161–170 of 195 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep, I timed the top of the market perfectly and cashed out 5 BTC at ~$80/BTC.
You are better than me. Back when you could mine BTC with the CPU, i had about 2 coins. I found it useless and silly and deleted my wallet at some point :)
For the record, they're still useless and silly, that just doesn't stop people from exchanging a nonsense amount of money for them.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah my 100 stolen bitcoins got me a cool $4k check from the settlement. Definitely made whole by that :|
I think you would have been much better off choosing the bitcoin option. You'd have gotten around 40 BTC back, I think.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
very trustworthy of the system sharing your taxes with a third party
People's tax returns are essentially public (yes I know they're not allowed to disclose them). Didn't send the forms in with social security numbers. This absurd concern for privacy is silly in my opinion. The moment something is submitted to the government it ought to be considered public. Even your social security number is essentially public for anyone who cares to find it. I would not submit my bank account infor…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you would have been much better off choosing the bitcoin option. You'd have gotten around 40 BTC back, I think.
I don't believe I had the option. I just filed my claim, and several years later a check showed up.
That's what I remember, anyway.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am eagerly awaiting being able to run a strong local model. I'd hand Apple $5k right now for a Claude in a box. I know the cost might not be there now, just saying that is around my ideal price point. $10k might even be worth it - but i'm assuming that the more expensive it is the beefier it is too, which also means more electricity.. and i already run ~6 computers/servers in my house. If a power surge happens i'm…
You can run 6-12 month old state of the art models for that type of money, like, yesterday.
I'm hoping that by the time the rugpull happens with SOTA (claude/etc) that at-home will be in the 4.7-5.5 range? We'll see.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am eagerly awaiting being able to run a strong local model. I'd hand Apple $5k right now for a Claude in a box. I know the cost might not be there now, just saying that is around my ideal price point. $10k might even be worth it - but i'm assuming that the more expensive it is the beefier it is too, which also means more electricity.. and i already run ~6 computers/servers in my house. If a power surge happens i'm…
Uh... get a UPS?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am eagerly awaiting being able to run a strong local model. I'd hand Apple $5k right now for a Claude in a box. I know the cost might not be there now, just saying that is around my ideal price point. $10k might even be worth it - but i'm assuming that the more expensive it is the beefier it is too, which also means more electricity.. and i already run ~6 computers/servers in my house. If a power surge happens i'm…
I would do the same but my issue is that the models are changing so fast, so I don't want to be left out of the next model cuz it only runs on an even newer GPU or something like that. But maybe my limited understanding is thinking of this wrong.
I think the same, and it's why i stopped caring about running llama/etc at home last year. That coupled with the models being dumb by comparison to SOTA really make me fine with waiting.
But in a year or two it's going to be difficult to resist at home, assuming the pace of improvement holds.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Claude Code is really good at stuff like this. A lot of "Claude Code is best at X" claims are probably user-selection bias. The people saying it are often exclusively Claude Code users, not people who are actively benchmarking Claude Code against Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, and other agent harnesses on the same tasks. The claim may still be true for certain scenarios, but the evidence is usually anecd…
When I hear "claude code one-shotted X" and X is a novel problem, I mentally substituted "the agentic harness that I tried one-shotted X," since that's what they're saying. Getting any smart model to take a look at the task is the sort of lift that the speaker is usually pointing to.
You can write a 100 line harness that only has one tool - try either "bash" or the more fun "you're running within nodejs, here's eval", you'd be surprised in how close to CC/Codex performance you're going to get.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I hear "claude code one-shotted X" and X is a novel problem, I mentally substituted "the agentic harness that I tried one-shotted X," since that's what they're saying. Getting any smart model to take a look at the task is the sort of lift that the speaker is usually pointing to.
The harness is pretty much irrelevant for general tasks. You can write a 100 line harness that only has one tool - try either "bash" or the more fun "you're running within nodejs, here's eval", you'd be surprised in how close to CC/Codex performance you're going to get.
I have a similar claude story (much less money though), with the IRS R&D tax credit. The auditing firm initially said we qualify for $0. But then I had claude analyze past R&D reports and our expenses and it found the problem. The auditor had miscategorized our company. So claude drafted an email even pointing to the right Internal Revenue Code (IRS Law), and specify why we fall under a specific category. The auditor…