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Are all of you pi users paying Anthropic and OpenAI for API usage? Or can you combine pi with a subscription? So far API usage is a lot more expensive than subscription and if you …

"Three knobs matter:" I can't help reading articles with the radar on for signs of AI-generation nowadays. I have noticed that Claude sometimes uses the word knob for parameter, so…

Side note: I don’t know what Anthropic changed but now Claude Code consumes the quota incredibly fast. I have the Max5 plan, and it just consumed about 10% of the session quota in …

Since it’s an 1.44M image I assume they use 3.5” diskettes. The terms floppy and diskette are used as synonyms today, but the different names make sense since floppies are flexible…

Docker won’t save you from prompt injektions that attack your network.

It won’t save you from prompt injektions that attack your network.

Let’s not forget Amiga 3000UX - a workstation released with Amiga Unix, a full port of AT&T Unix System V Release 4 (SVR4). Notable users include Free Software Foundation staff pro…

This is very annoying - I get this too now, and there is no way to make it go away (except for enabling watch history I assume). Very bad!

Very good idea!

Good idea!

> - What is a belief you had as a child that you no longer have? ... Hm, the type of some of these questions resemble the type of the personal questions used for password recovery …

Have you tried applying for a position in a public sector IT-department? The public sector should not age-discriminate, at least in theory.

I think he was great in The Emigrants and The New Land.

Sounds more like an index of beginner languages. "The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google."

Interesting to see. The Vim people at work are constantly harrasing us two Emacs users, claiming that lisp is old and silly, and that vimscript is good. Maybe change is acoming.

How to Run Greatly from Product Team Meetings

Scoopex's Mental Hangover was a great demo at the time. I still like its soundtrack by Uncle Tom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZETBFv6zWs

Yes, Python is the Cobol of script languages.

The everlasting conflict between descriptive and normative linguists.

My collegue once managed to fry a computer through the USB-port. I wonder what would happen if you accidently fed too much power to this brain USB-port.

I mention this, as in his speech, Chomsky mentions Sweden in the same gang as UK and the US, without making the distinction why Sweden is interested in Assange - which made me quit…

Assange is accused of sexual assault in Sweden. Sexual assault victims have the right to trial and justice, no matter who the accused is. No one is above the law, not even a famous…

I am using pass - the standard unix password manager. It's simple and just works. It's built on gpg and git, and resides on any disk you like. https://www.passwordstore.org/

I bought a plain, no turbo Volvo 940 for $1000 ten years ago. It's 25 years old now, and still is very reliable. Newer Volvos seem a lot more complex, and I can't help thinking tha…