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Re:Google cleared 300 hectares of Finnish forest on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:12PM (#50199031)
Incidentally, I couldn't create N4 SQL instances in several Google Cloud regions for several weeks now due to Google not having capacity...
Re:I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal on Thursday October 22, 2026 @08:40AM (#50194531)
Now make an agent interact with it and make it lose its mind
Sadly if cloud providers don't offer it on managed postgres then not many people can use it...
Re:Next.js 16.4 on Saturday October 10, 2026 @02:46AM (#50030360)
I still much, much prefer the page router. The caching model is much simpler. Shame that they hired all the open source react maintainers and now nothing other than Tan stack gets developed.
Would love to see benchmarks on visual tasks.
UPS is also full of holes. No verifications whatsoever.

You can purchase a label from a reseller and then ship using that label to a different place at a different weight several times. Battled with this at a previous job.

Was considering buying ads on ChatGPT. A damning thing is that yours audience then are users too cheap to buy a sub...
Re:Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust) on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:53PM (#49761342)
does this mean RAM prices can go down now? Please?
Re:GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter on Saturday September 05, 2026 @08:33AM (#49575921)
According to the metrics the "fast" mode is not any faster...
Re:Anthropic Claude and API service outages on Monday August 24, 2026 @03:34AM (#49416338)
overly high demand can often put a system in an unstable state
Re:Google Cloud us-west1 down on Thursday August 20, 2026 @12:27PM (#49376843)
I don't understand why they don't update the status page. Been going on for 1+ hour. Is it counted as "uptime"?
Re:Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? on Friday August 14, 2026 @12:25PM (#49300948)
my prompt (doesn't help):

> Go easy on the comments, only add comments if there's a big gotcha that is not clear from the code itself, or if something in another place is going to cause a side effect. Code should be self-documenting. When in doubt, don't add a comment at all. If you do have to add a comment, make it short and on point. Comments should show history of code changes or functionality, only comment on the current state (or not at all).

Re:Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with? on Friday August 14, 2026 @08:31AM (#49297883)
My feeling that as it becomes a better coder it becomes a worse communicater. It's overfitting for coding benchmarks, while communication style is harder to quantify during training.

And no matter how often I tell it to stop adding comments it just can't help itself.

Re:App Store Rejection of the Week: Dark Hours on Friday August 07, 2026 @04:16PM (#49215687)
It's why I love React Native and over the air updates. So I don't have to deal with this roulette.
Re:Karpathy's Pelican on Sunday August 02, 2026 @04:26PM (#49147976)
In my experience SVGs are still too hard for LLMs.

I gave Fable a jpeg and asked to draw an SVG, using a loop that renders the SVG into an image so Fable can inspect it.

Results looked like drawing of a 5 year old.

Re:Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers on Saturday August 01, 2026 @09:29AM (#49134278)
I think by default they check out a new connection when obtained a job and then release it. In comparison with some async languages like JS where a connection is only checked when a query is about to be executed
Re:Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers on Saturday August 01, 2026 @07:50AM (#49133596)
My concern is number of database connections. In the example it's 100 fibers per worker, at that rate you are going to exhaust db connections sooner. Happy to be wrong.
Re:Em dashes are fucking amazing on Friday July 24, 2026 @09:55AM (#49035715)
I also love them - makes spotting AI written content easier. People debated implementing complex algorithms how to watermark AI content - but luckily AI just settled on it by itself.

(sorry for a bit of gaslighting)

Re:Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @03:42PM (#48997207)
Gemini flash lite family of models currently has the best ratio for price/speed/intelligence for understanding images, no real alternative AFAIK
Re:Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @12:04PM (#48994154)
It's scary relying on Google's models.

I have a very price sensitive workload that used to run on flash 2.5 lite - it's deprecated now.

The replacement 3.1 flash lite is a lot more expensive, but now also has a sunset date.

3.5 flash lite is even more expensive.

So the price is rising and you have no choice but to keep paying more and more.

Re:Don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash on Saturday July 11, 2026 @05:37PM (#48876108)
About the same, using cloudflare. For some very bizarre reason Vertex has a very low non-adjustable quota.
Re:Don't discontinue Gemini 2.5 Flash on Friday July 10, 2026 @05:31PM (#48865582)
the writing is on the wall for it, I have switched to gemma-4-26b-a4b.

At least in benchmarks, it scores higher and is faster.

"You were the chosen one! You were supposed to destroy them, not join them!"
Re:The bottleneck might be the air in the room on Saturday July 04, 2026 @05:34AM (#48784097)
if I travel and expect to be working I now bring a CO2 meter
If agent is asking a question it means it stumbled on something tricky and often an important architectural decision has to be made.

Even if I am staring at the screen at the time, it's often impossible to study code and make a judgement call that quickly.

My point being, even for opt-in it can be too short - highlights how little consideration they put into it, just releasing slop in production.

Re:ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2 on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:27PM (#48752667)
Is it possible to use their subscription pricing with Opencode?
Re:Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:22PM (#48752610)
many years ago when Hanami was just getting popular I remember doing benchmarks against Rails when it comes to SQL and was unpleasantly surprised when Rails' ActiveRecord ended up being much faster, despite "speed" being advertised as one of the advantages :-(
Re:Claude Sonnet 5 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @03:44PM (#48738231)
Not sure what niche it's going to occupy: too expensive for it's intelligence category.
Re:Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model on Friday June 26, 2026 @02:11PM (#48689968)
Pleasantly surprised that it costs as GPT 5.5, thank god for the competition.

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