georgel

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I would totally go to a Halo theme park, that sounds cool.

Interesting, if the cache hit is that good, I think HN convinced me to toss $20 at DS official, and see how long that lasts.

I'm all in for saving money and _can_ move to using DS directly from them, but maybe I am missing something here:

OpenRouter Pricing:

$0.02/M input tokens $0.60/M output tokens

DeepSeek Pricing (cache miss, off-peak):

$0.15/M Input $0.60/m output

I am curious how you managed to spend that much on Deepseek via OpenRouter. I loaded $100 back in July while using v4-flash or whatever the cheap good model was at the time, and have upgraded as the new ones came out from Deepseek. I still have $16 and some of that spend also goes towards the AI usage from my customers (the context they need to load in is quite large too).

And I am using the Claude Code harness with DS as the endpoint. And I use it ~5-8hrs a day to do my coding.

And just like those "unlimited" plans, the disclaimer always reads speeds slow down after N GB transferred/mo. If this unlimited tokens world happens, I expect vendors to start throttling or downgrading models.

Network neutrality meet token neutrality.

When I lived in the area about 6 years ago, I had 3rd party recruiters reach out to me about roles that they don't list. The whole region it felt like was 70% contractors (W-2 with the contracting firm), until the company really liked you and bought out your contract and converted you to an actual employee.

Surprisingly I had better benefits at the two contracting firms than what employees were getting.

From one George to another, this is the way. My close friends don’t bother with Venmo or the like.

Work only allows the tools they buy. So at least for me, I am stuck with Claude. At home for personal projects I am a fan of DeepSeek v4 Flash.

> controls all of the early incorporation infrastructure

You don't need to rely on Stripe to do anything. There are other payment gateways, and you can file things yourself (or hire someone).

Do they make things very easy and accessible for a smaller fee than doing it yourself, yes.

MacOS 27 drops Intel support, but 10 years of updates is a long run. The 2015 MBPs were so good.

I really like what they did with the MBP redesign, reminds me of the PowerBook G4 Titanium aesthetic. The hardware to me is great, but the OS has gone very downhill. If I had a Snow Leopard era-ish build of OSX + modern security I would be perfectly happy. Settings.app is a disaster, same goes for recent iOS versions.

Apple Music must have been written by an intern or outsourced, how can you have a music playing app crash and do a System Report just by hitting the previous song button.

I have an M2 Pro MBP 16GB, compared to the latest MBP issued by my employer a couple months ago, I see zero difference in real world performance. Can’t speak for Office on Mac, I have not used it in over a decade, but for typical full stack web dev I literally don’t need anything more.

I had the OG white Zune. It was the same price as an iPod ~$250. The reason I chose Zune was the Zune Pass. A precursor to Spotify. Plus growing up in the Seattle area, I knew other people who had them and we would trade songs.