s1gsegv · HackerTrans

What are people doing to maximize the value out of workflows like this? I’ve struggled to integrate other models into my workflow because you get so much Opus for the $100 Max 5x plan, then there’s no step down with Claude Code access. Some other plan people like?

s1gsegv

2 miesiące temudiscuss

You’ve hit on something that I think deserves to be called out more directly — all of the things you pay for have significant non-software aspects. It is pretty hard to make something people will pay for without tackling some hard problem outside of the software itself, unless your software is very niche.

Looking at your examples - ChatGPT, you need some way to get an otherworldly sized dataset before you can train a model, and the fact that you also happen to have to write a web interface for the chat looks like a footnote in comparison - Amazon Prime, have to create a distribution empire - Crude Oil Tracking, have to get raw data from somewhere, I don’t know the space well but I’d be shocked if they didn’t have some moat around the data source, or they even have a hand in collecting it - Netflix, you can solve all the hard problems of video streaming and still have nothing people want to watch - Bloomberg Terminal, this one is maybe the closest to being replicable with just good software? I’m sure building the data sourcing for it would still be the “hard part”

If you broaden your scope from SaaS to “software that makes money” the most obvious are social networks, but then your problem becomes how to actually monetize it, since you more than likely can’t charge the users for it.

s1gsegv

2 miesiące temudiscuss

The entire system firmware is open source, so it’s relatively straightforward to replace the system firmware with Coreboot and EDKII to boot normal UEFI Linux. It works excellent. mrchromebox.tech and docs.chrultrabook.com have all the nitty gritty details.

s1gsegv

4 miesiące temudiscuss

I still like the old “made with <3” meme. Maybe it’s because nowadays, I’ve been doing way less software professionally so it’s able to be my hobby again, and it feels fitting.

s1gsegv

4 miesiące temudiscuss

And to think, all it cost was a significant loss of privacy nationwide

s1gsegv

4 miesiące temudiscuss

I’ve seen N150 and N200 around a bit, both are a touch better than N100 for usually around the same price if you can find them.

s1gsegv

5 miesięcy temudiscuss

There are an awful lot of iOS and macOS devices out there

s1gsegv

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

You can code review it for yourself, it’s open source: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/Chess/tree/Chess-...

IIRC it does just set a time limit on thinking

s1gsegv

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

You might also look at “semi-private” solutions like JSX, if they go where you want to go. Should significantly cut down on the time outside of the flight itself.

s1gsegv

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

If you disable the firewall with a “master disable” I suspect IPv6 routes through on at least some routers. Meanwhile if the NAT is disabled, it almost surely takes the route with it, and even if it somehow routes thorugh you probably won’t get a DHCP lease from your ISP for more than a device or two.

s1gsegv

7 miesięcy temudiscuss

I haven’t had a chance to use it for code yet but now that Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3 Pro came out I started throwing side by side queries at both and Gemini has been consistently more accurate and useful. A bit of a shame because I find Gemini’s style to be a bit annoying.

s1gsegv

8 miesięcy temudiscuss

If it was so lucrative, wouldn’t more people set up shop undercutting the current offerings? Why not become an HVAC installer and make millions, if you’re really able to make $15k profit on a job you can turn out in a day.

The truth is probably more that the various money sinks in our society are starting to add up, things like healthcare, legal protection, licensure, compliance, rent (business or personal), even just having appropriate work vehicles, fueling them, compensating people for the time spent sitting in traffic to come across town to your house. Somehow you’re paying for all of that when someone’s livelihood is installing your mini split. A lot of those costs have grown faster than wages, if you try to point to a reason why it’s different today than 20 years ago. More people looking to make a quick buck without doing any work or providing any real value, and more people succeeding.

s1gsegv

9 miesięcy temudiscuss

For what it’s worth, the original ESP32 is actually 5V tolerant, semi-officially acknowledged by Espressif. Good enough for hobby projects, anyway

s1gsegv

11 miesięcy temudiscuss

We haven’t been asleep. We’ve been saying no at every turn. But they’re using propaganda, and they will continue until something sticks. It’s an endless fight and we are losing, despite our efforts.

s1gsegv

2 lata temudiscuss

I suppose parks (national, provincial/state, or just local) and libraries are neutral.

Perhaps this was always true, but it seems for a brief time places like shopping malls were not as concerned as much somehow with having purely immediately profitable people inside and that’s why they were able to be that third place.

Hopefully in time a new generation of voters will want to fund more third places with taxes, because that seems to be the way to get long lasting third places that really do serve their purpose without an agenda.

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