vidarh

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by vidarh 3mo ago
The subs for those alternative providers have similar tiering but more generous token allocations than Anthropic and OpenAI, and deliver good enough quality to be worth it. If I needed to fall back on OpenRouter, it'd be paid per token
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by vidarh 3mo ago
If both of them are down at the same time, I would switch to my Kimi or GLM subscription and keep working. If they fail too, I switch to any number of providers via OpenRouter. While there is some lock-in for the hardest tasks, for most o
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Heh. For this specific task, if the output is the same quality or better per token output, it'd actually be positive, but I have plenty of tasks where extra verbosity would be undesirable as well, so I'll be keeping a close eye on
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by vidarh 3mo ago
I have a document generation task that I used to run with 4.8. This morning after it switched to 5, the documents were consistently 30%-40% longer for the same prompt... Not evaluated whether they are actually better or worse yet, but what
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by vidarh 3mo ago
And yet, for a site I use regularly, I keep getting the CAPTCHA, while Claude Code has automated the hell out of my most important interactions with the site using Playwright, and somehow never triggers the CAPTCHA...
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Or ask a coding assistant to write one for them... The bonus, you can use whatever detection method as a judge for a coding assistant loop. "/goal write a script to pass [some AI detector]"
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by vidarh 3mo ago
I think the key here is that as much as some AI doomsayers don't want it to be the case, and even as much as a lot of people would claim to care, most people won't care enough about whether or not they're consuming AI con
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Typing speed tests are not likely to end up reflecting typical typing patterns, though.
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by vidarh 3mo ago
I fully agree with you that whether AI wrote it or not isn't the actual issue. Luckily, it is fundamentally easier to measure the quality of the writing and argument than it is to determine whether a human wrote a text or not in the
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by vidarh 3mo ago
If doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Not only is it not a given that they'll get the correct answer for a lot of simpler tasks in fewer tokens, but smaller models are often available at far higher tokens/second inference. Ther
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by vidarh 3mo ago
If it matters that much, and you still don't want to, just hire someone to type it in.
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Fable is twice the price.
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by vidarh 3mo ago
> Sometimes I wonder why people don't get as angry at Apple as they do at Microsoft. Apple was the underdog at a point where Microsoft got its bad image by virtue of it's monopolistic practice. I can't help but think that
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Yes, I also got briefly very confused about the top comment.
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by vidarh 3mo ago
I've seen the text, and it was genre typical. You get 80% of the way there just by giving them a writing sample and asking them to copy the style paragraph by paragraph. You get a lot further with some basic statistics to look for seri
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Traditionally they have been . Several data centres in London are colocated in office buildings for example. I used to manage servers in one that most tenants wouldn't even have known about. AI focused data centres also could , but r
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Screenshots of Neodesk makes me want to rekindle the flame wars ;) (yes, the default AmigaOS look isn't anything impressive either, but "nobody" kept the default look so we're prone to very unfairly judging other systems
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by vidarh 3mo ago
> or revealed the programmer was an imbecile who thought they could get away with storing random data in the top 8 bits of addresses. Case in point: Microsofts Amiga BASIC.
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by vidarh 3mo ago
> most 'modern' UI tools adhered to standards defined by the Amiga team for cmdline usage and scripting. One minor example of the usability was that the ReadArgs() call was fairly extensively used within a year or two after it
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Survey people about who created a given work, and you'll find a whole lot of people who like something without having the faintest clue who made it, or anything about why, before even considering the people who can even name the people
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by vidarh 3mo ago
It'd be interesting to see what their detection rate is for AI text made to emulate old books.
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Consider that they are in effect detecting whether text has been generated by one of a few dozen entities that has produced more text for them to analyze than any given human author. Now imagine if they put the same effort into detecting if
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by vidarh 3mo ago
I think outside of a few niche uses, e.g. schools/universities, services like Pangram will struggle. Currently people care because so much of AI output is still poor quality. But given I personally know of someone with published AI-gen
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by vidarh 3mo ago
I think "somewhat incomplete" is underplaying it as such a large proportion of message exchange tends to include pointers to shared structures. That the message handling uses intrusive lists doesn't help. So "simple&quot
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by vidarh 3mo ago
The problem with that is that the messaging system permeates everything on the Amiga, so you'd lose basically every app without rework. That might have worked if the Amiga had a growing market share, but at the time this became an op
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by vidarh 3mo ago
Yeah, my old flame wars with Atari users were all largely based on vibes and spec sheets and screenshots in magazines and how ugly TOS looked, not on actual experience with the Atari... But I've been happy to be vindicated by various v
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by vidarh 3mo ago
The A3000 had a ficker fixer. If you meant that the other later models should have also included it, I agree. Regarding the MMU, the problem was/is the OS. AmigaOS uses message passing between processes extensively, and those message
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by vidarh 3mo ago
In all the years I used an Amiga, I don't think I ever had the machine crash because they used Forbid(). I'm not saying it never happened to people - I'm sure there were badly misbehaving programs in use -, but using Forbid()
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by vidarh 3mo ago
It's fascinating just how balkanised computing was at that point. Growing up in Norway I never saw a non-Mac Apple computer in person. Commodore was dominant, with Atari, Spectrum, Amstrad as runners up. Some schools had the homegrown
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by vidarh 3mo ago
MUI was slow because it layered on a crazy amount of configurability. You didn't need things to get slow with resizeable/dynamic layouts even then.

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