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whoopdeepoo··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Well isn't that what benchmarks are for? They compare total cost for a unit of work.
whoopdeepoo··on DeepSeek v4
You can use deepseek with Claude code
whoopdeepoo··on OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic
Both of these valuations are absolutely absurd. I guess Anthropic looks good in comparison, but I don't want to hold that bag.

The Chinese models are catching up in quality while being a fraction of the price. The market will speak, how many devices that contributed to this thread were made in the USA?

Sure you can argue the Chinese companies are heavily subsidized, but no major LLM lab is remotely close to making a profit this decade.

whoopdeepoo··on Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal
We use it to sort parquets out of core and then the arrow interface to read into Python and export as geoparquets
whoopdeepoo··on DuckDB 0.8
Yes, it's still very alpha
whoopdeepoo··on DuckDB 0.8
Such an amazing project. Once the geospatial extension lands I'm going to seriously consider switching our geoparquet workflows over.
whoopdeepoo··on RAM’s New Electric Pickup Truck Aims for Battery Range of 500 Miles
Electric pickup trucks are an insanely priced novelty until they figure out towing performance.
whoopdeepoo··on Show HN: The Shark Programming Language
Cool, but you really need a grammar check. Pass this through chatgpt or something.
whoopdeepoo··on Hyundai promises to keep buttons in cars
Buy a Mazda
whoopdeepoo··on Apartment rents fall as new supply hits market
The answer is foreign students if it's anything like my university town.
whoopdeepoo··on A Heisenbug lurking in async Python
I don't write any colored function code in python, I'd much rather work with process/thread pools
whoopdeepoo··on A Heisenbug lurking in async Python
> But who reads all the docs

Why is this so common? Do people seriously not read a language/library documentation? That's the absolute first thing I do when evaluating a technology.

whoopdeepoo··on QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed
ESRI is a scourge on the GIS industry. One of the creators of postgis can say it much better than I can.

https://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2018/11/esri-dominates.html

whoopdeepoo··on Trustfall: How to Query (Almost) Everything
Already way too many tabs in the example. I could see this getting completely unreadable very quick.
whoopdeepoo··on We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it
Subject matter expert
whoopdeepoo··on NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree
Chump change compared to the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars wasted but enough for me to not care about the consequences of my actions
whoopdeepoo··on NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree
First we were looking for potential uranium deposits with satellite imagery. When that was no longer necessary we switched to identifying targets for aerial strikes. The imagery was pretty outdated but they needed a set amount of targets each week so we weren't very accurate.

I got the job through family, my uncle was able to get in the industry in the 80s.

whoopdeepoo··on NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree
Exactly. I made a fortune as an intelligence contractor during the Iraq war.
whoopdeepoo··on Write simply (2021)
It's his personal website, not a philosophy journal. Can we scrutinize all your comments for subject matter expertise? What is your expertise anyway?
whoopdeepoo··on SQL should be the default choice for data transformation logic
Every single org I've found that says "we don't use ORMs because they're slow" ends up constructing their own bespoke, wheel-reinventing "orm" or sticks all their application logic in sprocs, which are nightmares for imperative logic.
whoopdeepoo··on SQLAlchemy 2.0 Released
What do you use instead?
whoopdeepoo··on SQLAlchemy 2.0 Released
Incredible work, the best python database tool just got even better!
whoopdeepoo··on Amazon Closing AmazonSmile
Kinda off topic but why do grade school kids need a MacBook air?
whoopdeepoo··on Ask HN: How does a hobby programmer get hired?
Just say independent contractor
whoopdeepoo··on Ask HN: How does a hobby programmer get hired?
I followed a similar strategy and was hired as a senior. Granted I had ~8 years programming experience before being hired but none of it was as a salaried SWE.
whoopdeepoo··on Distributor cancelled an order and we need to move 30k bags of coffee [updated]
I am guessing the reason this coffee went fast is because it was a good price and the good sob story. Hard to imagine they can continue to pull that off. Fool me once yada yada
whoopdeepoo··on The End of Programming
I use copilot pretty much religiously at this point and would be shocked if what the author is claiming happens in my professional lifetime. It just seems so far away. But I wouldn't mind if it did happen, I am much better at my job because of AI.
whoopdeepoo··on Just use Postgres for everything
My experience was not enough support for common postgres features
whoopdeepoo··on Just use Postgres for everything
We tried using postgres for a rewrite of an existing system but the lack of support for columnar data made it not possible.
whoopdeepoo··on LPD: Libertarian Police Department (2014)
"Death to Capitalism" shirts on sale now for $29.99!
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