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New comment by trillic in "A $20/month user costs OpenAI $65 in compute. AI video is a money furnace"

trillic — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:29:49 +0000

It's a well known fact that 1 Picture == 1000 words.

New comment by trillic in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

trillic — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:24:27 +0000

Priced into the premium. It's not your run of the mill health insurance.

New comment by trillic in "Recover Apple Keychain"

trillic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:10:12 +0000

Same anecdote, keep my phone in my saddle bag now.

New comment by trillic in "Apple removes iPhone vibe coding app from app store"

trillic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:40:28 +0000

I haven't been in the App Store ecosystem in a while, but the restriction is generally on running new Machine Code, all machine code needs to be signed on iOS. Interpreters get around this limitation, only the interpreter code that is compiled AoT and signed is actually running.

This tracks as the reasoning behind a lack of other browser engines, nobody can get comparable performance without a JIT, which would be compiling net new machine code that wasn't shipped with the binary.

The best way to handle this I would imagine within the current bounds of Apple's restrictions would be WASM.

New comment by trillic in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

trillic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:38:53 +0000

I think cognitive ability is a real thing with a genuine genetic component; twin studies make that pretty hard to deny. But the SAT measures a narrow slice of ability under conditions that favor prep access, and speaking from experience, scoring well on standardized tests without having to work for it hurt me long term. I coasted on test-taking ability and didn't develop real discipline until adulthood.

Without standardized tests, my transcript probably doesn't get me into a top school, I likely don't end up in tech, and honestly maybe I would've been forced to develop a work ethic earlier, which might have been better for me.

New comment by trillic in "Flighty Airports"

trillic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 02:27:37 +0000

FlightAware and Flighty are usually within seconds of each other and always ahead of the airlines.

New comment by trillic in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

trillic — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:40:03 +0000

The SAT is a measure of test-taking ability, socioeconomic status, a narrow band of academic skills, and processing information under time pressure.

I don't think it measures much else.

Why do you think the SAT is a measure of hard work or character?

New comment by trillic in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

trillic — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:17:51 +0000

To paste code into the chrome dev console you just need to type “allow pasting”

New comment by trillic in "Gitana 18: the new flying Ultim trimaran"

trillic — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:36:34 +0000

The French public pays attention to it, as do offshore sailors in general, but it’s a tiny “market” of eyeballs. My Naval architect friends who don’t sail also find it interesting from an engineering perspective and Gitana puts out good content, albeit in French, so I’m using the translator a lot. The programs and races are mostly sponsored by large French banks and dynastically wealthy families, I assume there is some overlap there… It’s like formula 1 but less eyeballs and more French prestige. A vast majority of the skippers and crew of these yachts these days are French, with the occasional Brit thrown in there.

New comment by trillic in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

trillic — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:07:29 +0000

I don't think you are an accountant.

New comment by trillic in "MacBook Neo"

trillic — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:31:27 +0000

A18 Pro Geekbench on an iPhone: Single: 3539 Multi-core: 8772 Macbook Air M1 Geekbench: Single: 2347 Multi-core: 8342

New comment by trillic in "MacBook Neo"

trillic — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:26:29 +0000

Mom is getting a new laptop

New comment by trillic in "What Pressure Does to an Athlete's Body"

trillic — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:46:28 +0000

Until very recently, 19 of the last 20 quarterbacks who lost their first Super Bowl never made it back to the title game (Jalen hurts in 2024 is the one).

Historically, out of 38 QBs to lose their debut, only 4 eventually won a ring (Dawson, Griese, Elway, and Manning).

New comment by trillic in "Voith Schneider Propeller"

trillic — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:03:42 +0000

Most boats operate 95%+ of their engine hours in a very narrow RPM range.

New comment by trillic in "A chatbot's worst enemy is page refresh"

trillic — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:44:04 +0000

useEffect if I had to guess

New comment by trillic in "Judge scolds Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial"

trillic — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:01:12 +0000

Hope they reselected the jury. Meta has the ability to do facial recognition on the jurors if they were snuck cameras into court.

New comment by trillic in "Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging"

trillic — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:10:22 +0000

You'd be surprised. COVID-19 fundamentally altered a lot of people's habits.

https://www.businessofapps.com/data/strava-statistics/

New comment by trillic in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

trillic — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:45:42 +0000

He can't buy all the RAM

New comment by trillic in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

trillic — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 13:51:49 +0000

The rate limit for my $20 OpenAI / Codex account feels 10x larger than the $20 claude account.

New comment by trillic in "GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark"

trillic — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:59:27 +0000

Plan in Opus 4.6 and let a fast model rip anecdotally seems to work very well for me. Having Opus be extremely specific with files to edit makes it even better.