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Deepseek open sourced their harness and it's interesting. Replacing code/toolcalls with configuration/skills drastically increases token consumptions, but it removes limitations I forgot existed.

For example, you can ask deepseek to add a button that displays the weather and update itself on click, and it does just that, without needing the classic compile + deployment cycle.

Is that a gimmick? I'm not sure - I can't help but feel like I'm a fish who forgot what water is. I never had this new option so I'm not sure what to use it for, but I have the feeling it opens new doors that will make software feel more organic. Any idea? Would be curious to hear opinions about this.

My friend got banned 3x from Claude Code when using OpenCode indeed. Gave up and moved to Codex. So it does sound like a dangerous approach indeed.

Context summarization will be natively added soon.

It's already the case on tools like block.github.io/goose:

```

Summarize Conversation This will summarize your conversation history to save context space.

Previous messages will remain visible but only the summary will be included in the active context for Goose. This is useful for long conversations that are approaching the context limit.

```

The point I was trying to express is that Mistral is arguably far superior to the giants if you care about speed! So I wished they communicated this more clearly.

The featured accuracy benchmarks exclude every model that matter except DeepSeek, which is quite telling about this new model's performance.

This makes it yet another example of European companies building great products but fumbling marketing.

Mistral's edge is speed. It's a real pleasure to use because it answers in ~1s what takes other models 5-8s, which makes for a much better experience. But instead of focusing on it, they bury it far down the post.

Try it and see if you like the speed! Note that the speed advantage only applies to queries that don't require web-search, as Mistral is significantly slower on this one, leading to a ~5 seconds advantage over 2 minutes of research for the queries I benchmarked with Grok.

That's definitely true, but you also see how some settings make it easier to be virtuous than others right?

Also, the success apps like tiktok and instagram does suggest addiction is more the norm than the exception.

It's a while back, but I think it's because you have to be a resident for at least 6 months to be eligible to getting a driver's license in a given country.

And getting the driving experience is not cheap if you don't know people who have a car you can borrow!

Hong Kong food is rice-based and rice is cheap!

Here's some famous advice from Hong Kong's richest man:

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A daily breakfast of vermicelli, an egg and a cup of milk.

For lunch just have a simple set lunch, a snack and a fruit.

For dinner go to your kitchen and cook your own meals that consist of two vegetables dishes and a glass of milk before bedtime.

For one month the food cost is probably $500-$600. When you are young, the body will not have too many problems for a few years with this way of living.

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Note he's talking HKD, and HKD 550 translates into about USD 70.

Thank you!

1. That would have been a great option had there been one close to the university! Proximity was a top criteria because commute is expensive money-wise and time-wise. Also, weirdly enough I think I was much safer in this illegal spot than in a regular camping where traffic makes robberies more likely.

2. I like how you think because I happen to have befriended a research student who did just that! I didn't envy him one bit thought because he had no windows while my tent view was magnificent. And then summer came and I would have given anything to have his AC!

You're both right. It was 10 years ago and my living requirements definitely were low

Another reason is that Hong Kong has a lot more affordable housing in the outskirts, like in the village of Tai Po Tsai that borders this university.

For the grades, it's true you could always spend more time in the library out of sheer willpower. It was nice just to be nudged into it by this lifestyle, and definitely helped as willpower is limited.

People's places: have you heard of people doing this? I'm genuinely curious because I could never bring myself to be a nuisance if I didn't absolutely need it, meaning the blocker is definitely real yet fully in my head here.

Material freedom: I guess I haven't seen enough to agree with this one yet. The only intellectual pursuit I know that would genuinely get you closer to not caring about life so much as to reduce your fear in homelessness is the study of physics!

Severals reasons: I don't think you could live 2 weeks in a car before getting controlled by the Police, at least in Hong Kong, tents are cheaper than cars, and I didn't have a driver's license!

Love the actionable advice like "I rent a PO Box for about $200 per year."