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New comment by farlight in "A 3rd World Embedded Engineer Responds to "RISC-V They Should Have Known Better""

farlight — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:24:08 +0000

I am in Asia, this means nothing, it's the largest continent on earth. I don't pay as much for shipping as the author does, but his struggles are nevertheless relatable: most sellers refuse to ship here, most of those who do want dozens and dozens of dollars for it, and some (few, usually Chinese) sellers save the situation from being completely hopeless.

New comment by farlight in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

farlight — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:05:05 +0000

They were significantly more expensive for coding compared to DeepSeek's offering because of much higher cost of cache reads and lower cache hit rate. Now, after the price jump, the effective cost of deepseek.com API vs 3-rd party providers is about the same.

New comment by farlight in "DeepSeek API Pricing Update"

farlight — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:55:53 +0000

Thank you for bringing that up, such a rarity for this place to remember the other 80% of the world.

As someone from just such a country, DeepSeek 0731 was the first time I seriously started using an LLM for coding. All previous attempts were useless or ridiculously expensive.

Can't say the old prices felt "free", but it was affordable if you're careful with your cache hit rate.

The new pricing probably pushed it into the unaffordable territory for tasks where you can do without it. Probably will try opencode go if they don't also follow suite, or will have to go back to wetware.