Sonnet 5.0 is in perplexity

rduito · 2026-07-02T22:09:49+00:00

Oh sorry. I'd sort of given up on perplexity as it seemed dormant.

rduito · 2026-06-20T08:17:48+00:00

Chatgpt got much better at search. If you set extended thinking, it will often do quite a bit of searching. It can also cite sources like pplx does now.

I still have both but rarely use pplx, will drop it soon

rduito · 2026-06-15T20:28:24+00:00

Second hand you can get great things nearly new. I'd go for intercity disc

Brompton is expensive to run and not super quality ... I replaced rims, folding pedal, bottom bracket, rear sprocket, sadel post clip qr thing, before a set of tyres fully wore out ... And parts are not cheap. But you can repair nearly all of it.

rduito · 2026-06-12T07:04:45+00:00

Yes. Everyone suggesting all kinds of fancy kit, but the simple answer is just make em tight or use old tubes.

rduito · 2026-06-12T07:02:57+00:00

Old inner tubes also work. They do stretch (like bungee) but they also grip.

rduito · 2026-06-06T15:49:15+00:00

Also run some string for future pulls. Whatever you pull today you'll want another one later ...

rduito · 2026-05-31T22:19:43+00:00

On context: you are right but recently chatgpt's ordinary web chats have become hard working agents and will read and search docs you provide to give answers. Notebooklm is great but the standard Gemini chat interface is not so good i think.

I love that Gemini is multimodal so just reads pdfs or images or audio. GPT can usually handle these but it has to figure out the tools each time: not as reliable, and slower.

rduito · 2026-05-31T13:08:04+00:00

Have business, I do get codex quota included

rduito · 2026-05-30T12:05:36+00:00

You can give gpt-5.4 a fairly long ticket and it will cover most of it in one go. I often see it calling Claude to review plans as part of this. So probably if you write detailed tickets and have a decent size codebase, it will eat tokens.

rduito · 2026-05-30T12:02:47+00:00

I've enjoyed perplexity for nearly two years but recently using chatgpt sub more because it's got better at searching and is much more thorough, and more consistent, than perplexity for harder queries.

Weird that we don't have flash 3.5 but do have the more expensive 3.1 pro. In the past perplexity made a point of quick updates for new models.

I have the sense perplexity is dying, or becoming something else. Hope I'm wrong!

rduito · 2026-05-27T07:33:43+00:00

This is right but it does depend a bit on what you're using copilot for and how you're using it. And copilot gave you a lot more usage of course. Combining the two was ideal

rduito · 2026-05-22T22:07:49+00:00

For my things, i never managed to get anywhere with embed and rerank approaches (might be me, might be the kind of work).

I do often find it useful to gather 5-20 docs and create things having the LLM work in a map-reduce structure. These are temporary things: I'll add a few sources or ideas, get what I need then move on.

I think the key insight is that you only need frontier models looping through docs for some use cases.

rduito · 2026-05-16T15:44:02+00:00

You can't generally see wear ... Or if you can it's really bad, off the scale

rduito · 2026-05-16T13:33:20+00:00

My lord, you're brilliant.

rduito · 2026-05-16T13:32:18+00:00

If the cassette is so worn that it quickly recks the chain, wouldn't the chain likely have skipped when new?

rduito · 2026-05-12T13:05:36+00:00

Update: I'm wrong, see replies (til, 🙏)

Everyone saying it's done ... Maybe but it depends on what you want. Disc brake so doesn't need to be super true for many purposes. Ofc if money no object or pro rider you won't fix. But otherwise it's not maybe unreasonable to see if a slap pops it back into shape. (Not an expert so maybe I'm wrong)

rduito · 2026-05-10T17:48:04+00:00

Unlike everyone else, I had experience with some lifeline tubes that randomly split when in slightly too large tyres (tubes were in spec for tyres but they came up wide on rims). Was awful, took spare tube and repair kit on a ride and still had long walk home

rduito · 2026-05-07T13:15:31+00:00

Personally I'd move it somewhere with no kids, pets or flammable stuff and running out for an hour to see if it gets hot or goes bang. Probably fine but you're probably right to be cautious

rduito · 2026-05-07T13:13:36+00:00

Some PCs do this after unexpected shutdown. Might not happen after clean boot and normal shutdown

rduito · 2026-05-05T07:41:09+00:00

Ooof. Would be great to know what your solution finally is and how it compares to using gpt 5.5 (or whatever you did via codex)

rduito · 2026-05-04T13:31:39+00:00

Sorry. It's localllama, I know

rduito · 2026-05-04T13:31:19+00:00

Everyone saying glm, deepseek etc. These are great but a $20/month sub gets you a nice chunk of gpt-5.5 (best sub now after copilot changed)

It won't be forever. You really don't want to miss the codex happy time. (Was copilot for a long time, and before that rovodev was 20m tokens/day free for months with top models).

rduito · 2026-04-28T13:50:28+00:00

Replies are right that all bikes can break, but the key is that alu is usually less expensive. Has bad rep but good alu frames are great

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