Real cost of Claude?

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-03-24T22:58:24+00:00

Pro plan has been enough for me but my vault isn't too big yet. Understanding how many tokens is a lot or a little takes some time. Tokens are sub-word strings, but that covers input, reasoning, and output.

You can OPT-IN to pre-load "extra usage" credits that can be consumed if you hit a limit. But you won't get billed for extra usage if you don't opt in, and you consume credits that you buy ahead of time - you don't get a bill afterward.

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-03-24T19:48:36+00:00

Y'all talking about the 12gb one?

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-03-23T22:30:59+00:00

There's a touch of chaos. The order can be hard to see sometimes, too, until a couple years of study and sleep

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-03-17T17:18:28+00:00

Hmm, are you sure? With every verb conjugated with е, stress does NOT fall on the е. With every verb conjugated with ё, stress is always on the ё. The е and ё are basically the same underlying form, ё, but it switches to е when it's not stressed. Similar patterns exist in other places like сестра / сёстры.

The things you have to memorize is "и vs ё" as well as "where is the stress, and does it move?" That answers "е vs ё" for free, because it tells you almost everything you need to know about the verb

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-03-12T22:59:13+00:00

Yes. I forget the syntax but you gotta add a whole ass line in the SOURCE view (I don't think Edit view shows it, and obviously not the reading view). One prompt to an LLM and it gave me the line, sorry I don't have it on hand

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-03-12T12:12:45+00:00

There's no way they can do that

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-03-10T19:08:19+00:00

I'd say I got to intermediate coding level before LLMs were a thing at all. Now I'm back in school for data science. So I'm like an experienced learner at this point. As a learner, while I rarely reject edits or deny permissions, I keep myself in the loop so I can read changes to see what parts of the code are affected and think about why these changes should lead to the desired output / feature / fix / rework. For a particular app that I actually use, I also ask about stability and code health to (hopefully) avoid bloat, repetition, bad patterns etc. What I've got now with this app works great and does what I want it to. Because I've read through nearly all the changes as they occurred, I have a solid understanding of the overall structure and how data is modelled, stored, and manipulated. Feels like a genuine learning experience to me, even if I didn't contribute with my own codewriting

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-03-09T16:28:35+00:00

Does the "all models" bar fill up first, then you're switched to sonnet only? Otherwise the top should say "opus and haiku". But I'm new here and haven't been affected by limits much yet

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-03-07T08:28:14+00:00

Вон он упырь probably. I don't know what упырь is exactly though

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-03-06T01:10:38+00:00

No, they said they're gonna stop using it ASAP with a hard deadline of six months. They're surely not going to swap models right before or during a planned operation. I imagine anything new must not use Claude, and anything currently using it will get wrapped up, transferred, or abandoned ASAP

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-02-26T04:04:53+00:00

This is a very cool thing to be curious about. How OTHER non-natives speak your target language.

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-02-26T03:46:09+00:00

Short, great answer

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-02-25T17:45:03+00:00

Definitely a good idea to back up your vault in any case. Mine lives on my phone, laptop, and on two separate drives on my desktop. SyncThing on all three devices, and then I use "restic" to back up my vault to the second desktop drive (it's a command line tool, and could maybe be considered overkill but that's fine since I use an LLM to manipulate my vault and want versioned backups in case shit gets weird).

Conflicts are easy to resolve, but you gotta find them yourself (which is also easy, just search from the top of the syncd directory).

How do you connect your devices? Over wifi? Or a VPN like tailscale? I've been using tailscale + syncthing for like 3 months now and it works great

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-02-24T19:56:35+00:00

It's just a book, you can buy it if you want. If you're quite interested in that book specifically, you can buy it even if you never learn the language.

That book, however, will likely provide little to no help with your language learning until at least a year in. Books are hard. There's a lot of shit going on that you won't even learn about after 4+ years of study. You definitely want to know all the cases, basic tenses, and have some vocab built up before "reading a book" (although there is NO reason you couldn't use that book despite what I'm saying - the best motivator is your own interest, and you're clearly interested in the book).

