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tabletcorryon 4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

A typical tshirt is closer to SPF 7, depending on color and weight.

The matrix required for a fair comparison is getting too complicated, since you have to compare chat/thinking/pro against an array of Anthropic and Google models.

But they publish all the same numbers, so you can make the full comparison yourself, if you want to.

tabletcorryon GPT-5.2

Slight increase in model cost, but looks like benefits across the board to match.

  gpt-5.2 $1.75 $0.175 $14.00
  gpt-5.1 $1.25 $0.125 $10.00

tabletcorryon CrowdStrike catches insider feeding information to hackers

> "Our systems were never compromised and customers remained protected throughout."

Splitting a mighty fine hair when your staff are being paid $25k to act as malicious insiders.

tabletcorryon You should write an agent

Plus a few other endpoints, but it is pretty exclusively an HTTP/REST wrapper.

OpenAI does have an agents library, but it is separate in https://github.com/openai/openai-agents-python

tabletcorryon Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade

Node has at least bun, and probably other tools, that attempt to speed things up in similar ways. New tooling is always coming for our languages of choice, even if we aren't paying attention.

tabletcorryon Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade

Ty is still under very active development, so it either works or very much doesn't. I run it occasionally to see if it works on my codebases, and while it is getting closer, it isn't quite there yet.

Definitely lightyears faster than mypy though.

tabletcorryon Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade

Take a look at their upcoming product Pyx to see where revenue can start to come in for paid/hosted services.

https://astral.sh/pyx

tabletcorryon OpenAI – vulnerability responsible disclosure

Your added paragraph appears to suggest the opposite, that this was an LLM response. Was the "leaked data" a response from an LLM directly?

tabletcorryon Twitter's new encrypted DMs aren't better than the old ones

Desktop clients communicate through mobile clients, so they don't have access to the key material.

tabletcorryon My AI skeptic friends are all nuts

This level of knowledge is nearly impossible to maintain as the codebase grows though, beyond one or two people at a typical company. And tools need to exist for the new hire as well as the long-standing employee.

tabletcorryon Don’t store cash in Venmo and PayPal, US regulator warns

The article tacks on Apple Pay, which is a nice grab for attention since Apple Pay can’t store cash (Apple Cash does that) and no Apple product is discussed in the CFPB source…