I contacted my bank and got a reply (from a human) that all three payments are valid.
Emails from Anthropic state that the first two payments failed, but the third went through. Fin says that my question will be elevated to a human being, but so far I was not contacted.
what's point of comparing token prices? especially for thinking models.
Just now I was testing the new Qwen3-thinking model. I've run the same prompt five times. The costs I got, sorted: 0.0143, 0.0288, 0.0321, 0.0389, 0.048 .
And this is for single model.
Also, in my experience, sonnet-4 is cheaper than gemini-2.5-pro, despite token costs being higher.
I use crypto often. I am Russian, I left Russia when Putin started the war.
For me, it is quite hard to open a bank account. So I use crypto. I work remotely for a Singaporian company.
Now I'm in Vietnam, I can pay for my groceries with crypto using QR code. I can cash USDT crypto with a rate better than paper bills.
I have two bank accounts in Kazakhstan. Both card credentials were stolen after I used a popular hotel booking website, which, by the words of reddit, shares my card details with hotels. Some money was stolen. Seems like 3D-security only affects my payments, and theifs have a freedom to choose a website without 3D.
Now I have to keep that cards always locked. Unlocking them for a short moments, when I need to make a card payment. Like booking an hotel, or buying an airline ticket.
lol. That is too complex for the purpose of long-range movement in VR.
Just make a controller with a control patterns of electric unicycle, or maybe "hoverboard".
Another example. Happened to me today.
I was unable to pay online for a bus ticket until I set up VPN out of Cambodia to SG.
I tried two cards by two different banks on three different ticketing sites. Without VPN all my payment attempts were rejected.
Back in 2025 it was common to test models in a different harnesses.
I remember watching a guy on youtube, who was testing every new model in opencode, cline, codex, claude, etc.
Why did it come out of fashion ?
EDIT: ah, yeah. the point was that a harness would often affect results (task completion rate, I think) for more than 10%