surgical_fire

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Comment · 45 minutes ago
1) I don't believe that will happen.

2) Even if does, Chinese open models are very close in capabilities.

Comment · 7 hours ago
> you turn down the opportunity to buy OpenAI shares at this current valuation?

1.25T? Yes.

Open models exist, and are extremely capable. OpenAI will never achieve a decent ROI when that is true.

Comment · 7 hours ago
Would it partly be explained by Haiku 5.5?

At work I am stuck with Claude, but I was always mindful of the cost of that thing.

With aggressive clean session management and some judicious compacting, I get Opus to plan, Haiku to code, Sonnet to review.

I managed to reduce costs from ~$200 to ~$50 in a month, even when I started to use Claude for more tasks than I did before.

Comment · 17 hours ago
It is low "junk" in our hearts
Comment · 23 hours ago
I used to love Proton, but now I am looking for alternatives. With a moron like that at the helm, it is a matter of time for it to become shit.

Any suggestions of a good email provider?

Also, a VPN that plays nicely with port forwarding for torrents?

Comment · 1 day ago
Who cares?

Anthropic is irrelevant in this front when there are other capable providers and open weight models.

It's just one more reason to not pay for their services.

Comment · 2 days ago
I am the last person that will defend Anthropic, but I don't really think they are malicious.

Claude Code is a shitty harness.

Comment · 3 days ago
You know what is actually not ideal?

Having hordes of people in poverty while we bend over backwards to not inconvenience the rich with "selling stocks" to pay taxes".

Comment · 4 days ago
Which is beyond the point. I was replying to someone that mentioned shorting Anthropic if you think it is a bad investment.

I presume they are not playing with shorting with your retirement account?

Comment · 5 days ago
Shorting is not the only way to protect yourself from a bad investment.

You can simply not buy shares in companies you think are on a doomed trajectory.

That said, depending on the IPO target price, I might short it.

Comment · 5 days ago
I don't like the idea of reelections in general. I think it is generally damaging to democracy. Ideally I would not even add term limits, but they should all be non-consecutive.

Still, as you said, this context is important. Lula left in 2010 and came back in 2022 after having been arrested, freed, and then defeating Jair Bolsonaro, who was the current president and a fierce rival.

That said, I think reelections are actually more damaging in the legislative (and it is not uncommon to have congressmen and senators for 20, 30 years straight).

Comment · 5 days ago
Not in a row.

Lula served two terms from 2002-2010, and came back in 2022 (now to serve until 2030, if he lives until then).

Comment · 5 days ago
As a Pi user, this may be very interesting. Especially after they add full support for Pi extensions.

I tried Air before and found it underwhelming. I tried using it around Pi through ADB, but it didn't any benefit around using Pi purely.

Comment · 6 days ago
> Bolsonaro is only "extreme right" by Brazilian standards.

You're hopeless. The same kind of mouth-breather that claims Nazis are left wing because the party has "socialist" in its name.

Either way, extreme right or no, Bolsonaro is extreme stupid. One of the most retarded politicians to disgrace South America. His son proves that the apple does not fall far from the tree.

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