Readit Newstaneq commented on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down idiallo.com/blog/teaching... · Posted by u/firefoxd
taneq commented on Soldering Prototypes with Enamel Magnet Wire (2020) tomverbeure.github.io/202... · Posted by u/hasheddan
I'd recommend a spoon-style tip* instead of using a fresh drop of solder each time.
[*] like these https://www.jbctools.com/cartridges-category-4-design-Spoon-...
Looks kind of like a fountain pen for solder!
taneq commented on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down idiallo.com/blog/teaching... · Posted by u/firefoxd
Invasive "elites" are harder to eradicate than possums :/
https://predatorfreenz.org/toolkits/know-your-target-predato...
German shepherds seem to help with the possums. I wonder…
taneq commented on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down idiallo.com/blog/teaching... · Posted by u/firefoxd
taneq commented on Two kinds of AI users are emerging martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald
Terrifying that people are creating financial models with AI when they don’t have the skills to verify the model does what they expect
If they have the skills to verify the Excel model then they can apply the same approach to the numbers produced by the AI-generated model, even if they can’t inspect it directly.
In my experience a lot of Excel models aren’t really tested, just checked a bit and them deemed correct.
taneq commented on My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs journal.rafaelcosta.me/my... · Posted by u/rafaelcosta
taneq commented on Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games adventuregamestudio.co.uk... · Posted by u/doener
I have never tried AGS, but I cut my game making teeth on Klick and Play and RPG maker back in the day. I think I was intimidated by the amount of art and the level of story telling needed to craft an adventure game. I wish there was a mac version of this, since I refuse to go near windows at this point.
Haha same! I had Klik and Play, and The Games Factory. I spent ages trying to implement side scrolling in KnP. The crazy complicated action grids for the TGF example games with all their hidden objects to implement game mechanics helped convince me that it was easier to just learn C++. :)
taneq commented on Cells use 'bioelectricity' to coordinate and make group decisions quantamagazine.org/cells-... · Posted by u/marojejian
To me, this is the only real football game: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football.
(No spoilers please!)
What a ride!
With Claude Sonnet at $3/$15 per 1M tokens, a typical agent loop with ~2K input tokens and ~500 output per call, 5 LLM calls per task, and 20% retry overhead (common with tool use): you're looking at roughly $0.05-0.10 per agent task.
At 1K tasks/day that's ~$1.5K-3K/month in API spend.
The retry overhead is where the real costs hide. Most cost comparisons assume perfect execution, but tool-calling agents fail parsing, need validation retries, etc. I've seen retry rates push effective costs 40-60% above baseline projections.
Local models trading 50x slower inference for $0 marginal cost start looking very attractive for high-volume, latency-tolerant workloads.