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I’m happy for the Cursor team, but I sincerely don’t understand the valuation.

Most people I know who figured out how to use Claude Code or Codex directly get much more compute and a much better power-user experience. The difference is not even funny. And it’s not an IDE vs terminal because both claude and codex work just fine in vscode.

What annoyed me most was my own experience: last November I paid $20 for Cursor, burned through the quota in one day after just a few prompts, and didn’t find any clear way to even see quota, so i contacted support. Somehow they claimed I had used around $70 of compute and implied I should be grateful. But they calc price of all input tokens as if they were cashmiss tokens, which is obviously more expensive than real API usage and this was extremely dishonest on their part.

So from my perspective, Cursor or similar solutions often look like a middleman between the user and model provider. In theory, that should be hard to defend against using the frontier labs directly.

That is why it is mystery for me why so many people still pay for it over orders of magnitude cheaper claude/codex

Revenge! A friend of mine was scammed this way two years ago.

So when I finally received a similar offer on LinkedIn, I made them pay to me, twice XD

They sent me a GitHub repository and claimed they needed help deploying a token or something similar. The obvious goal was to get me to run their code while connected to a wallet with real funds.

I told them: sure, I can probably help, but my time costs money.

So I convinced them to pay me for a consultation. For half an hour, I explained how “amazing and simple” the process was, and how they could do it themselves. They claimed to be from the US, but on the call they had an extremely heavy Asian accent. I even recorded part of it on camera, because the whole situation was ridiculous.

Before they could get too furious, I told them I did not have more time and that they would need to book another call. So they paid me a second time.

Before the second call, i got myself absolutely new macbook was for fun testing it, basically a fresh Mac (i should have been using vm because it’s faster to restore but that time i wasn’t familiar with UTM and i got parallels which is scam itself), just to see how their scam worked.

The scam was classic npm install-style: get someone to run scripts from a Git repo and hope they are unaware of how much access that can give to their machine.

Honestly, two years ago, I also did not fully understand that simple ‘nom install’ could give attackers such deep access to your computer.

i pay for crossover license (wine on mac), if i understand correctly, they spend this money on development wine core as well.

basically this - it took the social media industry quite a few years to invent a simple-looking thing, short-form video with discorver algo and it became extremely addictive for a huge part of the population. Now imagine an AI that knows your personality type, good at psychology, always supportive. Best friend ever. That creates a far stronger moat than any price or technical advantage of an AI coding tool.

what would be really cool (maybeme i missed it?), is for your tool show clear useful info on the "top panel", not just logo. Like mac-stats or littleSnitch do.

Could you please provide any proof for: “if you look at any large company’s CEO, they’re there because they took these hits or provided plausible deniability for jig boss in the past”. Never thought from this angle, interesting theory

I’m curious about the reasoning behind this approach. Surely, Elon Musk and his team are smart enough to recognize the legitimacy of such research. Initially, I thought this kind of content was just playing to the lowest common denominator—a form of low-effort clickbait. However, this strategy risks alienating more educated or critical followers.

Given Musk’s intelligence and the capabilities of his team, I’m struggling to understand the logic here. Is it meant to drive engagement by polarizing opinions, or is there some deeper strategic intent that I’m missing?

I wish Claude app has voice input like chatGPT, for someone who's bad at typing like me - it's essential part that is missing

I'm pretty sure you could find justification even for why top models don't support microSD card expansion. The problem with this line of argument is that if they wanted to, they could support both without any issues. The real reason is money. It's more profitable to have Bluetooth only when you also make AirPods, and not include storage expansion when you sell built-in memory options at a 400% markup.

i seems you exclude many android options, that have hidden selfie camera and good working fingerprint scanner. ZTE Axon 20 5G as an example.

*typo: you can send more than one bit per photon on average

I'm very curious to learn more about 1cm, what is the math behind it? Do you speak about classical music CD with ±700mb of capacity? I was always fascinating by ability of old super scratched optical disks still functioning without problems.

not 2 but around 10 seems possible https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/9/5/757

Wallet by definition has private key within it. Without key is just an address.

that's truly incredible how much lives can be saved with good electronics and it-systems. I wish the war ends asap, before the autonomous ai-powered drones comes into play... because at that point this might become complete skynet-like hell.

