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New comment by floppyd in "Quantum battery upends the rules of charging"

floppyd — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:55:18 +0000

At this point I already have "ad blindness" but towards "traditional news publication declaring some technology revolutionary" — probability of thw mentioned tech being a nothing burger is just getting closer and closer to 100% with every publication.

New comment by floppyd in "DeepSeek API Pricing Update"

floppyd — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:43:14 +0000

Full table with multipliers from previous prices:

DeepSeek-V4-Flash (off-peak, x2 for peak)

* Cache Hit $0.007 (x2.5)

* Cache Miss $0.22 (x1.5)

* Output $0.66 (x2.25)

DeepSeek-V4-Pro (off-peak, x2 for peak)

* Cache Hit $0.022 (x6)

* Cache Miss $0.66 (x1.5)

* Output $1.98 (x2.25)

Peak Hours: 01:00–04:00 and 06:00–10:00 UTC

Effective from: 16:00, August 16, 2026 (UTC)

New comment by floppyd in "DeepSeek peak/off-peak pricing update"

floppyd — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 10:33:26 +0000

About 2x-2.5x off-peak for Flash, 2x-4x I'd say for Pro (x6 on cache in, the biggest increase throughout the board). And twice as much in peak hours.

New comment by floppyd in "Manual: •.,:;?·"

floppyd — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:36:38 +0000

I personally think that it's just fun and “in the spirit” of writing to be pedantic about it and typographically expressive in general. In many ways, writing is a very creative process, because it involves “fixating thoughts”, making something very analogue into something almost (but not completely) discrete; it's akin to graphic design in general in my eyes. And when I can bring some extra flavour to it – by sticking to pedantic rules, using rare typographic marks that have a meaning that's more historical now, or anything else – I tend to do it, even if just for my own amusement.

New comment by floppyd in "Telegram Serverless"

floppyd — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:29:26 +0000

Not having a bot API is what stops me from moving to Signal. I have 10-ish telegram bots running for myself, I just use telegram as UI for a script running on backend, and results are easily shareable with my other telegram contacts. I have no clue why not having this is amazing in any way.

New comment by floppyd in "My Mathematical Regression"

floppyd — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:32:36 +0000

Noticing a pattern and just extending it without proving why it works is not really a solution. You can prove it without really "understanding" it using induction, but that still would be proof, same as just counting on a computer.

New comment by floppyd in "How to code Claude Code in 200 lines of code"

floppyd — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:26:04 +0000

> This is the key insight: we’re just telling the LLM “here are your tools, here’s the format to call them.” The LLM figures out when and how to use them.

This really blew my mind back then in the ancient times of 2024-ish. I remember the idea of agents just reached me and I started reading various "here I built an agent that does this" articles, and I was really frustrated at not understanding how the hell LLM "knows" how to call a tool, it's a program, but LLMs just produce text! Yes I see you are telling LLM about tools, but what's next? And then when I finally understood that there's no next, no need to do anything other than explaining — it felt pretty magical, not gonna lie.

New comment by floppyd in "Kagi Hub Belgrade"

floppyd — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:16:36 +0000

> What do you think about Ukraine? Should it be a free country? What about its territorial integrity, to whom does Crimea belong?

Just wanted to let you know that asking those questions as if there can be any variation in my answers really shows you are judging russians from the outside. The Crimea question has been akin to a meme for a decade at this point. I'm obviously not saying "everyone" is thinking one way or another, because there's no "everyone", and there's also no "almost everyone". There are huge chunks of the population that are very much on the opposite ends of the spectrum, and judging one chunk by opinions and action of another one is highly disingenuous, imo.

New comment by floppyd in "Kagi Hub Belgrade"

floppyd — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:42:07 +0000

> an entry point for Russians in Europe.

> we have opened an office to easier collaborate with sanctioned individuals

As a Russian living in Belgrade I love how you see "being open to people from Russia" as a negative, and how you just instantly equate being russian with being under sanctions.

I, and everyone I know of, left russia not because they're a weasel trying to help putin move his money in and out of Europe, I moved because I was afraid I'd be forced to go kill and be killed, and because I just didn't want to take part in any of it. And I chose Serbia because it's one of the rare few options that would welcome me without too much restrictions and that's not prohibitively expensive for me to live.

