dabbz

6 ms·

1.
by dabbz 4d ago
I mean, there’s more privacy protection on payment data than there is for email address and browsing habits. Plus most companies just push out payment handling to stripe. So most websites have little idea who actually transacted with them
2.
by dabbz 6d ago
This bothers me so much with the existing offerings. I start with the chat interface then as soon as I want to get technical/run scripts/automation, I have to copy the context into a fresh code session. So cumbersome.
3.
by dabbz 24d ago
Yea I really resonated with the messaging and mission of Migadu. Super reliable hosting. Have had it for nearly 5 years now. (of course now that I recommend it, I bet they're going to have an outage...)
4.
by dabbz 28d ago
Metronome has been experimenting with real-time payment on usage based billing for tokens. That technology leverages micro payments using crypto. It's cool but all it's doing is moving the accumulated balance from a provider onto
5.
by dabbz 1mo ago
I mean one of those makes them look better than the other. That makes it tricky to be able to tell what is truth vs half truth vs a lie. You're right though, based off of what they claim, their great success is the cause of their failu
6.
by dabbz 1mo ago
I was going to interject that very sentiment. The upfront costs of running any model of value to the average consumer is so large to be basically non-existent. We need hardware to become commoditized and capable of handling LLMs at the scal
7.
by dabbz 1mo ago
Hey everyone! I found the COBOL developer!
8.
by dabbz 1mo ago
Your analogy falls apart somewhere for me but I can't pinpoint the exact correction to make your analogy work for me. Either way I agree. If they don't like only being able to buy digital PS games via Sony's platform, go to o
9.
by dabbz 1mo ago
Weird conclusion to draw from my statement. Feels intentionally hostile of an assessment about me, but I digress.
10.
by dabbz 1mo ago
Machines don't pay my bills though. If the content was free to share widely, then yea, who cares how it's accessed.
11.
by dabbz 1mo ago
I see a lot of discourse about it being fast-to-deprecation. But I see it a different way personally. Modern LLMs are trying to do more with less. Focus on doing the right thing the first time. Even if we squeeze dumb LLMs, the significantl
12.
by dabbz 1mo ago
Far better than the band 999mb, they don't do well in the gig economy.
13.
by dabbz 1mo ago
This is my thought as well. Models have to be intentional about which tokens they burn because there's a real lag time. If you can just fork out 10 different reasoning sessions at once with no regard for token waste/lag, you can c
14.
by dabbz 1mo ago
My company moved to GH Actions 6 months ago even after I pushed back with a "Are you sure given their reliability issues of late?" Now I'm stuck twiddling my thumbs with PR checks stuck/failing...
15.
by dabbz 1mo ago
There's a PLIST entry possibly relevant to it in `~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.networkserviceproxy.plist` I couldn't figure out how to get any changes to reflect but maybe it's a good pointer towards a solu
16.
by dabbz 1mo ago
My least favorite ones are the ones that fit in the rails to the left and right of the content that scroll with you. You can't click anywhere without an accidental ad click. Using any device without ublock reminds me just how much bett
17.
by dabbz 2mo ago
True, we have way too many thematic versions of Monopoly. I'm still missing so many copies.
18.
by dabbz 2mo ago
Honestly I was more thinking about TVs than monitors but I often forget Dell makes good monitors.
19.
by dabbz 2mo ago
It's getting really hard to find a solid, reputable brand of screen manufacturers that don't pull this kind of crap. I swore off Samsung screens after their popup ads in phones and TVs. LG was my next choice but this is deterring
20.
by dabbz 2mo ago
So OP needs to rename their slideshow tool to Claris?
21.
by dabbz 2mo ago
I have been using Plex since 2014, paid for the lifetime pass back then. It is by-far the most used piece of software I've ever relied on (excluding any general purpose software like OS/Browser). I have my family setup on Plex, my
22.
by dabbz 2mo ago
This reminds me immensely of DARK Basic built by The Game Creators. It was how I got my start into programming back in the day.
23.
by dabbz 2mo ago
I've found personally it's better to use AI to build a deterministic script for calculations like that. (anything that manipulates data should be a script not an AI).
24.
by dabbz 2mo ago
I suspect we'll see a hybrid before an all or nothing. Local models for computer control or delegating, online models for things that need strong reasoning, planning, and knowledge access. Again, I'd be more than happy to be wrong
25.
by dabbz 3mo ago
I agree that would improve transparency but it'd also lock us and Anthropic into a situation where changing that would require new plans, prices, notifications, legal, etc. I think the fact that we don't see tokens shows just how
26.
by dabbz 3mo ago
I mean if you want to spend $200, and get a guaranteed amount of tokens in return you should be using the API. I agree there should be more transparency what 20x gets you that 5x doesn't. Though I also imagine it's a tough problem
27.
by dabbz 3mo ago
I mean you got me there. There will be places who do have the means to build up massive GPU servers. There's just a lot more to it and I don't know if we're going to pinpoint an exact catch-all moat.
28.
by dabbz 3mo ago
I feel like the models have no moat paradigm died when a single model expanded past the memory of single GPU slices. The moat is hosting the model. Even paying a server host to run a rack of GPUs has immense upstart cost, and then you'
29.
by dabbz 3mo ago
Literally this. Every response initially was "we don't see that and we let it sit for weeks". Now there's just no response from devs. I was unable to browse past more than 1 or 2 pages before memory ballooned to 30gb.
30.
by dabbz 4mo ago
Software has been riding on the backs of the insane hardware growth curves for the last 20 years. I miss the days of reading about how software engineers had to delete standard C libraries in build time to shave extra memory so they can str

More ›