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maxdo··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
claude 5.5 with price discounts is a step up in terms of quotas, as well as gpt 6.1 sol, i still feel like for complex things claude is way better vs anything else. also for the topic started, opus 5.5 and sonnet 5.5 are much faster too. I was using grok for that reasons just to do faster changes, but now i'm considering to cancel my cursor subscription, clade is much better and it's also as fast as anything else especially with workflows.
maxdo··on Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
migration concerns is a task of any coding agent for 2hours with testings, a cheap one for such an easy task, grok, gpt 6 luna can easily do it with almost no tokens cost.
maxdo··on SpaceX's Starship launching to orbit for first time ever today
This post feels like written by a QA. This is their first semi operational flight . In its current state starship is a reason to be proud by any nation . It pushed science forward with cost and payload size never possible before . That’s only current state .

Raptor 3 has its only 3rd flight . That’s why the payload is “only” ~50t. Just for the reference, it’s already one of the most capable rocket in the world as of today , and even with partial reusability it has future.

They clearly doing rolling improvement , rollout and testing of many components of different readiness. Otherwise they will never ship anything.

maxdo··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
I own my EV for 6 years+ already, still runs like new. Yeah, I do not know how to change my air filter, someone in my family changed it, and I only been in service once when my 12 volt battery died.

I was able to drive there, they did some breaks fluid change for free and thats it, meanwhile my friend with a bmw spent ~$2.5k in service since 3 years he bought it.

The only expense I had is changing tires, that i did in a regular tire shop.

Yeah keep laughing.

maxdo··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
It's not consumers decision, it's a dealers mafia. If everyone on EV, you will not change oil and other gasoline attributes repairs. If you have hybrid, it's a cherry on the top, best of both worlds, pay for regular issues of gas and electric car combined :)
maxdo··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
i do charge at home, i have 50 Amps , fairly average around my area. I do charge at supercharges once every 3 months. I do travel ~20k miles a year. I never limit myself on when to go just because of charging.
maxdo··on 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
It’s the opposite reason , for them social media is everything, and if that’s ai , it’s not cool , influencers don’t like it , until new ai influencers will emerge and will break a stereotype. It’s a s simple as that
maxdo··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
The way we spend military budget is inefficient yet, Americans grew in 90s not to say eu people tend to believe we live in the rosy world of friendly people , despite countries like North Korea , Iran , Russia , and even China to a certain extent.
maxdo··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
Total starship mission including launches is 15 billion to date , and it’s on the verge of entering limited commercial service . Maybe without re use but as a much cheaper super heavy rocket , like 10x cheaper without re use already .

It make sense to a certain extent to focus on a capability researches vs largely throw away mission to deliver a few rocks for 20 billions.

maxdo··on Australia 'on the same page' as Canada as it seeks deeper EU alliance
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maxdo··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
Be proud of yourself some people can’t even detect , same with YouTube, my dad was watching a podcast 100% ai without any clue.
maxdo··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
Think of it as an extension of a dj . Instead of downloading the music , you refer , bend , and create your own . The quality of entire electronic music will balloon due to this .
maxdo··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
Why? I use to work as a dj 15 years ago , this is just a dream !
maxdo··on ElevenLabs Music v2.5
What a dream for creation , I already see my daughter in the future will create her own album just for specific event or party .

It’s almost like dj but now you’re not just picking tracks of a similar theme , you choose a theme , and the rest of the music bands . Wow .

maxdo··on OpenAI Agents API
I get it why do I want to use your managed session , what do you win ? Any examples ?

I’m trying to understand the use case but it seems weird middle ground in a way .

maxdo··on OpenAI Agents API
Why would you choose api vs sdk . Sdk in a sandbox feels much better .
maxdo··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
I’m doing renovation . I slap a prompt in a tile store over my room and design several types of tiles and paint from one prompt while causally browsing in almost real time .

Isn’t that the future ? I generated 200 images alone in this use case .

What’s the alternative to that ? Send it tomorrow someone who hate their job moving tiles in the toilet , may money , wait 1 week

maxdo··on Mistral raises €3B
So they are parasites on sovereign blah blah blah.

