Strongest argument I see for Mistral is that it's European. Which isn't a very good argument.
Also, speed.
Readit Newsdrno123 commented on Le Chat: Custom MCP Connectors, Memories mistral.ai/news/le-chat-m... · Posted by u/Anon84
drno123 commented on Mirror Ball Emoji Proposal (2018) [pdf] unicode.org/L2/L2019/1931... · Posted by u/michalc
Added in Unicode 14: https://unicode.org/emoji/charts-14.0/emoji-released.html
I also appreciate melting face, dotted outline face, and face with salute. Low battery & ID card.
Also the pregnant man / Bill Gates was added there :)
drno123 commented on Croatian freediver held breath for 29 minutes divernet.com/scuba-news/f... · Posted by u/toomanyrichies
At least two other Croats broke the same record in the last 11 years (Goran Čolak 23:01 in 2014 and Budimir Šobat 24:37 in 2021). There must be some genetic predisposition.
Nepotism, plain and simple
drno123 commented on The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023) blog.samizdata.co/p/how-a... · Posted by u/mellosouls
Yep. In Croatia it has a cult following. Similar to obscure Italian comic “Alan Ford”, and Hungarian-Israeli writer Ephraim Kishon.
drno123 commented on Mark Zuckerberg unveils giant Roman sculpture of his wife – AP News apnews.com/video/social-m... · Posted by u/ssahoo
Does not look Roman.
Dead Comment
drno123 commented on Commission opens additional DMA investigation against Apple ec.europa.eu/commission/p... · Posted by u/jeroenhd
If Apple pulls out of EU there will be no excuse for a homegrown startup not to take its place. The domestic market is smaller than US and China, but with less competition you stand a chance.
The population of EU is roughly 450 million compared to 330 million in the US.
Most companies give you a discount if you use more of their product. California energy works on a scarcity mindset with punitive punishments and now extra charges based on income. sigh.
and the CPUC is solely in the hands of PG&E.
As a customer it's sort of like wargames - the only winning move is not to play.
Unless you live in say, santa clara or palo alto, where they have sane energy companies with reasonable prices (like the outside of california)
“Extra charges based on income” - does this mean that if you earn more, you pay more for electricity?
drno123 commented on GPT-4.5 or GPT-5 being tested on LMSYS? rentry.co/GPT2... · Posted by u/atemerev
Still gives incorrect code to the following prompt - the description is correct but not the code. I have yet to find one LLM that gives the correct code. This is the prompt:
“Write C code to calculate the sum of matrix elements below the secondary diagonal.“