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csomar
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About csomar
blog: https://omarabid.com
building: https://codeinput.com - tools for developers
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The world is now a closed club of aging incumbents, circled by middle powers, developing countries, and failing states.
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Comment #49231766
Currently, a $20/month openai subscription gives roughly $400 in codex api credits. That doesn’t count what you can get from the web chatbot. So it better be that api tokens are se…
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Comment #49229991
It's the default setting and most website operators have no idea what they are doing.
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Comment #49229983
Only very minimally. A dollar is no longer worth that much. People who live under 1-2 dollars a day probably aren't browsing that much internet per day. - https://ourworldindata.or…
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Comment #49222977
How many pages does the average software developer visit everyday? 1.000? Price at 0.001 per load and it’ll be completely impractical for crawlers but super cheap for the average c…
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Comment #49218967
The previous poster doesn’t realize he is part of the problem. He wants everyone to go back to the office so that he can see people face to face again and have the social pressure …
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Comment #49207470
I have a barely known/used GitHub application and losing it from time to time over some qq#%@ repo that blows up both my actions and CloudFlare workers. Over a few hundreds of repo…
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Comment #49195900
Open Source is a marketing term if your solution takes $2m worth of compute or devops time in order to run properly. The idea is, you have a way out if you want to leave. An option…
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Comment #49181497
What a bunch of garbage - permission-ed system when we’ve got lightning and super low cost blockchains. They could even run their own L2. - I am typing my name in a cafe and hear s…
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Comment #49170415
These half-measures is why everything has gone to shits. Instead of properly auditing software, reducing the quantity and increasing the quality, we keep pushing more and more garb…
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Comment #49166060
Yes, the CEO is Sam Altman.
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Comment #49161343
> it's about having emotions and the ability to feel pain That's just a random line you have drawn. > Plants don't cry out for days when their children are taken away from them. Pl…
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Comment #49160909
Where do you draw the line though? Because plants themselves (DNA-beings) are also alive . Unless you decide to go on a full mineral diet.
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Comment #49157373
Yes, everyone knows it's a button you press. Trump has been shouting about that for the last year.
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Comment #49149154
Here is GLM 5.2 ( https://codeinput.com/s/HAO0qTxw2ia ) which is still inferior to Opus. I can't find Qwen 3.8 which now is my daily driver replacing GLM. This SVG test matches my …
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Comment #49142051
Any reason to think that bots are linux and not windows/macos. If you look at crawling resellers, you can simulate mac/windows/ios/android. Why would crawlers prefer linux over tho…
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Comment #49141991
The thing is, there is an ongoing linux boom (the percentage doubled which means linux user base has effectively doubled too). But god help us in this AI-slop phase.
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Comment #49138663
They are not fuzzy. They want to funnel you somewhere regardless of where you want to be funneled. Something similar (or worse) happens when I search for a hotel by NAME, Google ma…
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Comment #49137358
I highly suspect they are real humans being paid to do it. AI will have produced a much more detectable result.
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Comment #49137328
Even Pi sucks. I can no longer get it to open. OpenCode sometimes consumes all my 32Gb of memory. Codex sometimes doesn't display the full output (display issue). I stopped using C…
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Comment #49131897
Because they are short-term and many are staying just for the day + bringing family (like kids, which is why they use AirBNB instead of a hotel). The check-in/check-out already add…
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Comment #49123901
Introduce a vapid company(ies) to the index that will have no future cash-flow and withdraw the liquidity to these "investments". If your index fund has SpaceX in it, Elon musk has…
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Comment #49119719
I wonder with the spacex thing if this should be revised. “Smart money” have figured out what you are doing and they are at the gates.
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Comment #49089821
> The US could largely walk away and be fine The US can't walk away, otherwise, Trump would have done so. That part of the world is part of the US system and "walking away" is basi…
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Comment #49047523
You are getting downvoted but your username is "indoorfish" so maybe you know more about this than most here?
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Comment #49046204
In some sense that's happening. A Reichsfluchtsteuer of some kind is happening where wealthy people from Western countries have to pay exit taxes. Americans can't exit without givi…