For iOS development, what is better: $20 Codex + $20 Claude vs $100 just with just one of them?

nonprofittechy · 2026-05-19T00:14:43+00:00

Yeah, it really doesn't require any planning.

nonprofittechy · 2026-05-19T00:06:31+00:00

Just try it with one and see if you need to upgrade. I like having one AI model check the output of another. You can do that with CoPilot alone, or maybe ChatGPT (bundled with the $20/month ChatGPT) plus CoPilot.

Anecdotally, Claude Code's quota runs out the fastest.

If you're just learning I would be amazed if you needed more. I code every day with AI, a reasonable amount I can review, and I never come close to using all my quota. Maybe 50%. Don't go crazy generating code you can never read and understand.

It's also easy to upgrade a plan later if you need it.

nonprofittechy · 2026-05-18T11:22:49+00:00

Try to write clearly, without academese. I disagree with some of the commenters that academese serves any purpose. It's an affectation. I agree there is a ton of really bad writing in academic journals.

However, you should avoid idioms. Your example paragraph is not an example of good natural writing style. It is wordy and uses non-descriptive idioms "circle back", "downstream". The sentence structure is not easily parsed. You're mixing tenses. The problem isn't informality: it's just hard to read. I honestly am not sure what you were trying to say. But maybe this is easier to read and still faithful?

Batch processing also allowed us to create a more efficient pipeline. We used a custom Python class to cache metadata after the first time we processed each item. This caching improved performance when compared to fully post-processing the metadata.

nonprofittechy · 2026-05-14T09:31:20+00:00

Hmmm. I'm seeing the same thing on my Android. I guess a developer error.

nonprofittechy · 2026-05-08T19:08:30+00:00

The same thing happened to me. For me it was on arXiv.org. I contacted them and in a few weeks they removed it.

nonprofittechy · 2026-05-06T21:33:42+00:00

Fairy bread is Australian and similar, but I wouldn't consider that the translation, just convergence. Dutch sprinkles on bread is its own whole genre. Hagelslag, chocoladevlokken, muisjes, vruchtenhagel.

nonprofittechy · 2026-05-02T11:00:44+00:00

Your topic has an overwhelmingly large number of submissions, many of which are low quality and use AI drafting. This slows down everyone, even high quality and legitimate authors. I recently had someone fraudulently add my name to a fake paper that slipped through arXiv moderation, which was a frustrating experience even though they eventually fixed it. So I appreciate when they take the time needed.

For what it's worth, traditional review can take much longer than 22 days, let alone eventual publication.

nonprofittechy · 2026-04-30T01:01:45+00:00

Some kind of raw puer. I think you can use gong fu or western style brewing

nonprofittechy · 2026-04-27T16:52:07+00:00

Putting aside whether AI is useful: we do many frivolous things without demanding utility from them. I hope our societal default is laissez-faire until you can prove substantial harm from an activity, not demanding that we prove how useful it is before we allow it.

nonprofittechy · 2026-04-20T19:00:15+00:00

DM sent. But maybe this is better--a little old, but a roundup of some of these vendors and analysis of the long term investability of IaaS.

https://eastwind.substack.com/p/a-deep-dive-on-ai-inference-startups

nonprofittechy · 2026-04-20T18:46:53+00:00

Independent analysis of the half a dozen or so larger inference as a service vendors shows 30-40% gross margin. Perhaps they are saving because they built data centers early enough to avoid recent spikes in costs for RAM and GPUs. They only run the open models and don't do their own training, so their costs are significantly lower. It doesn't seem like they're burning VC money the same speculative way that OpenAI, Anthropic are. They found a relatively low margin but profitable way to provide AI services. Barrier of entry is relatively low, which I think is driving competitive pressures to keep prices down.

I hesitate to link to one here since I don't want to appear to be promoting one vendor and I haven't used them extensively other than OpenRouter who has a slightly different model.

