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New comment by weavie in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

weavie — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:55:25 +0000

Interesting. On the pricing page, there are still limits placed on the usage. How restrictive have you found them?

New comment by weavie in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

weavie — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:25:28 +0000

What are the best open models?

New comment by weavie in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

weavie — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:40:28 +0000

Thank you, I'll look into it. For someone who is used to just working with second hand thinkpads, this stuff gets expensive fast!

New comment by weavie in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

weavie — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:06:47 +0000

How good are local LLMs at coding these days? Does anyone have any recommendations for how to get this setup? What would the minimum spend be for usable hardware?

I am getting bored of having to plan my weekends around quota limit reset times...

New comment by weavie in "Sky – an Elm-inspired language that compiles to Go"

weavie — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:22:33 +0000

You could make it happen in about a week and $50 worth of tokens.

New comment by weavie in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

weavie — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:15:20 +0000

I don't think it's so clear cut. The problem is that his personality defects have allowed him to be influenced by people who are truly malevolent. Those people lurk more in the shadows and so avoid the condemnation that they deserve. Trump is their obvious useful idiot with the target painted on his head.

New comment by weavie in "Vulnerability research is cooked"

weavie — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:51:53 +0000

I've worked at companies before where they have balked at spending $300 to buy me a second hand thinkpad because I really wanted to work on a Linux machine rather than a mac. I don't see them throwing $unlimited at tokens to find vulnerabilities, at least until after it's too late.

New comment by weavie in "What does " 2>&1 " mean?"

weavie — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:42:45 +0000

I get the ocassional file named `1` lying around.

New comment by weavie in "We mourn our craft"

weavie — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:14:54 +0000

Have you tried reading the documentation it generates?

New comment by weavie in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"

weavie — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:01:56 +0000

As someone in the UK for whom that link is blocked, I wonder if that meme is doubly apt.

New comment by weavie in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

weavie — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:05:31 +0000

I'm largely just thinking $HUGE when throwing out that number, but there are plenty of companies that have cloud costs in that range. A quick search brings up Walmart, Meta, Netflix, Spotify, Snap, JP Morgan.

New comment by weavie in "Don't rent the cloud, own instead"

weavie — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:51:04 +0000

What is the upper limit of Hertzner? Say you have an AWS bill in the $100s of millions, could Hertzner realistically take on that scale?

New comment by weavie in "Pebble Round 2"

weavie — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:17:49 +0000

As someone who has only ever had a Garmin, what am I missing from other smartwatches?

New comment by weavie in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"

weavie — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:53:19 +0000

To be clear though, the allocator API is still experimental and from what I remember has been for quite a while now..

New comment by weavie in "Ask HN: Is it OK to look at AoC solutions?"

weavie — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:50:53 +0000

The more you struggle at something the more you will learn. That works up to the point where the struggle is beyond your capacity for struggle - then you just get stuck. So ideally (assuming you are doing this because you want to learn something) you want to reduce the amount of struggle to just below your capacity.

Just copying someone else's solution, or getting an LLM to fix it for you will be very low struggle, so you won't learn much.

To add some struggle, maybe look up a solution in a different language and translate to your language? You could choose a solution in a language similar to your language, so if you are solving in C, perhaps look up a C# solution or to make it harder look up a solution in a different paradigm. Find a Haskell solution or a Prolog one and see if that gives you enough hints.

New comment by weavie in "Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview"

weavie — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:29:13 +0000

Yes, a discussion of the tradeoffs of different solutions is exactly what I want to hear in an interview.

New comment by weavie in "Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine"

weavie — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:59:53 +0000

A well implemented system would somehow allow you to use your ID to prove you have the attributes a service needs (being over 18, able to drive, no criminal records, not a communist or whatever it is they need) without providing any further information that would allow multiple services to correlate ID's against eachother.

New comment by weavie in "Zig Software Foundation 2025 Financial Report and Fundraiser"

weavie — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 08:30:23 +0000

There are projects that spend more than that every day.

New comment by weavie in "Ditching Obsidian and building my own"

weavie — Mon, 19 May 2025 11:53:50 +0000

Emacs can be a curse too. Once you get into it, it's really hard to use anything else..

Camerons World

weavie — Mon, 12 May 2025 09:05:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cameronsworld.net

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43961031

Points: 1

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