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by akazantsev 5d ago
clangd alone uses 6 GB when working with Chromium’s codebase. Code indexes can be very large, even for a simple application. Out-of-the-box IDEs must index the standard library and keep it in memory.
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by akazantsev 12d ago
> The author is not a native speaker. As a non-native speaker, I really hate how people use this as an excuse. LLMs are good at fixing grammatical errors, so I use them daily as spell checkers. Using LLMs for rewriting is just lazy. Try:
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by akazantsev 14d ago
> This is fine in most cases, but for open-weights models it can be a lot more expensive than what the exact same model can be rented for from third-party API providers. Filter by quantization, and most providers will have the same price
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by akazantsev 15d ago
Hopefully, they will do just what Brave did - embed an ad blocker compatible with uBlock lists right into the browser. This way, Manifest V3 might blow up in Google's face if a sufficient number of browsers come with ad blockers out of
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by akazantsev 20d ago
It's not open source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LM_Studio
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by akazantsev 26d ago
> Java also used to have a big standard library, with many useful things including GUI programming which has been neglected a little bit. Swing was replaced with JavaFX, then JavaFX was removed from JDKs. Long live Swing! But yes, it&#x2
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by akazantsev 27d ago
Demanding others to pick up Rust "for fun" is not fun at all.
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by akazantsev 27d ago
> capable engineers can pick up any language Sure, given that they are getting paid for it. How many people will be interested in learning a programming language with insignificant job availability, in addition to contributing for free?
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by akazantsev 1mo ago
> The submission’s title (open weights 30B local coding model) is luckily wrong: This is meant to be a general agentic model. https://xcancel.com/alexandr_wang/status/2086756152034066792 It's correct. See
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by akazantsev 1mo ago
Those are just the default settings. Here, you can force it not to use emojis and to be much less verbose: https://chatgpt.com/?no_universal_links=1#settings/Personali...
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by akazantsev 1mo ago
The "glue" he is mentioning on contacts probably isn't glue at all. There is no reason for glue to be there. Most likely, it was a waterproof coating.
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by akazantsev 2mo ago
> To me, the argument against a proprietary driver seems extremely weak if you're running Windows anyway, but I guess they see it more that if more game devs can run the RADV driver, they can get wider testing (or a simpler story fo
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by akazantsev 2mo ago
> Would also be trivial for the author to add a warning for users that have that setting enabled. Something like "Heads-up: you have requested reduced motion, and this library disabled animations as per your request" They alrea
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by akazantsev 2mo ago
Dunno. Apple makes exceptions for big companies and might do so for something as big as Minecraft. Also, SDL3 supports far more platforms https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/README-platforms Now they can release a Java editio
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by akazantsev 2mo ago
> I'm always wondering whether or not SDL would be better SDL supports mobile; GLFW doesn't. Maybe they're unifying codebases between the platforms. Edit: BTW SDL3 still works even on Android 4.2. I made an app using it an
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by akazantsev 2mo ago
> Gemma isn’t very good at agentic execution I had no issues with it for C++ development with https://pi.dev . I'm yet to try it with Zed Editor. I don't rely on agents too much. However, I used it on Chromium's
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by akazantsev 2mo ago
Google makes Gemma 4 31B QAT; that's not a small lab. It's one of the better models out there for consumer hardware. Allows me to run it on a 7900XTX with 64k context.
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by akazantsev 2mo ago
A week ago, the Windows AMD drivers auto-updated and stopped working. I had to reinstall them. I am not sure if that counts, because this is not the first time this has happened. https://www.reddit.com/r/AMDHelp/co
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by akazantsev 2mo ago
That's because sandboxing is quite hard. I use `cco`, but even then, the home folder is exposed. You are one prompt away from the agent sending the browser passwords with curl. To prevent this, you need a fake home and a networking whi
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by akazantsev 2mo ago
> Now why do I have to care about "cloning templates" every time I render some html template? You do not have to. It's a self-sustained injury by the author. You can compile the templates once and just execute them. The is
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by akazantsev 3mo ago
Unlikely Linux will become mainstream until people stop saying "install Linux" and not a particular distro. I recently installed Ubuntu on a new laptop: something doesn't work because I need a more recent kernel, so... I inst
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by akazantsev 3mo ago
> Lol I feel like no one has any attention span here. Tech shit is expensive in the beginning when it's new. It gets cheaper with time. The funniest comment here. Have you seen the prices of the technical shit for the past two years
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by akazantsev 3mo ago
Is it? Learning is one thing. But owning a large codebase, you see for the first time, is a completely different level.
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by akazantsev 3mo ago
Or when you're asked to perform a task remotely or whatever, with a user who uses a language other than English. You WILL appreciate icons.
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by akazantsev 4mo ago
> ComfyUI Nitpick, but I remember running it specifically because there was a way to run LLMs on local hardware.
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by akazantsev 4mo ago
> Kotlin of C That sounds good on paper. But as a guy who tried to learn Kotlin and only it. It comes with baggage to learn Java to use its libraries because... You know... they interact seamlessly and stuff. In the end, for a new learne
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by akazantsev 4mo ago
If you want to try something like this, install Moonlight on the Android phone, Sunshine on the PC, and buy a phone bracket for a gamepad like this one: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010147090374.html Used this s
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by akazantsev 4mo ago
Designing a chip for one person is doomed to fail as a business.
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by akazantsev 4mo ago
> __These days__ a 175 GBP N95 from a no-name Chinese OEM on Amazon, with 16 GB of RAM and a 500GB SATA SSD is way better value and performance - and importantly - zero fuss - standard setup. "These days" seems to be over for n
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by akazantsev 4mo ago
Jailbreaks will be overridden on modern Kindle firmwares unless you install an additional extension to prevent updates. I use the "renameotabin" extension and enable Wi-Fi from time to time to load books from FTP via Koreader. It

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