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VeejayRampay

3,076 karmajoined vor 16 Jahren
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VeejayRampay
·vor 9 Tagen·discuss
but have they integrated homebrew, have they made it a first class citizen, have they provided money or something?

the answer is "maybe to some small extent, but not really"
VeejayRampay
·vor 9 Tagen·discuss
the older talented people are there because of money

there's nothing special about the US, it's money
VeejayRampay
·vor 9 Tagen·discuss
you think it's shitty, but it's a personal opinion that you're phrasing as some kind of widely accepted view

be sure that it's not, lots of people actually PREFER Android
VeejayRampay
·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
see homebrew, they could have made this an official thing but no, they prefer to let people work do their work for them and sleep on their mattress of cash

despicable business practices really
VeejayRampay
·vor 10 Tagen·discuss
capital and talent is the same in this context

there's no shortage of talent in Europe or France, it's just an issue of available capital
VeejayRampay
·vor 11 Tagen·discuss
incredibly cliché and essentialist view of the world, reads like a bad pseudoscientific self help book from the 90's
VeejayRampay
·vor 11 Tagen·discuss
he's obviously a xenophobe, that's the opposite of being empathetic

he supports a party that flat out talks about immigrants as parasites, let's not try to paint him and a good guy, it's infuriating
VeejayRampay
·vor 15 Tagen·discuss
I really wish people stopped saying things "I've been saying that"

why not just say "I think that"

do you see yourself as some kind of visionary about this particular topic? literally EVERYONE is saying that, it's the most obvious fact about AI
VeejayRampay
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
tried using zed, didn't understand how to set up claude code integration, went back to vscode where setting up claude code is trivial
VeejayRampay
·vor 2 Monaten·discuss
crazy how people on hacker news, who just gobble up anything if it's from openai or anthropic suddenly become monocled sceptics when chinese open models are "winning"
VeejayRampay
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
it is absolutely a huge deal, I suspect you work daily in python but with a small number of repositories that dont change too often
VeejayRampay
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
no, I find Gemini to be the best
VeejayRampay
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
what do you mean "catches up"

Gemini has been as good as GPT for more than a year

OpenAI still somehow gets the edge on the initial veneer of hype, and that's running thin
VeejayRampay
·vor 7 Monaten·discuss
ruff is a blessing as well and soon ty will make type checking so much better (or pyrefly which also seems great)
VeejayRampay
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
thanks for this post

it should be repeated ad-nauseam that he is a crook, a shame for the country and its values and that the whole discourse about the injustice of the sentencing has heavy anti-liberal vibes
VeejayRampay
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
you're not in the minority, there's just intense fanboyism on Hacker News to promote OpenAI, because it serves the whole "LLM revolution" schtick better

Gemini has been dominating the field for about a year now, but I suppose Google is bit boring cause they just do things well
VeejayRampay
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
due to the nature of PDF, none of the tools mentioned here can do things as simple as detecting tables on pages with high accuracy

PDF is absolutely mint for display but it really suffers when parsing is involved
VeejayRampay
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
python will be the last man standing with basically no functional goodies

people will keep on trucking with their "pythonic" for loops containg appends to a list that was initialized right before, their disgust for recursion, their absence of lambdas, the lack of monadic return types or containers
VeejayRampay
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
remotely related, but I have yet to find a solution for page classification in a document for tables, i.e. a classifier that returns the index of pages containing tables in a document that is reliable

solutions using things like img2table or pymupdf are really bad (pymupdf is not even reliable for text pdfs)
VeejayRampay
·vor 10 Monaten·discuss
for context, the author is Aaron Patterson of Ruby and Ruby and Rails fame, a proficient C programmer and overall hacker, he knows his stuff