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It really does. I felt like I could have spent $1000+ api token on claude for the amount of work on my $30 grok subscription.
I use. I used to be a Claude user. Since trying Grok 4.5 and especially Grok 4.6, I don't want to go back to Claude any more (I have early access to 4.6).

Grok is 3x+ faster than Claude and I can't tell the diff in engineering work quality. As an engineer, speed is important to me.

Re:OS maintained by a single developer since 1997: Visopsys on Sunday November 02, 2025 @11:37AM (#45791512)
Classic nerd habit.
Re:OS maintained by a single developer since 1997: Visopsys on Sunday November 02, 2025 @09:39AM (#45790641)
No, I am not the author. I just liked the project and the name that I chose it for my hackernews account 14 years ago. No intention to misrepresent the project or the author.
Re:OS maintained by a single developer since 1997: Visopsys on Sunday November 02, 2025 @01:09AM (#45788159)
I took an OS in college in 2006 and the big project that my prof required us to do was to make modification of visopsys. The software was primitive at that time but still had UI interface.

I emailed the author to ask some questions in my project. The author had connection with my prof and informed my prof about this. My prof told me that I was not allowed to ask the author regarding this project. So I had to figured out on my own.

It was fun to play around with and learnt how things work at deep OS level. It was a good memory for me :)

And you guys notice anything about my username? :)

Any to solve the SQL long string problem? I hate having to write another custom SQL migration script beside Prisma migration script.

For your reference: https://github.com/prisma/prisma/discussions/2138

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