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by quietsegfault 6d ago
The way that OpenRouter frames it with having calls routed to whatever provider is handy encourages you to think that they’re all the same in basic functionality. Really sours me on OpenRouter.
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by quietsegfault 7d ago
https://youtu.be/tEBYHHiQ4ps Home stenographer!
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by quietsegfault 7d ago
Good. Don’t say things around me, an Apple Watch wearer, that you don’t want getting out.
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by quietsegfault 7d ago
Good. I wish we had the “home stenographer” sketch from the Chapelle Show in real life. Now we do. https://youtu.be/tEBYHHiQ4ps
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by quietsegfault 9d ago
I too ran a large VDI, server, and scientific computing cluster based on Linux - libvirt in my case. I saved a bunch of money over VMware. When I quit to go to a higher paying job, they had to rip and replace everything with vSphere becau
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by quietsegfault 9d ago
Can you talk more about what changed in the last two months? I use open router for when I run out of limits, and I’ve done better than buying an additional sub for my uses. I thought about looking at a more niche player, but it’s not a prio
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by quietsegfault 12d ago
What makes you proud about IBM currently? IBM’s “RA” culture fostering Machiavellian politics, singleminded view of next quarter’s success, and asinine yet draconian bureaucracy are three out of MANY reasons why I’m embarrassed to have had
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by quietsegfault 12d ago
You get more bobcoins by using your old allowance and running out, then submitting GitHub issues that get ignored.
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by quietsegfault 12d ago
Are you allowed to use Cursor, Codex, Claude, or OpenCode or is Bob all they allow?
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by quietsegfault 12d ago
I used Bob extensively at an IBM acquisition, it was absolutely dreadful. Bobcoins.
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by quietsegfault 19d ago
It doesn’t even need to be secret or underhanded. The government can simply foster the media that drives their strategic goals. Same kind of idea as stochastic terror.
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by quietsegfault 23d ago
One big risk with Ebola is how the dead are handled in some parts of Africa. I understand the dead are cared for at home by family members which increases the risk of exposure. In western countries, death care is far more formalized with ex
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by quietsegfault 24d ago
we're done - straight to genocide, later buddy.
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by quietsegfault 24d ago
Stop repeatedly changing definitions and accounting rules until the desired conclusion becomes true. It's tiresome. In U.S. policy terminology, Social Security and Medicare are social insurance programs. Medicaid, SNAP, SSI, and housin
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by quietsegfault 25d ago
You only get to a majority by doing two misleading things… blaming the national debt on entitlements instead of general fund deficits, and counting Social Security (which is funded by its own payroll taxes) as a welfare program. The actual
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by quietsegfault 25d ago
> But the Protestant work ethic is good! No, it’s not. The Protestant work ethic is what causes people to come into work when they’re sick, spreading illness to others.
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by quietsegfault 25d ago
This is textbook sealioning! Wrapping an interrogation in a polite "just to clarify" and demanding point estimates and error bounds on a generalization is weaponized pedantry designed to derail the thread into an impossible burden
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by quietsegfault 26d ago
I think I get your point, and I’m sure there are ideas that will disappear forever. The books we were disposing of were so totally inane that I couldn’t tell you what they were, but they weren’t taken out in like 30-40 years. Northeast US s
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by quietsegfault 26d ago
Why is it a big deal? Do you think there's no difference between the books curated at Oxford University and the crap that Amazon is buying?
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by quietsegfault 26d ago
Why do you think that? Do you have evidence, or is this just a hunch? Why would Amazon waste money on uber rare books when there are thousands and thousands of not-so-rare books that could serve the exact same purpose?
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by quietsegfault 26d ago
Is there evidence that these mythical low-print-run books are being purchased by Amazon and friends for destructive scanning? I simply don't see why railing against the AI giants about this without also contributing significant effort
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by quietsegfault 26d ago
Do you think that you are somehow special and unique in needing these books? If the books cost in the 10s of thousands, then there's obviously value to other people. I've seen no evidence that Amazon or others are buying $10k book
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by quietsegfault 27d ago
I’m confused - are you intending to say Anthropic and Google are buying ALL the books?
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by quietsegfault 27d ago
Rare and out of print does not mean important or valuable.
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by quietsegfault 28d ago
It was awesome to see which lab and xterm someone was on in college so you could pop by. Plus, when you used the xterms, you never had to wait for an open computer!
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by quietsegfault 28d ago
The honest read: it’s not just AI, it’s annoying!
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by quietsegfault 28d ago
I found the Reddit dig at the end of the article very humorous.
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by quietsegfault 28d ago
Interacting with the public is the most exciting yet frightening aspect of any public project.
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by quietsegfault 29d ago
That mid-1990s postscript, networked printer when new cost as much as a small car! The HP Laser 1000 was like $250 tops new.
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by quietsegfault 1mo ago
I used iron mountain for offsite storage of tapes for a huge scientific data archive. The price seemed reasonable given the service we had.

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