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New comment by moecables in "Search for everyone"

moecables — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 22:49:17 +0000

I was a subscriber for 2 years but as of late, I've had less and less need for Kagi's awesome search experience. Most of my querying can happen thru Gemini or Claude even if it's a bit slower but I don't have to pay $10/mo for something that is not worth $10 to me now.

New comment by moecables in "Building an AI-native engineering org"

moecables — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:35:20 +0000

yeah shipping widgets and shit, not real features

New comment by moecables in "Building an AI-native engineering org"

moecables — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 19:33:08 +0000

so if there's no user reports and fable isn't shipping in the middle of the night, then it's an outage?

New comment by moecables in "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"

moecables — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:45:51 +0000

+1 to Fastmail, I've used them for almost 8 years now, never ever have I had an issue with them.

New comment by moecables in "Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews'"

moecables — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:45:19 +0000

ugh when will these execs stop focusing on tokenmaxxing?

that comment about "loser thinking" sounds like he's not the best at communication

New comment by moecables in "The Best Rubber Duck I've Ever Had"

moecables — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:52:02 +0000

I'd even say AI can act as a good tutor as well, I often use it to learn about a concept and then have it prompt me 1-2 days later in quiz form (you have to specific that multiple choice questions shouldn't come back as correct answer first ) which helps you solidify concepts.

New comment by moecables in "Apple introduces the new 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

moecables — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:52:51 +0000

that's the plan for now, I just haven't had the M1 Pro slow down/hang/lag enough to give it up. It's a mid-range M1 Pro with 32GB of ram, works for me for dev work, I don't run any local LLM or resource intensive things on it. Battery only has 250 cycles on it so it's not like it dies off-charger.

New comment by moecables in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

moecables — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:39:32 +0000

I have an M1 Pro as well but my next computer will be a split setup mainly because I realized that I'm most often working / focusing on hard things while at the desk and just browsing / checking in on things when I'm away from the desk so I'm thinking something like:

- a low end Macbook Pro or Air

- Mac Studio, mid-to-high specs

New comment by moecables in "Somebody please stop the spam texts"

moecables — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 21:02:48 +0000

I always wondered if these text messages are extremely cheap or free for these spammers to send? In my experience, sending texts costs around 0.5 to 1 cent so are they hoping after spending a few bucks in spend, they'd get a sucker?

I used to have an auto-expanding snippet that would insert the entire wikipedia entry for the Tiananmen Square massacre and then I'd never hear back from them. This was mostly when the Chinese bots were doing the pig butchering scam.

New comment by moecables in "GPT-6.1 Terra"

moecables — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:19:25 +0000

Sonnet is way faster than Opus when doing everyday tasks, I think on the subscription plans it's a better option when you need something done faster than Opus' long thinking sessions.

New comment by moecables in "Anthropic S-1"

moecables — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:27:15 +0000

except, I didn't need WeWork to get work done, I use claude like crack to get work done.

New comment by moecables in "Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed"

moecables — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:16:35 +0000

Great! next week we'll get Astra 6.1 and Fable 5.2

New comment by moecables in "Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened"

moecables — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:48:51 +0000

Shame on Cash App and Block for their horrible customer support.

New comment by moecables in "Mistral Large 4"

moecables — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:40:24 +0000

compared to Deepseek 1017, I'm not sure why I'd use this?

https://openrouter.ai/compare/mistralai/mistral-large-4-0/de...

New comment by moecables in "Claude Duet"

moecables — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:34:51 +0000

I think this is a direct competitor to Dot and Muse, I've been using Muse more recently and it's surprising how little context/memory managment you ahve to do when it's just one long thread.

New comment by moecables in "Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers"

moecables — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:08:55 +0000

I would love to use it but that lowercase M really bothers me so maybe it would be perfect for me to fork and build my own version of it

New comment by moecables in "Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale"

moecables — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:51:42 +0000

in my case, I'm hoping that the time-to-first-token isn't so bad that I can have my admin users parse some information in the web ui pretty quickly (a very specific use case, i know)

New comment by moecables in "Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale"

moecables — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:30:15 +0000

I'm going to start using this instead of Haiku/GPT-Luna for tasks that require speed.

I'm wondering if it'll still be useful once the discount is lifted?

New comment by moecables in "What I self-host"

moecables — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:04:33 +0000

If you're sailing the high seas, *arr stack saves you a ton of time managing anything related to that. And now with an LLM quickly being able to set up a docker-compose for you, it's a no-brainer setup only if you're willing to spend a weekend getting it up and running on an always on computer behind a VPN, and for some people that's not worth the time/effort/money so I understand

New comment by moecables in "JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases"

moecables — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:02:51 +0000

I don't have any real use cases for jxl or avif or any other modern format b/c I rarely host images but all these articles are always so interesting to me. And at the end of it, I'm left wondering, is there ever going to be a single winner here?