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Xylitol is really cool that way. The bacteria waste energy trying to convert it to a form they can use, but they just end up with at a dead end with xylitol-5-phosphate. Once they …

There's also other options than brutally punitive financial penalties or holding execs personally responsible. For example, if a data center is illegally running gas turbines, the …

That's an unusually low electric rate for the US - way below the lowest state average which is Idaho at 12.4 cents. It's certainly possible that you are getting 7.5 cents including…

Is this an open source tool? Is it something we have to pay for? The site really doesn't tell me what I should be expecting.

But to run the entire benchmark it cost $727 with Gemini 3.6 Flash and $925 with GLM-5.2, $198 (21.4%) less. I tend to look at the cost to run the whole index rather than the weigh…

LMArena's "code" leaderboard is really skewed since it's a front-end JS code and design leaderboard. It generates a demo app with two models and then asks "do you prefer A or B". P…

It also depends on how many tokens it needs to burn through to accomplish something. At this point, I always look at things like Artificial Analysis' total cost to run their tests.…

When OnePlus started, they were considerably cheaper than flagship phones from others. At $299, the OnePlus One was a ton less than the $650 you'd pay for an iPhone 6 or Galaxy S5.…

I'll add: - Telegram had usernames in 2014 before Signal added them a decade later, allowing people to chat without sharing their phone number - Telegram has unencrypted chats whic…

I'm a bit skeptical. Cursor's benchmark finds that Cursor's model (Composer 2.5) is basically as good as Opus 4.8 max and GPT-5.5 xhigh, but at a fraction of the price. Artificial …

What it's saying is that the M6 will be released, but not the M6 Pro or M6 Max. Instead, Apple will wait to release new Max/Pro chips for a future generation. It's not simply marke…

You have the ability to move, as long as Bluesky Social PBC allows it. They hold the keys for your DID. If they don't allow you to move to another PDS, you can't move. The original…

Where do you see that? I see they have GPT-5.5 (xhigh) at 55, GPT-5.5 (high) at 53, and Muse Spark at 43. Muse Spark does beat GPT-5.4 mini (xhigh) which scores 40, but the key the…

Not really. You could allow private.icloud.com only if they're using Apple's SSO. If someone tries to create an account not using Apple's SSO, then you don't allow private.icloud.c…

I find that I don't use a ton of output tokens. I'm usually around 95% cached input, 4% input, and 1% output. For me, the big thing with MiMo-V2.5-Pro and DeepSeek V4-Pro is that c…

Yes, it's a "smaller" (137B) model that competes with Haiku, but it's basically the performance of Qwen3.6-35B-A3B which is 75% smaller and 98% smaller in terms of active parameter…

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The point of the article isn't "Malawi is poor compared to Europe," but rather comparing Malawi to other countries that were similarly colonized and how other colonized countries h…

I too don't want to write OS-specific stuff, but here's some counter arguments. With egui, it's an immediate mode GUI rather than retained mode and that has trade-offs: https://git…

> electric-drivetrain with onboard gasoline generator Generally speaking, it's more efficient to power a car using a series-parallel hybrid system than an electric drivetrain with …

> It was about x64 being unable to keep up - independent of Intel’s Fab capabilities which have improved lately. But the big reason x64 couldn't keep up was that Intel's fab capabi…

It's really interesting how much the AI harness seems to matter. Going from 48% via Google's official results to 65% is a huge jump. I feel like I'm constantly seeing results that …

Sure. Dirac is just a fork of the Cline harness and obviously OpenCode could take the same techniques and implement them. I don't know how difficult it would be to implement them i…