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by pronik 9d ago
Every time people talk about e-readers I have to wonder whether I'm an outlier. I've been e-reading for over 20 years now. I've been reading on my Nokia 6230 by using an ebook to J2ME converter. I've been reading with Al
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by pronik 11d ago
I agree on my personal worries being least important ones in the greater sense of things. But they are important to me and like you said, it's completely on xcancel to keep things on, either deliberately or by accident. Figuring out wh
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by pronik 11d ago
I don't want to lose my feeds and someone might tell XCancel to actually shutdown everything instead of just the website. And not, I've user other Nitter instances before and they either had their RSS feeds disabled or were partic
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by pronik 11d ago
I might cut into my own flesh right now, but the funny thing about that XCancel shutdown is that while the website is down, the RSS feeds still work. Almost like they've just been required to shutdown the visible website and they compl
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by pronik 28d ago
At the project level, there should be no need for an AGENTS.md. Whatever you might want to let agents know you would let a human know too, so you should be writing a README.md, CONTRIBUTING.md, ARCHITECTURE.md and whatever else.
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by pronik 2mo ago
Probably Google's biggest failure ever was to recognize they've already had a social network: Gmail.
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by pronik 2mo ago
I'm probably not the only one to have a deep distrust in passkeys. I've deep-dived in to what they are and how they work and I think I can accept them on their technical merits, but I can't shake the feeling that the adoption
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by pronik 2mo ago
Which was completely bonkers -- it happened completely in the open, people were just outraged that something like this happens without asking them and not on a schedule they perceive as adequate. Most of them haven't really grasped wha
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by pronik 2mo ago
> blanket-closed all issues submitted before the rewrite You'll need a citation for that. While I'm still not sure whether Claude Code's issue tracker is worth much (Anthropic doesn't seem to engage with individual is
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by pronik 3mo ago
If you need to point to Anna's Archive for knowledge preservation, then we as a society are not intentionally preserving knowledge, quite the opposite actually.
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by pronik 3mo ago
To me, this seems like a typical "how hard can it be" startup mentality. People, especially those "fast to the market" type, tend to vastly underestimate all the corner cases of the technology, mostly tending to the happ
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by pronik 4mo ago
I'm so so tired of this Alpine fetish. Alpine has its uses, but most of the time a slim Debian image (or indeed any distro out there) is just fine. With Alpine you are trading size for a lot of unexpected pain, so it's a move that
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by pronik 4mo ago
People say "States" or even US all the time, usually forgetting the other country that has "United States" in their name.
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by pronik 4mo ago
The good old "malware patches Windows so that sending spam is stable again".
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by pronik 4mo ago
Meaning you would be pressing LMB and RMB with your index finger, moving it from the trackpoint itself? I can imagine controlling the trackpoint with the middle finger and use the index and ring finger to press the buttons, but it's fa
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by pronik 4mo ago
Would be enough if Claude Code moves without major issues
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by pronik 4mo ago
Sure, but which of those buttons would be suitable? Keep in mind, it will be your thumb that needs to land naturally on that button while your index finger rests on the trackpoint. And the scroll button is also usually the middle button eve
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by pronik 4mo ago
For such a niche area, it's astonishing how many of these projects miss some or indeed all of relevant features of the TrackPoint. In this particular case, it has already been mentioned that this doesn't make any sense outside of
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by pronik 4mo ago
By reading this thread I've learned that, apparently, you are not allowed to rewrite a large piece of software backed by a large test suite in another language within two weeks otherwise you are a witch and need to be burned on a stake
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by pronik 4mo ago
> an agent running on your computer, organizing your files, your schedule, your messages, your bills, bank accounts, etc. All the parts of your life that were routine drudgery should be able to be offloaded to a smart agent, based on you
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by pronik 4mo ago
One thing I'm constantly baffled by in current technology is how it seems to be targeted at one pretty precise subset of human population: young, healthy, single people without any problems with perfectly pre-defined schedules and orga
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by pronik 4mo ago
There is so much technology that we are unable to reproduce locally, I don't think LLMs are in any way different. There will be large LLM manufacturers, small LLM manufacturers, LLM artisanals, LLM enthusiasts and of course LLM consume
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by pronik 4mo ago
They will be, and that moment is not that far off. We've got the progression in place already: first, large data centers could have performant LLMs, we are now firmly in "a bunch of servers with a couple of H100s each" territ
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by pronik 4mo ago
I've taken that comment to be very sarcastic, but maybe it wasn't.
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by pronik 4mo ago
Ursula von den Leyen has been pushing internet blocks in Germany for the sake of the children since 2009. Which is when "Zensursula" nickname has been coined. You don't need to look far to find the same thinking by the people
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by pronik 5mo ago
But they had the guts to back away. Not everyone does.
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by pronik 5mo ago
Speaking of the size: my first PC, built by a family friend, had a 80MB disk, split into two partitions. The second 40MB partition had Windows 3.1 and about two Norton Commander columns full of games on it, largest of which were Wolfenstein
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by pronik 5mo ago
Around the time DirectX came around and first games requiring it appeared, which in my memory coincided with hard drives getting way bigger and first games being delivered on a CD instead of floppies, I've been apalled at how I could s
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by pronik 6mo ago
Maybe they are being acquired to improve the quality of Codex.
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by pronik 6mo ago
Code speed or not, people talk about how coding agents have taken away their passion. I've been reflecting on that for quite some time now and quite honestly, I don't miss a single thing. My passion has always been building someth

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