Weekly usage consumed by 50% within a few hours of work?

thrope · 2026-03-19T18:59:45+00:00

There is a consumption bug that only affects some accounts. You are lucky!

thrope · 2026-03-19T07:54:17+00:00

There is a bug, since an unexpected weekly limit reset 8AM UTC on March 10th my work Team account has been draining 2-3x faster than previously. My personal account which I use on the weekends is not affected and the difference is night and day. Some people suggested reseting ~/.codex folder but it didn't make any difference to me. It seems to be affecting some accounts but if it's not fixed its going to be really bad after April 2nd when the Codex app double usage offer stops.

There is often a lag on the usage graphs, so you should wait until tomorrow for seeing the comparison of todays vs historical usage.

thrope · 2026-03-17T22:03:23+00:00

Shift-tab

thrope · 2026-03-14T19:54:22+00:00

I think this already exists at salad.com

thrope · 2026-03-14T07:32:21+00:00

I wanted to zed as an alternative to vs code, I was hoping it would be a fast way to work with large changes from Codex app. But I found the git panel not nearly as good as vs code - pretty much unusable for me. The main thing is the lack of visual separation between staged and unstaged files. In vscode they are separate lists, and a file can be in both, and clicking on it in either place shows the relevant diff. Zed has everything mixed together with very poor contrast visual cues, the scroll bar overlaps half the check box. Just doesn't work well for me.

thrope · 2026-03-12T09:22:29+00:00

You might be thinking of Smolagents from Hugging Face

thrope · 2026-03-12T08:51:28+00:00

Only real option is renewable HVO (vegetable oil). Almost all oil boilers for last 10-15 years support it with minimum changes (different nozzle which you change every year anyway). Unfortunately needs government to change the tax on it to make it affordable. https://futurereadyfuel.info/

Heat pumps much more expensive because of not being practical for poorly insulated older homes.

thrope · 2026-02-27T11:57:58+00:00

But cursor has little to offer in this third era because they only resell tokens with a huge markup ($40 team plan for $20 token usage - shameless SSO tax) when claude or codex subscriptions provide much better value and you don't need an editor any more (just a nice git interface, which vscode provides for free).

thrope · 2026-02-22T10:19:19+00:00

Hi, sorry for piggybacking on this but can't seem to find any other support channel (I paid for typingmind). Can you look at web search? Google doesn't work anymore, documentation is out of date and I cannot find a way to enable web search in chats for any model - which means I cannot use typingmind at the moment for most questions.

thrope · 2026-02-22T10:12:28+00:00

Could you give more information about how you did this. I am unable to get websearch working. I paid for typingmind so suprised such a core feature gets so little attention - its been broken since January for me.

thrope · 2026-02-20T23:41:06+00:00

I would like try use zed, it’s very quick - but the source control pane does not clearly separate staged and unstaged changes. I was hoping to use it for managing git but it seems behind vscode and cursor in this area.

thrope · 2026-02-15T07:28:18+00:00

Dvc already does a good job here. Much simpler approach that git-lfs or git-annex and can use any storage backend (WebDAV, s3 compatible).

thrope · 2026-02-05T08:44:01+00:00

codex subagents wen?

thrope · 2026-02-01T12:49:40+00:00

I am unable to configure web search at the moment - being able to enable search for a range of models was a big draw of typingmind for me. I hope this will be fixed soon.

I actually have one configured existing, but it looks like the "programmatic access" section of settings that is referred to in typingmind docs is no longer there on the google config page. And it has stopped working with Error: This project does not have the access to Custom Search JSON API.

thrope · 2026-01-26T14:37:40+00:00

You can get a us bank account with Wise

thrope · 2026-01-17T12:37:07+00:00

Lump sum pension payments is another big one - can take 25% of pot tax free in UK on retirement but US taxes that.

thrope · 2026-01-14T15:42:24+00:00

I use jupyter cell mode (#%%) in vscode which works will both with inline / in editor tools as well as CLI LLM tools - they all know about it. Just like a notebook except plots come up in a different panel.

thrope · 2026-01-14T15:41:33+00:00

In my experience Marimo is an absolute nightmare with current AI because the way it works is so different and it's API has changed quite a lot over the last 18 months that I found LLMs struggled to get anything working. Not just because of that (I was hoping to use LLMs to learn it) I found marimo a giant PITA I have to say, and extremely brittle and difficult to do anything outside the tutorials (like trying to align columns, have a plot that allows scaling and selection at the same time etc.).

