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by iansinnott 10mo ago
Based on my recent job search: Don't focus on grinding leetcode, it's not worth your time unless you're applying to Meta/Google/MSFT etc. - give yourself a concrete algorithm practice goal, such as "get through
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by iansinnott 1y ago
Hopefully this will not affect other browser that are downstream of Chromium.
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by iansinnott 1y ago
Likely depends on whether or not its opt-in. If Gemini only gets page content when you ask it to then that's fine. Of course, it should also be possible to completely disable Gemini so as to avoid accidentally sending it private browsi
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by iansinnott 1y ago
Indeed! also as a test runner/lib if you're not doing browser automation. bun definitely has benefits even if not used as a runtime.
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by iansinnott 1y ago
The author's wishlist for an Obsidian homepage could be done with a custom plugin. That's the beauty of Obsidian, you don't have to wait, you can extend the software yourself. The LLMs are quite good at writing one-off Obsidi
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by iansinnott 1y ago
The English/Mandarin section was VERY impressive. The accents of both the woman speaking English and the man speaking Chinese were spot on. Both sound very convincingly like they are speaking a second language, which anyone here can he
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by iansinnott 1y ago
That was my experience as well, but I pay for it. I think the family plan has great value if you have family members that wouldn't otherwise pay for it. Gifting others with less ads in their lives is a significant win.
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by iansinnott 1y ago
The author of that post also addresses this question in another: https://stephango.com/file-over-app > The app will eventually become obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last.
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by iansinnott 1y ago
Although not obvious, you _can_ pay them per token. You have to use OpenRouter or Huggingface as the inference API provider. https://cerebras-inference.help.usepylon.com/articles/192554...
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Show HN: An AI agent in Obsidian that can (sort of) write plugins(github.com)
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by iansinnott 1y ago
Have been using Instant for a few side projects recently and it has been a phenomenal experience. 10/10, would build with it again. I suspect this is also at least partially true of client-server sync engines in general.
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by iansinnott 2y ago
Linear itself has a workflow for Github: https://linear.app/docs/github
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by iansinnott 2y ago
Migration guide, if anyone is wondering: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/upgrade-guide Some breaking changes in there. May want to hold off on upgrading until LLMs come around to writing v4 code with ease.
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by iansinnott 2y ago
There are a ton of alternatives if you search around. I created my own because I wanted something keyboard centric, and use OpenRouter with it: https://github.com/iansinnott/prompta . They all accomplish roughly the sam
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by iansinnott 2y ago
You can also request the model list to check the validity of a key. No tokens needed.
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by iansinnott 2y ago
In short: Don't use HTML endpoints, use APIs. This is not always possible, but if the product in question has a mobile app or a wearable talking to a server, you might be able to utilize the same API it's using: - intercept reques
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by iansinnott 2y ago
Curious to see if the apple LLM can interact with any messaging apps other than iMessage. Even amongst my American friends i only have a lone contact that I keep in touch with using iMessage.
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by iansinnott 2y ago
- copilot would only predict after the cursor, whereas Cursor predicts nearby edits, which is quite helpful - copilot-chat was just a chat sidebar last time I used it, you still had to manually apply any code suggestions. cursor will apply
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by iansinnott 2y ago
What alternative open source solutions are currently competing with it?
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by iansinnott 2y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I didn't realize you could use search features when streaming the db over a network.
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by iansinnott 2y ago
It's a very useful feature of sqlite and it also works great in-browser using wa-sqlite[0]. Example, if anyone's curious [1]. [0]: https://github.com/rhashimoto/wa-sqlite [1]: https://github.com&#x
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by iansinnott 2y ago
Seconded again. While tsx usually just works ts-node almost never just works. tsx is perhaps unfortunately named though so it may confuse people at first since it has nothing to do with jsx syntax.
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by iansinnott 2y ago
it does not. i did look into it though [1] and at the time didn't find a good client side vector search lib. i wanted to avoid in-memory vector search since the size of the data can be significant depending on browsing habits. It is de
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by iansinnott 2y ago
I think the sentiment you describe has more to do with alignment of interests: Starbucks wants to sell you coffee, free online services on the other hand want to sell access-to-you to some third party. There also aren't the same networ
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by iansinnott 2y ago
Also wondering, since to be truly competitive (on iOS) developers would need access to APIs they can't currently use.
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by iansinnott 2y ago
I don't see why granting access to an app would grant full access to the whole thing. I.e. similar to how apps don't get full filesystem access. I also know nothing about how it's implemented though.
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by iansinnott 2y ago
Not strictly related to the podcast, but if you'd like to have a local-first browser application running sqlite check out wa-sqlite. It can use both IndexedDB and OPFS as a backend filesystem. [1]: https://github.com/rh
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by iansinnott 2y ago
It's too bad WebSQL never took off, as that was sqlite built in to the browser. From memory the wasm binary of wa-sqlite is ~1mb, which is certainly not nothing but is an acceptable one-time download size for many web apps. I've s
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by iansinnott 2y ago
Great to see this project is still going! I was fairly excited for Jank when working with Clojure regularly. Looks like the project is quite active.
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by iansinnott 2y ago
I suspect you won't be satisfied with Apple's offering if you enjoy stable software, unfortunately. I agree regarding 1pass, but at least it's still firmly trying to solve the password management problem. Apple is trying to s

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