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by arendtio 5d ago
The irony is that LLMs are, at their core, very much just applied math...
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by arendtio 18d ago
Do you know when they stopped and why? EDIT - AI says: Cursor seems to have intentionally dropped semantic/embedding-based codebase indexing. Their explanation is that newer coding agents are now good enough at searching repos directly
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by arendtio 21d ago
Yes, even my 2013 Haswell-based Arch Linux KDE Desktop feels more responsive than my M4 MacBook. And I think the MacBook has so much more power under the hood, but somehow the animation settings or whatever are just not that good. To be com
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by arendtio 23d ago
Crashes?!? I've been using Conversations for a long time and can't remember any crashes. Something must be wrong with your setup. For me, the bigger problem is that I was unable to get OMEMO + Apple Clients working properly. I thi
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by arendtio 24d ago
Can't all the countries that are hit by US tariffs try to lower the barriers to trading with each other? Not a quick fix, but a signal to the US that they are losing its position in the long term.
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by arendtio 26d ago
I wonder how many other websites are doing such stuff. Lately, KDE Plasma often shows me that audio is being played by Firefox, but no tab in Firefox has the speaker icon. So far, I have not found which page causes this issue (I don't
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by arendtio 1mo ago
I think the cookie layer is missing the point. I mean, it should say something like, 'Sure thing, we don't just use cookies for our servers, but to track you through half the internet, to know exactly what you want even before you
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by arendtio 1mo ago
I think that would limit its capabilities so much that it would be much easier for ad platforms to find ways to circumvent it.
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by arendtio 1mo ago
Everybody here knows that SQLite is not production-ready and does not scale. This is just proof that it can't be used in real-world applications. SCNR
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by arendtio 1mo ago
I like the idea. I solved the issue by building an extra Android Launcher for the kids, where you can add apps and videos, but then you have the problem that you can't configure your own launcher on all tablets (e.g. Fire Tablets).
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by arendtio 1mo ago
Actually, 10 years ago, I knew someone with roughly that job description (neither Google nor Facebook).
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by arendtio 1mo ago
> If an agent fires up NPM... :D :D I think this is one of the big issues with today's MCP servers. Most are based on Node.js and take a lot more memory than they should, compared to the complexity that the job requires. Just run a
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by arendtio 1mo ago
I think we have to translate '1GB' here. It sounds like so little since it is just one GB, when in fact it is 8,000,000,000 bits. When was the last time you counted to eight billion and thought it would be a good idea to build an
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by arendtio 1mo ago
But isn't a fine meant to hurt? I mean, isn't this the reason we have those X% of Y fines? So it seems less relevant how many people were harmed than who harmed them.
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by arendtio 1mo ago
I think the important part is having a good learning curve. Having to speak in front of 100+ people without any prior experience is terrifying. However, there are very challenging tasks that can help to build experience in smaller groups. L
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by arendtio 1mo ago
I think the important aspects are making individual developers responsible for their costs and restricting the most expensive models when costs are too high. That way, people have a chance to learn when they tend to use the most expensive m
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by arendtio 1mo ago
I think we shouldn't be depressed, but work on ideas and concepts of how this could be changed into something good. I see a lot of people hyping AI and condemning it, but very few seem to be interested in working on what our future sho
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by arendtio 1mo ago
I think it depends not just on culture but also on the volume of the conversation. Some people manage to have a conversation when you can barely hear them; others seem to have a conversation with everyone on the train.
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by arendtio 1mo ago
If it was generated pre-2020 by some slow meatballs (like news.ycombinator.com), it is okay to have edges; post-2020, it must be closed to perfection. I don't know what everybody is complaining about AI-generated content. In the past,
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by arendtio 1mo ago
I don't think that the 'lossy' part is the problem. Instead, the problem is that language is only a subset of the human experience. So there are aspects that are not included when training models based on language. Making the
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by arendtio 2mo ago
Every time I want to connect ADB to a device, it takes me far more time than it should. Having different ports for pairing and connecting is already a pain. I wonder what new hurdles will come up once they restrict adb to wlan0, even though
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by arendtio 2mo ago
My Arch Linux KDE Desktop with the Haswell i7-4770S CPU (from 2013) actually feels snappier than MacOS on my MacBook Pro M4. Sure, the MacBook has far superior performance overall, but if you just want to move some windows or get a response
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by arendtio 2mo ago
This whole thing is just a PR stunt. I believe that they did not stage it intentionally, but to be honest, the hurdles they put in place were not that hard. When I heard what the model did, I wasn't surprised one bit. When I read that
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by arendtio 2mo ago
I think forbidding it completely is somewhat radical, and while I am not a particular fan of advertisements, I think the real problem is personalized/targeted advertising. Without personalized advertising, the surveillance of users wou
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by arendtio 2mo ago
I have had my own e-mail server since 2017, and there is only one instance where I know I had a delivery problem, and in that case it was funny, because I wrote to two people who had the same e-mail server, and one got the e-mail the other
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by arendtio 2mo ago
But isn't this a problem with the ecosystem and not with the program? I mean, with yarn / etc., you have the same problems, don't you?
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by arendtio 2mo ago
Well, do one thing an one thing good as in Unix philosophy? - Runtime - Package manager - Test runner - Build tool
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by arendtio 2mo ago
I am not exactly sure, but my gut feeling is that Cursor existed before Claude Code was released, and the term vibe coding existed already at that time. EDIT: Okay, Andrej tweeted about Vibe Coding on February 3rd 2025, and Claude Code was
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by arendtio 2mo ago
Why is there so much buzz around bun? Can't we just go back to node + npm + vitest + vite?
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by arendtio 2mo ago
I think it just takes time to integrate it into existing structures, which is a good thing in this case.

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