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New comment by hadlock in "Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left""

hadlock — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:51:21 +0000

United has already cut flights by 5%, the article says KLM is cutting ~1% of their flights, both citing fuel shortages. If giant companies on opposite sides of the Atlantic, are saying this is an issue, it's probably worth taking their word for it

New comment by hadlock in "Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference"

hadlock — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:49:41 +0000

10 minutes a day of extreme power usage is probably fine for people asking for directions to the store, setting calendar reminders, timers, checking for important emails etc. AI on your phone will be incredibly useful but power usage doesn't matter when total usage is less than 15 minutes per day. I don't think the average person expects to vibe code on the phone for 8 hours a day.

New comment by hadlock in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

hadlock — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:24:39 +0000

Harbor freight sells three tiers of many of their more popular tools and they're not shy about it. Most of their signage says "ok/better/best" and they're very transparent about what you're buying. I can buy a $9 angle grinder and on the same shelf I an also buy a $85 angle grinder, with the "better" model running ~$25-40. Harbor Freight used to have exclusively cheap junk but their "better" tier stuff is more than adequate for home DIYers

It probably helps that the founder is still the owner. Once that guy or his son dies (he's getting up there) it would not suprise me if the brand spirals into decay.

New comment by hadlock in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

hadlock — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:17:26 +0000

Hottest day of the year in the US varies by 3 months from California to Texas, which is only about half the width of the country. I would imagine the region you're in has a different hottest day of the year from say Kashmir or your neighbor Sri Lanka.

New comment by hadlock in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

hadlock — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:15:24 +0000

You can get some black "machinist's layout bluing" which will stain it better than a sharpie would. It's not going to be a perfect color match but better than 50%

New comment by hadlock in "I still prefer MCP over skills"

hadlock — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:37:08 +0000

>while ensuring you can't do inconvenient things like say, bulk exporting your own data

I think this is the key; I want my analysts to be able to access 40% of the database they need to do their job, but not the other 60% parts that would allow them to dump the business-secrets part of the db, and start up business across the street. You can do this to some extent with roles etc but MCP in some ways is the data firewall as your last line of protection/auth.

New comment by hadlock in "How Pizza Tycoon simulated traffic on a 25 MHz CPU"

hadlock — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:25:09 +0000

I'm pretty sure you just described Little Caesar's Pizza business model. I recall way back they were $5 but even today here in California their large pepperoni is only $10 where competitors are charging $27-35

New comment by hadlock in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

hadlock — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:55:49 +0000

The studies go back way earlier than that; there's a reason why they call them "newspaper columns"

New comment by hadlock in "Amazon is adding a fuel surcharge to fees it collects from third-party sellers"

hadlock — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:58:08 +0000

You need a non-electronic way to bill land owners for property taxes. That's it. Physical snail-mail is the de-facto way for the government to legally serve property taxes and other bills to private citizens. Yes we live in 2026 and everyone has email, but there's no legal requirement to give the government your email address, or even have one. You are however, legally required to provide a mailing address for your property tax bill to be sent to.

Sure, by that standard we could probably reduce to weekly or even monthly mail service. It's been suggested since at least 2008 we drop Tuesday mail service as almost nobody sends mail on Saturdays and there's no mail service on Sundays.

New comment by hadlock in "Qwen3.6-Plus: Towards real world agents"

hadlock — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:37:08 +0000

I'd be interested in seeing the source for this if you have a moment

New comment by hadlock in "StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)"

hadlock — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:29:29 +0000

some kind of top-level metric like avg tokens/task would be useful. e.g. yes stepfun is 5% the price of sonnet, but does it use 1x, 10x or 1000x more tokens to accomplish similar tasks/median per task. for example I am willing to eat a 20% quality dive from sonnet if the token use is < 10% more than sonnet. if token use is 1000x then that's something I want to know.

New comment by hadlock in "StepFun 3.5 Flash is #1 cost-effective model for OpenClaw tasks (300 battles)"

hadlock — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:44:52 +0000

According to openrouter.ai it looks like StepFun 3.5 Flash is the most popular model at 3.5T tokens, vs GLM 5 Turbo at 2.5T tokens. Claude Sonnet is in 5th place with 1.05T tokens. Which isn't super suprising as StepFun is ~about 5% the price of Sonnet.

https://openrouter.ai/apps?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopenclaw.ai%2F

New comment by hadlock in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

hadlock — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:35:55 +0000

The fact that even they struggle with github actions is a real testimate to the fact that nobody wants to host their own CD workers.

New comment by hadlock in "The first 40 months of the AI era"

hadlock — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:29:00 +0000

I suspect you'll (a small-medium business) be able to buy a Claude 4.6-class rack mount device for $6000 by 2030 that does 100 t/s with 1 million token context, which honestly, is probably adequate for an office (front office, back office, executive tier etc) of 10-300 unless you've got more than 4 engineers on staff. That kind of offline device is going to push everyone to provide that kind of cloud-enabled baseline service at very low cost. The Qwen 3.5 series is already showing you can almost (but not quite) squeeze that kind of performance out of consumer hardware. 256/512gb consumer video cards will get us there, eventually, if capacity ever catches up with demand.

New comment by hadlock in "Hypura – A storage-tier-aware LLM inference scheduler for Apple Silicon"

hadlock — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:18:29 +0000

If my options are run Opus 4.6 in the cloud for $200/mo or run Opus 4.6 locally for $275, I am absolutely going to self-host 100% of the time. Sending all that data to the cloud presents tremendous legal risk for companies. There's currently no retention rules about privately hosted AI.

New comment by hadlock in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

hadlock — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:39:06 +0000

openai has.... I'm not sure but let's say 500m free users, and it's not unreasonable to assume they eventually hit 1b. That is a lot of advertising revenue, which is what powers companies like Google and even smaller companies with only 300m users like Twitter. If ecommerce isn't a major focus for OpenAI then their board members are asleep at the wheel.

New comment by hadlock in "Nvidia NemoClaw"

hadlock — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:46:42 +0000

OpenClaw has a persistent memory, stored to disk, and an efficient way of accessing it. ChatGPT and Claude both added a rudimentary "memory" feature in March but it's nowhwere as extensible or vendor neutral.

New comment by hadlock in "Kagi Small Web"

hadlock — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:15:15 +0000

The good news is that Google search results have degraded so much that competitors like Kagi can compete directly. I moved off Google search completely on all devices ~1 year ago and I don't miss it at all, most of the time I forget I have a kagi subscription.

New comment by hadlock in "The MacBook Neo"

hadlock — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:28:55 +0000

I generally run chrome/firefox and vscode full screen, and then alt-tab between those and my email (outlook at current company) and messaging (slack). Plus terminal window/s. That workflow is mostly reproducible across win/mac/linux. What features are you using that MacOS is getting in the way?

New comment by hadlock in "The MacBook Neo"

hadlock — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:23:49 +0000

USB-C PD (power delivery) has been a standard for over a decade now. I first used it on a Nexus 4 or 5, and later on a Chromebook Pixel in 2016. It would be surprising for apple to not use that standard, particularly when both ports are probably run from the same controller.