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Bitcent: The 10⁻¹⁰ Dollar Unit for AI Pricing xAI APIs use a "curious" unit for pricing. Let's look at why this unit ($10^{-10}$) makes sense for the AI era and why we should call it the "bitcent".

Bitcent: The 10⁻¹⁰ Dollar Unit for AI Pricing

I’ve been playing with the xAI API recently, and noticed something interesting about their pricing model. The API returns usage costs as integers, but the numbers didn’t immediately make sense. For…

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git stash save + fetch + rebase + stash pop (with conflict detection) in a one-liner. The way interactive Fetch&Rebase in TortoiseGit spoiled me to expect, now powered by @dotnet #dnx: > dnx runfile kzu/run@main:rebase.cs --alias rebase You can now run w/branch even: > dnx runfile rebase main

Wow, what an epic day will Jan 30 be for space enthusiasts!! 3 launches from Cape Canaveral 🤯 🚀One @blueorigin New Glenn 🚀🚀 Two @SpaceX @Starlink

"Power lust is a weed that grows only in the vacant lots of an abandoned mind"

TIL you can do: > go run github.com/[OWNER]/[REPO]/[PATH]@[REF] [ARGS]. Would be great to have the same in @dotnet (kinda like what I do with dnx runfile). 🙏 @DamianEdwards @davidfowl

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Fun segway into dumping a @Windows app's UI as JSON using UIAutomation (aka accessibility). Kinda like a DOM for Windows? > dnx runfile gist.github.com/kzu/4dcb048c... <process_id> --alias windom

Dumps an app's UIA tree as JSON

Dumps an app's UIA tree as JSON. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Learning about a source repo using @Google code wiki is pretty incredible. Here's @Microsoft @dotnet agent framework:

Code Wiki

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How it started | How it's going 🇦🇷🚀

This is exactly what you would expect happens when the government stops sucking every penny of credit from the private sector due to massive deficits.

private credit booming after Milei destroys fiscal deficit

Doomberg story: Argentina is in a recession. Reality: not at all. @JMilei successfully overcame the "kuka risk"

Pretty awesome that you can now run @dotnet powered grep on any platform with a single command: dnx -y grep www.nuget.org/packages/grep

grep 0.9.0

Simple grep by C#

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Using the new @dotnet #runtile feature from #MSBuild is awesome. And editing the C# scripts with full @VisualStudio using #SmallSharp github.com/devlooped/Sm... just completes the whole experience 🔥 github.com/devlooped/ru...

Make sure we keep Avalonia and GCM in sync by kzu · Pull Request #45 · devlooped/runfile

This should prevent future incomplete bumps. When Dependabot bumps GCM without bumping avalonia to the proper dependency version, this will require manual intervention by building locally on the ch...

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Having the #aspire dashboard integrated in the @azure portal? YEAH! #dotnetconf

MapDevUI in Microsoft Agent Framework is awesome! #dotnetconf #csharp

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This is the after (deregulation by @fedesturze and @JMilei) vs before regulations to export Argentinean wine. No wonder Chile exports 3x more until now! www.worldstopexports.com/wine-exports...

I'd like to see a Grok Heavy-powered coding agent from @xai that integrates seamlessly with this @code Unified Experience for all Coding Agents

A Unified Experience for all Coding Agents

Agents took over VS Code in 2025. We released agent mode for VS Code, integration for the Copilot coding agent, and the new GitHub Copilot CLI. But Copilot is not the only agent game in town. There…

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So more @grokipedia fun: C# history. It added useful info missing on @wikipedia (Ximian then Xamarin entirely absent, white image), until I hit that "C# 13 is latest" (vs C# 14 original). Then I looked at the edits and my mind was fully blown. It wins hands down on accuracy!

Self-correcting Grokipedia on .NET past and present by Grok is fascinating to watch: grokipedia.com/page/.NET

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