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by LaurensBER 7d ago
Amen, I've worked in a few European countries and (outside the big companies and banks) the Swiss love to poke around and experiment. They do have a tendency to complain (but so do a lot of Europeans) but that complaining does often tr
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by LaurensBER 7d ago
Initial impressions: this is a really strong model and the fact that they reduced prices at the same time makes it an awesome backup model to use when your primary subscription runs out and you need to bridge a few days before it resets. It
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by LaurensBER 10d ago
The biggest challenge with these kind of migrations is training users, especially government employees. Switzerland is relatively highly educated so this might be less of a challenge than in other countries but it won't be easy. The te
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by LaurensBER 16d ago
Not only is it unsecured root access to your computer, it also adds a thousand layers of "security" (which will break on every update) to pretend that it's safe.
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by LaurensBER 16d ago
It's not only that, all this complexity leads to stuff breaking with every update. For a tool that's supposed to just answer chat messages it's impressive how crappy and unstable this software feels. I have it running since t
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by LaurensBER 17d ago
This is a real risk but from the embers of the (current) systems a better one could still rise. Despite all the big talk from the likes of Wilders and Meloni, the moment that they're in government they do seem to be very willing to coo
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by LaurensBER 17d ago
I have many concerns about the rise of populism in Europe but the (few/very few) good things that might come out of this is that there will finally be (enough?) pressure on the EU to reform. Despite all their talk about being pro human
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by LaurensBER 17d ago
I would agree (not an Icelandic citizen but an EU citizen). Europe (and Iceland) have many, many challenges and we absolutely need something like the EU to effectively tackle them. The EU has tremendous potential but a lot of it's curr
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by LaurensBER 17d ago
The EU is definitely better than not having an EU but is absolutely not living up to its full potential as is evident by the low trust in it and the lackluster economic growth of the EU.
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by LaurensBER 17d ago
I'm afraid we'll need more reforms than just a veto reform before the EU would be effective but it's a good start.
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by LaurensBER 21d ago
If/when we can get larger context this will mostly be mitigated by these smaller models being able to search the internet. Self-learning/improving would be even better but that's still a long way to go.
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by LaurensBER 22d ago
Given that it's not possible to buy the USD 100,- or USD 200,- subscription on a team/corporate plan this effectively introduces the 5h limits again for all corporate users. At this point the 40 USD/120 USD Cursor Team subscr
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by LaurensBER 23d ago
There's three options here: - The provider has a massive amount of (unused) hardware. Google or Cursor seem most likely - The model is extremely efficient, beyond anything we've seen so far - Whomever made the model has improved t
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by LaurensBER 23d ago
Important nuance here is that the €3 for packages from China is a temporary solution and will eventually (2028?) be replaced by a more permanent system which _might_ work out more favourable for electronics. Having said that, the customs du
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by LaurensBER 24d ago
>™Every time I get "you used your quota, come back in 3 hours, or 2 days" -> that is experimentation time with their competition, leading to changed service plans. I guess this is why they're pushing Claude code hard (n
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by LaurensBER 25d ago
> Unfortunately, Canada (where I live) will feel way more pain from this than the US. I am not sure Trump will have respect for this at all, but the alternative was to put in a permanent trade deal that significant disadvantaged Canada.
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by LaurensBER 26d ago
It seems that they lack a holistic strategy. All these decisions probably make sense in isolation but together they create a huge mess. Given the increased pressure from open weight models (still 6 months behind but now more than good enoug
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by LaurensBER 28d ago
My Reddit account is 14 years old, I've decided to stop using the website and overwrite all historical comments with a protest message. I honestly did not enjoy it anymore, almost all subs feel political these days (and the worst kind
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by LaurensBER 1mo ago
All AI companies are valued as if they'll win the AI race. Problem is, only one can win * * That is, if a lab like Deepseek doesn't release a "good enough" model for the cost of electricity + a thin margin. Then all AI c
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by LaurensBER 1mo ago
I run my OpenClaw on whatever is the latest GLM model and ever since the release of GLM 5 it has been a smooth ride. The models solve whatever problem I throw at them and the code is good enough that I barely ever have to look at it (to gui
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by LaurensBER 1mo ago
> So they literally built MORE houses than the increase in population! Yet it's somehow a "housing crisis". You need to account for: - Existing deficit - The changing demographics, people are more likely to (prefer to) liv
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by LaurensBER 1mo ago
I'm not an UK citizen but as someone who lived in the UK for a while, my assessment would be that the issues that we're seeing in the UK (low trust in the politicians, ineffective of the government to address real issues, economic
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by LaurensBER 1mo ago
Pricing: 120/200 USD per month, per employee. This is an interesting idea although I'm not sure how many companies are comfortable with giving SpaceXAI access to all your files and data. Outside of America this is, most likely, no
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by LaurensBER 1mo ago
Sure! It's https://omp.sh/ with the advisor mode enabled. You can probably implement something similar as a plugin for your preferred harness. From a technical perspective I think it just sends the output w/h the
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by LaurensBER 1mo ago
5 USD is at the "raw" API price. OpenCode currently offers 60 USD API credits at 10 USD per month (OpenCode Go) and have even doubled it temporarily as a promotion. Effectively you can get Deepseek for 1/12th the already ridi
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by LaurensBER 1mo ago
We have an extensive description of _how_ tests should be written and they're reviewed by a human. All the AI does is fill in the boring middle part.
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by LaurensBER 1mo ago
I've enjoyed using https://omp.sh/
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by LaurensBER 1mo ago
[Feat][Core] Add disk offloading support to SimpleCPUOffloadConnector — #49644 https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/pull/49644 This adds disk as a tier in the HBM → CPU → Disk KV cache hierarchy. There's
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by LaurensBER 1mo ago
There's more to inference than just the input/output token cost. Caching has a massive impact. Deepseek charges $0.0028 per cache read on Openrouter. The next cheapest is $0.018. That's a massive difference and quickly adds u
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by LaurensBER 1mo ago
Dax (from Opencode) has tweeted that they can replicate or beat the price with rented GPUs. Deepseeks secret sauce is the incredibly cheap caching (magnitude cheaper than other providers). vLLM has recently released a similar approach. It&#

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