For the price of all this righteousness you could have provided a reference. Some reference. So that curious bystanders like me can learn from the exchange.
I have not tried pi! I heard of it, but I didn't look into it because Anthropic is cracking down on third-party harnesses by making them prohibitively expensive. I suppose though now that I have a DeepSeek API key due to Reasonix I can give it a shot. (even the pro model is so cheap!! I've been using it for days on multiple projects and have barely spent $1, and I think it can go much further with better prompting.)
As for advice, what kind do you mean? Do you work on Pi?
Good talk! I'm using Claude to clean up Pi a little bit before I try it (porting to PNPM is part of my standard startup checklist); I'm very excited to see how it goes!
No, I just was curious to know how you found Pi; I've got so much from pi + DS4 pro that I think I am done feeling bad about Anthropic limits. The cost is ridiculous, but I wonder if there's even a lower floor with reasonix or DS4-specific pi config
I saw Pi on the front page of Hacker News a few weeks ago, I think.
Anyway, I've been trying it for the past day or so and I must say, this is awesome. The extension functionality in particular is great news at least. But there's a lot more to love that seems to actually have been tastefully crafted by real people; a lot of power-user features that would fly right over most agentic implementers, such as branching on the level of individual tool calls rather than only by user messages as in Claude Code. It feels incredibly good, I am very happy with it.
Happy to see a tax-evader adolescent Ersatz-toy fall into pieces, hopefully will delay the big ongoing tech-bro op to convert narcissism and tax dues into CO2.
I really like the part where Trump has been prevented from pardoning violent rioters that caused deaths in an attempted coup d'état. Super impressive, great democracy.
Yes, you are wrong, and yes it is xenophobic, and no it won't stop because you are too afraid to fall from your Hollywood-induced exceptionalism.
Where were you when ... everything happened? Keywords: Snowden, five eyes, FISA, PRISM, ...
Laws in the US are irrelevant. And Google has much more sensitive data to cross with any inputs you give them than Chinese companies. Also the extraterritorial executions, coups, etc. are the US specialty. So yes, you're wrong, and it comes across as xenophobic (fear of the strange or foreign).
We start logically. Do you presume your handful of cases exemplify the entire Democratic system? Do you assume that "China" is best understood as a single centralized entity?
You completely walked past the argument to pick at a meaningless nit.
Handing out lessons in democracy from the record-holder country in foreign intervention (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...) had equal civil rights only in the 1960s, pardoned the perpetrators of Jan 6, has its supreme court in entirely political hands, and has the awesomest repressive force in the world, together with the incarcerated population to go with.
Maybe I picked like 4 meaningless nits as in: US politicians respect so much democracy that they constantly reweight "one person, one vote" to suit the interest of the incumbent, they do not have their outrageously expensive campaigns financed (legally) by private interest groups, the popular vote is represented, and elections are uncontested (unless the wrong candidate wins, where the Supreme Court promptly fixes the issue), and it has room for more than two (quite similar I may say) viewpoints in representation.
Maybe.
But please don't call “Yea, it's funny what having open and fair elections can do for a country.” an argument.
Please don't take one sentence out of a larger context and pretend it represents the argument.
Which, again, you've managed to completely ignore.
The argument, ironically in black and white, so you can sense it, "this isn't a black and white scenario and seeing it as China vs USA blinds you to the complex differences and global geopolitical forces involved."
I get that you don't personally like America, for whatever reason, but you've blinded yourself to sense in your rush to convey your rather negative and absolutely common sensibilities.
Yes, I don't like the US'* self-congratulation we're the good guys-beacon-of democracy bullshit
(The USA, I am fine with the continent of America).
And it's for a reason: I am from one of those countries where US-american meddling buttressed a dictatorship that caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.
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