chroma_zone

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by chroma_zone 15d ago
I loved Scratch as a kid and got really deep into it. Not sure if I could call myself a "success story" but it did get me much more comfortable with programming! Before Scratch I think the two biggest barriers in my childhood prog
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by chroma_zone 20d ago
If it can't find an LSP binary, Eglot will prompt you to pick one, and tell you which one it was looking for. That seems reasonable to me. I wouldn't want Emacs to download and install random binaries on my system automatically.
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by chroma_zone 2mo ago
If all that the author was saying was "LLM weights are highly compressed encodings of knowledge", I wouldn't have any complaints. He is making much bolder claims than that. And if he was describing LLMs as "just another
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by chroma_zone 2mo ago
There's a lot of very strong claims made at the start of this article. (emphasis mine) > A Large Language Model (LLM) is like a small zip file that contains all human knowledge. > In a strange but real way the resulting tiny
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by chroma_zone 2mo ago
I'm glad the JSDoc type syntax is still getting some focus. It's my favorite way to use typescript in my own projects. Some of the syntax changes will be annoying to update but most of them seem to be for the better.
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by chroma_zone 3mo ago
Very cool. It's not the ideal environment but it's nice to have those tools available when you need it / are bored. Termux saved me on a few homework assignments in university.
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by chroma_zone 3mo ago
Minus the policy restrictions, this has always been true for all LLMs in general.
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by chroma_zone 3mo ago
My life has changed, but not necessarily for the better.
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by chroma_zone 4mo ago
Yep. If it weren't for cheap / freely available tools (and their limitations) I wouldn't be where I am today. I think about this every time I make a tool of my own.
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by chroma_zone 4mo ago
Microsoft has done their part too. Try using a modern Office 365 program and see how many clicks it takes to get to an actual file browser.
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by chroma_zone 4mo ago
They were right about cars, to be fair
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by chroma_zone 5mo ago
My experience with wxWidgets based apps is that they tend to not handle DPI scaling well. Audacity is a good example, IIRC that's one of the reasons they're moving to Qt.
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by chroma_zone 5mo ago
No mention in the README either. Sneaky
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by chroma_zone 7mo ago
A lot of basic tweaks to windows behavior require those types of unstable hacks. The point is that developers or users who want to modify their system are forced into sketchy software.
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by chroma_zone 7mo ago
Having spent a few years trying to write Windows utility software, it is really exhausting to be in an antagonistic relationship with Microsoft and have their updates constantly break your work. The article mentions ExplorerPatcher -- the c
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by chroma_zone 7mo ago
The terms of those licenses are still relevant...
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by chroma_zone 7mo ago
You may have turned this feature off (like I did) but by default Gmail sorts your emails into categories like Promotions, Social, Updates...
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by chroma_zone 7mo ago
Does Debian Stable count? The page didn't include a download link, so I found it here: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/96.0/linux-x86_... And yes, it runs perfectly fine on Debian 13.
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by chroma_zone 7mo ago
Sounds like the iOS model: your app only exists as long as you are alive and able to pay $99/year. This mentality is a nightmare for software preservation.
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by chroma_zone 8mo ago
I paid for "Square Home" a couple years ago and I'm very happy with it. It's highly customizable. The Windows Phone style layout probably isn't for everyone but it works well for me.
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by chroma_zone 8mo ago
At least put the ads in a consistent location so I can cover it with masking tape
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by chroma_zone 8mo ago
TFix is very nice but unfortunately removes the software renderer described in this article. It's very difficult to get the original exe working on modern systems. TFix also brings back the spatial audio / EAX support that was bro
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by chroma_zone 9mo ago
The Win11 start menu used to have a fun bug where pressing Ctrl-Minus would open search with the phrase "zoom out". No other shortcut did this. Just Zoom Out. No idea how a bug like that happens.
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by chroma_zone 11mo ago
I usually add: <meta name="color-scheme" content="light dark"> which gives you a nice automatic dark theme "for free"