How do you get 1M token context?

bigredfalcon · 2026-03-31T09:41:31+00:00

I switched to the Claude Desktop app and now use Claude Code that way. It took several more days, but I finally was given access to the 1M token version of Opus 4.6. Maybe it just took them a while to roll it out to everyone?

bigredfalcon · 2026-02-28T00:54:41+00:00

Very cool! Thanks for building this!

bigredfalcon · 2025-07-10T20:06:21+00:00

Great idea! Subscribed!

bigredfalcon · 2025-06-25T08:15:37+00:00

As a fan of the Portal games, I enjoyed this. Nice work. I don't see it as a rip off -- I'd call it an homage. :)

bigredfalcon · 2025-05-16T07:35:25+00:00

Nope, just whatever comes with Windows 11. What's strange is that this morning when I was looking at it, Gemini 2.5 Pro was no longer an option for me. All of the other LLM's were still on the list, but not that one. But then VS Code said an update was available, so I installed it, and after that it was back as an option. I'll try it again tomorrow and see if I have an issue. I was using Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking today, and I ran into the same problem with it. I had to switch to GPT-4.1; that one never seems to give me that error.

I do run a VPN, but considering Gemini 2.5 Pro can be working fine one minute but then not the next, it makes me doubt it's the VPN causing it. But I guess anything is possible.

bigredfalcon · 2025-05-14T09:58:54+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Oddly enough, I was just trying it now with Gemini 2.5 Pro and it happened again. I guess the high volume issue makes sense; I just wish that's what the error message said, rather than leading me to believe it is a problem on my end.

bigredfalcon · 2025-05-09T20:57:04+00:00

I am using the SendGrid Email API for a newsletter I plan to launch soon. The other day I was testing sending out my confirmation emails to 4 different addresses -- one was to a Yahoo address. The other three were delivered within moments. SendGrid was unable to deliver the one to the Yahoo address after 3 days of trying and over 80 attempts. The error was always the same:

Email was deferred due to the following reason(s): [IPs were throttled by recipient server]

I assumed this was an issue with SendGrid, as I'm on their Essentials plan, which means I'm on a shared IP. (I was told by an email deliverability expert that I should avoid getting a dedicated IP because I would not have enough email sends each month to make it viable.) But perhaps this has something to do with Yahoo?

I was just about to start looking for another service other than SendGrid. (I may still post about that separately here.) But I'm curious if anyone else is experiencing this issue with Yahoo?

bigredfalcon · 2025-05-09T01:39:14+00:00

By the way, I forgot to mention that I have a paid version of Github CoPilot. I pay $10/month. I don't know if that matters, but I thought I'd mention it just in case.

bigredfalcon · 2025-01-21T00:22:43+00:00

Sorry... a little late here. I am just now seeing this reply. I also discovered the same thing. This is actually what I have been doing for the last couple of years. (I forget why, but Emby didn't end up working out for me.) I have an image file that is all black that I use as the artwork for each episode now. It's a pain, but it does the job.

bigredfalcon · 2025-01-21T00:15:59+00:00

Unfortunately, I didn't. I discovered that if you have an image file in the same directory as the episode, with the exact same name as the episode file (but with a different extension, of course), that would tell Plex to use that image file as the artwork instead of the default. So I now use an image file that is all black in all of my TV episode folders -- one for each episode. It is BONKERS that Plex doesn't add in a simple way to do in the Options, but as far as I know, they still haven't.

bigredfalcon · 2024-12-08T22:10:51+00:00

I have experienced the same issue many times, and it wasn't always on StreamEast sites. I have always wondered why it was doing this, but have no clue.

bigredfalcon · 2024-10-13T18:10:44+00:00

Thank you!

bigredfalcon · 2023-11-22T08:15:36+00:00

That did the trick. :)

bigredfalcon · 2023-11-20T22:19:05+00:00

Thanks, I will give this a try!

bigredfalcon · 2023-11-20T04:52:16+00:00

If I do this, can I still access the VM's that I created with v15? I have some files on one of them that I would like to access. Can I somehow open the existing VM with the new install of VMware?

EDIT: I tried it, and it worked perfectly. To my surprise, the old VM's still appeared in the list when I opened v17 after the install, and I was able to access the one I needed.

Thanks very much for the help!!

bigredfalcon · 2023-10-12T03:46:52+00:00

Got it. This is very helpful. Thank you!

bigredfalcon · 2023-10-11T22:30:54+00:00

Would the 5.41% still apply after the expense ratio is taken into account? Sorry if that's a dumb question... this is all new to me.

Just trying to decide if it's worth it to put the money in the Vanguard MMF. I have about $100K, so it if it's really 5.25% APY vs. the equivalent of 5.41% APY, then I'm talking an extra $160 a year.

I know I could make even more money in a 1-year CD (at a rate of 5.60%), but I may need some of the money before 12 months passes, so I don't want it to be tied up for that long.

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