Hacker News: whoopdeepoo

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "DeepSeek v4"

whoopdeepoo — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:15:48 +0000

You can use deepseek with Claude code

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

whoopdeepoo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:33:54 +0000

Both of these valuations are absolutely absurd. I guess Anthropic looks good in comparison, but I don't want to hold that bag.

The Chinese models are catching up in quality while being a fraction of the price. The market will speak, how many devices that contributed to this thread were made in the USA?

Sure you can argue the Chinese companies are heavily subsidized, but no major LLM lab is remotely close to making a profit this decade.

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "Harlequin: DuckDB IDE for the terminal"

whoopdeepoo — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 04:00:37 +0000

We use it to sort parquets out of core and then the arrow interface to read into Python and export as geoparquets

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "DuckDB 0.8"

whoopdeepoo — Fri, 19 May 2023 03:02:56 +0000

Yes, it's still very alpha

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "DuckDB 0.8"

whoopdeepoo — Thu, 18 May 2023 04:37:47 +0000

Such an amazing project. Once the geospatial extension lands I'm going to seriously consider switching our geoparquet workflows over.

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "RAM’s New Electric Pickup Truck Aims for Battery Range of 500 Miles"

whoopdeepoo — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 03:56:04 +0000

Electric pickup trucks are an insanely priced novelty until they figure out towing performance.

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "Show HN: The Shark Programming Language"

whoopdeepoo — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 21:26:33 +0000

Cool, but you really need a grammar check. Pass this through chatgpt or something.

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "Hyundai promises to keep buttons in cars"

whoopdeepoo — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 00:47:18 +0000

Buy a Mazda

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "Apartment rents fall as new supply hits market"

whoopdeepoo — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 00:29:36 +0000

The answer is foreign students if it's anything like my university town.

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "A Heisenbug lurking in async Python"

whoopdeepoo — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 19:31:42 +0000

I don't write any colored function code in python, I'd much rather work with process/thread pools

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "A Heisenbug lurking in async Python"

whoopdeepoo — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 19:30:25 +0000

> But who reads all the docs

Why is this so common? Do people seriously not read a language/library documentation? That's the absolute first thing I do when evaluating a technology.

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "QGIS is the mapping software you didn't know you needed"

whoopdeepoo — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 22:14:06 +0000

ESRI is a scourge on the GIS industry. One of the creators of postgis can say it much better than I can.

https://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2018/11/esri-dominates.html

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "Trustfall: How to Query (Almost) Everything"

whoopdeepoo — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:45:30 +0000

Already way too many tabs in the example. I could see this getting completely unreadable very quick.

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it"

whoopdeepoo — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 03:44:42 +0000

Subject matter expert

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree"

whoopdeepoo — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 17:50:19 +0000

Chump change compared to the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars wasted but enough for me to not care about the consequences of my actions

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree"

whoopdeepoo — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 17:47:44 +0000

First we were looking for potential uranium deposits with satellite imagery. When that was no longer necessary we switched to identifying targets for aerial strikes. The imagery was pretty outdated but they needed a set amount of targets each week so we weren't very accurate.

I got the job through family, my uncle was able to get in the industry in the 80s.

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "NSA wooing thousands of laid-off Big Tech workers for spy agency's hiring spree"

whoopdeepoo — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 17:24:42 +0000

Exactly. I made a fortune as an intelligence contractor during the Iraq war.

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "Write simply (2021)"

whoopdeepoo — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 05:40:18 +0000

It's his personal website, not a philosophy journal. Can we scrutinize all your comments for subject matter expertise? What is your expertise anyway?

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "SQL should be the default choice for data transformation logic"

whoopdeepoo — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:29:12 +0000

Every single org I've found that says "we don't use ORMs because they're slow" ends up constructing their own bespoke, wheel-reinventing "orm" or sticks all their application logic in sprocs, which are nightmares for imperative logic.

New comment by whoopdeepoo in "SQLAlchemy 2.0 Released"

whoopdeepoo — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 03:32:52 +0000

What do you use instead?