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by jwr 1y ago
I wish somebody in this thread would quantify "extremely expensive". So many messages and we still have no idea how much they cost.
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by jwr 1y ago
The GDPR is often misunderstood and/or misrepresented — it's mostly about giving you agency over your personal data. Which (I happen to think) is a very good idea.
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by jwr 1y ago
Update: I am no longer a Kagi user. I learned that they work with Russian companies and I can't support that for moral reasons. I canceled my subscription. A real pity.
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by jwr 1y ago
The world might be a bad place, but each of us can make individual decisions, without "whataboutism". I certainly try to do so.
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by jwr 1y ago
Thank you. I'm cancelling my subscription now.
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by jwr 1y ago
Really? Do you have any links, evidence? My question is serious. If this is indeed true, I will be canceling my subscription immediately.
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by jwr 1y ago
I'm a happy Kagi user. I really enjoy using a search engine that is just that: a search engine. No ads, no sponsored results, no junk, no garbage. Just the results that I'm looking for. I am tired of being advertising meat, and I&
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by jwr 1y ago
I find the name "prompt engineering" so annoying. There is no engineering in throwing something at the wall and seeing if it sticks. There are no laws or rules that one can learn. It's not science, and it is certainly not eng
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by jwr 1y ago
These are so good. After you've lived in Japan for a while you go back to (pretty much any) Western country and feel like going back to the middle ages. It feels outright barbaric not to have this level of hygiene. I guess it's li
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by jwr 1y ago
I've been thinking along similar lines when I tried to figure out if the obsession with getting something cheaper is a cultural thing, or an actual necessity. I think it's a mixture of both, and I agree that economic anxiety does
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by jwr 1y ago
I have been thinking about this recently. The people building those hobby computers at the time were spending huge amounts of money on building devices that were arguably not useful at all for anything practical. It was pure exploration of
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by jwr 1y ago
I agree with "choose tools that make you happy", I disagree with the implied premise that all "obscure" (not very popular would be a better description) tools have value purely because they make me happy. I have used (an
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by jwr 1y ago
I didn't actually even test tool calling. I have two test cases that I use for all models: one is a floating-point equality function, which is quite difficult to get right, and another is a core.async pack-into-batches! function which
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by jwr 1y ago
My experience with LLMs seems to indicate that the benchmark numbers are more and more detached from reality, at least my reality. I tested this model with several of my Clojure problems and it is significantly worse than qwen3:30b-a3b-q4_K
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by jwr 1y ago
I use qwen3:30b-a3b-q4_K_M for coding support and spam filtering, qwen2.5vl:32b-q4_K_M for image recognition/tagging/describing and sometimes gemma3:27b-it-qat for writing. All through Ollama, as that provides a unified interface,
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by jwr 1y ago
And if you don't sign up quickly after your turn in the queue comes up, you might miss the service altogether, because Google will have shut it down already.
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by jwr 1y ago
> My surface level understanding is that GCL is a big reason why 3rd party libraries are a huge pain to use in Clojurescript. This isn't true. What you might have heard is that the Google Closure Compiler with :advanced optimization
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by jwr 1y ago
The entire Clojure ecosystem is obsessed with stability. And I love it: it might sound boring, and you often see people complain that a library is "dead" or "abandoned" because it didn't receive updates for the last
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by jwr 1y ago
I would also highly recommend watching one of Rich Hickey's talks (especially the earlier ones). Watching those certainly changed how I thought about programming in general.
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by jwr 1y ago
I think what I like the most about this whole thing is that the term "cloud computing" (which I always thought idiotic) will now finally become somewhat more meaningful.
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by jwr 1y ago
> you could have paid more for a different car that has better software, like a Tesla, Lucid, Rivian ... but you didn't At the time, I did not pay much attention to the software, because I never expected it could be so bad. Now I kn
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by jwr 1y ago
> customers simply don't believe good interfaces are worth the money I guess I'm in the minority, then, but as a data point: I own a VW ID.4 and I'd pay significantly more to get software that isn't such a burning dum
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by jwr 1y ago
Of course you update indexes in a transaction. Doing this manually has a lot of advantages, some of which I outlined in my other comments in this thread.
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by jwr 1y ago
You can turn it off.
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by jwr 1y ago
> now happily using Gemini which costs nothing …and you think this is going to last? :-)
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by jwr 1y ago
> I don't use it in large codebases (all agentic tools for me choke quickly) Claude code, too? I found that it is the only one that does a good job in a large codebase. It seems to be very different from others I've tested (aid
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by jwr 1y ago
I use it, on a large Clojure/ClojureScript application. And it's good. The interactions and results are roughly in line with what I'd expect from a junior intern. E.g. don't expect miracles, the answers will sometimes be
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by jwr 1y ago
> fully managed HA cluster This is where Suspension of Disbelief stops for me — I've been taught by years of Jepsen analyses that "HA" really doesn't exist, especially in the SQL database world, and especially if th
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by jwr 1y ago
"References"? :-) This is a corporation we're talking about, and Google at that. Layers upon layers of obscurity, "strategic decisions" and discontinued products. Try it and you'll see — there is no official Se
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by jwr 1y ago
Are you planning to? This seems to be a theoretical discussion: I don't think I'd ever want to implement the client part of FoundationDB myself, and I don't really see a good reason to.

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