w0m · HackerTrans

To be fair - I'd much rather the name be overwrought but clear (once you know or have the decryption key to translate) than to have to look up an even uglier chart that i have ~no chance of memorizing to go 'ok, the Tiberian has X, Y, Z and Q and the Cyrian has Q, Y, but Z is nerfed'

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i mean; that sounds like a win for GH right?

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7 dagen geledendiscuss

> but everyone sees the writing on the wall

i'm... not sure? This assumes ~stagnation in task-possibility. We've had ~exponential progress for like 3+ years now; I'd have never dreamed the tooling I hammer daily would exist in my lifetime just.. 3? years ago. And it's improving daily.

Maybe Open will win, maybe Closed will keep pushing the envelope. The world here is raw enough i don't think anyone can make any significant claim other than 'holy shit this is useful and moving Fast'.

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29 dagen geledendiscuss

and honestly that's my entire point. There is no Good Guy here.

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29 dagen geledendiscuss

> and were not called the attackers.

This is the mental mental leaps I'm struggling with here. Did you not live through that era where they were explicitly and repeatedly called out as 'attacks'? They were generally tolerated/hardenee around as they provided value-in-discoverability.

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29 dagen geledendiscuss

i mean, i got 5 replies in a minute of asking, and none deny it's an "attack", they simply say "good". HN should be better discourse.

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29 dagen geledendiscuss

> to give me a cheaper service that fits my use case?

Because they aren't giving you a cheaper service that fits your use case.

Best Case scenario, it's a trillion-dollar behemoth stealing from a billion-dollar behemoth so they can add their own explicit restrictions/weights on top to influence the masses.

There is no 'robin hood' here, any perceived value you get is clearly and explicitly tainted. "I don't care if it doesn't show me non-party-line results - It makes me a cheap UI !". Ethics/morals be damned.

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29 dagen geledendiscuss

>We are just very pleased with it regardless

You don't trust the multi-billion dollar behemoth, but you trust the militarized multi-trillion dollar behemoth to play 'robin hood'?

i can't get my brain around the mental loops here.

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29 dagen geledendiscuss

> Distillation is NOT an attack.

From the article -

> 28.8 million exchanges with Claude through almost 25,000 fraudulent accounts

wouldn't that be considered an attack? Not sure what I'm missing here.

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> are you seeing large token usage by GLM 5.2

the statement isn't "GLM 5.2 has large token usage", it's "GLM 5.2 has large token usage vs modern Opus".

I haven't used it, but this wouldn't surprise me. I see ~30% lower token usage for better results with Opus 4.8 vs 4.6 (and i had great results with 4.6)

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I ~never liked kids. I debated having them, then kind of settled on it (was planned). I expected to be be present but... aloof? Like my dad was.

Instead, I have buddies. I wouldn't call it unhealthy, just much more invested than I expected to be.

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I had no idea I would turn into a helicopter. it's kind of crazy how it rewires you.

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my youngest is 8, and it still physically hurt to read the intro.

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> no company will justify spending $20k/month when they can hire 10 more developers instead.

one big enough to license the model and self host on existing infra.

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2 maanden geledendiscuss

Huh. This surprises me. Digging, it seems it looks like it comes down to interpreted + dynamically typed vs compiled and statically typed.

TIL. If i were to start a truly vibe project; Go would have a significant leg up.

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3 maanden geledendiscuss

same. My first real exposure to coding was hacking Drug Wars on my brothers old ti-89 in math class.

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3 maanden geledendiscuss

didn't msft write an ~entire new file system specifically to scale git to the windows code base?

I have fuzzy memories on reading about it.

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4 maanden geledendiscuss

i assume they simply fixed the status page in 2018.. lol.

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4 maanden geledendiscuss

I bought my LR Model 3 in 2020 for ~42,000, ~15k cheaper than a v6 3 Series at the time. A v6 5 series is another significant jump up in price/market.

> Not sure which car you compare it to specifically from those manufacturers

My comparison at the time was a Honda Civic, BMW 3 Series, and that was kind of it.

I generally consider the Model 3 interior roughly middle between the Honda and the BMW, while having worlds better tech, twice the hp, and - Electric (when they were still rare).

There really was nothing like it at any price point at the time, and i still consider it a great car (though of course not perfect).

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4 maanden geledendiscuss

> Why did Tesla work initially?

Becaues they were ~first to market - and honestly, as a tesla driver for the last 6 years - It's the best car I ever owned (including Toyota, Mazda, and domestics).

6 years ago, for the effective price of a Honda Accord, I was able to get a car with excellent AWD for NorEast winters, perfect weight distribution (previously drove a Miata for comparison), could beat ~95% 'super cars' in a straight line, and it got 140MPG.

6 years ago. And I've had 0 maintenance outside of tire / air filter changes since. There was nothing anything remotely like it on the market, and it still holds up today. That's incredibly compelling.

Then PedoDiver, and it's been downhill from there... I'll likely get an R3X when it comes out.

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