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by petercooper 8d ago
I believe the compensation part only kicks in if it’s the airline’s fault.
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Language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter(gpu-lexer.vercel.app)
2 points by petercooper 8d ago|0 comments
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by petercooper 18d ago
CLaude, in particular, quietly , but genuinely and deliberately , overuses adverbs.
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by petercooper 19d ago
FWIW, on my Mac Studio I get ~24-27 tok/s generation between 0-16k context in - that's on the Q6_K GGUF with speculative decoding on. I have spent zero effort optimizing/improving this so far but will be trying the 4 bit MLX
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by petercooper 22d ago
How's the compute side now, I wonder? Because while the Ultras have impressive memory bandwidth for inference, processing prompts still takes a dog's age on my M3 Ultra. I heard the M5 makes some strides forward in this area, thou
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by petercooper 22d ago
More likely double that, even. I think you'd still see many buyers there. You can spend like $16k alone on a RTX 6000 PRO with a mere 96GB of VRAM now..
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by petercooper 22d ago
They seem to be suffering from the supply constraints like everyone else. They phased out the higher capacities on the M3 Ultra Mac Studio a while ago, and if you order a 128GB MBP, say, you're looking at six weeks or more for delivery
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by petercooper 22d ago
Allegedly, they aren't making a big deal out of the M6 which won't have Pro, Max or Ultra configs at all, instead waiting for the M7: https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/08/apple-m7-chip-heres-why-it-ma...
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by petercooper 23d ago
It reminds me conceptually of the idea of using a ST:TNG replicator to just give you another replicator of your own, or asking a stereotypical genie for "infinite wishes". The genie is indeed out of the bottle in many ways.
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by petercooper 1mo ago
As well as the headline in/out changes, people heavily using agentic coding tools will want to note the 6x (off peak) and 12x (peak) increase to cache hit pricing on Pro (since cache hit can easily make up 90%+ of input on long session
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by petercooper 1mo ago
And confirmed: https://x.com/deepseek_ai/status/2087864589895798968 Pro's cache hit prices are 12x or 6x higher now depending on time of day.
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by petercooper 1mo ago
"quietly" is the biggest AI writing tell of Q3 2026.
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by petercooper 1mo ago
Not to take away from the broader point, but modafinil is lumped in with methylphenidate as a stimulant that "increase[s] the activity of neurotransmitters such as dopamine and norepinephrine" . Modafinil does also stimulate th
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by petercooper 1mo ago
No, it’s a licensed black cab thing. London has had mini cabs as well for many decades who didn’t need to study anything and were not even licensed till about 20 years ago. However, their downside is they have to be prebooked and can not be
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A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website(patronview.com)
462 points by petercooper 1mo ago|436 comments
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by petercooper 1mo ago
I agree with you to an extent, but you have certainly given me food for thought. Sticking to LLMs, they seemingly get their intelligence (whatever that really means) from building models rich with knowledge, so you could have a point. But
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by petercooper 1mo ago
Hopefully this boils down to the smaller versions they've teased. In my experience, Qwen models are the closest to the "less knowledge, more intelligence" (yes, the two are hugely correlated!) ideal some tool-dependent tasks
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by petercooper 1mo ago
I'm guessing this is almost entirely about the incredibly low cache read prices. Few have come close to them, nothing has a bigger effect on (a typical) session price, and with the price of RAM right now, they have to be the biggest pa
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by petercooper 2mo ago
Shopping with my kids I noticed we kinda have a replacement here in the UK in the shape of HMV (originally a spin off of His Master's Voice ). When I was a kid it was mostly a record store, but now it's focused on what I'd c
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by petercooper 2mo ago
Any free hosting solution tends to spiral towards abuse at some point. Does it work? I'm a paid user, but set up a new free account to see if the deployment stuff worked there too (as I was linking to it from elsewhere) and it said I
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by petercooper 2mo ago
I bought one as it was on sale at the same price as the normal iPhone. Pretty good: 8/10. I have no interest in photos, don't need long battery life, and the lighter/thinner the better. That said, I'd prefer something sm
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by petercooper 2mo ago
Not a “road” as such, but it’s also quite common in multi storey car parks as well where a ramp is shared by traffic going both up and down to stop unnecessary crossovers at each level.
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by petercooper 2mo ago
It's been several years (and the issues are in my office so I could take a look later) but I recall it was a mix. They'd sometimes group big stories together thematically (like when all the billionaires were starting to get into s
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by petercooper 2mo ago
I was subscribed to this. It's beautifully designed, well written, good paper stock, the works. If the idea appeals to you, it's worth trying. Ultimately, it didn't work for me, but that's my fault. Despite my best inten
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by petercooper 2mo ago
Which, more often than not, causes weird titles I’m more likely to click due to sounding curious and interesting, undoing the entire point of the feature. I would not have clicked on “How My Images Are Dithered” but this truncated version m
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by petercooper 2mo ago
I wonder if the broad use of AI overviews on Google search results is having an impact. Maybe the numbers make it more profitable to use their compute on several billion searches a day rather than selling API access.
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by petercooper 2mo ago
Various devices that I don't want to install the official software or drivers to control. I've done this with several things, but just as an example I have a MIDI MPC pad (the sort of thing samplers/beat makers use) and worke
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by petercooper 2mo ago
Ah, there'll be something in the TOS absolving them of responsibility.
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by petercooper 2mo ago
"it doesn't silently go unnoticed", "would be silently inert", "instead of silently overwriting", "you can never silently overwrite" The biggest tell for me is overuse of the term "silentl
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by petercooper 2mo ago
I read this when it came out as a long time Ballard fan. It fleshed out a little more about his life I didn’t know, but becomes a weird read for the final third where the focus is on the co-author dying and the author switches to his wife,

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