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by abtinf 10d ago
Good. Images consume even fewer tokens than text.
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by abtinf 10d ago
Amazon’s chatbot processed a price adjustment the other day without forcing me to call or chat with a human agent.
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by abtinf 10d ago
It is not a “clarification”. You are wrong and are spreading misinformation. In Farsi, the word for tomato is gojeh farangi.
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by abtinf 12d ago
But they accepted the transit fees, which means they endorsed the action. The guild would not allow any action to jeopardize the flow of spice. Thus any attack on Dune is implicitly sanctioned, notwithstanding their spice trade with the Fre
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by abtinf 12d ago
> capital offense No need. They simply cut off the offending faction from all space travel.
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by abtinf 12d ago
> actual harness makers I agree IBM Bob is not the revolution, but… We are still in the punch card era of LLMs. Maybe even the Altair era. None of this stuff has really been figured out yet.
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by abtinf 13d ago
> How are cached tokens priced? > There is no additional fee for using prompt caching. Input tokens, whether served from the cache or processed fresh, are billed at the standard input token rate for the respective model. Well, talk ab
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by abtinf 16d ago
> [cites a convoluted work around] > [still claims there is no reason]
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by abtinf 21d ago
> if I…pay UHG $18,000 and… UHG pays out $2,500…, only the remaining $15,500 should be counted as UHG revenue To illustrate the problem with this, what would you calculate their revenue to be if you become severely ill and they pay out $
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by abtinf 24d ago
Dumb question: why not drop/deprecate the WiFi standards and adopt 5G/6G across the board (operating on different spectrum depending on configuration)? Naively, I would assume that would save money on the BOM and make devices more
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by abtinf 27d ago
Every sentence on that page reads as slop.
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by abtinf 28d ago
Obligatory XKCD reference: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by abtinf 28d ago
That’s an interesting point. The reason traffic lights are colored is because they are showing distinct states of the same thing and the color is the means of differentiating. Same for transit maps: different routes are colored to distingui
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by abtinf 1mo ago
> In our experiments, scaling, SFT+GRPO post-training, and in-context learning amplify what the curriculum taught, but none meaningfully improves out-of-scope performance, indicating that the pretraining filter sets the effective capabil
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by abtinf 1mo ago
> got a pretty excellent pelican for the first two This suggests you primarily use Safari. While the bike renders, the pelican doesn’t in Chrome and Firefox. Probably one of the more serious defects I’ve seen with the pelican. It’s one t
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by abtinf 1mo ago
Of course, but it’s not so clear in terms of the question you asked, and certainly not in terms of government procurement. Those workers are often organized and unionized. They exert tremendous political influence to, say, require the facto
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by abtinf 1mo ago
100% of the money ends up going to people. It’s not like you get to the end of the chain and trade a fistful of dollars with the ingot of aluminum itself.
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by abtinf 1mo ago
There are a great many costs built into the system that this analysis won’t get you: mandatory useless ingredients, arbitrary standards, and pervasive regulations. I worked in aerospace and know a bit about this. Say you want to make a miss
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by abtinf 1mo ago
Everything is human labor. There is no such thing as a “resource” without human labor to convert raw earth into something useful.
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by abtinf 1mo ago
Why would I use this over exe.dev?
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by abtinf 1mo ago
Seconding the sibling comment - what are you using to run your personal site? It is very nice.
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by abtinf 1mo ago
The value of Kagi is hard to overstate. You have to actually use it and try out the features. Some things that I wish were different about Kagi: I wish Kagi Ultimate LLM credits could be shared with the whole family, rather than each person
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by abtinf 2mo ago
The entire thing is obviously LLM generated. Much better off just reading the release notes.
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by abtinf 2mo ago
Unfortunately nothing changed. They wanted generics all along. The Go ecosystem was a delicate, special thing. It was a wholesale rejection of the malignant consultancy takeover of programming that had festered and spread for the previous 1
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by abtinf 2mo ago
> There are generally two ways of tackling high inflation: with monetary policy (ie raising interest rates) and with fiscal policy (by raising taxes). While this is the orthodoxy, it should be obvious it is nonsense. The idea that we mus
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by abtinf 2mo ago
Ceteris paribus, all other things are never equal.
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by abtinf 2mo ago
I have no opinion or knowledge of the claims in that link, nor will I research them. The entire thing is obviously claudeslop.
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by abtinf 2mo ago
At some point, the leadership team had a conversation that went something like this: CEO: “We’ve spent tens of millions of dollars designing, developing, and tooling up to bring a new truck to market at a competitive price. We’ve worked out
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by abtinf 2mo ago
I’m way out of my depth in suggesting this idea, so forgive me if I’m committing a conceptual “divide by zero” and it’s not even wrong: It seems like the SpaceX IPO really breaks the traditional notion of market cap. Market cap has an unsta
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by abtinf 2mo ago
> This is where things got interesting. Not because AI wrote the code — the code itself isn’t complicated, it’s a 1986 game that ran in 32K of RAM — but because Claude turned out to be an extraordinary tool for interrogating 6502 assembl

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