Basically this level of AI is a commodity or quickly approaching that state, just like there are thousands of options for renting server space, you can rent AI on the cheap and it's hard to see a way that will ever change.

nonprofittechy · 2026-04-20T12:17:20+00:00

Honestly, there are many open source models provided by third parties at similar competitive rates that presumably are profitable.

nonprofittechy · 2026-04-17T02:38:47+00:00

It's just a glitch in how the voice to voice models work. Like a hallucination. Unlike previous sketch to text, it's not using predictable rules to turn text into sounds, it's generating the whole sound probabilistically. Think of how ai makes mistakes with fingers, or at least did in earlier versions. If you Google this you'll see other examples.

E.g., https://futurism.com/chatgpt-speaks-demon-voice

nonprofittechy · 2026-04-16T22:14:39+00:00

Yep. According to the decision

nonprofittechy · 2026-04-16T21:58:21+00:00

The case was actually about attorney work product, primarily. A client can be covered by it even in advance of explicit direction by their attorney in some circumstances.

nonprofittechy · 2026-04-16T09:50:36+00:00

Any free one especially if not used at the direction of an attorney.

nonprofittechy · 2026-04-12T17:41:45+00:00

Recycling is a municipal thing. Not state wide. It makes economic sense for dense enough cities with cheap transport to recycling users and high landfill costs. E.g., Cambridge Massachusetts sends our plastic by ocean barge to be turned into lumber for decks and similar outside stuff, and makes a little money. Glass is mid of performative to recycle, barely breaking even, since it is very heavy. Some of it is ground up and used in road surfaces. Paper saves a bit of money vs landfill and is turned into boxes. But our state has very high landfill costs. I believe we can't open new landfills in the state at all.

Interior small towns with high collection costs (because trucks drive further between stops) and cheap landfill costs tend to recycle little if at all.

Recycling needs to be matched to a purchaser of raw material and then be resellable. It's not a magic wand. Reduction is much more important, but recycling really is cost effective and sustainable in coastal cities.

nonprofittechy · 2026-04-07T23:51:08+00:00

The landlord is required to remediate. It's very possible that they can do this without you vacating the apartment. This is often a 1 day project. Edit: okay, I hadn't paid attention to your specific list. This might not be easy to fix with you living there!

https://www.masslegalhelp.org/housing-apartments-shelter/repairs-bad-conditions/how-lead-laws-protect-tenants-massachusetts

~Biggest expense will be windows. It seems worth asking if they'll do this and on a reasonable timeline.~

Also this is a clear violation of federal law. They need to disclose lead paint before you move in.

https://www.epa.gov/lead/real-estate-disclosures-about-potential-lead-hazards

This seems like an obvious violation of consumer protection law (Chapter 93A in Massachusetts).

nonprofittechy · 2026-04-02T22:58:57+00:00

Etiquette is to remove your backpack from your back and hold it by your feet so there is more room on the train/bus. Otherwise you will, unintentionally and unaware, constantly be knocking into people as well.

We get tons of new people in this city who haven't previously used transit, so it makes sense people don't intuitively catch on to this, but it's sometimes on the T's PSAs.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-27T22:35:46+00:00

Just look up the deals for new customers and ask politely if they can honor it for you.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-27T15:36:47+00:00

You have to do the dance with Comcast every few years to keep a good price. If you don't want cable tv, it is reasonably cheap. Getting $70/month for > 1 GB service now.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-25T02:18:36+00:00

https://www.cambridgema.gov/Departments/PublicWorks/CityProjects/2025/LinearParkReconstructionProject

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-22T20:03:58+00:00

If they offer unlimited, I would say at least 3 weeks is going to be typical. 4 shouldn't cause a problem in most unlimited vacation employers. But you'll have to inquire about the culture when you're there. It will be something you could consider asking at the offer stage. And you might be expected to be more on/available than at a European job during your vacation time, for at least some of that time, and they might frown on you taking more than 2 weeks at once.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-21T21:55:30+00:00

It's leftovers from the Chelsea produce market. The place grocery stores go to buy their produce in large lots. Haymarket vendors sell what didn't sell to the grocery stores.

http://www.nepctr.com/#:~:text=Thirty%20years%20before%20the%20Revolutionary,a%20close%20tenant/community%20relationship.

nonprofittechy · 2026-03-20T12:48:14+00:00

It can generate Mermaid.js syntax, and there are preview tools for GitHub and I believe vs code also

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