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pests··on What Is a Harness?
> “why app slow” obviously doesn’t work because the task is underspecified

Definitely not true and like everyone else is saying, shows how people still underestimate these models.

I have been working on a simple vite + react app lately and commonly ask Gemini/Antigravity to just "improve speeds", "x is running slow, check it out" and have no complaints.

pests··on There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
Speculative Rules API

  <script type="speculationrules">
  {
    "prefetch": [
      {
        "source": "list",
        "urls": ["/checkout.html", "/thank-you.html"]
      }
    ] 
  }
  </script>
pests··on Felony Bench
> but your lawyer

Uh oh?

pests··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
I think you are reading too much into the "fungible" term.

No one is talking about trading tokens.

The idea being that getting your tokens from Provider A is no different than Provider B, especially if they both offer the same model. You can change one value in a request to openrouter and suddenly be hitting a different provider but offering the same tokens, because they offer the same model and the same settings.

pests··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
> The difference matters quite a lot.

Please go on as I do not get your point.

pests··on OpenRouter is joining Stripe
Not OP, but I could see the vision. Right now OpenRouter is developer-paid with no way to pass costs onto the end user. Stripe could help bill and meter at the user level for per-user billing. I would also think more SDKs/easier ways to add AI features (paid for via openrouter) into apps and websites.
pests··on Gemini 3.7 Flash
Gemini is the model family.

Antigravity is their agentic coding app / IDE. There is two products, one is chat-only the other is more standard IDE.

Google AI Studio is a consumer/developer playground with a in-browser IDE meant for prototypes or demos, there is a gallery of demos etc. Easily shared, easy key access.

Vertex is the AI offering from the GCP side of the company, that is going to target more enterprise or business solutions (scaling, data governance, security, production deployents, etc)

pests··on Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
I think that is saying something else. It says "battle" not "discussion" or "conversation".

Then if religion is going to be lumped under "ideological battle", what about politics, culture, economics, and other "ideological" topics?

The comment you replied to wasn't even religious. There was a claim that "loving creator" name was invented by people outside the bible, and a claim that theistic evolution is a wide enough belief, esp with Protestants.

I'm not even religious, but those weren't even religious points. Its the difference between "bible history" (history as told by the bible), and "history of the bible" (history of how the bible itself).

pests··on Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
The guidelines do not mention religion a single time. What are you talking about?
pests··on The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded
Why ask this? Maybe they are? Maybe they aren't, and that's ok too.
pests··on Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa
> As part of the strategy, discarded oyster shells from over 70 New York restaurants are collected and left outside for a year to be naturally cleansed of organic matter. Baby oysters are then placed on the shells by students at New York Harbor School, a maritime-focused public high school located on Governors Island. [10]
pests··on Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
> not ok - reading the agents shared inbox in a public setting - probably ok depending on the threat model

This is never secure. Some SAAS apps have automatic enrollment into company/teams based on email domain. So you can sign up with the email address of the agent and then ask for any 2fa code or other emails.

pests··on Elixir-lang.org has a new design
"Human produces output similar to a machine trained on all human output"
pests··on DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety
I think it did. I recently started collecting some sealed Pokemon products for my collection so been going to lines and camp outs and meeting new people. Our new friend group is about 8 people sometimes more. Not a single person smokes cigs. In a line with 20/30+ other people there might only be a single person stepping aside to light up. Sometimes its hard to even find a lighter for other purposes.
pests··on The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Yes because they were running a DDOS attack off their CAPTCHA page.
pests··on Precursor
archive.today was running a DDOS through their CAPTCHA page
pests··on The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing
Back then I had done the math on how long it takes to turn around a commercial chicken coop after a complete full. The timeline from egg to fully producing hen was quicker than I thought, and it seemed they should have been able to keep up the replacement rates.
pests··on Egyptian Fractions (2006)
Thought this said Factions at first but still all the interesting.
pests··on Google changes its search box
I wish the chats ended up in the gemini app. I never know which model or how much personalization its using in AI mode after a search.
pests··on Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell
I mean yes and no. If I knew your address, I could 100% ring your doorbell from the Internet.

CTRL+T, doordash.com, McDonalds, "ring doorbell please", pay, done.

I know this isn't what you mean, but, humans are buttons (or button pressers?)

pests··on Earth's Radio Bubble: Every signal we've ever sent into space
It did take using the sun as an amplification source.
pests··on Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
The same way they do now?
pests··on Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
Thanks, it does. I've been playing since about 2000, came from Cosmic Rift / Infantry when they went non-free.

We're lucky we got Priit to release the encryption/security module so Continuum clients could connect to ASSS servers without the security warning. I doubt it'll ever be updated, someone will have to take up the mantle.

pests··on Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California
I play SubSpace (a MMO spaceship game released in the 90s) to this day. It was shut down soon after release.

The original server binaries were left on the original CDROM by a programmer.

Then PriitK, a creator of Kazaa and then Skype and Joost!, went on to re-create the client due to cheating/hacking, naming it Continuum.

Years later the server is reimplemented as A Small Subspace Server (ASSS), making it a complete fan remake of the original game (sans graphics). This is also when we finally got server side mods, everything before that was client only or a hack.

We even got on Stream Greenlight.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/352700/Subspace_Continuum...

pests··on Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'
I live minutes from Ford's new HQ in Dearborn and I see multiple lidar equipped vehicles daily. Or at least vehicles loaded up the wazoo.
pests··on A History of IDEs at Google
Ive had that issue with touchscreens before and was able to disable the driver for it. Linux so not sure if possible or how on a chromebook but an option.
pests··on Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent
Honestly. I do more with my hands and spend more time outside post-degree, post-reality, than I ever did when in school.
pests··on Ted Turner has died
Numbers 145 were common on N@N.
pests··on Am I the only one who hates delivery robots?
By your logic, heart disease and cancer are the real concern. Why you so worried about cars? Your comment is irrelevant otherwise.
pests··on Am I the only one who hates delivery robots?
A small city near me in the suburbs of Detroit just had to have a town meeting / facebook post / etc about teens driving electric scooters and bikes driving recklessly, causing accidents, injuring themselves and others, etc.
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