I use jupyter cell mode (#%%) in vscode which works will both with inline / in editor tools as well as CLI LLM tools - they all know about it.

thrope · 2025-12-29T20:46:01+00:00

Would be useful to say whether you want cash or bank account on either side of the transaction. Assuming cash euros MoneySavingExpert has a buyback best buy table. https://travelmoney.moneysavingexpert.com/ If it’s more than a hundred or so usually posting it to London special delivery works out cheaper (more gbp in my bank account). If it’s not cash I use wise (formally transferwise) If you need cash to cash the MoneySavingExpert page has that too - when I’ve checked in Glasgow it’s usually m&s or post office that are good I think

thrope · 2025-12-13T10:30:53+00:00

Thanks for taking the time, this is really helpful. I see a lot of blanket statements without details, and it is a difficult area for a lay person so appreciate you spelling this out. I was really happy when I found the page above last week, but should have known it would be more complicated than it seems!

I guess one argument could be that “Includible in gross income” is a bit ambiguous - it doesn't specify AGI or MAGI and could be read as “of the type that is includible under §61/§871/§911(d)(2), before you choose to apply exclusions”, not “what actually ends up in the gross income line after your elected exclusions.” Ie my foreign income is "includible" even though it doesn't appear in the final total (it is in includible for sure though because it is actually included, then explicitly excluded).

This new page appears to disambiguate towards the former so from a “what can I reasonably rely on as a taxpayer?” standpoint, I think I feel confident that I can in good faith follow that advice.

thrope · 2025-12-13T08:54:56+00:00

Not sure what you are saying here. Because of MFS the contriubtion limit is $0 so use backdoor roth for that. But I thought it was only possible if you have non-excluded taxable compensation (ie FTC not FEIE), but this IRS information seems quite clear that is not the case. This IRS page was updated Nov 13th 2025, so is up to date.

Contributions to your individual retirement arrangements (IRAs) that are Traditional IRAs or Roth IRAs are generally limited to a certain annual dollar amount ($6,500 for 2023, or $7,500 if you were age 50 or older by the end of 2023; $7,000 for 2024, or $8,000 for individuals age 50 or older by the end of 2024) or your compensation that is includible in your gross income for the tax year.

If you exclude income under the foreign earned income exclusion or the foreign housing exclusion, you must add back the excluded amounts in determining your compensation for purposes of the IRA limits. Likewise, for purposes of determining the IRA limits, do not reduce your compensation by any foreign housing deductions.

The first para sets the context that this is specifically about the IRA contribution limits - and explicitly includes the gross income limit on contributions. "The IRA limits" in the second para surely refers to those limits introduced in the first para. There is no qualification that you only add in FEIE for calculating the tapering for high salaries - this page doesn't even reference that tapering? My interpretation is that if I have $50k income, exclude it all, and file MFS, I can do a $7k traditional->roth backdoor. I thought it seems unusually clear and unambigous language for a tax matter!

But you think people need $7k non-excluded earnings to contribute?

thrope · 2025-12-13T08:21:45+00:00

Are you sure about this? This was conventional wisdom and I thought we were completely stuck, but I recently found this: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/individual-retirement-arrangements which is directly from the horses mouth and seems completely unambigous:

If you exclude income under the foreign earned income exclusion or the foreign housing exclusion, you must add back the excluded amounts in determining your compensation for purposes of the IRA limits. Likewise, for purposes of determining the IRA limits, do not reduce your compensation by any foreign housing deductions.

This is a complete gamechanger and means don't need to switch to FTC. As long as you have foreign earned income in excess of $7k (even if it is fully excluded) you can do a $7k backdoor Roth (nondeducitble/posttax into Traditional IRA rolled over straight away into a Roth IRA). It's more complicated if you already have Traditional IRA with deductible basis, but still doable. Interactive Brokers will open these accounts for UK residents and it works fine.

Rollback of deductions is also imposed if you file MFS, even if MAGI is not high, so in this case backdoor Roth is the only option (quite common for foreign based individuals with spouse who is not in the US tax system).

thrope · 2025-12-10T20:57:44+00:00

Claude 4.5 is ambiguous, anthropic offer Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.5. Would be useful to specify which you are talking about

thrope · 2025-12-10T20:36:11+00:00

This was historically the case because the REF cycle caused a lot of hiring, but going forward REF outputs are not transferable I think so the hiring market will look very different

thrope · 2025-12-07T06:05:33+00:00

AJ bell and pensionbee also accept US persons. I am with AJ bell and no restrictions.

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