- credditHe’s European and uses a “.” instead of a “,”
- So we are all expected to build our own payment processors in order to not be ridiculous?
- Surely we aren't meant to believe that having some critical part of our lives or businesses dependent on a third party is "a little bit ridiculous"?
I don't imagine I should be expected to launch my own bank or semiconductor fab.
- As LeoPanthera said, it is clearly implied.
- Are self-hosted solutions impervious to outages? I wasn't aware.
- > Good point. I can see why integrated support for local filesystem tools would be useful, even though I prefer manually uploading specific files to avoid polluting the context with irrelevant info.
Access to OS level resources != context pollution. You still have control, just more direct and less manual.
> The ones I've listed are open source and auditable.
Yeah I don't plan on spending who knows how much time auditing some major app's code (lol) before giving it my API keys and access to my chats. Unless there's a critical mass of people I know and trust using something like that it's not going to happen for me.
But also, I tried quickly looking up Msty to see if it is open source and what its adoption looked like and AFAICT it's not open source. Asked Gemini 3 if it was and it also said no. Frankly that makes it a very hard no for me. If you are using it because you think it's Open Source I suggest you stop.
- I have a few reasons for the preference:
(1) The ability to add context via a local apps integration into OS level resources is big. With Claude, eg, I hit Option-SPC which brings up a prompt bar. From there, taking a screenshot that will get sent my prompt is as simple as dragging a bounding box. This is great. Beyond that, I can add my own MCP connectors and give my desktop app direct access to relevant context in a way that doesn't work via web UI. It may also be inconvenient to give context to a web UI in some case where, eg, I may have a folder of PDFs I want it to be able to reference.
(2) Its own icon that I can CMD-TAB to is so much nicer. Maybe that works with a PWA? Not really sure.
(3) Even if I can't use an LLM when offline, having access to my chats for context has been repeatedly valuable to me.
I haven't looked at provider-agnostic apps and, TBH, would be wary of them.
- Gemini 3 is crushing my personal evals for research purposes.
I would cancel my ChatGPT sub immediately if Gemini had a desktop app and may still do so if it continues to impress my as much as it has so far and I will live without the desktop app.
It's really, really, really good so far. Wow.
Note that I haven't tried it for coding yet!
- Yes.
A good way to think about American Cheese is to consider if instead of it being a mass produced, highly available product, it was made by Thomas Keller and served in a dish at The French Laundry. Then we would call it “molecular gastronomy” and it would be a nice littler touch to some dish.
- American cheese is just cheese with an emulsifier, sodium citrate, added that makes it so that it doesn’t break when melted.
At most it adds a slight amount of acidity and makes for a very attractive melting property. There’s not really anything disgusting about it for most people because most people find its melting properties to be a positive.
Hating American cheese is an affect people adopt for the same reason people adopt an affect of hating mayo: certain cultural elements tell them to.
- MSFT had a right to compute exclusivity.
"Microsoft will no longer have a right of first refusal to be OpenAI’s compute provider."
Seems like a loss to me!
- > Hard to say what a "longer period of time" means, but I presume it is substantial enough to make this a major concession from OpenAI.
Depends on how this is meant to be parsed but it may be parsed to be a concession from MSFT. If the total amount of revenue to be shared is the same, then MSFT is worse off here. If this is meant to parse as "a fixed proportion of revenue will be shared over X period and X period has increased to Y" then it is an OAI concession.
I don't know the details but I would be surprised if there was a revenue agreement that was time based.
- Nevermind, looks like the nn-profit gave up voting control lol:
"All equity holders in OpenAI Group now own the same type of traditional stock that participates proportionally and grows in value with OpenAI Group’s success. The OpenAI Foundation board of directors were advised by independent financial advisors, and the terms of the recapitalization were unanimously approved by the board."
Truly, truly the greatest theft from mankind in history and they dress it up as if the non-profit is doing anything other than giving away the most valuable startup in history for a paltry sum.
Credit where credit is due, Sam Altman is the greatest dealmaker of all time.
Will be interesting if we get to hear what his new equity stake is!
- Can anyone point me to whether or not the OAI non-profit holds voting control or not after the recapitalization?
I've read this but it's extremely vague: https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone/
As is this: https://openai.com/our-structure/
Especially so if the Non-profit foundation doesn't retain voting control, this remains the greatest theft of all time. I still can't quite understand how it should at all be possible.
Looking at the changes for MSFT, I also mostly don't understand why they did it!
- The Magit experience is due to the use of the transient package for its UI.
Some other packages also use it. Most notably for my personal usage is the gptel package.
- Yeah backups would’ve been totally useless in this case. All South Korea could’ve done is restore their data from the backups and avoid data loss.
- Maybe but honestly your logic doesn’t really make any sense to me anyway. If my time is worth $10k/hr, why am I driving myself? That alone is a huge waste of money.
My only knowledge of significant parking ticket acquisition from upper classes comes from lawyers outside courthouses. I tried looking for reporting on this but it may have just been a hyper local thing to where I grew up.
- They are definitely people who live in their cars and don’t pay the tickets.
EDIT: did a search to see if anyone had analyzed this and here’s reporting that shows basically this. None of the top cars are remotely luxury, eg.
https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/15/parking-tickets-san-franci...
- Oh man this is so fun but I slightly hate it. It probably won’t help people avoid parking enforcement much but it could somewhat which sucks because I think parking enforcement is a very good thing.
More, I worry about the chance a deranged person uses it to track a specific SFMTA agent who gave them a ticket.