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Presidential security is a fascinating topic. See also the presidential motorcade's operating procedures: https://people.howstuffworks.com/presidential-motorcade.htm

Ah, my bad. Thanks for pointing that out :)

What is the other company that you would never work for?

Yes, but even the cheapest providers on OpenRouter are charging at least 10x what DeepSeek does for cached input tokens, which is where DeepSeek gets most of the cheapness.

More precisely, originally submitted in 2025 but wasn't merged until this year

I would assume OP is asking if you would attend a DConf in San Francisco. By the way, big fan of D even though I don't get to use it much. Appreciate your work!

Well, I do hate the stupid upsells, but the entire Discord UI just feels... off. I can't really place a finger on it, but I just don't like it. (Maybe there is a bit of a UX nag ca…

Why do all the Discord alternative apps try to 1:1 clone Discord's UI? Half of my dislike of Discord stems from its UI.

Open weights, please? Otherwise Cisco's Antares models are more interesting to me.

Looks like this may have been based on the nillerusr Source engine, which is based on a 2020 leak of the Source sources. nillerusr's engine has also been used to port some Valve ga…

Certainly this will never go wrong in any possible way.

Yes, that is true. I just felt like this article hyped this one specific case as the financial ruin of all Americans, whereas I don't particularly care if a few cents of my taxes w…

Yeah, at $340,000/yr, this situation is costing individual Americans less than 1 cent per person per year. Nothing more than a rounding error.