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New comment by itwaswatson in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

itwaswatson — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:08:52 +0000

*winning

Sorry, you made a silly typo that made you look bad. I fixed it.

New comment by itwaswatson in "There is minimal downside to switching to open models"

itwaswatson — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:33:08 +0000

We have a provider with Deepseek V4 flash at our work. It can handle 95% of the "actually functional" workload at a tenth of the cost. I still pull up beefier ones sometimes, but that's after some consideration.

The moat is so flat, it only gives +1 food and +1 production. +1 gold with a road.

New comment by itwaswatson in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

itwaswatson — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:12:58 +0000

> robotics is too nice: glorified if/then/else is better.

I have been on the other side of this, building a frontend that connected to an external service robot that we, with a 5 minute script, managed to successfully prove internally was just a if/then/else state machine.

We got paid to make it, so we didn't care, but we knew someone was losing money.