commandar

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by commandar 9mo ago
Sure, but the reason I'm confused by the pricing is that the pricing doesn't exist in a vacuum. Pro barely performs better than Thinking in OpenAI's published numbers, but comes at ~10x the price with an explicit disclaimer
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by commandar 9mo ago
In particular, the API pricing for GPT-5.2 Pro has me wondering what on earth the possible market for that model is beyond getting to claim a couple of percent higher benchmark performance in press releases. >Input: >$21.00 / 1M
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by commandar 10mo ago
Spinning rust still typically holds advantages for archival storage, as well. There was literally a headline on the front page here a few days ago re: data degradation of SSDs during cold storage, as one example.
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by commandar 10mo ago
>It also eats vertical space with those huge icons, which is precious given the current popular screen dimensions. This is one Windows gets wrong too, in fairness. W11 killed the ability to move the taskbar to the left/right side of
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by commandar 10mo ago
>I think people who do this think that people who use Windows perceive that the Mac experience is smoother, and may have some sort of Mac envy. There's an irony in this due to this: >b) WSL-based, VSCode-using devs who are one st
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by commandar 10mo ago
It was a built-in expander. The bed was 4x6 in standard configuration and could pull out another 2 feet to get 4x8 when you needed it.
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by commandar 10mo ago
I'm firmly of the opinion that, as a general rule, if you're directly embedding the output of a model into a workflow and you're not one of a handful of very big players, you're probably doing it wrong.[1] If we overlook
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by commandar 10mo ago
>(Healthcare in the US is nearly entirely Windows based). This wasn't my experience in over a decade in the industry. It's Windows dominant, but our environment was typically around a 70/30 split of Windows/Linux serv
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by commandar 10mo ago
>Then compare this to something like a Kei truck and it's really quite pathetic. I will forever be sad that Canoo was wildly (possibly fraudulently) mismanaged and went bust before they ever built any of their planned pickup trucks:
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by commandar 10mo ago
>Anthropic feels like a one trick pony as most users dont need or want anthropic products. I don't see what the basis for this is that wouldn't be equally true for OpenAI. Anthropic's edge is that they very arguably have s
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by commandar 10mo ago
Anthropic, frankly, needs to in ways the other big names don't. It gets lost on people in techcentric fields because Claude's at the forefront of things we care about, but Anthropic is basically unknown among the wider populace. L
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by commandar 1y ago
Tangentially related, one of the more interesting projects I've seen in the 3D printing space recently is Prunt. It's a printer control board and firmware, with the latter being developed in Ada. https://prunt3d.com&#x2
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by commandar 1y ago
I don't entirely agree there. In a vacuum for a standalone object, a 3D mesh app like Blender can be useful for brainstorming. Most of my CAD usage is designing parts that have to fit together with other things. The fixed elements dri
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by commandar 1y ago
>Even with procedural and parametric modeling in Blender, you will always encounter issues with approximation and floating point precision, which are inherent to the data representation. A common problem people run into with CAD models i
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by commandar 1y ago
>Changing dimensions or previous sketches is usually fine, but anything more complicated often results in everything in your stack breaking with strange errors, leading it to just be easier to re-create the model. This is usually the r
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by commandar 1y ago
> they would let random retailers fill the order with fake products What made this all particularly insidious is that Amazon not only commingled inventory, but actively refused to track where inventory came from. This meant you only need
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by commandar 1y ago
>I just have to mention that IRC had these archives so repeat questions had a corpus to search. The walled gardens don't. For many businesses, this is a feature, not a bug. Internal communications are discoverable in litigation. If
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by commandar 1y ago
Roo has codebase indexing that it'll instruct the agent to use if enabled. It uses whatever arbitrary embedding model you want to point it at and backs it with a qdrant vector db. Roo's documents point you toward free cloud servic
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by commandar 1y ago
Anthropic's models are fantastic, but they are -- by far -- one of the most expensive providers on an API basis. That's a large part of what makes the Max plans a great deal, right now. Even on a Max plan, it's not hard to co
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by commandar 1y ago
Roo can use Claude Code as a provider. I mostly use Claude Code with a Max plan via Roo. I have the option of sending prompts to OpenRouter if I've hit usage limits or if I want to try a particular task with a different model (e.g., I&
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by commandar 1y ago
>Pricing/usage will be very simple - a fixed subscription and we will no longer know the tokenomics because the provider will have greatly abstracted and optimized the cost per token, favoring a model that they can optimize margin a
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by commandar 1y ago
The thing about tiny islands isn't that every tool needs a sprawling ecosystem to thrive. It's that applications that don't develop a userbase tend to die. This is as true of open source apps as it is commercial ones. Typical
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by commandar 1y ago
To be clear: having a diversity of tools is a good thing! I like having options. My complaint is more that right now it feels like everybody is rushing to fill the exact same space with the exact same feature sets. It's resulting in a
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by commandar 1y ago
If you're opposed to using VSCode for whatever reason, that's reasonable. Though, for me personally, the fact that it only lets you use Claude Code strikes me as a much larger negative on net. It's not at all agnostic in te
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by commandar 1y ago
That's kind of what I mean though. Because I mentioned it and it's what I use daily: Roo is a VSCode extension. So you get the entire VSCode ecosystem for free. On the AI specific side, it has every feature this app highlights on
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by commandar 1y ago
On the one hand, it's good that we're seeing a lot of exploration in this space. On the other, the trend seems to be everyone developing a million disparate tools that largely replicate the same functionality with the primary vari
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by commandar 1y ago
It's going to depend heavily on your usage. I use Copilot because work is paying for it and it can be made usable, but requires being really deliberate about managing context to keep things on the rails. It's nice that it gives yo
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by commandar 1y ago
They're multipliers against your quota of requests. GPT-4.1 is "free" with a copilot sub, and then the premium models would burn credits against a multiplier. So higher multipliers count more against your monthly quota. GPT5,
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by commandar 1y ago
Kinda? The fact that they chose to tie it to and advertise it as "get paid to see ads" is a significant turn-off in my mind even if the rest of the ecosystem theoretically works in functionally the same way. In my mind, the enti
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by commandar 1y ago
A decade ago, I was really interested in the idea of using a crypto like what Doge was at the time for this specific use case. Back then, a dogecoin was a fraction of a cent so it was a better fit than its current valuations. Any individual

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