New comment by floppyd in "Kagi Hub Belgrade"

floppyd — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:25:57 +0000

While Serbia obviously has a lot of problems, comparing a country that protests almost weekly to North Korea is extremely entitled.

New comment by floppyd in "The Future of Programming (2013) [video]"

floppyd — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:07:12 +0000

The non-linear code structure (including visually) is something I've been thinking about for a long time and arrived at very naturally. I'm the "spread all the papers on the table to take in every interaction all at once" type of person, and so often I imagined a code editor that would allow me to just "cut" a piece of code and move it to the side. Separating stuff into files is kinda this, but it's not visual and just creates a lot of mess when I try to separate out small functions that are not reusable somewhere else. I don't even need the underlying non-linearity — just let me move the papers around on my code desk!

New comment by floppyd in "I just want working RCS messaging"

floppyd — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 06:40:58 +0000

The year is 2076. An independent panel of experts has finally confirmed Sam Altman achieved AGI, for real this time. Quantum computers are factorizing numbers left and right. Cold nuclear fusion got so cold that we have to warm it up a little. Americans are still trying to communicate over something called "SMS", a text message protocol from 1993, but nobody knows why.

New comment by floppyd in "Google Antigravity"

floppyd — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:40:59 +0000

It's probably just under a huge load right now. Set it up pretty easily earlier on an M1 Air, but agent chats fail quickly with "model under load"

New comment by floppyd in "Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]"

floppyd — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:29:00 +0000

Gemma is an open-weight version of Gemini and obviously much less capable probably even than 2.5 Flash. Also the story you are linking to is a complete nothing burger, models are still very much hallucinating, especially on some extremely niche topics, I don't see how another politician trying to capitalize on that is attention-worthy at all.

New comment by floppyd in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

floppyd — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:53:07 +0000

I have definitely seen this "you need to go deep in the settings to enable 3rd party installs at all" flow before, but I don't remember which device it was. (Just saying that the commenter above is not just inventing something, I was surprised when I saw it as well)

New comment by floppyd in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

floppyd — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:26:49 +0000

I believe this only works this way on some android forks, iirc you are talking about Samsung. Stock android would show a warning "do you want to install apk from this app?" and lead you to a settings page that enables apk installs from this particular app. No need to separately enable the ability to install apks in general.

I always thought this is a very weird flow, it adds hoops yet accomplishes nothing because the hoops are all trivial and the same for every app.

New comment by floppyd in "Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages"

floppyd — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:32:36 +0000

I appreciate the effort, but the result kind of shows why usually symbols are aligned as they are. Dashes, colons, angle brackets — all look way too high next to lowercase letter. I assume this stems from trying to align everything with brackets, and those are aligned with uppercase letters kind of naturally. But I don't think the tradeoff is worth it.

New comment by floppyd in "Myna: Monospace typeface designed for symbol-heavy programming languages"

floppyd — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:27:55 +0000

>Near-Perfect Alignment: multi-character symbols like ->, >>=, =~, :: align seamlessly

The GitHub page has a list with 5 items of what was the focus, this is the first (and I think the most easily noticeable) area

New comment by floppyd in "I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]"

floppyd — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 11:06:03 +0000

I did something similar a while back, but I treat it as "text thumbnails" and kind of replace YT frontpage with this. I don't use it all the time, but sometimes the clickbait is too much.

Also I should add Gemini (the app) is able to access YT transcripts most of the time, so sometimes I'd just paste the link and ask for a tldr. One of the few reasons to go for Gemini app, not google ai studio.

That said, Technology Connections is worth watching just because videos are very pleasant, it's probably my favorite YT subscription right now.

New comment by floppyd in "What we talk about when we talk about sideloading"

floppyd — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:56:23 +0000

"adb install" is such a far cry from a normal install that it's laughable to call it an alternative or jumping though hoops "within reason". I imagine it won't allow to update an app without another adb install, for one thing. And controlling adb is even easier for google, so how long till you can "adb install" only from within Android Development Studio and only if you have a verified account? Because otherwise all the spooky skammers would be installing stuff on people's phones willy-nilly!