
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by stanac 7mo ago
Also IANAL: I Am Not A Lawyer. If you really want to guard yourself from a legal standpoint, write the full sentence. "IANAL" could mean anything. That being said, I am not a lawyer, I am not a legal professional, this is not a le
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by stanac 7mo ago
> If Photoshop ran in the cloud Off topic, but there is something like that: photopea, it's free and it's good enough for my use cases (I need it once a year maybe).
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by stanac 7mo ago
> The goal of specs is largely to maintain desired functionality over many iterations, something that pure code handles poorly. IMHO this could be achieved with large set of tests, but the problem is if you prompt an agent to fix tests,
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by stanac 7mo ago
After ~13 years of working with C#, I moved to Kotlin. It's such a beautiful language. When I have to read docs for a Java lib I realize why I like Kotlin. I want to say culture around Java doesn't have to change, new culture is g

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