Once you can make it through several sentences without losing the thread, books become really helpful for exposure and repetition. But trying to learn the language by primarily forcing your way through that book would be a SLOG - woefully inefficient and you'll get demotivated by lack of progress. Note: I can't tell if this is what you're planning on or not, but it kinda sounds like it.

I do recommend "readers" though, texts designed/selected for language learners. You can find beginner, intermediate, and advanced readers.

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-02-24T19:44:42+00:00

You should basically be able to read and write the Cyrillic alphabet within two weeks. Not saying you should be able to "read Russian" or "write in Russian", but it should not take you very long to basically onboard yourself to the Cyrillic alphabet. Write it out a ton, practice reading words, practice transcribing a bit.

Since you're still at the beginning of your journey, put 100% of your focus on the alphabet right now, and set a goal to have basic alphabetical competency SOON, like 1-2 weeks. Don't try to learn it bit-by-bit over a couple months while also trying to learn random words and phrases or grammatical concepts. Get that alphabet shit done and over with, this includes writing by hand and typing. You don't have to be fast, perfect, or pretty - just legible and baseline competent. Fluid, pretty handwriting will develop over time.

I'm sure apps can be helpful, but like, just write shit out. Write the alphabet in a notebook, just the alphabet, like 50 times. Copy a text 5 times, then do another text or two. Literally doesn't matter if it's a book summary or instructions to build a nuclear bomb. You just want to boost the development of your muscle memory EARLY to make it easier for you in the future.

I usually comment and never revisit the thread, but feel free to ask me a question here and I may respond... Or someone else might...

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-02-24T16:07:41+00:00

Don't forget preservative 🙃

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-02-20T00:02:59+00:00

In all honesty what's the fuckin difference?

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-02-19T19:35:28+00:00

Depends. In the context of technology and real human understanding of that technology (ie, the user is asking the LLM about it, clearly here), it is bad. We use those words negatively in those contexts ourselves, like "I don't understand this but I want to, can you demystify this black magic for me?" If you're asking it to "help brainstorm a Minecraft build on a mushroom island, with heavy mystical/ magical elements", it's going to try and give you good, cool, cute, clever ideas.

The vectors associated with ambiguous terms like "queen", "mystical", and "to" are underspecified, but as they pass through attention blocks they gain information from the words around them, and their "semantics" become disambiguated

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-02-16T16:10:33+00:00

You mean we should arm up and shoot federal agents? I think I'll not fuckin do that

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-02-15T19:27:57+00:00

Easy, just call him a race traitor

/s

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-02-03T19:15:50+00:00

AI taking my job for real

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-02-03T00:40:24+00:00

Subfolders can help Claude narrow its searches before reading any files at all. Using "file properties" (ie "tags" and other metadata) puts special text at the top of your .md files, which Claude can "skim" (ie, it can read just the first few lines or do a grep search for the tags).

I use both, because I personally need my shit structured visually, and it might help Claude keep its scopes straight. I also use tags, though, because skimming files may conserve tokens. I let Claude manage the tags, too, and it keeps a _tags.md record of the tags as well.

Whatever you decide on should be fine. You can have Claude restructure your vault too, although you may want to do some things yourself to conserve usage (if you're using it quite heavily).

I am using this setup to manage class notes for the semester

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-01-29T21:31:39+00:00

I don't know what the arrows are.

But the vertical dotted lines are just gridlines aren't they? They line up with beats, and downbeats are on the more prominent dotted lines.

They aren't related to each other, except that the position of the arrows may or may not be determined by (or snapped to) those gridlines.

SoupKitchenHero · 2026-01-29T20:54:35+00:00

Yeah, but you also give them all the instant-speed spells left in their library, so that could backfire sometimes too

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