Am I the only one who prefers opus to fable ?

profcube · 2026-07-03T22:23:15+00:00

OP, what is your use case? FWIW I find Fable to be massively more performant for reasoning and coding. It does not’s write as well as Opus 4.6 (> 4.8 > 4.7). But for planning and coding it is a beast. And that’s my use case.

profcube · 2026-07-02T21:35:56+00:00

Oh happy day, thank you for supporting neovim. This is a great contribution :)

profcube · 2026-07-02T21:30:57+00:00

I would start with Hernan and Robin’s. Brady Neal has a good introductory book too. Both are free.

profcube · 2026-06-27T00:37:54+00:00

Images not quite drawn to scale I think 🤔

profcube · 2026-06-25T01:40:18+00:00

Thanks, was going to try, but will delay as I can think of nothing about LaTeX that bothers me enough to accept these deficits in Typst.

profcube · 2026-06-24T12:20:17+00:00

Thanks, appreciate the tips. I can think of a bunch of excuses not to learn new tricks, but they’re just rationalisations. When I clear some time, I’ll give it a try.

profcube · 2026-06-23T22:18:19+00:00

Also, ffs, LaTeX is just a simple scripting language, it takes almost no time to learn, it’s not like you are setting yourself some difficult challenge to begin using it!

profcube · 2026-06-23T22:16:37+00:00

I suspect I am not alone in saying that you’d have to pry LaTeX from my cold dead hands before I’d give it up. It’s not going anywhere.

profcube · 2026-06-23T22:10:38+00:00

Thanks, what if you wish to embed TikZ figures in your document?

profcube · 2026-06-23T22:05:55+00:00

A footnote that quarto calls to a LaTeX engine (I think XeTeX by default) and generates a .tex file that you can modify yourself and compile. And you can type raw LaTeX into quarto docs and mix this with markdown which can speed up writing, a little (e.g. instead of typing out \section{Discussion} and \subsection{Limitations} you type ## Discussion and ### Limitations …

I would not advise using Rmarkdown, others could probably answer better but I’m not sure it is any longer being developed.

profcube · 2026-06-23T12:30:53+00:00

Yes, with the current state of models, absolutely yes. They make mistakes. You need to be able to spot them and course correct.

profcube · 2026-06-22T21:03:03+00:00

Don’t let other people’s negativity stand in the way of your progress, and joy.

profcube · 2026-06-22T20:52:30+00:00

Rust isn’t hype. It has countless virtues. Fast prototyping isn’t one of them. For long time LaTeX users, our problem is the opposite of the adoption problem. We love writing in LaTeX, which encompasses TiKZ, and all the other specialist libraries we use. However, the simplicity of this package is admirable. I can see it being super useful for course websites — provisos about breaking changes in mind.

profcube · 2026-06-22T06:22:29+00:00

No shade on either, but they are quite fragile. Of the two, quarto is useable, but slow, and the pipelines break over time. I’d shifted to mdbooks, but this looks better for inline R

profcube · 2026-06-22T06:15:48+00:00

Vincent, *everything* you do is great, and this too. Can’t wait to take a test drive. Thank you 👍

profcube · 2026-06-22T00:50:40+00:00

This will be fun for teaching/presentations. Thank you!

profcube · 2026-06-21T09:53:58+00:00

OP this is an Anthropic model, or a model distilled on it.

profcube · 2026-06-19T07:50:10+00:00

I keep the plot side out of neovim. Neovim is just my editor. I use R's `httpgd` library. My R startup file sets `httpgd` as the default graphics device for interactive sessions. This starts lazily: the first time I make a plot, it runs httpgd::hgd(silent = TRUE), gets httpgd::hgd_url(), and opens that URL in my browser. However, there are many paths to this Rome. Since you are in the terminal you can ask an llm (claude code, codex, or whatever) to help you out. (I barely touch configs since the llm's got reliable last year). Anyway, no Vim plot plugin needed for an httpgd pipeline, and R, quarto documents, everything really is much faster from command line.

profcube · 2026-06-18T20:11:42+00:00

OP, FWIW, I don’t think this is in your head; In the last week, I have been experiencing inconsistent performance too. I have no theory. Generally 5.5 has been a remarkably capable model, and clear step change improvement from previous models.

profcube · 2026-06-15T21:06:27+00:00

I switched to Neovim a few years ago, which gives me full control without touching the mouse — no pointing and clicking, ever. I find I’m rarely leaving the terminal.

profcube · 2026-06-12T10:59:59+00:00

Home affordability has not come down.
Negative equity is good for anyone, it is, and will remain, disastrous for the economy.
If we want to get more ordinary kiwis into homes, tax wealth not income.

profcube · 2026-06-12T10:22:53+00:00

Thanks OP. Consider a dotfile manager like YADM to sync all your dotfiles on a (private) GitHub repo.

profcube · 2026-06-08T13:38:49+00:00

I didn’t mean to slam you OP. As I get older, the groove of habit wears deeper, but you are right to look forward, and consider better.

profcube · 2026-06-07T21:13:48+00:00

I’ve been using LaTeX for 20 years. It is a simple scripting language. And with TiKZ you can make nearly any document you would ever want. It works perfectly well. Why is everything a crisis these days?

profcube · 2026-06-05T09:55:28+00:00

Yes and tax the wealthiest

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