barrenko

Not one mention of if it's any good at OCR in the thread?

Appreciate this input.

And it's like there's a uno card that's "increase taxes for freelancers". And they sure like to use it.

I think I'm starting to feel like I'd prefer living through WWIII as opposed to whatever it is we are living through now.

I thought Qwen 3.8 max doesn't have vision?

+1

Man, one of these was my fever dream as a kid.

My brother in Christ.

I am still using gemini flash 2.5 for an old app I have running that does some OCR as well if necessary, is it time to switch up?

Synthetize=?

So in a way Luna is the new Gemini Flash? I've been out of the game for a while.

They've been unfortunately hugged by the "little death" of working with the EU institutions, though I wouldn't bet on them not coming back.

Post WW1, the US was a world hegemon, lent money and set low interest rates and for the past 100 years the countries of the Western EU, fattened from their ancient trade and slavery profits were engaged in a lot of delulu thinking (we could even note franco-prussian war for this).

Effectively there is no job / value creation since at least the 90s, coupled with uncontrolled mass immigration, and what is going on is stagnation and eventually fall. Lento, then adagio, then allegro, then presto as nn taleb says.

We can see this mindset in this summers AC discourse, doing less than Pakistan on the Hormuz situation et c., et c.

We did, and we have our public spaces (public in the non-physical sense here) to show for it.

Our public offline lives are also miserable. If you live in a westernish society, you know exactly what are the problems, and if you are 40 something you can see that for your whole life no one has ever attempted to solve it. We just live with extreme negligence. Like child of permissive parents. And we're all, each and every single one of us both the children and the parents!

We've already defunded the police, and you can see the ramifications all over the world.

I can give you a couple just in regards to my programming career:

- Got my first dev job after several bootcamps and then just decided to YOLO and move to a different country (??), thinking stuff will just work out in regards to my budding coding career. It did not.

- Couple of years after, managed to secure an almost goverment type secure C++ job, and was then stupid enough to try to negotiate for the tiniest bit higher salary after all was said and done (???), the HM find it hugely disrespectful

I'm still alive, and have made almost a dozen of these, but in a honest way I've never "recovered" from a single one. It's like you die a little bit, and a new you (career-wise) continues on.

HR is modern priesthood, and their function is to prevent the "unwashed" from ascending up the higher ranks.

Now there I've made it much worse (or better!) than the actual reality, which is that there's just not enough quality engineering jobs no matter which way you cut it and all of this theatrics result from scarcity.

Agree for stuff like alphafold, for the likes of education, imho, it's been solved for at least a couple of centuries.

Textbook and blackboard > ipad.

This has started to feel a bit like the beginning of railroads and then the steampunk fiction of "let's just build railroads to everywhere". We don't need it and there's no use for it.

As with painting, after a while there's nothing really new to paint, we genuinely need 0 new software. We need to fix our broken physical world, our social lives, our kids and what's left of our democracies.

This software crap is done, leave it to the nerds.

Is this electron?

Very common around my mom's house.

Pieces of Belgian cities?

+ with nation states becoming poorly run cesspools, we're going to see what happens to that.

Do you believe," said Martin, "that hawks have always eaten pigeons when they have found them?" "Yes, without doubt," said Candide. "Well, then," said Martin, "if hawks have always had the same character why should you imagine that men may have changed theirs?

Humanity is a bit of a stretch, and to be seen over time, not that I'm saying it won't happen; let's get some hubris here.

The problems you have are solutions to the problems you don't want to admit to yourself are actually having.

Would it? Tongue in cheek.

Interlinked.

Proobably the later.