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New comment by eugene3306 in "GPT-5.6"

eugene3306 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:59:51 +0000

note that ARC-AGI-3 has its rules changed.

before today all the contestants were capped at $10k

New comment by eugene3306 in "Muse Spark 1.1"

eugene3306 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:20:28 +0000

> Model API is not available in your region.

Well, Vietnam is not in the list of restricted territories.

Anyway, what is "your region" ?

Is this where I am now, or is it where I activated my Oculus 2 five years ago ?

New comment by eugene3306 in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

eugene3306 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:38:00 +0000

This billing cycle I was billed $20 three times.

I contacted my bank and got a reply (from a human) that all three payments are valid.

Emails from Anthropic state that the first two payments failed, but the third went through. Fin says that my question will be elevated to a human being, but so far I was not contacted.

New comment by eugene3306 in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"

eugene3306 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:28:31 +0000

This makes a good benchmark LLMs:

``` look at this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.21852

now please produce 2x+y as a composition on EMLs ```

Opus(paid) - claimed that "2" is circular. Once I told it that ChatGPT have already done this, finished successfully.

ChatGPT(free) - did it from the first try.

Grok - produced estimation of the depth of the formula.

Gemini - success

Deepseek - Assumed some pre-existing knowledge on what EML is. Unable to fetch the pdf from the link, unable to consume pdf from "Attach file"

Kimi - produced long output, stopped and asked to upgrade

GLM - looks ok

New comment by eugene3306 in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

eugene3306 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 17:31:32 +0000

spatial or not, arc-agi is the only test that correlates to my impression with my coding requests

New comment by eugene3306 in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

eugene3306 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:51:37 +0000

why don't they publish at ARC-AGI ? too expensive?

New comment by eugene3306 in "Asterisk AI Voice Agent"

eugene3306 — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:55:00 +0000

I've created Asterisk Codex Skill, but turns out there is ten seconds timeout for scripts

New comment by eugene3306 in "A compact camera built using an optical mouse"

eugene3306 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:34:54 +0000

Just in case the author is here: what's the FPS?

New comment by eugene3306 in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

eugene3306 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:42:11 +0000

Too late. Browser-use local LLMs are already a thing

New comment by eugene3306 in "Up to date prices for LLM APIs all in one place"

eugene3306 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:41:35 +0000

I think the proper way of estimating the cost is the cost of entire run of a test. Like in aider's leaderboard.

New comment by eugene3306 in "Up to date prices for LLM APIs all in one place"

eugene3306 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:39:46 +0000

what's point of comparing token prices? especially for thinking models.

Just now I was testing the new Qwen3-thinking model. I've run the same prompt five times. The costs I got, sorted: 0.0143, 0.0288, 0.0321, 0.0389, 0.048 . And this is for single model.

Also, in my experience, sonnet-4 is cheaper than gemini-2.5-pro, despite token costs being higher.

New comment by eugene3306 in "U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams"

eugene3306 — Fri, 30 May 2025 16:15:14 +0000

Fizen

New comment by eugene3306 in "U.S. sanctions cloud provider 'Funnull' as top source of 'pig butchering' scams"

eugene3306 — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:13:26 +0000

I use crypto often. I am Russian, I left Russia when Putin started the war. For me, it is quite hard to open a bank account. So I use crypto. I work remotely for a Singaporian company. Now I'm in Vietnam, I can pay for my groceries with crypto using QR code. I can cash USDT crypto with a rate better than paper bills.

I have two bank accounts in Kazakhstan. Both card credentials were stolen after I used a popular hotel booking website, which, by the words of reddit, shares my card details with hotels. Some money was stolen. Seems like 3D-security only affects my payments, and theifs have a freedom to choose a website without 3D. Now I have to keep that cards always locked. Unlocking them for a short moments, when I need to make a card payment. Like booking an hotel, or buying an airline ticket.

New comment by eugene3306 in "Freeaim VR Shoes"

eugene3306 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 09:54:18 +0000

lol. That is too complex for the purpose of long-range movement in VR. Just make a controller with a control patterns of electric unicycle, or maybe "hoverboard".

New comment by eugene3306 in "Flux Pinning in sample of LK-99?"

eugene3306 — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 12:44:00 +0000

Is this material safe to handle?

It feels like this thing soon will start appearing all over ebay and aliexpress

New comment by eugene3306 in "Zenbleed"

eugene3306 — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 16:46:55 +0000

and how about playstation 5 ?

and also xbox and that thing from valve?

New comment by eugene3306 in "VPN use is at an all-time high – but are people safe?"

eugene3306 — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 14:13:39 +0000

Another example. Happened to me today. I was unable to pay online for a bus ticket until I set up VPN out of Cambodia to SG. I tried two cards by two different banks on three different ticketing sites. Without VPN all my payment attempts were rejected.

New comment by eugene3306 in "Poll: What's the best laptop for Linux these days?"

eugene3306 — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 01:48:58 +0000

None of above probably. Just buy a laptop which is known not to deviate from reference designs (from intel)

New comment by eugene3306 in "700M users and Premium"

eugene3306 — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 04:16:23 +0000

Also, it shows proper dates and times for messages. Not that stupid «1 day ago»

New comment by eugene3306 in "USB Cheat Sheet"

eugene3306 — Thu, 05 May 2022 10:35:59 +0000

just curious. Can USB3 work without D+ and D- ?