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Sure, but the reason I'm confused by the pricing is that the pricing doesn't exist in a vacuum. Pro barely performs better than Thinking in OpenAI's published numbers, but comes at…

In particular, the API pricing for GPT-5.2 Pro has me wondering what on earth the possible market for that model is beyond getting to claim a couple of percent higher benchmark per…

Spinning rust still typically holds advantages for archival storage, as well. There was literally a headline on the front page here a few days ago re: data degradation of SSDs duri…

>It also eats vertical space with those huge icons, which is precious given the current popular screen dimensions. This is one Windows gets wrong too, in fairness. W11 killed the a…

>I think people who do this think that people who use Windows perceive that the Mac experience is smoother, and may have some sort of Mac envy. There's an irony in this due to this…

It was a built-in expander. The bed was 4x6 in standard configuration and could pull out another 2 feet to get 4x8 when you needed it.

I'm firmly of the opinion that, as a general rule, if you're directly embedding the output of a model into a workflow and you're not one of a handful of very big players, you're pr…

>(Healthcare in the US is nearly entirely Windows based). This wasn't my experience in over a decade in the industry. It's Windows dominant, but our environment was typically aroun…

>Then compare this to something like a Kei truck and it's really quite pathetic. I will forever be sad that Canoo was wildly (possibly fraudulently) mismanaged and went bust before…

>Anthropic feels like a one trick pony as most users dont need or want anthropic products. I don't see what the basis for this is that wouldn't be equally true for OpenAI. Anthropi…

Anthropic, frankly, needs to in ways the other big names don't. It gets lost on people in techcentric fields because Claude's at the forefront of things we care about, but Anthropi…

Tangentially related, one of the more interesting projects I've seen in the 3D printing space recently is Prunt. It's a printer control board and firmware, with the latter being de…

I don't entirely agree there. In a vacuum for a standalone object, a 3D mesh app like Blender can be useful for brainstorming. Most of my CAD usage is designing parts that have to …

>Even with procedural and parametric modeling in Blender, you will always encounter issues with approximation and floating point precision, which are inherent to the data represent…

>Changing dimensions or previous sketches is usually fine, but anything more complicated often results in everything in your stack breaking with strange errors, leading it to just …

> they would let random retailers fill the order with fake products What made this all particularly insidious is that Amazon not only commingled inventory, but actively refused to …

>I just have to mention that IRC had these archives so repeat questions had a corpus to search. The walled gardens don't. For many businesses, this is a feature, not a bug. Interna…

Roo has codebase indexing that it'll instruct the agent to use if enabled. It uses whatever arbitrary embedding model you want to point it at and backs it with a qdrant vector db. …

Anthropic's models are fantastic, but they are -- by far -- one of the most expensive providers on an API basis. That's a large part of what makes the Max plans a great deal, right…

Roo can use Claude Code as a provider. I mostly use Claude Code with a Max plan via Roo. I have the option of sending prompts to OpenRouter if I've hit usage limits or if I want to…

>Pricing/usage will be very simple - a fixed subscription and we will no longer know the tokenomics because the provider will have greatly abstracted and optimized the cost per tok…

The thing about tiny islands isn't that every tool needs a sprawling ecosystem to thrive. It's that applications that don't develop a userbase tend to die. This is as true of open …

To be clear: having a diversity of tools is a good thing! I like having options. My complaint is more that right now it feels like everybody is rushing to fill the exact same space…

If you're opposed to using VSCode for whatever reason, that's reasonable. Though, for me personally, the fact that it only lets you use Claude Code strikes me as a much larger nega…

That's kind of what I mean though. Because I mentioned it and it's what I use daily: Roo is a VSCode extension. So you get the entire VSCode ecosystem for free. On the AI specific …