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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
I recommend adding support for nemo parakeet. It's uncanny how good / fast it is
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
whisper is definitely nice, but it's a bit too slow. Having subtitles and transcription for everything is great - but Nemo Parakeet (pretty much whisper by nvidia) completely changed how I interact with the computer. It enables dictati
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
Looks like they patched it (tested on Claude, ChatGPT; I assume it's Rob) but your point is very valid.
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
That's what happens when you hire bad contractors. There are so many bad contractors and selection bar for contractors is much lower compared to employees. If you keep your standards high when hiring contractors you'll get the sam
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
I think this is a US specific thing. I work as a contractors with all my clients (who know of each others) and they all pay significantly more per hour compared to an employee. As an employee I could expect to make 1/4 of what I actual
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
Very nice! I used to run a private registry on the same server to achieve this - then I moved to building the image on the server itself. Both approaches are inferior to yours because of the load on the server (one way or another). Personal
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
You are correct saying it's not the R&D deductions. But it's not "greed": it's the end of zero interest rate policies. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/zirp
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
You can build a pipeline where you use: GroundingDino (description to object detection) -> SAM (segmenting) -> Stable Diffusion model (inpainting, I do mainly real photo so I like to start with realisticVisionV60B1_v51HyperVAE-inpaint
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
Dropping the static files on a CDN (eg. cloudflare pages) is pretty straightforward, cheap (and free), and doesn't impact your backend in terms of complexity or performance. Your usecase can be useful for "local web applications&q
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
There's also the burn framework but there are a lot of tradeoffs to consider. It's neat for wgpu targets (including web) but you'll need to implement a lot of stuff. Candle is a great choice overall (and there are plenty of e
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
This issue improved quite a bit over time so I'm not sure it will be a problem. I generate plenty of solid.js without any issues. I'm also sure in a couple of iterations coding tools will have better RAG (/ finetuning?) suppo
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
In my limited experience people who don't care about compensation also don't care about shipping what's asked of them. They'll build their own toys, organise committees and various initiatives. I'd take a freelancer
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
This is a great first step! But even if they get something cooler working it would still take 20 years before we see them emerge out of testing (if ever). I'm still waiting to get supervision with https://ocumetics.com/
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
MCP doesn't help but filtering is not always a good solution - sometimes you just need the agent to process a lot of data. In that scenario running code on the data with minimum evaluation of the data (eg. a schema with explanation) is
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
I think it's natural for press to avoid hyping EU startups: they perform bad. Is the press responsible for the bad performance? I don't think so. (source: I worked in startups in EU, UK and US, I started two companies in EU and UK
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
It's not controversial to believe one lying politician over the other. Approximately 50% of your country does that. If you squint you'll see that both parties are an expression of the same statist ideology and there's very li
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
Coming from nixos, I didn't want to use brew but I found nix-darwin to be poorly documented and supported. Several upgrades wrecked havoc on my system, a lot of things didn't work as expected, I had to package a lot of stuff; even
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
I understand why immutable systems make sense but the benefits they bring are overrated. How often will you mess up your system so bad you won't be able to recover it? I ran some sort of Arch for around 15 years and the times I needed
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
My experience with banks in UK / EU is that they will bother you for much smaller amounts than 1M. I had banks bother me for 10k transfers and other banks completely ignore me for 100k transfers.
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
It's completely broken for me over 400 lines (Claude 3.7, paid Cursor) The worst is when I ask something complex, the model generates 300 lines of good code and then timeouts or crashes. If I ask to continue it will mess up the code fo
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
Where are your users? it's very idea dependant. Reddit often gets used by my users to make decisions (and it also has strict moderation, so you need to find a balance between being useful and spamming). For some ideas facebook could be
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
Regulation never works because people can be corrupted and banks can be bailed. Regulation might look like it's protecting the little guy for PR reasons, but it will always leave a way out for the big guy. This is why inequality keeps
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
Democracy is the dictatorship of the majority on the minority. It's nothing to be proud of. What you can be proud of is in REDUCING dictatorship, by removing power in centralised entities and giving it back to the individuals.
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
There are plenty of such organisations. Some are legal, some are not. The government is the only one with a legal monopoly on violence; it redistributes resources in the society and it's not run by incorruptible angels but by fallible
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
EU Legal / Privacy teams are generally fine with OpenAI models running on Azure from my experience (I assume for GDPR reasons). That's "my infra" enough. And you get decent quality models without the hassle of maintainin
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
Neat! I build something almost identical last week (closed source, not my IP) and I recommend: NeMo Parakeet (even faster than insanely_fast_whisper), F5-TTS (fast + very good quality voice cloning), Qwen3-4B for LLM (amazing quality).
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
Those type signatures mismatches on the handler still bring me nightmares. Hono really needs something like axum's debug_handler
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
I think you're not giving yourself enough credits and you're giving Rails too much. I know a developer who followed a similar approach in PHP. A relative of mine is running his company as a single dev in node.js + react. My compan
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
The bar for web services is low, so pretty much anything works as long as it's easy. I wouldn't call them a success story. When things get complex, you start missing Rust's type system and bugs creep in. In node.js there was
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by jokethrowaway 1y ago
Congrats on the rewrite! I think the worst issue was the lack of ready-made solution. Those 67k lines in Rust contains a good chunk of a game engine. The second worst issue was that you targeted an unstable framework - I would have focused

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