p1necone

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by p1necone 4d ago
Yeah I think just calling it 'Never' is much clearer, this isn't something that needs a dedicated single character, and ! is less readable imo
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by p1necone 23d ago
Yeah OLEDs are the first display tech we've had that is on par or better than CRTs in all aspects. On balance the tradeoffs were definitely worth it for the various LCD panel options but motion clarity, colour intensity and black lev
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by p1necone 24d ago
If OLEDs are 'designed to fail' they've certainly gone about it in a very roundabout way - there would be much easier ways to do planned obsolescence if that was actually the goal of display manufacturers.
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by p1necone 27d ago
Imo there's zero difference between 'thousands of microservices' and 'one monolith with thousands of functions/classes/etc' in terms of effort required to make it correct - both are still tiny interconnect
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by p1necone 28d ago
It seems like a misunderstanding of basic economics to assume that the price for this would track FTE salaries.
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by p1necone 1mo ago
This has not been my experience. Generally I do pin to 1 provider, or 1 provider with a couple fallbacks (especially with deepseek - most providers are 10x the cached token price compared to deepseek themselves), but even when I don't
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by p1necone 1mo ago
It's interesting that all three of those used roughly the same amount of tokens, and almost entirely output. Feels like the thinking level lever didn't alter cost at all for this specific task, even though it did change the output
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by p1necone 1mo ago
50% cache hit is really low - in a standard agentic loop you should expect like 99%+ cache hit percentage (which should also lower that $12.50 to like a couple of $ for the same amount of tokens). If you're using a customised harness y
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by p1necone 1mo ago
Apple customers are just built different.
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by p1necone 1mo ago
I just assumed this was what all phones with multiple rear cameras were doing, is it not? What are the multiple cameras for other than that?
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by p1necone 1mo ago
I read that and thought "ah that's going to confuse people, but I can tell they mean 30k-250k loc", so thank you for the clarification.
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by p1necone 1mo ago
The capital investment needed to bring new chip fabs online and to staff them is likely orders of magnitude higher than that needed to buy land to grow corn on. And then the ratio of investment to sell price on that land + infrastructure is
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by p1necone 1mo ago
I love hacking away at pi extensions. I realised how use case dependent harness behaviour is when I tried to use my customised-for-a-side-project pi config at work and realised I needed to tweak it significantly to be useful - I would not b
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by p1necone 1mo ago
I'm speaking in the context of building scaffolding for e2e testing, not the tests themselves. When I say "everything" I mean the frontend, backend, database, seeded data, optimizing runtime etc, I'm not talking about lo
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by p1necone 2mo ago
This is cool, but I gotta say - I care much more about keypress-to-screen latency on my terminals than throughput - would love to see some numbers on that.
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by p1necone 2mo ago
I've found the process of building good reliable CI that thoroughly covers everything has been greatly improved by LLMs. There's so much tedious plumbing and grunt work involved in building CI and automated testing infrastruct
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by p1necone 2mo ago
Yeah I'm on the same page - I spend a couple hundred bucks on a low-end-of-midrange android phone every few years (usually because I broke the old one by doing something stupid like walking into the ocean with it in my pocket). I can&#
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by p1necone 2mo ago
Imo this amounts to caring about the wrong thing. The only thing an AI model can do is take in text/images/audio as input and spit out text/images/audio as output. If you're going to analyse the safety of anything
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by p1necone 2mo ago
I feel like if you showed current frontier models to someone 10 years ago, they'd probably call it AGI. Does AGI have a clear definition or is it just a pair of goalposts on wheels?
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by p1necone 2mo ago
old.reddit.com works to bypass that on mobile.
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by p1necone 2mo ago
TIL the Dvorak layout does not derive its name the same way as the qwerty layout - I guess I never looked at a Dvorak keyboard before.
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by p1necone 2mo ago
I've noticed GPT specifically has more of a tendency to stop partway through things than many other models do. Although my most recent experience with it was 4.X I believe. Hearing "here's what I've done, here's the
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by p1necone 2mo ago
If a big enough proportion of the market is also following the same technical analysis strategies as you, it will predict the market. There doesn't have to be anything actually correct about the analysis. In reality I don't th
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by p1necone 2mo ago
I use GLM-5.2 as an orchestrator model which delegates to Deepseek subagents (v4 flash or pro depending on complexity) and it works pretty well for a quite complex compiler codebase when I do deep enough up front planning for features/
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by p1necone 2mo ago
This worked for Snow Crash - felt like I went on a theme park ride, got to the end of it, and hopped off still buzzing. Doesn't work so well for something less tongue in cheek.
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by p1necone 2mo ago
I don't know about Kimi, but in my experience other providers like z.ai and minimax don't serve the same models via their subscription plans as they do with api pricing. They're clearly quantised - spelling mistakes, wonky th
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by p1necone 2mo ago
Most non FAANG orgs could probably serve all their customers from postgres on a laptop.
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by p1necone 2mo ago
"The kids are alright" is evergreen. So much of the <insert current generation who are teenagers> are doomed rhetoric is pure nonsense, a lot of that rhetoric is on here.
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by p1necone 2mo ago
Exfiltrating secrets via monitor burn in would be wild though.
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by p1necone 2mo ago
> there's something funny about mathematics in that every novel result is broadly perceived as a big deal. Is this true? Or is it just that mathematics is an isolated enough field that only the results that are a big deal get broa

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