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by hectormalot 2y ago
I largely agree with your sentiment. Go’s simplicity is what makes it such a useful tool for me. It’s worth protecting, and that means setting a very high bar for proposals that add new things to the language. However, 2 things I would be e
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by hectormalot 2y ago
Not exactly the same feature set, but I’ve replaced Dropbox with Syncthing (open source) and it has been very reliable for my intended use (sync files across my devices). I also run it on my home server for a central sync point. Don’t use i
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by hectormalot 3y ago
ABN AMRO | Amsterdam, Netherlands | Full Stack Developer | HYBRID | Full Time | Java and Javascript We're looking for full stack developers with experience in Javascript (VueJS) and Java (Spring Boot). The Innovation Engineering depart
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by hectormalot 3y ago
If you want to use the CLI, Visidata might be what you want. It does have a bit of a learning curve. Beyond that, I've found it quite handy to do quick data explorations. e.g. there are shortcuts for histograms, filtering, x-y plots, e
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by hectormalot 3y ago
There is a similar crafting an interpreter[1] and compiler[2] pair of books for Go. I've heard good things about it, didn't work through it myself though: 1. https://interpreterbook.com 2. https://compilerbo
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by hectormalot 3y ago
yes, likely months of engagement at 36-40h per week
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by hectormalot 3y ago
Indeed. I enjoy working in Go and have written various things in it over the last 8 years. Last year I toyed with Rust (very different learning curve!) and still prefer Go for its simplicity and development speed. But, I would love to have
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by hectormalot 3y ago
Depends on the geography and/or whether the knowledge is highly specific. As a datapoint, the average Dutch contracting rates I see for IT development (think: Java, Swift, Kotlin) range somewhere from €75 - €150/h. Higher is possi
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by hectormalot 3y ago
If I read it correctly, the benchmark is from April 2023, before the pgvector improvements with hnsw. Based on [1], this could be an order of magnitude difference. 1: https://m.youtube.com/watch?si=eUhNtghbiLRJ7yHB&v=MDx
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by hectormalot 3y ago
ABN AMRO | software developers, data scientists, data engineers, architect | ONSITE | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | full time I’m hiring for a few positions at the Strategy & Innovation (S&I) department of ABN AMRO. ABN is the third
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by hectormalot 3y ago
From experience, this is quite common in enterprise sales. Having been on both sides of such transactions, I’m now quite sceptical of features/functionalities unless I can test drive myself. Some stuff I’ve seen: - chatbot sales: “see
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by hectormalot 3y ago
They don’t. But I’ve explored launching a EU-based business that focuses on large businesses and Hetzner was one of the logical players. Good managed services without US exposure are really rare. I run some smaller stuff on Hetzner. Have fo
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by hectormalot 3y ago
Precisely this. I often check GitHub profiles if a candidate provides them, but I have the same experience. It's often times completely empty, or just a half-finished tutorial. Once it looked like a really active developer (like commit
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by hectormalot 3y ago
ABN AMRO | software developers, data scientists, data engineers | ONSITE | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | full time I’m hiring for a few positions at the Strategy & Innovation (S&I) department of ABN AMRO. ABN is the third largest ban
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by hectormalot 3y ago
With remote interviews it’s at least common to see a ‘round’ scattered over multiple days and time slots, rather than a single visit with multiple interviewers in a row. Paying for someone’s time is… tricky. If a company doesn’t pay, and th
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by hectormalot 3y ago
ABN AMRO | software developers, data scientists, data engineers | ONSITE | Amsterdam, The Netherlands | full time I’m hiring for a few positions at the Strategy & Innovation (S&I) department of ABN AMRO. ABN is the third largest ban
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Donut: OCR-Free Document Understanding Transformer(github.com)
313 points by hectormalot 3y ago|86 comments
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by hectormalot 3y ago
Thanks for explaining this. Super interesting stuff. It’s the type of comment I love to read here.
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by hectormalot 3y ago
You’re driving a ‘car’ on Mars! Does it actually include touch and go like driving with the driver as decision maker? I expected that every move would be scrutinized by a team of specialists?
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by hectormalot 3y ago
I’ve been running a few VMs at Hetzner for years and never had anything like that. Are you sure this is Hetzner related?
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by hectormalot 3y ago
Where I live there is a central register that identifies total exposure as well as red flags (late payments). Exposure is weighed differently. E.g. a 25k car loan might lower the acceptable mortgage by 25-100k because it’s backed by a depre
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by hectormalot 3y ago
Was thinking the same thing initially, but it would have been quite a time investment. In this case I just make an API call and it’s done. I prompt GPT to return what I want in JSON format and that works surprisingly well, so it turned out
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by hectormalot 3y ago
Oh for sure. I think Paprika (?) does a decent job. To be fair, it started as a learning project for myself. As a minor detail I also translate everything to the same language as part of the transformation. Just a bit of prompt experimentat
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by hectormalot 3y ago
A recipe manager for our family that strips all the SEO text out using the OpenAI API. I built this after someone in our family got diagnosed gluten intolerant and we had to make changes to our usual recipes. Normal recipe sites tend to be
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by hectormalot 3y ago
$2,50/Wp seems very high! Dutch market is somewhere between 0.8-1.5€/Wp installed, and we’re not exactly a low wage country. (Small commercial can be as low as 0.65€/Wp, at around 250 panels) Any ideas on what’s driving the c
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by hectormalot 3y ago
I think I see where you’re coming from, but how I interpreted it, it’s just really hard to make these decisions, and from a managers perspective its not that black and white: - almost any change will have have people arguing for and against
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by hectormalot 4y ago
Correct. This is a place where regulation could play a role if the market is large enough. For example: If the Netherlands would prohibit coal for steelmaking, it would just bankrupt the 1 steel mill they have. If however, the EU would proh
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by hectormalot 4y ago
fzf includes the path in your match. So, unless the directories also have unpractical names, this typically won’t be a problem. Learning for me: Brew suggests to install the shortcuts but doesn’t automatically do this. Just activated this a
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by hectormalot 4y ago
Compared to the recent apology from Fly.io [1], Docker's corporate apology is terrible. Fly's was open about the struggles they faced and how they feel about it, empathetic to their customers, and come across as genuine (also rein
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by hectormalot 4y ago
This is a really important consumer problem to solve. We retrofitted a heatpump into our home about a 18 months ago and it wasn’t a great experience. Ranging from contractors not even replying (retrofit being harder than new homes), wildly

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