And yes , Chinese models will be cheaper compared to what they offer , as well as American models will be much smarter polished . This is the only market they have , lobby sovereignty among politicians.

maxdo··on LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
What is the role of tools like libreoffice in the age of ai ? Is it only viewer ?

I was fighting alignment on the doc created manually, after 3 mins struggle I typed in Gemini tab of Google Docs , and it did everything perfectly.

Same with presentations , tools like bento.page generates you perfect html .

I really do not want to go and edit things manually anymore

maxdo··on GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost
They do catch important things but it’s really contextual. You can’t grab a model slap it on top and say code review . Hence a dedicated review tool is almost dead . Code review should be part of your pipeline and consume test results from the original task , open spec etc . If you do not have that code review will not help if you do , what is the point of task rabbit just slap <your harness in the sandbox> review against <goal>
maxdo··on Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
Not sure what was last year etc but this year claims are realistic on mobilization.

Russia already tested playbook by doing drafts on the street in limited regions . There’s plenty of videos just Google that . Seems like their strategy will not be all nation mobilized but rather hey , we do in one region , wait , switch to another , repeat .

NATO is half dead , and that’s the main goal of Russia , north Korea , China etc . If they attack the most weak enemy eg baltic counties and claim like hitler did : we achieved what we wanted we just want piece and we are ready to strike piece also with Ukraine , it will :

Prevent any reaction from the nato , since not that many countries within nato will be willing to defend Latvia or Estonia , especially if offense will be complete and successful. Who will defend Latvia ? Germany ? Doubt , Poland ? They do not have a modern army , they still buying tanks and submarines in the age of drones . And Russia do have lots of drones . More than entire nato by a lot of, not to tell if you deduct USA and Turkey , two biggest military NATO powers that will not be eager to defend Baltic regions . Imagine also that Iran will decide to use the moment and coordinate their offensive.

As a result , this few days war can effectively formalize end of NATO and the western world as it is .

maxdo··on Can AI design circuit boards yet?
Love the democratization of access. Still curious how this is better vs gpt 6 astra or grok 4.7 in the future trained on spacex problems ?
maxdo··on Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
Yeah and that’s exactly what add happily picked up as any MAGA clone eg Afd,FvD, Orban etc . Populism , echo different voices . In this case : Ukriane is dragging us into war . Russia openly warm up this agenda by softly attacking Poland , Romania , other areas. Mixed with nord stream and other similar voices .

Under different angle they will tell this is Ukraine’s false flag attempt … oh evil ukriane , these bastards who try to survive how dare they are

Anyways still 0 political win , only losses . Current German government can’t defend themself and start talking NATO , that is again very unpopular among maga-Germans , since they hate USA

maxdo··on Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
Wow. This post serves as a great example on how propaganda can brainwash people brain. Sure , Ukraine whose survival solely depends on EU, plans a false flag attempt . To achieve what ? Russia openly attacked territory of eu with drones , infiltration, poison operations , not to mention Slovakia , Orban etc . What is there to prove for Ukraine ???
maxdo··on Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London
Just in time before major European continental war begin. Strategic move.

For the context : German airport was officially attacked by Russia . And that’s only one of many incidents. UK is on the radar of official Russian hawks for a very long time

maxdo··on Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?
It’s a spyware, but a sovereign one
maxdo··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
I do agree , it could be an insult to any software project probably ? But I do value more speed of iteration/verification cycle vs another 3% in cursorBench . At this point it’s business logic not the code that caused me troubles and extra thinking
maxdo··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Tbh with that price , not even willing to try . What are the benefits for a regular coding agent ? I barely have any errors already with 4.8 level , eg grok 4.6 , gpt 5.6 sol/terra behind router . Why do I need to pay so much money for this ? Any reason ?
maxdo··on Australia Bans Generative A.I. From Official Music Charts
Official music chart lol . What makes them official ? Mass media slop do not like ai slop fight for their money.

Behind every ai music there’s still an artist.

maxdo··on Oceans hit highest temperature on record
China is doing it the right way : use fossils but pouring that money into renewables. Use economic forces to cut the dependency . Everything else is just pipe dream building never happened utopian communism 2.0 .
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