ianhawes

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by ianhawes 7d ago
Hah! Good to know, makes total sense.
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by ianhawes 8d ago
There is, it's called debit cards, but Stripe et al. "simplified" pricing by charging a percentage regardless of card type instead of the traditional interchange-plus pricing. Merchant banks "used to" make money by
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by ianhawes 1mo ago
Multiple reasons probably: 1. Less context window to work with. 2. Things were "different" in the early days. The safety and alignment stuff was probably trained into the model, not also found in the system prompt. 3. Safety and a
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by ianhawes 1mo ago
I won't comment on accuracy, but in internal benchmarks, Mistral OCR is significantly faster than comparable APIs.
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by ianhawes 2mo ago
It's impossible to tell. Are they behind who? And on what? It depends on who you ask. And everything is a vibe because all of this is new and things move fast. A week is a month in AI-land. A month; a year. A year? A decade. On coding?
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by ianhawes 2mo ago
Came here to ask basically this. We use 3.1 Pro internally and it's great.
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by ianhawes 2mo ago
I wasn't aware of the politics behind Ollama but I have noticed the lack of variety in quant versions, the lag between availability on Ollama, and their push to get you to use their cloud versions. I'm going to uninstall Ollama.
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by ianhawes 3mo ago
Okay I don’t care about “eventually”, I want Fable now.
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by ianhawes 3mo ago
Imagine saying Gemini is so far behind when Llama has unreleased max models from last year that are currently beat by quantized Qwen2.5 models.
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by ianhawes 4mo ago
You've just described what already has to occur for PERM, you have to post on the respective State Workforce Agency website.
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by ianhawes 4mo ago
They still do the tiny print in a Sunday newspaper, they just also now are supposed to post on LinkedIn and the website (aka normal hiring process).
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by ianhawes 5mo ago
What made you switch from E-3 to H-1B?
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by ianhawes 5mo ago
If they've complied with the DOL regulations and requirements, what makes you think they're violating the law?
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by ianhawes 5mo ago
I want to hire who I want to hire. Don't tell me who I "should" hire, that is just another form of DEI.
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by ianhawes 6mo ago
> Meta is the sole reason PHP is still alive. This could not be more wrong. Meta is still using PHP AFAIK but I'm not sure it's modern. They created the Hack programming language ~10 years ago but it doesn't look like it&#
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by ianhawes 7mo ago
Nothing happens when I click `Scan`.
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by ianhawes 7mo ago
AutoRune and SCAR! Though, I never cared much for Delphi.
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by ianhawes 8mo ago
> The Claude Agent SDK is a collection of tools that helps developers build powerful agents on top of Claude Code. https://claude.com/blog/building-agents-with-the-claude-agen... From September 29, 2025
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by ianhawes 10mo ago
Please add Chandra by Datalab
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by ianhawes 10mo ago
Did you incorporate as a C corp or LLC?
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by ianhawes 10mo ago
I just tested a non-English document and it rendered English text. Does your model not support anything other than English?
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by ianhawes 11mo ago
Imagine laying off one of the most genuine, friendly developer evangelists of all time.
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by ianhawes 11mo ago
Brian Krebs is a saint for being the perennial punching bag and target of cybercriminals but continuing to publish important information independently.
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by ianhawes 1y ago
* In Bedrock Edition. Minecraft purists only use Java Edition.
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by ianhawes 1y ago
I suspect this has much more to do with bad actors using automated means to access Gmail and send spam.
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by ianhawes 1y ago
Laravel 3 and Laravel 4 were released in ~2012. The upgrade from Laravel 4 to 5 (released Oct 2013) is probably the biggest hurdle, but you can likely upgrade from Laravel 5 to Laravel 12 in a week or sooner with Laravel Shift.
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by ianhawes 1y ago
They charge 10% (or at least they did ~10 years ago, probably higher now) and require you maintain a 30% reserve and then they use that money to continue to lobby Visa/MC to prevent competition.
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by ianhawes 1y ago
Similarly if you seized 100% of the wealth of the top 400 Americans[0] and liquidated all of their assets to cash, then you'd have ~$5.4T (assuming you didn't completely destroy the economy in the process, which you would but for
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by ianhawes 1y ago
Hot take but XP is only remembered fondly in this community because it was the dominant operating system from 2001 through 2011 on consumer devices that were likely purchased as first or second generation home computers for millenials that
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by ianhawes 1y ago
No, it's just nostalgic.

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