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Re:Felix Rieseberg Homepage on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:40PM (#50097656)
Real questions:

- How much did it cost?

- It's great, and you had lots of input, yet the output is still vague and non specific? These 'tools' seem to excel at one-shot stylizations, but being more specific is hard and takes many iterations at which point it's more pleasant to hire a designer and a dev? And maybe even cheaper, I'm guessing, given there is no mention of cost.

Re:Felix Rieseberg Homepage on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @08:13PM (#50097454)
Do you live in the Berghain? :)
Re:Plan Mode Is Dead on Sunday September 27, 2026 @08:24AM (#49866076)
so I use "opusplan" mode bc Opus is more expensive and supposedly better at thinking, and Sonnet is good and cheap for executing....

Changing models still gives us a usage hit (right?) but that is outweighed by benefits?

Plan mode is more about be rambling on while Opus detangles my thoughts.

Re:Block ads and trackers without Pi-hole, with a hosts file on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @09:21AM (#49448686)
I wish this worked for youtube ads.
Used for training is one thing. Exposed to prying eyes is still unstoppable.
Re:Starship V3 on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @12:34AM (#48117878)
"aggressively optimistic timelines is also what makes it feasible to even attempt these things"

yawn, people keep making this excuse on behalf of the South African investor with poor technical expertise.

Re:xAI will be dissolved as a separate company on Thursday May 07, 2026 @03:33AM (#48046519)
it helps they took many billions for a Moon effort they completely fumbled but never returned the cash
I might be misunderstanding something.

He uses $70 for remaining credit and says that's a good thing because it rolls over

But spending $70 on an API (he says he still prefers Opus) is far less cost effective than a Max plan on Anthropic.

The article seems to be nudging us to setup OpenRouter but the premise isn't fully true. A bit of diversity is excellent, but the costs are going to (largely) prohibit it in reality?

Yeah. I'm more concerned about the welfare needed to support millions of low-skill people in high living cost areas, in the age of AI. Those people are being sold dead dreams for the benefit of a handful of billionaires.
Why don't they import millions of immigrants to do the low wage/skill jobs instead?
I assume this is highly staged as a set routine?

No less impressive, but is it likely each robot autonomously learned a routine? Or just got programmed for a very exact act?

Re:I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file? on Thursday January 22, 2026 @08:16PM (#46727201)
I often ask Claude to update Claude.md and skills..... and sometimes I'll just do that in a new window while my main window is busy and I have time.

Wonder if this is close to triggering a warning? I only ever run in the same codebase, so maybe ok?

Re:Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @04:23AM (#46598843)
"Claude can’t read or edit anything you don’t give it explicit access to"

How confident are we that this is a strict measure?

I personally have zero confidence in Claude rulesets and settings as a way to fence it in. I've seen Claude decide desperately for itself what to access once it has context bloat? It can tend to ignore rules?

Unless there is a OS level restriction they are adhering to?

Re:iCloud Photos Downloader on Sunday January 11, 2026 @08:13PM (#46582511)
iCloud Photos.app seems to not be able to show some photos

But Photometor.app (owned by Apple) can...

So that's a little annoying... I wish I had more visibility on photos not showing up in Photos.app, and what it is that stops it showing them

Re:China launches live-fire drills encircling Taiwan on Monday December 29, 2025 @02:28AM (#46418258)
Don't see why not, Taiwan's silicon is a global security asset.
Re:China launches live-fire drills encircling Taiwan on Monday December 29, 2025 @02:27AM (#46418255)
These types of actions from China pre-dates that, even if there are similarities.
Re:Ruby's Website Got an Overhaul on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @10:05PM (#46371988)
The irony of the inclusive imagery above DHH's head.
Re:Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does on Sunday December 21, 2025 @05:36AM (#46343829)
The blog post and homepage do a terrible job describing the product?

Wasn't Crypto recently revealed to be used by FBI (or similar) to track major criminals? They don't broadcast it, since they want people to continue thinking it's anonymous.

Re:Ukraine hits Russian submarine with underwater drones on Monday December 15, 2025 @09:59PM (#46284233)
Hell yeah!
Great! Take the wheel of my car, Grok!
Re:Sqlit – A lazygit-style TUI for SQL databases on Monday December 15, 2025 @08:45PM (#46283701)
This looks lovely.... does it support remote D1?
Re:Ford kills the All-Electric F-150 on Monday December 15, 2025 @08:43PM (#46283695)
"They're loaded with useless/barely-functional interior electronics that are poor copies of Tesla"

Wow, must be absolute crap if they are poor copies of Tesla, given how plastic and uncomfortable Tesla interior/ux is

Re:China Has Three Reusable Rockets Ready for Their Debut Flights on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @06:36PM (#46063556)
There is a race to the moon happening right now

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/spacex-us-moo...

You don't hear about it much, for some reason.

Why wait? Fix things now.

I brought a Pro Max last year, after owning a perfectly fine 13 mini for years, and just my luck the latest iOS seems to make everything worse.

Face detection. Navigating photos. Unresponsive Apps. Confusing as f*ck UI.

No idea why I spent so much money on a Pro phone, should of stuck with the 13 mini and refused to upgrade the OS.

Well, Elon gets enormous amounts of tax dollars enabling him to move resources around between his investments. The billionaires aren't differentiable.
Re:How AWS is losing the younger generation with complexity on Monday November 10, 2025 @09:00PM (#45883278)
Cloudflare workers are so simple to just use immediately.
Re: on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @06:34AM (#45590402)
Why Is this flagged? Seems perfectly reasonable?
Re: on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @06:34AM (#45590395)
You seem to of watched a completely different video?

The video I watched encouraged you to listen to him, but not give him a bloated weighting.

Re: on Friday October 03, 2025 @05:06AM (#45460731)
That's from starvation.
On a very basic level, ignoring the extreme examples ... I wonder how much these tools send back home.

It seems very hard to see what they are accessing. Let alone control it. We just rely on them asking when they see fit to ask.

The minute Zuck and Google start offering you things for free, you have to wonder sometimes.

I mean, forget about denying cookie popups in your browser . We are galaxies beyond.

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