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New comment by sandos in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

sandos — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:17:10 +0000

This is one of a few reason I strongly prefer GPT and its codex variants. It seldom frustrates me, sure its not omnipotent in any way, but it just feels very "tuned in" when it comes to understanding intent and scope.

New comment by sandos in "Scrcpy v4.0"

sandos — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:53:13 +0000

For the longest time I was so focused on getting to use an android as a "good" mic for a windows PC.

Scrcpy was a very hot contender, but I never got it to work well enough with low enough latency.

If you feel you should try this, just buy an audio interface and a cheap XLR mic.

New comment by sandos in "BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth"

sandos — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:35:50 +0000

100x regular LoRa maybe? Iow 100s of kbps per second. Yes, LoRa can go veeery low in bandwith.

New comment by sandos in "BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth"

sandos — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:28:29 +0000

Meshtastic did, in a way. There are roles and settings to disable rebroadcasts, then you are effectively a client. And it is used to preserve battery.

New comment by sandos in "BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth"

sandos — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:15:20 +0000

Nobody uses the 1% bands afaik, there are 10% duty cycle bands.

New comment by sandos in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

sandos — Mon, 04 May 2026 06:56:03 +0000

Skill loss is real. BUT, I have been complaining about skill loss to my bosses for literally a decade. So AI is just one problem for me. I was coding less and less every year for some reason.

I'm not sure skill loss is such a huge issue, in other words. It might just be a sign that the nature of our work if shifting. Being able to recite the C++ standard and using all the 100s of features correctly will just not be as highly regarded as knowing good architecture instead?

New comment by sandos in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

sandos — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 11:55:32 +0000

I AM mad, because I just signed up for my private copilot sub. Otoh I do have it at work. I suspect we will start noticing differences there, too, but it all depends on the top users, vs average user since it is now pooled, IF they dont just allow extra usage. Bu that has become more expensive now, so not sure what they will do. I am hopeful that very few actually even use it. In my and surrounding teams, only maybe 1 out of 3 people really use it much.

New comment by sandos in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

sandos — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:22:29 +0000

Wow, having a corp. account I do wonder WHEN we are getting some kind of resctriction of usage, or require us to justify our usage.

That GPT4-mini change is going to be brutal! Its much better than 5-mini, which was itself much better than earlier free models.

New comment by sandos in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

sandos — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:20:20 +0000

Ive also had huge problems with copilot and terminals, mostly due to corporate antivirus which makes it impossible to install clink for example. So the Shell integration never really worked. It has been fixed for a couple of months though now, and its working, maybe not great but at least very good.

The only sad thing is trying to use tools in a VS developer prompt (and how could this not have been fixed ages ago, its literall YOUR OWN flagship product). It knows how to launch the .cmd for it, but thats incredibly slow for single commands. Would be nice if I could tell it to just use an open terminal.

New comment by sandos in "When the cheap one is the cool one"

sandos — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:30:27 +0000

Isnt chromebooks to a large extent just this?

New comment by sandos in "DeepSeek v4"

sandos — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:04:32 +0000

Is Opus nerfed somehow in Copilot? Ive tried it numerous times, it has never reallt woved me. They seem to have awfully small context windows, but still. Its mostly their reasoning which has been off

Codex is just so much better, or the genera GPT models.

New comment by sandos in "Your hex editor should color-code bytes"

sandos — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:18:27 +0000

But does it have colors!?!??!

New comment by sandos in "5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens"

sandos — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:34:04 +0000

Why a bitmap font if you have tiny pixels? Just use a sharp font like Iosevka or similar.

New comment by sandos in "How does Shazam work?"

sandos — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:23:45 +0000

Well, my latest guess is: not at all.

It has been working "fine" for me generally for popular music. But then I was at a ice skating competition where there were some really nice synth:y music going on in the pauses, and I used Shazam on several of the songs, and I tried several times on each. It did not find a single one correctly.

Either this was unreleased music or very small niched music or something, or Shazam totally failed?

New comment by sandos in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

sandos — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:01:13 +0000

"Re-attaching repeatedly showed the program was not deadlocked."

Why re-attaching and not just resume then ctrl+c ? Is this some kind of clever hack I dont know about.

New comment by sandos in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

sandos — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:37:28 +0000

I dont understand how CC can burn that much money. Iv'e built many webapps using copilot, and our normal business tokens rarely run out. I would say Ive never exceeded 150% of a normal months tokens.

New comment by sandos in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

sandos — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:25:33 +0000

This is of course not a problem for business accounts.

We are not allowed to use anything other than our company provided GHCP credentials due to the data retention clause in our contracts. Ie. they are not allowed to use our data.

New comment by sandos in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

sandos — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:20:01 +0000

It does have multiple suppliers of models at least?

New comment by sandos in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

sandos — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:36:01 +0000

As a Swede I also do all of these things. And it doesn't feel like anything special, I imagine hundreds of thousands of people do the same.

New comment by sandos in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

sandos — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:32:56 +0000

This is one of the few real clues in this article, I would say.