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New comment by camel_Snake in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

camel_Snake — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:03:47 +0000

Dimensional funds have a type of index factor funds that roughly track these indices without strict adherence to S&Ps inclusion rules. That's the only one I'm aware of.

New comment by camel_Snake in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

camel_Snake — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:17:41 +0000

FYI that prominent link to your sharpee repo on GitHub 404s

New comment by camel_Snake in "San Diego rents declined following surge in supply"

camel_Snake — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:20:29 +0000

I think it's safe to assume that people close to retirement have existing appreciating assets contributing to that total savings amount.

New comment by camel_Snake in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

camel_Snake — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:46:05 +0000

Is that no longer the case, or am I misunderstanding the operational costs displayed?

Opus: 521k input tokens; 12k out

Grok: 443k input tokens; 57k out

Gemini: 677k input tokens; 7k out

OAI: 543k input tokens; 17k out

Gemini appears to use by far the least amount of reasoning tokens, assuming they're included in the output counts.

New comment by camel_Snake in "Scott Adams has died"

camel_Snake — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:28:33 +0000

How many rooms in your home though? These are crucial details.

New comment by camel_Snake in "Web development is fun again"

camel_Snake — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 01:54:56 +0000

I have a feeling you are using SOTA models at work and aren't used to just how cheap the non-Anthropic/Google/OAI options are these days. GLM's coding subscription is like $6/month if you buy a full year.

New comment by camel_Snake in "Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial"

camel_Snake — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:08:43 +0000

Reading the parent comment, I assume their use of 'freedom' more closely aligns with being undisturbed by a government.

It's a very common usage in America, focusing on "Freedom from X" rather than "Freedom to do Y", the latter of which often needs some sort of societal protection, most often provided by said government.

New comment by camel_Snake in "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"

camel_Snake — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:28:51 +0000

I use monarch and I've been happy enough with it. Would probably consider self-hosting with actual in the future, but I wanted an easy on-ramp for myself to actually get in the habit of budgeting.

New comment by camel_Snake in "Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race"

camel_Snake — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:30:16 +0000

Hi, that's not why people go to Delaware for those kind of purchases. It's the lack of tax.

The actual MSRP from PA wine and liquor stores is very competitive, since it's one of the largest single buyers of alcohol. Selection could be better though.

New comment by camel_Snake in "Grokipedia by xAI"

camel_Snake — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:23:33 +0000

I don't think this is an accurate comparison. Working on open source software means you are contributing to that software, which yes may be used by for profit companies. This is more analogous to contributing to Wikipedia, which is then used by for profit companies like Grok, than it is contributing to Grok products directly, which cannot be leveraged by other tools in this ecosystem (afaik).

New comment by camel_Snake in "Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system"

camel_Snake — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:59:09 +0000

Small counterpoint but there are also 2 new players putting out SOTA open source models (Moonshots Kimi and zhipus GLM) so we're still seeing the same number of models overall, just via newer entrants.

New comment by camel_Snake in "Claude Haiku 4.5"

camel_Snake — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:52:12 +0000

> GLM-4.6 is great value but still not solid enough for tool calls, not that fast, etc. so if you can afford something more reliable I'd go for that, but encouraging.

Funny you should say that, because while it is a large model the GLM 4.5 is at the top of Berkley's Function Calling Leaderboard [0] and has one of the lowest costs. Can't comment on speed compared to those smaller models, but the Air version of 4.5 is similarly highly-ranked.

[0]https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html

New comment by camel_Snake in "Sysco Is Not "Ruining Restaurants""

camel_Snake — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 13:44:47 +0000

I didn't really follow the premise of the original video. Can you find identical food at various locations throughout the country? Yes. Are you required to eat this same food? No!

You could likely order the things that local restaurant/pub does make in house, rather than go for the variety of items on the menu that are simply there to appease customers' fancies.

Or you could go to a proper restaurant that makes the majority of their dishes in house. You have this choice.

If Sysco and these other companies didn't offer pre-made jalepeno poppers and the like, they simply wouldn't be on the menu in the first place.

New comment by camel_Snake in "America is now one big bet on AI"

camel_Snake — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:33:21 +0000

Where do you think pensions were storing the money?

These are two sides of the same coin.

New comment by camel_Snake in "Scientists say X has lost its professional edge and Bluesky is taking its place"

camel_Snake — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:14:51 +0000

yep. This feels like a feature to me, not a bug. As a mostly reader/follower on these platforms I'm surprised when others compare their engagement metrics, rather than the quality of the engagement on these platforms. Obviously their goals and incentives are different than mine, but the more time I spend on the internet the more I value the smaller communities due to the correlation with quality and topical focus.

New comment by camel_Snake in "After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View"

camel_Snake — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:04:40 +0000

geeze we sure strayed far from "legalize comedy" pretty quickly. Here we are, discussing quips like they're a military operation.

New comment by camel_Snake in "After getting Jimmy Kimmel suspended, FCC chair threatens ABC's The View"

camel_Snake — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:53:50 +0000

> Paraphrased, Kimmel said that the killer was a republican.

He literally didn't though? Why does this mistake keep being made. Kimmel made 0 assertions about the shooter. He did make assertions about the President and his conduct, however.

New comment by camel_Snake in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

camel_Snake — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:17:36 +0000

Best not to speculate on motivations at this time, IMO. It's the most likely scenario given his notoriety, but we don't know anything yet and that's a slippery slope.

New comment by camel_Snake in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

camel_Snake — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:12:42 +0000

this is such a terribly bad-faith interpretation of the parent's comment to the point I'm assuming you replied to the wrong one?

New comment by camel_Snake in "US economy added just 22,000 jobs in August, unemployment highest in 4 yrs"

camel_Snake — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:54:03 +0000

He sounds like the fictional 'Bob' and likely made out like a bandit, assuming he held.

https://www.wealthmorning.com/2023/09/15/648774/meet-bob-the...