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New comment by redox99 in "MiniMax M3.1 Flash"

redox99 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 19:52:07 +0000

My math takes that into account. It's 20x more expensive but you get 60x subsidy on subs. I.e you can do more tasks on a $20 claude sub than with $20 in deepseek API.

New comment by redox99 in "MiniMax M3.1 Flash"

redox99 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:41:14 +0000

Opus 5.5 is according to AA cost per task, 23x more expensive than Deepseek with max effort (which is dumb, you shouldn't use) and 13x more expensive on xhigh.

Claude sub has a 60x subsidy, so a $20 sub gives you $1200 in API.

Based on this math, Claude sub is a much better deal than Deepseek. And it's a stronger model of course.

New comment by redox99 in "How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?"

redox99 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:01:47 +0000

I have a missing Amazon order that says delivered but it was actually never shipped, you only need to check DHL tracking to verify this (and DHL customer support confirms Amazon never sent the order)

After multiple supervisors appeals etc Amazon won't refund me

I think I need to give these agents a try.

New comment by redox99 in "DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests"

redox99 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 07:21:10 +0000

It's really not neck and neck with Opus 5.5.

New comment by redox99 in "Tesla Roadster"

redox99 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:21:04 +0000

~1700KG with 600L of nitrogen gas at 10,000 PSI

If you do the math that gets you about 13 seconds of hovering.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22rvpUecLts

New comment by redox99 in "Tesla Roadster"

redox99 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:42:59 +0000

https://x.com/itskyleconner/status/2110901867823718434

New comment by redox99 in "Call Center Jobs Are Declining, but 14,000 Calls Show Humans Still Outperform AI"

redox99 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:15:03 +0000

Having to waste 15 minutes with an AI is still crazy though.

New comment by redox99 in "Muse Spark Open"

redox99 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:43:10 +0000

Muse wonder is still benchmaxxed.

New comment by redox99 in "Muse Spark Open"

redox99 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:04:20 +0000

It performs worse than Muse Spark 1.3 and 1.2. And it has an outdated attention mechanism which at 1M tokens will need over 200GB just for the KV cache.

Very disappointing release. We're lucky to have Chinese models.

New comment by redox99 in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

redox99 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:32:20 +0000

I never understood why people considered specialized hardware more secure than general purpose hardware.

A hardware wallet is way way way more likely to be backdoored[1] than an off the shelve Intel or AMD CPU.

[1] by people wanting to steal your crypto (unlike the NSA or Intel)

New comment by redox99 in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

redox99 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:35:15 +0000

How does someone this dumb get hired at openai?

New comment by redox99 in "Gemini 4 Argon"

redox99 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:38:42 +0000

Maybe? But it's so many orders of magnitude apart. I can easily do 1B tokens a day (output tokens is probably like 3M?).

When I see non technical people use that Google reply I'd be surprised if it's more than 1k output tokens, and with a tiny model. So a 3000x in output tokens, on a model at least 10x as expensive, I wouldn't be surprised if hardware usage is 30.000x for a dev that uses coding subs vs someone who uses the Google AI overview a couple of times a day.

And that's not counting the absurd difference in cache reads.

New comment by redox99 in "Gemini 4 Argon"

redox99 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:41:33 +0000

> I bet they actually resolve more LLM requests than any other company at this point. The lay person still uses Google exclusively.

Unique users, maybe. But a simple query that's answered in a paragraph is negligible compared to devs running agents continuously for tens of hours.

New comment by redox99 in "Gemini 4 Argon"

redox99 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:35:57 +0000

Not for coding (antigravity).

https://x.com/OfficialLoganK/status/2110038940841545827

New comment by redox99 in "Gemini 4 Argon"

redox99 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:17:40 +0000

Only available in the $100 plan, and it's worse than Opus 5.5? Why would you ever buy this?

New comment by redox99 in "Muse Wonder"

redox99 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:56:35 +0000

> Everyone made fun of Zuck when [...] forced out Yann LeCun, a Turing Award winner.

Really? You'd have to be pretty dumb to keep LeCun, someone who hates LLMs and keeps making claims that end up being proven false in matter of months.

New comment by redox99 in "Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?"

redox99 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:42:32 +0000

I'd consider that solved with LLMs (the capability is already there and will only improve). The only remaining hurdle I'd say is hardware attestation.

New comment by redox99 in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

redox99 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:46:03 +0000

Number of employed SWEs has maintained the same, slightly increased in fact.

New comment by redox99 in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

redox99 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 19:36:06 +0000

For now that is balanced by the fact that we build more software, things that wouldn't be worth it before.

New comment by redox99 in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

redox99 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:35:58 +0000

You can migrate off deno in a single day. It's not a big deal.