kalaksi

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by kalaksi 4d ago
Is that actually a high review rate? Especially if you know the language and domain. Sure, initially there's a learning curve for a new codebase structure, but lots of lines will also be trivial and many changes might also be similar t
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by kalaksi 11d ago
In technical contexts it's often still important to use words accurately so in that sense it might not lose it's original meaning completely. I've come to accept that everyday language can be messy and inaccurate and one can
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by kalaksi 20d ago
It's explicit in the sense that you choose to grant those permissions, but I get what you mean. Android apps also used to be more like that but nowadays you can have more control when to grant access to what. Flatpak apps can also expl
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by kalaksi 20d ago
Don't know how you installed it, but required permissions are usually shown and warned about. The CLI could be clearer, though, but shows that host filesystem access is granted to calibre when it prompts to install
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by kalaksi 20d ago
Isn't that exactly how it's supposed to work, though? When I install a flatpak app for my user, it gets put into a standard location as a directory and by default has no access to filesystem other than the apps own config and data
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by kalaksi 1mo ago
Me too, but you can improve the behavior yourself too. It's been an issue with desktop linux and the default settings for a long time. You could maybe tune OOM killer settings, but another option is to use a package like earlyoom: htt
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by kalaksi 1mo ago
You are still supposed to be prepared for outages.
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by kalaksi 1mo ago
I'm not holding my breath for masses to become informed, rational, responsible and balanced overall. And why would the responsibility lie solely on consumers to act perfectly
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by kalaksi 2mo ago
Recently they also seem to have made big changes that makes Cursor worse for editing code by hand. I'm not sure what they are trying to do, but it doesn't feel like vscode fork anymore. I'm starting to consider alternatives.
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by kalaksi 2mo ago
For many people it's still compelling and not "a concept". If you're looking for the cheapest phone with most performant CPU, RAM etc. (relative to price), then you're probably not target audience.
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by kalaksi 2mo ago
Uh, Fairphone does have compelling products?
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by kalaksi 2mo ago
> I don't need e2ee for group messages and it brings too much complexity with it. E2EE is not mandatory and public rooms don't usually use it.
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by kalaksi 3mo ago
Don't bigger companies also often benefit from scale in multiple ways so it gets harder and harder for newcomers to compete? And if a newcomer does manage to get a foothold, it might get bought.
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by kalaksi 3mo ago
And at least in Chromium project, half of those memory safety issues are use-after-free: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...
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by kalaksi 3mo ago
Personally, I haven't had any serious leaks that I know of so I've mostly suffered from increased spam and scam attempts (I know they were a result of a leak). One time there was a leak from a university database and as a result t
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by kalaksi 3mo ago
The paper actually says: "We find that all context files consistently increase the number of steps required to complete tasks. LLM-generated context files have a marginal negative effect on task success rates, while developer-written o
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by kalaksi 3mo ago
For large changes that are not straightforward and include architectural decisions, I wouldn't trust Claude enough to not read most of the code myself. I'll have to read it to be able to understand it and ask about the decisions i
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by kalaksi 4mo ago
Yeah, I shouldn't have mentioned C++, it was a bad example.
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by kalaksi 4mo ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding something but non-GC language doesn't mean you have to do memory management manually? I mean, for example, in Rust (or modern C++), it's basically automatic. There is no mental tax or catastrophic m
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by kalaksi 4mo ago
I don't think that's it
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by kalaksi 4mo ago
If not using any esoteric features, it's more human readable (imo), easier to write, can have comments and has some useful features like different kind of multi-line values. JSON is valid YAML, by the way.
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by kalaksi 4mo ago
Can you elaborate a bit on how that looks like in practice?
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by kalaksi 5mo ago
> It’s really sad to see how quickly Hacker News, of all places, is jumping head first into welcoming age restrictions and bans with barely a passing thought to what it means. I'd avoid such generalizations. It's a divisive top
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by kalaksi 5mo ago
1. The pipeline is simple to split or cut entirely, though. No reason to grow it into a monstrosity, but many reasons to not do it. This problem sounds similar to growing a function too much. 2. I agree in general when talking about more co
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by kalaksi 5mo ago
> Yeah, it’s more lines. But each step is just sitting there. No decoding required. I actually think the first code block is easier to read. It's a familiar (to me) and simple pattern that is quick to read. I don't get how it
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by kalaksi 5mo ago
> Especially small and independent artists should absolutely avoid any software that introduces additional risk of project failure as one such crash scenario at an advanced project state has a high potential of total destruction. I can&#
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by kalaksi 5mo ago
Any idea if ESD can damage the monitor over time?
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by kalaksi 5mo ago
I actually have been lucky since even my laptop from 15 years ago already worked well with Linux and suspend while Windows didn't (wasn't OEM Windows anymore). I have also had multiple desktops that have _mostly_ had no issues wit
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by kalaksi 5mo ago
> Desktop Linux is not useless, but it is really just sub-par compared to Windows. Each to their own. My experience is the opposite (I use KDE). I have to use Windows at work and it's always such a pain. At least Windows 10/11
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by kalaksi 6mo ago
You'll have to be more specific what kind of "privacy claims" you're talking about. Proton is definitely a lot more private than, say, Google. But, as always, you'll have to trust the party delivering the binaries y

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