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by spelk 27d ago
Not paying back US debt triggers a global depression.
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by spelk 27d ago
In Commonwealth countries, it's possible to initiate a private prosecution (by a person who hasn't received criminal justice). These don't usually get very far, but I honestly wish these could be used to prosecute people who
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by spelk 1mo ago
Admittedly a controversial take, but I think some of the AI skepticism I see is driven by status anxiety, alongside the perfectly legitimate complaints about verbosity, low-effort output, lack of a human voice, etc. The bar for what count
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by spelk 1mo ago
>3.7 Flash is available through the end of the year at an introductory price 1 of $0.75/1M input tokens and $3.75/1M output tokens. This price combined with the enhanced model performance enables developers and customers to sca
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Mistral OCR 4.1(docs.mistral.ai)
411 points by spelk 1mo ago|166 comments
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by spelk 1mo ago
My university let us take 3-4 courses, up to 12 credits total, as Pass/Fail, but only for electives. I ended up taking just one that way. The policy was really designed for the breadth year because in upper years, you had much less roo
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by spelk 1mo ago
Is the assumption here that inference costs will stay roughly static, or that frontier models will keep getting more expensive quickly enough to offset efficiency gains? Because I don’t think “the subsidization train is going to end” necess
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by spelk 1mo ago
I think like you mentioned, the practical reasons are disproportionately oriented around either privacy (, a clear constrained workload (need to OCR files/transcribe audio, and there isn't really a clear or meaningful reason to sw
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by spelk 1mo ago
Labour force survey microdata files are public, for anyone who wants to poke in there for a more granular breakdown: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/en/catalogue/71M0001X Obvious caveat being that Claude Code
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by spelk 2mo ago
I don't think this would make a big difference for the threat model described in the OP? They'd still be able to use your IP Address and potentially do nefarious things through your role as an unwitting proxy.
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by spelk 2mo ago
I think from a technical perspective, newsletters are a solved problems with lots of options as you've mentioned. Substack thrives because it's built a reputation for having well-reasoned or engaging voices in a newsletter format.
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by spelk 2mo ago
I am quite sad that Kagi Smallweb excludes Substack. I understand that less technical writers have started moving to Substack both to build an audience and have access to effective publishing tools, but it feels like I'm missing out on
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by spelk 2mo ago
This is fantastic work, really impressive is an understatement. I really hope this sets a new DeepSeek-esque standard and starts another the death knell for companies continuing to cosplay as frontier labs (like Cohere).
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by spelk 2mo ago
I miss Google Text ads. I supported AdBlock Plus's decision to exclude them from default filtering. Man, what happened?
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by spelk 2mo ago
I did see the ads on the free side a week ago. I guess I was a victim of A/B testing but I was too lazy to login for a simple prompt.
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Older adults know AI is slop. They just like it(restofworld.org)
3 points by spelk 2mo ago|1 comments
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by spelk 2mo ago
People with visual impairments and other functional limitations don't deserve nice things apparently, like dignity online.
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by spelk 2mo ago
This was something I was genuinely excited to try while in Bangkok, took a Grab across town to make it happen, but it was it is honestly not good, the Google reviews seem to coincide with the consensus that while the concept is cool, the ex
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by spelk 2mo ago
If I had to reckon, it's because the web comes in very many shapes, and outsourcing that work to a generalist LLM/SLM like GPT Nano is expensive, and doing it deterministically will never catch all the edge cases as well as a purp
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by spelk 2mo ago
This is honestly hilarious and I applaud the excellent use of Claude Code for the malicious compliance with their demands.
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by spelk 2mo ago
It is scraped from Pixit. They sell lost/found, evidence + seized item management systems. [1] The listings are public; it was cool OP turned this into a mini art piece. [1] https://www.pixithq.com/
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by spelk 3mo ago
This is so cool. Thanks for doing this. I was able to get the Optiplex 7050 with the i5-6500T and 8GB of RAM (no SSD) for $40 USD about 2 years ago, shocked it's $100 USD now! I brought 8 for some reason, this makes me feel better that
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by spelk 3mo ago
>Do you remember all the PRoC’s strange and sudden policy shifts (e.g. steel, real estate, education, football/soccer, etc.)? I didn't realize I could download a Shanghai apartment.
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by spelk 3mo ago
One wonders if this might be a net positive for the world if Anthropic is forced to terminate it's non-US citizen employees. I would hope they return to their home countries with their expertise and start or join new competing frontier
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by spelk 3mo ago
Which coding plan are you using? How are you finding it?
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by spelk 3mo ago
Please correct me if you have contradicting data but: Neuralwatt's price per token vs price for energy comparison doesn't seem to take into account the cost savings from cache hits that other providers offer on pure token rates. T
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by spelk 3mo ago
I've found MiMo-2.5 is fun for front-end design since you can use its multimodal capabilities to drop in whatever it produced and correct it for you.
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by spelk 3mo ago
>And then consider if you are are the spouse or parent of a murder victim or missing person, and are innocent. You are almost certainly going to be a potential suspect, but you also want to help them find the actual criminal, and if hiri
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by spelk 3mo ago
>Looks like they have very effective collaboration with DeepSeek and Kimi. The collaboration is informal. People don’t seem to realize this, but the Chinese internet for programmers and developers today feels a lot like StackExchange in
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by spelk 3mo ago
Does it source data from OSM? The app store page doesn't make clear what the data source is.

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