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by barrell 5mo ago
Yeah I use Mistral Large for a lot of formatting work. For this one use case of mine, it outperforms frontier models by a significant margin. I've found tons of use cases for mistral small as well. I'd love to use Mistral for more
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by barrell 6mo ago
I’ve been writing ClojureScript now for around a decade. I tried to get into Clojure many times, but as someone with no Java experience, the JVM really makes it unbearable. I ended up trying Elixir though and absolutely loved it. Both Cloju
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by barrell 6mo ago
Personally I’m not a fan of the glass effect, but yeah what bothers me more are all the changes around it. The terrible jelly nav bars, the text distortion, the massive buttons with overly rounded corners, the awful switches and sliders, no
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by barrell 6mo ago
My non techie friends all hate it. I don’t think there is a single Apple user I talk to regularly that hasn’t complained about it, or ask me why it is that way (being the resident tech person for some). And besides a few odd posts on x, I h
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by barrell 7mo ago
This is not contending with the health aspects of it though. It is highly processed and it uses a bunch of toxic chemicals to make it, regardless of what any lobbying groups say.
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by barrell 7mo ago
What is this about “the agrolobby”? I haven’t eaten processed foods in decades. I started when I was a kid because I didn’t like eating things where I didn’t know all the ingredients. Not from marketing or lobbying or trends. I just stopped
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by barrell 7mo ago
There are a lot of people who _thrive_ off of a 100% beef diet, I don’t think there is anyone who could _survive_ off of 100% beyond meat burgers. I don’t think you can say they are way healthier than beef by any stretch of the imagination.
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by barrell 7mo ago
Thank you. Bean burgers are delicious. I don’t eat them as part of my normal diet, but have no qualms with them and could always share a meal with my vegan friends. Nowadays it’s all fake meat products which I would never put in my body, an
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by barrell 7mo ago
I haven’t been eating processed foods for several decades now. Just because it’s trendy at the moment doesn’t make it wrong, nor does it make those who abstrain game players. I would say veganism is more trendy at the moment. That doesnt di
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by barrell 7mo ago
I wrapped my headband in some macrame yarn and it resolved all of the discomfort. I can’t say it’s exactly stylish, but I do get a lot of comments on it. I only really wear them at home or when traveling though, so they’re not a fashion acc
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by barrell 7mo ago
This is such a weird comment. It’s ultra processed food devoid of micronutrients with low quality protein and poor bioavailability. Health conscious folks would definitely not choose this. In fact, it’s all the things you try to avoid as so
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by barrell 7mo ago
While I’d love there to be a European frontier model, I do very much enjoy mistral. For the price and speed it outperforms any other model for my use cases (language learning related formatting, non-code non-research).
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by barrell 7mo ago
Does this not count as evidence? I would agree that it sounds a little shaky, but I would not say there is no evidence. https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/
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by barrell 7mo ago
Privacy is definitely not a cern for the layman, but it is for lots of people, especially pro users. I also haven’t made a google search in years. I also haven’t seen any improvements in the frontier models in years, and I’m anxiously await
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by barrell 8mo ago
Similar use case as well. I use erl ports to spawn a python process as well. Error handling is a mess, but using python as a short scripting language and elixir for all the database/application/architecture has been very ideal
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by barrell 8mo ago
Two counters: 1. I'm not sure China caught up so quickly due to any lack of nationalism. 2. There's an allure to working with an EU business because it's in the EU because they're less likely to jerk you around. You have
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by barrell 8mo ago
I feel like my experience with Show HN has been pretty confusing. Two years ago, I started work on https://phrasing.app . Extreme MVP, and a few people using the buggiest software I’ve ever seen. The Show HN took off and I collec
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by barrell 8mo ago
I wasn’t claiming fluency in these languages, just making a point that comprehension is normally very over-exaggerated, and that “full comprehension” is a long way off from just average “comprehension”, and in most cases not needed to conve
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by barrell 8mo ago
I’ve got some plans around that :) currently there’s a really naive implementation of what I call “Language islands”. They’re collections of expressions/sentences. The idea here is to be able to share them, discuss them, correct them,
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by barrell 8mo ago
Not yet! I speak some Italian and want to learn Arabic. I found out there was a semitic language with Italian vocabulary in the latin script and that's what started my obsession. Actually to be completely honest, I learned about Maltes
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by barrell 8mo ago
I would say "full comprehension" would mean you don't need words and phrases explained to you on a daily basis. And to each their own. Fluency is a bad metric because it means something different to everyone. If you live in a
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by barrell 8mo ago
My app works in a bring your own content kind of way. Most users AI generate their expressions, which gets you pretty far, especially in the beginning. But for languages I speak, I curate my expressions with things I read or hear or get cor
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by barrell 8mo ago
Please get in touch if you have any questions! The setup process is hit and miss, but there's a telegram community for members with many happy customers. I'm there all the time and we're all happy to help! Plus it would be aw
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by barrell 8mo ago
I built an app that offers 90-ish languages, and it is not vibe coded. I mean it's taken me over 10,000 hours, but it is possible :)
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by barrell 8mo ago
Not really. Fluency is probably closer to 70-95% comprehension, combined with an ability to assume the rest. I assume the comment is talking about native level comprehension, which is still only like 99.99% Source: native English speaker in
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by barrell 8mo ago
Not OP, but I also coincidentally built a language learning app to learn Turkish. I don't think you can create courses without experience in the language, but it is possible to build analytical tools to make language learning possible.
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by barrell 8mo ago
Għadni kemm bdejt nitgħallem il-Malti! I'm using my own app, and I don't want to link it here given it's someone else's launch post, but you can find many links in my profile. But if you're a self-directed type of l
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by barrell 8mo ago
Thanks for the kind words! The promised walk through will maybe come hopefully this weekend, give or take a few days. Can I ask if the new page explained it better? The “demo/how it works” section is still missing the graphics, which I
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by barrell 8mo ago
Yeah every expression costs money to extract and it's fully bootstrapped. The trial is I give you 10 expressions at cost
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by barrell 8mo ago
Visually I’m working on a new landing page for phrasing. It’s almost done, just need to record a few videos: https://phrasing.app/next Behind the scenes I’m rebuilding the sync engine to properly support offline mode. Tryin

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