VeejayRampay

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by VeejayRampay 14d ago
you should care not being technically independent means you'll end up being a serf when American or Chinese companies decide that you don't have access anymore for geopolitical reasons
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by VeejayRampay 15d ago
since you work at Anthropic, know that there was (warranted) love for your models from the community as a whole, they performed well and added value but the verbiage in recent iterations is absolutely insufferable , I will stop using them
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by VeejayRampay 16d ago
it's very bizarre for a python developer like me to read comments like this uv has been absolutely black magic for everyone in the way it just works and works much faster, but here you are telling us that actually no it's somehow
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by VeejayRampay 20d ago
I don't think the robots are really at fault, but it's just that the kind of businesses that would use the robots in the first place would also not spend the time making good fermented dough, not use the best ovens or the best qua
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by VeejayRampay 25d ago
the way it talks is insufferable it really angers me every day
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by VeejayRampay 1mo ago
the phraseology is unbearable, it speaks like some kind of pretentious dude from a software engineering discord or something, littered with lingo and catch phrases I try to push through but it's insufferable
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by VeejayRampay 1mo ago
not what the first chart shows
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by VeejayRampay 3mo ago
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"
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by VeejayRampay 3mo ago
the older talented people are there because of money there's nothing special about the US, it's money
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by VeejayRampay 3mo ago
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
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by VeejayRampay 3mo ago
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
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by VeejayRampay 3mo ago
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
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by VeejayRampay 3mo ago
incredibly cliché and essentialist view of the world, reads like a bad pseudoscientific self help book from the 90's
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by VeejayRampay 3mo ago
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
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by VeejayRampay 3mo ago
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&#x2
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by VeejayRampay 4mo ago
tried using zed, didn't understand how to set up claude code integration, went back to vscode where setting up claude code is trivial
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by VeejayRampay 5mo ago
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"
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by VeejayRampay 9mo ago
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
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by VeejayRampay 10mo ago
no, I find Gemini to be the best
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by VeejayRampay 10mo ago
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
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by VeejayRampay 10mo ago
ruff is a blessing as well and soon ty will make type checking so much better (or pyrefly which also seems great)
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by VeejayRampay 11mo ago
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
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by VeejayRampay 11mo ago
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 su
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by VeejayRampay 11mo ago
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
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by VeejayRampay 1y ago
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, thei
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by VeejayRampay 1y ago
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 o
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by VeejayRampay 1y ago
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
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by VeejayRampay 1y ago
it's funny to observe how picky and cynical the HN crowd suddenly becomes when the disruptive technology is from china
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by VeejayRampay 1y ago
160 comments on this, OpenAI is definitely not the hype anymore
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by VeejayRampay 1y ago
it is pedantic, everyone knows what "node" means in this context

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