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ctxc··on Google Gemini has the worst LLM API
Had to move away from Gemini because the SDK just didn't work.

Regardless of if I passed a role or not, the function would say something to the effect of "invalid role, accepted are user and model".

Tried switching to openAI compatible SDK, it threw errors for tool call calls and I just gave up.

Could you confirm if it was a known bug that was fixed?

ctxc··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)
I wish they sponsored visas though!
ctxc··on Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival
Nah, I just see this as a sustainable way to keep the project alive :)
ctxc··on How NASA Is Using Graph Technology and LLMs to Build a People Knowledge Graph
Yes, domain is memgraph and it seems to be a marketing case study.
ctxc··on I wrote a book called “Crap Towns”. It seemed funny at the time
Crazy stuff, you got me curious

https://web.archive.org/web/20040411225059/http://www.sheppe...

> The island was shat from the arse of the Norse god Fuctup whilst he was suffering a bout of diarrhoea as a side effect of his recent withdrawal from scag. And that's true, as true as I'm sitting here. > A large number of policefolk who work on Sheppey are "Specials", which by a startling coincidence is also an affectionate term used to describe people with learning disabilities. > Christian based cults aside, the main religious practices on the island usually resemble primitive tribal type worship. Drug induced trances are a common tool for reaching the spirits beyond. These trances are often extended to include ritual drug induced self sacrifice- a deeply sacred activity known commonly to the natives as "Overdose".

You go to the "culture" section and there's just a single word, "NO." xD

ctxc··on DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model
> > cathartic when you're sitting at home in the dark because the power company continues to fail

> Ironical remark about the power drawn by IA assisted creation left to the reader.

Thanks for pointing that out, was scratching my head on that

ctxc··on Don't force your kids to do math
I mean, fair enough. I had an aptitude for it. If you're able to figure out what skills they might have fun with in the future, that's excellent. If not - I'm not sure, you gotta shoot your shot I guess? Because the dislike might be for the process (practice) when they actually would like the end product (jamming)

I just had a kid so this is pretty real to me. How it will go is anybody's guess, but I hope it does go well :)

ctxc··on Don't force your kids to do math
I felt the same. I didn't touch it for ~9 years.

But I'm glad for it, since it lets me jam or enjoy myself without having to put the practice in now from scratch. I do it for fun.

ctxc··on Don't force your kids to do math
"something they absolutely hate" is learning to read sheet music, training for skill, practicing for muscle memory.

The fruits are reaped when they (me!) get older. Like I mentioned in another comment, I can play along to a song I like, play a song that is a certain memory, jam with friends at a whim.

Those are not things I necessarily wanted to do when I was a kid. But the "forced" practice was required as a foundation to do what I want to today.

ctxc··on Don't force your kids to do math
You need to "get far" enough for it to be fun.

You want to have fun playing along to your favourite song. Or impromptu jam with a friend. Or sing for yourself because a song reminds you of a memory.

They all have a minimum skill requirement, without which it isn't as enjoyable. You need to know to play reasonably well by ear to have fun imo.

ctxc··on The best programmers I know
Makes sense. I learnt swift recently with LLM as my first starting point - basically "I know java and python, explain swift syntax". It was great.

Once I got to architecture I got a general direction and relied on googling (eg. Lots of nuance to if I should use swiftData/coreData/sqlite etc found in conversation threads)

ctxc··on The best programmers I know
This is why I tend to Google instead of chatgpt everything. I always end up finding these little interesting nuggets in comments/threads in SO
ctxc··on Launch HN: Continue (YC S23) – Create custom AI code assistants
Quick question, what do you mean by new pylance in cursor?

It's basically VSCode - I just ported all extensions in Cursor settings, it installed existing VSCode extensions including Pylance and it just works...

ctxc··on Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died
+India :)
ctxc··on Show HN: I built a website for sharing drum patterns
I would rather everyone use HTTPS than have them individually decide if it "needs to be secure".
ctxc··on Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one
Works only in the US. Worth mentioning.
ctxc··on ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving
To note - 2022
ctxc··on The benefits of learning in public
Come on, you have to link your blog on your profile!

HN does not do reply notifications, so please send me a link - my contact is in my profile :)

ctxc··on The benefits of learning in public
HN does not do reply notifications, so please send your blog over - my contact details are on my profile. :)
ctxc··on Ask HN: Ideas for Business Cards
Probably not what you need, but here's one from my bookmarks

https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/my-business-c...

ctxc··on Software development topics I've changed my mind on
Tabs/spaces is a non-issue, agreed - IDEs handle it.

But surely naming convention contributes to keeping code documented, extensible and efficient?

A deviation from the norm leads to people thinking x does not exist in a large code base, leading to them implementing duplicate methods/functionality, leading to one instance evolving differently enough to cause subtle bugs but not enough to be distinct, or leading to one instance getting fixes the other does not etc?

Sample size of 1, but I've seen it happen unfortunately.

ctxc··on gRPC vs. REST: Understand gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and When to Use in API Design
Thank you for the summary! :)
ctxc··on Mistakes engineers make in large established codebases
It's got a nice ring to it :)
ctxc··on Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option
I'm surprised. >60% seems high even for tech literate software engineers!
ctxc··on Christmas Punch Requires a Formerly Forbidden Fruit
Article tldr:

"Authorities were worried that tejocotes could carry highly destructive fruit flies into the States, threatening domestic orchards. Soon, there was a black market for the golden fruits, due to their rarity and the effort it took to bring them over the border."

ctxc··on Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15
Like parent mentioned - I don't upload photos to Google photos, assume parent doesn't upload photos to iCloud.

Should photo info be sent to Apple/Google in this case?

ctxc··on How to give a senior leader feedback without getting fired
Formatting/phrasing could be improved, but incomprehensible? I don't think so.
ctxc··on Using Large Language Models to Catch Vulnerabilities
Looks cool!
ctxc··on Cognizant found guilty of discriminating against non-Indian employees
Hello, potential friend.
ctxc··on Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021)
Agreed. I don't know why the other thing is even an argument.
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