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olao99··on GPT-5.5 Price Increase: What It Costs
For what is worth I find GPT 5.5 qualitatively different than 5.4 and 5.3

If I had to collapse the nature of the difference in one sentence it'd be that the 5.5 does more what I'm asking it to do versus doing a small aspect of what I'm asking then stopping.

5.4 required a lot of "continue" encouragement. 5.5 just "gets it" a bit more

What is boils down to for me is that even though it's more expensive I would much rather use 5.5 on low then 5.4/5.3 on high/medium

olao99··on Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed
Just because it's been true in the past doesn't mean it will always the case
olao99··on Iran is likely jamming Starlink
Hypothecally speaking. If I were to live in an authoritarian country that would shut off all means of communication like that. What off grid technology would be viable?

Lora? Shortwave radio? Or nothing at all?

olao99··on Incident with Webhooks
I'm not looking forward to the Azure migration and potential for more issues in the coming year
olao99··on El Capitan: New supercomputer is the fastest
I fail to understand how these nuclear bomb simulations require so much compute power.

Are they trying to model every single atom?

Is this a case where the physicists in charge get away with programming the most inefficient models possible and then the administration simply replies "oh I guess we'll need a bigger supercomputer"

olao99··on Ask HN: Is Kagi Search Down?
I'm getting 502 errors right now
olao99··on Compostable fast-food packaging can emit volatile PFAS
Because they're legal. We would still use asbestos and lead if it were not because of the legality question
olao99··on The Contradictions of Sam Altman
history is a simplified, prettified story that we tell ourselves about how things happened.
olao99··on Commercial 3D printers emit traces of toxic fumes, study finds (2019)
"common sense" things need to be empirically tested and validated
olao99··on Commercial 3D printers emit traces of toxic fumes, study finds (2019)
quote from the article:

"The toxicity tests showed that PLA particles were more toxic than the ABS particles on a per-particle comparison, but because the printers emitted so much more of the ABS"

so, not just ABS

olao99··on Commercial 3D printers emit traces of toxic fumes, study finds (2019)
older article, same source: https://rh.gatech.edu/news/627220/particles-emitted-consumer...
olao99··on After violent robberies, some photographers opt to stay away from San Francisco
it's almost like extreme inequality is bad or something
olao99··on Socialist Romania Computer Chips
Meh just a bunch of clones
olao99··on Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
How are you getting the transcription of the NRK episode? I am learning Norwegian and often struggle to find reliable transcriptions for audio where the text exactly matches the audio (often subtitles are heavily edited compared to what's actually being said)
olao99··on Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
To be more precise the original comment said "M1 Max" which in itself is significantly beefier a bare "M1"
olao99··on Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI
Google's recorder app is NOT available for most phones. Only Pixels and a couple of other selected handsets
olao99··on Foot: A fast and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator
does it scroll one line at a time or one pixel at a time? can it do 120fps?
olao99··on YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording
But people can sue YouTube for misapplication of copyright law. It would be extremely expensive and time consuming but they could in theory
olao99··on Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50%
Yes it does need more regulation. It is fraud and as a manufacturer you shouldn't be allowed to get away with deceptive shit like this.