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New comment by ezekiel68 in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

ezekiel68 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:58:56 +0000

And I'm over here on SiliconFlow using Stepfun AI Step-3.5-Flash at $0.10/M input and $0.30/M output tokens (262K context window) for complex market analysis work in rust utilizing vectorized instruction sets. It provides me with amazing results.

I honestly wonder how long this calliope can keep playing before it crashes to the ground.

(I have no business relationship to anything mentioned here except as a regular retail customer who went bargain-hunting)

New comment by ezekiel68 in "Moonshot AI suspends new subscriptions due to Kimi K3 demand"

ezekiel68 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:15:33 +0000

I tried it through siliconflow (I have no relationship to them other than as a normal customer) with the command line Pi agent and it's pretty good at adding features to a rust lang code repo. Compared to Deepseek V4 Pro there, M3 is about 3X the cost for non-cached input tokens and 5X the cost for output tokens. (both offering a 1M token context window). It certainly wasn't worh 5X the output of the Deepseek model for my uses, though.

I couldn't find any info on how they (siliconflow) quantized the model. I think some of the other ineference service aggregators might offer it as well, already.

New comment by ezekiel68 in "If you want to create a button from scratch, you must first create the universe"

ezekiel68 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:25:42 +0000

I imagine the commenter was referring to the article title wrt satire.

New comment by ezekiel68 in "We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput"

ezekiel68 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:20:27 +0000

Thanks for this!

New comment by ezekiel68 in "How to hide from killer drones"

ezekiel68 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:06:29 +0000

Silence! Something something NPU at the edge hand-wave.

New comment by ezekiel68 in "Prefer strict tables in SQLite"

ezekiel68 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:04:00 +0000

For sure -- but these are the 'exceptions that prove the rule'. Someone else mentioned HTTP3 and QUIC. For all of these, there are thousands of projects (including multiplayer games and even enterprises) that didn't quite get it right and suffered for it.

Or, at least, so says the lore.

New comment by ezekiel68 in "How to hide from killer drones"

ezekiel68 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:43:36 +0000

Well, not all killer drones run any kind of transformer model so...

New comment by ezekiel68 in "Prefer strict tables in SQLite"

ezekiel68 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:22:38 +0000

Coming from the enterprise SQL world, I never took SQLite seriously for the very reason that field types were not enforced by default. (Yes, I was agog when it became the backbone for app metadata on smartphones.) Anyway, reading this reminds me of the old chestnut from networking about choosing UDP over TCP for its low-latency and simplicity and then eventually adding nearly all the reliability facilities of TCP to the app (automatic retry, etc) by hand.

New comment by ezekiel68 in "We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput"

ezekiel68 — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:37:45 +0000

> The cancel lands on a process that has never heard of the query, and nothing happens.

> Peering fixes this. The processes are aware of one another, so a cancel that lands on the wrong process is forwarded to the one that actually owns the session.

I understand "peering" as a concept here but have never tried this with PostgreSQL before. May I ask:

A) Does PostgreSQL have a mode/setting for peering that makes this easy? I'm imagining a mechanism that either goes round robin (re-sending the cancel to peers until it doesn't return an error of some kind) or some metadata in the cancel request that enables the wrong-destination process to somehow identify the proper process.

B) And by what mechanism? If all the PostgreSQL processes are listening to clients via so_reuseport, I guess there must be some other IPC method used for the peering chatter.

New comment by ezekiel68 in "The Apple Disk II Controller Card (2021)"

ezekiel68 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 10:57:30 +0000

I'm sure all of this is "correct", but the fact is that many of us (myself included) enjoyed years of trouble-free service from our Commodore 1541 disk drives. And we could easily compare them with the Apple ][ computers and drives we learned on at high school

New comment by ezekiel68 in "Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years"

ezekiel68 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:24:24 +0000

Thank you for helping remove my ignorance!

New comment by ezekiel68 in "Public Domain Image Archive"

ezekiel68 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:24:10 +0000

I had no trouble with it once I realized it wanted me to drag the border area.

New comment by ezekiel68 in "Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years"

ezekiel68 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:09:32 +0000

You kind of covered this in your last point but it's worth emphasizing: we generally don't know for sure whether "correcting" a low serum vitamin D reading helps out in some way or merely silences a warning beacon that should have been traced to a more serious underlying condition.

New comment by ezekiel68 in "Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years"

ezekiel68 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:51:43 +0000

Still, 170,000 - 1.2M years is a fairly short amount of time if we go back only to the common ancestor who begat progeny that would become Pan and Autralopithecus (around 12 million years ago). It could be that early hide wearers started a trend that, to this day, continues to interfere with natural vitamin D metabolism (while also providing many benefits).

New comment by ezekiel68 in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

ezekiel68 — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:14:24 +0000

If I'm not guilty until proven innocent, then neither is Motorola.

New comment by ezekiel68 in "The user is visibly frustrated"

ezekiel68 — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:50:48 +0000

"How I Learned To Relax And Just Start New Sessions Often"

New comment by ezekiel68 in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

ezekiel68 — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:35:17 +0000

Lots of people throwing shade at Gemini CLI in the comments. I'm not saying it's perfect, but I enjoy using it. I haven't tried antigravity at all yet. I hope it will be an experience that is somewhat close to agentic coding on the CLI. I hit other model providers from Pi agent, but I'd like to be able to take advantage of my Google AI subscription on the CLI.

New comment by ezekiel68 in "The Emacsification of Software"

ezekiel68 — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:56:11 +0000

Yeah, that quote was definitely cringe for me. But I'm glad they made something that made them happy.

New comment by ezekiel68 in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

ezekiel68 — Fri, 08 May 2026 21:06:14 +0000

I don't know why reclaimthenet hasn't embraced the obvious answer: Simply create a new smart device operating system with a fully disentangled cosmos of programs, libraries, APIs, app SDKs, hardware partners, drivers, trust networks, carrier agreements, app stores, documentation, conferences...

New comment by ezekiel68 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

ezekiel68 — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:40:03 +0000

Dont' get it twisted, anyone; plenty of companies have a reputation to maintain for this reason (but don't do this). This is an absurdly generous severance package.