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New comment by Our_Benefactors in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

Our_Benefactors — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:02:38 +0000

As someone completely outside the 3D design world who always thought of AutoCAD as the gold standard - really? What program would be used instead? Please enlighten me.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck"

Our_Benefactors — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:56:01 +0000

Azul and Set are both good. Can’t Stop is another classic “push your luck” game.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "The user is visibly frustrated"

Our_Benefactors — Wed, 27 May 2026 04:05:56 +0000

“What the fuck did you just do?” -> when I need to undo recent changes

“What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll let you know I have over 300 confirmed prompts” -> when the AI argues with me and I need to put it in its place.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

Our_Benefactors — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:59:00 +0000

Claude has 1M context window for the enterprise. 128k feels like a toy in comparison.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

Our_Benefactors — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:16:03 +0000

It runs like shit though in terms of tokens/second and still has a reduced context window. Vs a single claude prompt can easily get into 300k tokens without breaking a sweat.

I want local AI to be a thing but the hardware isn’t here yet, because the only options are a Mac Studio or DGX machines strapped together. RAM prices needs to crash before local AI has a chance at actually competing.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Outsourcing plus local AI will soon become more economical vs. frontier labs"

Our_Benefactors — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:07:40 +0000

AI has well and finally killed the idea that outsourcing saves cost. Local AI, sure, but not outsourcing. Been there, done that, doesn’t work.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI"

Our_Benefactors — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:57:15 +0000

No, I think he’s the spiritual leader for Catholics (not humanity)

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "The real cost of owning a home"

Our_Benefactors — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:35:34 +0000

> But it's a lot more work for still a pitiful amount of money

It’s really not a lot of work and if $2000+ for a few hours work is pitiful, I envy your financial position. List on Craigslist at bottom market prices (you’ll still come out way ahead of the dealer), aggressively filter out tire kickers, sell it within 3-4 showings.

The law is very favorable to people being allowed to sell their personal vehicle without jumping through additional regulatory hoops.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "The real cost of owning a home"

Our_Benefactors — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:08:16 +0000

Of course, you should never sell the car to the dealer and should always make the effort to sell private party, which will often get you 50% or more greater than the dealers best offer.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI"

Our_Benefactors — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:10:03 +0000

His lane is Catholicism.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

Our_Benefactors — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:47:53 +0000

It’s because it’s not true, there’s no evidence for it that passes the sniff test. No lab is “shipping a worse model once they’ve got you”. People have a bad few days and blame the model providers instead of stepping back to fix their workflow.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40"

Our_Benefactors — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:23:17 +0000

Too true. The idea that you could play instants during your opponents turn caused many a disagreement, especially over combat timings or unintuitive but real mechanics like “stack combat damage, sac mogg fanatic”

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40"

Our_Benefactors — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:04:27 +0000

This is similar to how VS system worked, it was a short lived superhero CCG in the mid 2000s, you could play up to one card per turn facedown as a “land”, but you still drew from one deck.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare"

Our_Benefactors — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:00:00 +0000

And now the cost has increased again, because you need to field enough simultaneous launches to get 10k in the air at the same time. It doesn’t mean you need 10k launchers, but you still need a lot

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Hindenburg’s Smoking Room"

Our_Benefactors — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:40:50 +0000

> No one takes the train in the US

Extremely ignorant and classist statement; plenty of people take the train.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

Our_Benefactors — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:28:47 +0000

> could probably have emps get it themselves, and reimburse

They can’t track token use this way. Also it’s a massive violation of the model providers TOS.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "How Diamonds Are Made"

Our_Benefactors — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:21:55 +0000

James Allen, Brilliant Earth, Jared, Blue Nile, all of these vendors sell lab created diamonds openly and let you compare side by side. A diamond that’s $10k natural can be had for $1500 lab created without any scarcity.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

Our_Benefactors — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:19:22 +0000

> The way it works is incredibly wasteful of our limited resources

You should try playing the game “workers and resources”; it’s a simcity like game, but based in the Soviet system of central planning, not capitalism. It will make you loathe the inefficiencies in central planning.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

Our_Benefactors — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:32:27 +0000

You could look into EDID settings, lots of weird quirks around that spec.

New comment by Our_Benefactors in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

Our_Benefactors — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:45:06 +0000

This is some remnant of the stop killing games initiative no doubt. Bad for the industry as a whole, and piratesoftware didn’t deserve to be dragged for being against it, in spite of his other flaws.