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energy123 commented on Want to sway an election? Here’s how much fake online accounts cost   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/rbanffy
charcircuit · 10 hours ago
Just the price of the account doesn't mean much alone. The other important factor is how easily the account can get (shadow)banned from the region you are trying to influence. And for the price given we just know it's account. We don't know how sketchy it appears to the provider.

Not all accounts are created equal. For example a verified US account will be cheaper than a verified Japan account because Japan has stricter regulations around phone numbers. And then if you don't have a Japan account you might not be able to reach a potential Japanese audience due to not only antitrust of the platform, but also features that use geolocation for relevance.

energy123 · 10 hours ago
Cheap accounts from other regions are equally useful for mass upvoting preferred viewpoints.
energy123 commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter
andhuman · a day ago
The new LG panels are bright enough. I think they’re called 4th generation WOLED.
energy123 · a day ago
330 nits in SDR is good relative to other OLED monitors and good enough for most indoor environments but not good enough for my indoor environment. Windows are too big and not tinted, just too much ambient light for anything below 500 nits.

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energy123 commented on OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI   simonwillison.net/2025/De... · Posted by u/simonw
energy123 · a day ago
A public warning about OpenAI's Plus chat subscription as of today.

They advertise 196k tokens context length[1], but you can't submit more than ~50k tokens in one prompt. If you do, the prompt goes through, but they chop off the right-hand-side of your prompt (something like _tokens[:50000]) before calling the model.

This is the same "bug" that existed 4 months ago with GPT-5.0 which they "fixed" only after some high-profile Twitter influencers made noise about it. I haven't been a subscriber for a while, but I re-subscribed recently and discovered that the "bug" is back.

Anyone with a Plus sub can replicate this by generating > 50k tokens of noise then asking it "what is 1+1?". It won't answer.

[1] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11909943-gpt-52-in-chatg...

energy123 commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter
drnick1 · a day ago
32" is squarely "PC monitor" territory and there are now many good options even w/ OLED. No built-in speakers.
energy123 · a day ago
A 32" 4k 240hz OLED computer monitor + smart TV HDMI dongle + external speakers should work fine. Only point I would check is if the remote that comes with the dongle can turn on the monitor.
energy123 commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter
ProllyInfamous · a day ago
I absolutely love my Aorus 48" OLED-type display (w/ DisplayPort).

I tried a 48" TFT-type television (attempting use as a computer display) and the refresh rate just wasn't there, along with typical backlight splotching (but it cost a fifth as much, so...).

My only caution is OLED can experience burn-in (unlike the smaller Aorus 45" using a VA-type panel), but it is otherwise a much better experience

energy123 · a day ago
> My only caution is OLED can experience burn-in

The other limitation is lower brightness than miniLED monitors, around 30-60% of the nits in SDR. Whether that matters obviously depends on the ambient light or reflective surfaces near you.

For me, because I'm next to a big window and already squinting at my 400 nits IPS monitor, a < 300 nits OLED is a non-starter, but a 600 nits in SDR, IPS miniLED, is ideal.

This limitation should be temporary however because there are some high nit OLED TVs coming on the market in 2025 so bright OLED 27-43" monitors will likely follow.

energy123 commented on Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops   phoronix.com/news/Framewo... · Posted by u/mikece
acephal · 2 days ago
Altman should be jailed for this. Single-handedly crashing consumer spending in an entire sector of the economy. At the very least for the reason that that was supposed to happen _after_ they had the AI in hand to supplant majority white collar labor, not before.
energy123 · a day ago
That contract had little to do with this but I get why it's an easy, neatly packaged, personified scapegoat.

The ram price appreciation began 3 months before October 1st and his contract was about future capacity that has nothing to do with the current equilibrium price in consumer DRAM.

energy123 commented on He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over   washingtonpost.com/lifest... · Posted by u/wallflower
Panzer04 · 2 days ago
Idk, people are usually nice in my experience. News, forum opinions and youtube videos are not remotely representative of how things work in real life.
energy123 · 2 days ago
They're nice to you if the culture is such that they get social capital/status for being nice to you and negative reward for being mean.

If the social permissions change like Rwanda in 1994 then your nice neighbors would sooner chop you to pieces.

energy123 commented on GPT-5.2   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/atgctg
sigmoid10 · 2 days ago
Which tier are you? We are on the highest enterprise tier and I've found that OpenAI is a much more stable platform for high-usage than other providers. Can't say much about the UI though since I almost exclusively work with the API. I feel like UIs generally suck everywhere unless you want to do really generic stuff.
energy123 · 2 days ago
ChatGPT UI is leagues above Gemini and AI Studio in responsiveness and latency which is what I care about.
energy123 commented on GPT-5.2   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/atgctg
piskov · 2 days ago
Context windows for web

Fast (GPT‑5.2 Instant) Free: 16K Plus / Business: 32K Pro / Enterprise: 128K

Thinking (GPT‑5.2 Thinking) All paid tiers: 196K

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/11909943-gpt-52-in-chatg...

energy123 · 2 days ago
But can you do that in one message or is that a best case scenario in a long multi turn chat?

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