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by cpursley 2y ago
No Chinese company makes $10k EVs with Tesla level quality, performance and safety. The Mi SU7, a pretty competitive EV with Model 3, starts at around $30k (still a pretty decent price). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi
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by cpursley 2y ago
Tesla is not the only American company making $50k plus EVs. And China even makes some wild $100k plus models.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Only after 25 years.
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by cpursley 2y ago
DOGE needs to hire these Benevolent Beavers.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Sold! Thank you for pressing the order button on my next book ;)
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by cpursley 2y ago
If they did, they wouldn't survive for more than a few generations, no?
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by cpursley 2y ago
I quite enjoyed the “in our neighborhood” bit ;)
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by cpursley 2y ago
The hotel and taxi industry were legit terrible before those two disrupted them. Laws are ment to be broken. Especially in cronist systems where incumbents write the laws.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Doesn't it mean you're now dependent on the US (and our particular politics) as well as the middle eastern oil monarchies? Or is the idea to try to source all of the EU energy needs independently?
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by cpursley 2y ago
Integrations is part of the data moat I mentioned.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Software without data moats, vender lock-in, etc sure will. All the low handing fruit saas is going to get totally obliterated by LLM built-software.
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by cpursley 2y ago
No idea but Qwen 2.5 VL seems to understand it all quite well.
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by cpursley 2y ago
I built a little project to help with this over the break, still needs a lot of work - hopefully helpful for folks looking to connect with their local farmer: https://www.farmersstand.com/farmers-markets
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by cpursley 2y ago
Very cool! How are you storing it to a database - vectors? What do you do with the extracted data (in terms of being able to pull it up via some query system)?
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by cpursley 2y ago
I've had great luck just base64'ing images and asking Qwen 2.5 VL to both parse it to markdown and generate a title, description and list of keywords (seems to work well on tables and charts). My plan is to split PDFs into pngs fi
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by cpursley 2y ago
That's actually a horribly awesome idea.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Please please please don’t move to electron and just build something native. Electron desktop software bloat is killing our machines.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Those are not esoteric things, there’s generally data available for things like climate zones, soil type, plat maps, zoning and height restrictions (for trees). I was a commercial landscaper for a decade and have done my fair share of readi
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by cpursley 2y ago
Now this is an interest idea, have you had any success?
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by cpursley 2y ago
Is this open source? Is it slow Python? That's where I'm stuck.
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by cpursley 2y ago
I experimented with it, it generates way too much noise. Cool utility, though!
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by cpursley 2y ago
Very cool, any plans for a dockerized API of marker similar to what Unstructured released? I know you have a very attractively priced serverless offering ( https://www.datalab.to ) but having something to develop against locally w
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by cpursley 2y ago
Well derp, I should have read the linked extractous repo. This looks like the extract solution I've been after (see what I did there). https://github.com/yobix-ai/extractous
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by cpursley 2y ago
I've been thinking a lot about how to accomplish various RAG things in Elixir (for LLM applications). PDF is one of the missing pieces, so glad to see work here. The really tricky part is not just parsing out the text (you can just cal
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by cpursley 2y ago
I’m talking about the typical crud biz app or startup codebase they the majority of us here slarp out.
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by cpursley 2y ago
The code was never the hard part.
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by cpursley 2y ago
I was about to type: wait until you see what they’re doing with cars. They’re good now, no longer just copies. I’m talking real innovation plus good looks.
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by cpursley 2y ago
> It's 2025 and it's faster for me to have ChatGPT or Cursor whip up a dependency free implementation of these common functions I sort of stumbled upon this myself and am coming around to this viewpoint. Especially after depend
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by cpursley 2y ago
What makes you assume I haven't? Have you?
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by cpursley 2y ago
Their debt to GDP ratio was 14.6% at the end of 2024, a decrease from 2023. US is 123.1% of GDP while Ireland is at 42.7%. And PPP is the number that matters - its one of the big factors which governs quality of life, at which price you can

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