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Re:European Alternatives on Sunday October 11, 2026 @10:38AM (#50043783)
Agree. As an european I would go so far to say that a lot of european alternatives are not better at all. Some form of quality/trust indicator would be helpful though. No company that is distributing malware to its customers should be on any recommendation list.
True, but for Bostrom Superintelligence was a capability level for AI and not a replacement for the accepted scientific term. Narrow -> General -> Super.
Was also wondering. Sounds low. Forbes puts him around 1.4B. Still lowish compared to his CEO peers. https://www.forbes.com/profile/satya-nadella/
Re:GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @03:53PM (#49997973)
Has AI not been always?
Just gave it a spin. Really like it. Adds a lot of visual clarity. Margins matter :) Thx!
Re:Doing Everyone Else's Job on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @11:21AM (#49728423)
If they "dedicate every waking moment to the job" they will outpace you anyway. So either join the race or live a balanced life. Choices.
Re:Doing Everyone Else's Job on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:28AM (#49722439)
I do enjoy learning new things and having a generalist approach. But its not for everyone.
Re:Doing Everyone Else's Job on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @01:26AM (#49722420)
Only if you add the hours for free and dont punch out when you should.
Big fan of Handy as well. I often mix languages (german/english) and Apple onboard dictation is not working well in these cases. Having the ability to switch models so far has proven to be helpful. I guess Handy should implement the new native Apple APIs though.
Re:Hetzner is working on LLM Inference on Friday July 24, 2026 @10:17AM (#49036028)
Whats definitely missing: a solid (non Mistral) GDPR compliant coding plan / subscription. All offerings are either US or China based. With the newest open weights models this became really interesting imo.
German here. Have a kid in elementary school and one in middle school. No phones allowed whatsoever. But to be fair: every school in Germany can decide that for themselves. But when we were choosing schools, all schools had similar rulesets. Some event prohibited smart watches.
Any personal experience with it? Recommended?
I recently attended a agentic SWE workshop and the starter project was this, whispr style, local voice dictation app. Took everybody around 30mins. tbh: i was kinda impressed.
Agree. Slept on.

Wish they would do an ios version, but the creator already kind of dismissed it.

Re:Claude-Mem on Saturday March 28, 2026 @05:15PM (#47558168)
A Claude Code plugin that automatically captures everything Claude does during your coding sessions, compresses it with AI (using Claude's agent-sdk), and injects relevant context back into future sessions.
Re:Gram: A Zed fork without AI Slop on Wednesday March 04, 2026 @10:34AM (#47249014)
Just tried it. Works. Very nice! Would be interesting to know what is still left that Gram removes...
Great writeup! For VAD did you use heaphone/mic combo, or an open mic? If open, how did you deal with the agent interupting itself?
Re:Claude Sonnet 4.6 on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @03:34PM (#47052924)
Mirrors my experience as well. Especially the pro-activeness in tool calling sticks out. It goes web searching to augment knowledge gaps on its own way more often.
Dont bother, that was a borderline right-wing comment. Dont need to guess which political party the fella is voting for.
100% agree. But that also feels like the elephant in the room somehow. Most western pension systems are stretched to (or beyond) their limits already. I expect that having GLP1-s widely available will extend the life of a LOT of people even further. And then ... what? Im really surprised that nobody talks about that.
As a GLP-1 user im really surprised that this is newsworthy. The mechanism of how these drugs lead to weight loss is appetite reduction. On GLP-1s -> less appetite, off GLPS-1s -> more appetite. Given the general health benefits that are being observed with GLP1-s the only reason to get off them is costs imo. They are absurdly expensive. Hope this will change in the next 10 years with patents running out and generics being available for cheap. The actual cost of production seem to be quite low. Gray/black market has them available for around a tenth of the otc price.

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