Many messengers companies started outside of SV,

• Telegram - Founded: Russia, Headquartered: Dubai, Users: 500M+

• WeChat - Founded: China, Headquartered: Shenzhen, Users: 1.2B+

• LINE - Founded: Japan, Headquartered: Tokyo, Users: 84M (Japan)

• Viber - Founded: Israel, Headquartered: Luxembourg, Users: 1B+

• KakaoTalk - Founded: South Korea, Headquartered: Jeju City, Users: 52M+

• Zalo - Founded: Vietnam, Headquartered: Ho Chi Minh City, Users: 100M+

• ICQ - Founded: Israel, Headquartered: Cyprus, used to have big market share

• Skype - Founded: Estonia, Headquartered: Luxembourg/USA, Users: 40M daily

A little offtop for everyone who uses comparisons that "old good days" computers/whatever were more expensive so new generation don't have moral ground to complain. Please don't forget about overall context. In that old day you could afford to buy house and don't spend the most of the income for renting. So it's incorrect to simply compare prices for one specific niche, overall context for expenses should be counted in.

a counter take from me, as someone who uses adblocks everywhere possible but used to work for facebook ads department:

ads aren't inherently bad, irregardless of much data do they track. What really bad is how this ads is targeted and how much ads is delivered. I would LOVE to see relevant to my interested and situation ads. I like fpv drones and often see interested ads on instagram and led to a purchase. The problem after that I can't just edit the vector of my interests for ads targeting and keep bombarded with something not relevant to my situation anymore, and boy so much of it I see.

I really don't know why big ads network didn't move forward with user controlled ads mechanics - because we all humans buy something anyway, it's okay of being aware of the options on the market. It's not okay to mentally torture users with irrelevant, annoying and overwhelming amount of ads.

people who managed to migrate to KeePass - was it worth it?

what does it mean in simple words? as one of many StackOverflow contributors (although very small) I don't want that my answers were wall-guarded by SO website, they are free to use advertising revenue from traffic generated by my content to remunerate for creation and supporting the platform, but the content itself is mine, why it shouldn't be that way?

The most unthought response I see every time. “But what you expect cop gonna do”? There are millions things they could do if given insensitive. Imagine a startup that get paid for every busted criminal? Put a honey pot, install cameras, track license plates. It can be resolved in matters of weeks.

I wonder is it already possible for an AI to write documentation from scratch based of code base?

I urge everyone to use external disk backup, possibly with prism opensource alternative to cloud photo storage. After Facebook deleted my acc for no reason and google locked my account due to payment system problems- you start to rethink who really own your memories in the cloud and how securely they stored.

“ it's a bunch of banks putting their own money into FRB” - aren’t these their clients money? If so, isn’t the same situation when clients make “deposit” and expect their money held by bank, but bank start treating them as bank creditors?

How do I know your comment is handwritten and not chatgpted?

It’s just nonsense. If the agresor wants to invade the country- they do that regardless. Germany-Poland the obvious example. If anything, the discrimination of local russian minority makes look it extremely injusted and oppressive.

Imho, quora users don’t use it for finding answers but rather reading personal experience. I used to write on quora fairly often many year ago. But something happened, and in my subjective experience the platform became far less interesting and useful. Significant part of questions turned into barely hidden shills for business or products, right answers seldom ever get visible and overall quality of content went down drastically. Maybe I’m not a representative but from my point if view the readers and writers on quora 2023 won’t have any different experience when there’s some smart machines that gives right answers.

This is bizarre. There was a reply to this comment from of person who claimed there’s something wrong with me, and when I reply to it with my contacts. Now I don’t see any of this comments. So if the parent comment is deleted- so all replies to it as well?

Well, this is a problem. As a little man who shared a personal story - there’s no way people on internet can believe me over all mighty Binance.

But this is my story, Binance took my deposit and never gave it back. Although I have no influence whatsoever, there are still a few hundred people from the blockchain industry whom I met over a years on hackathons and conferences. Perhaps we might have friends/contacts in common https://twitter.com/lebed2045? via whom happy share all details.

What’s my motivation to lie? when if this story even get attention (that is unlikely) - binance would always able to disprove it by sending tx proofs that they sent money back or never took in the first place?

Lucky you. I deposited a bunch on ethers in 2017/18 and wasn’t being able to withdraw anything since. They claim my passport isn’t enough, so I couldn’t withdraw the same money I deposited to the same address. After several weeks of attempts I gave up and call it a loss.

So, saying it out loud: Binance had scammed me. Happy to jump of public debate about it on Twitter(same nickname).

I’m ex Facebook software engineer (even had selfie with Zuckerberg as the avatar picture) who got banned on Facebook. Up to this day I have no clue what for. But it’s extremely annoying because I lost lots of photos that I didn’t back up and close to thousand contracts of people. Users should definitely own this data, not a corporation.