the_lucifer

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by the_lucifer 5d ago
FWIW, the reviews mention the size is off haha, I assumed it was the usual chunk of buyers accidentally picking up A4 instead of Letter but it seems like the A4 itself is off: 8.5"x11.5-12" instead of the 8.5"x11".
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by the_lucifer 11d ago
+ for folks using Kagi Search, you can set up a search engine level redirect (which is what I used to use for redirecting Twitter/X links to Xcancel before the takedown)
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by the_lucifer 19d ago
> Not guaranteed but easy, because Windows has mnemonics, where you can associate arbitrarily nested menus with actions, and each menu can have its own mnemonic key, so that you press ALT, then, say, "k", then, maybe "m&qu
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by the_lucifer 1mo ago
> Pre-(consumer) GPS, I definitely got turned around even in cities I knew reasonably well that aren't on a grid system in parts. It can be bad enough today in some sections of busy cities where you need to constantly shift lanes et
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
Possibly depending on who's routing it, since Openrouter seems to have added a separate slug for this, and they don't have an alias router for the DS models yet, so it shouldn't have swapped over to it in case you use them fo
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
> I think it definitely trades user-friendliness for power and flexibility A tale as old as time with OSS software from what I've seen. So far the only exception that I've seen of a FOSS piece of software with great UX is Blend
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
Noticed none of the comparisons mention Kimi K3. Is there a comparison chart?
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
> Cut and paste is a poor analogy in the file explorer, what the file explorer does is a move, "cutting" fills the first parameter and "pasting" fills the second. Hence the greying out and not doing anything until you
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
Is this the same as Dinitz Theorem[1] which seems to have been proved in 1994? This is the only result I keep stumbling upon when trying to understand the problem formulation [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinitz_t
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
> It seems what people like about Kagi is the customization and surrounding tooling I've been paying for Kagi since March 2025, so about a year and a half and this is precisely why. The search quality is far better than Google of 20
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
> although I heard there's a Linux version now? Yes, there's a Linux beta. Discussion from a few days ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48970894 . Link to the beta: https://orionbrowser.
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
> And then I discovered SO meta. Holy cow. Those people were so far up their own butts, they couldn't see daylight. I was morbidly transfixed. It's validating to see that I wasn't wrong in my assessment. The comments and t
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
Or another LLM layer that takes a chat and formats it into a StackOverflow style Q/A post
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
> They were up your ass about minutia that really didn't matter. Good riddance and can't wait to visit the site and see an EOL static page. Well said. It was just something I (and I'm guessing other software devs) put up w
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
So much this. I pride myself on my intuition but three letters and nothing else to go on left me completely lost. I assumed by the title that I was supposed to type "one more letter" to complete a word, but nope, apparently had to
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
> I wonder if they’ll be the Lehman Brothers of this bubble That's exactly what this Yahoo Finance article today calls them at least [1] [1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/lehman-bro
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
> most well-capitalized companies Huh what? Since when is OpenAI's IOU's and paper money worth more than Apple's cold hard cash? They have been backing away from their infrastructure commitments and literally pushing their
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
Yeah I like lurking there, but IMO haven't gone through the hassle of attempting to get an invite to comment.
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
> Personally I also don't want Tesla or Rivian to add CarPlay Unfortunately for you, Tesla is working on adding CarPlay support to their cars (for what I assume is to boost their value and image to potential buyers). From earlier th
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by the_lucifer 2mo ago
> Proprietary platform-specific software has had its day. If the purported benefits of agentic-coding systems are real, it should have been trivial for Anthropic to implement a native macOS application, and sell it as a benefit, no? The
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by the_lucifer 3mo ago
> Wish there was a way to enable low power on a per-app basis. Since you can control the low power mode setting from the command line: `sudo pmset -a lowpowermode 1`. It should be pretty straightforward to hook this up to Hammerspoon[1]
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by the_lucifer 3mo ago
Digressing a bit, the link [2] feels off to me borderline scam-like. The URL points to "littlesnitchfirewall" which is not the official link to the well known macOS firewall application: https://obdev.at/products
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by the_lucifer 3mo ago
> I think dark theme, rich purples and vibrant hues, huge headings, etc. Don't forget the thin and tall serif fonts, with one singular italicized word in the title.
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by the_lucifer 3mo ago
Is it that surprising given Deepseek is great enough for most use cases (like implementation) and prices are off by an order of magnitude? DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash $0.098/$0.196 DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro $0.435/$0.87 v/s A
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by the_lucifer 4mo ago
Yep, even with their supply chain prowess, they're being hit now given some longer term contracts vis-à-vis their memory are nearing renewals.
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by the_lucifer 5mo ago
> I guess, but it still seems broken to me You would be correct. It uses a wrong tone curve (piecewise-sRGB vs gamma 2.2/2.4) which makes the darks look off: https://github.com/dylanraga/win11hdr-srgb-to-gamma2.
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by the_lucifer 5mo ago
Which is why I honestly believe they should have fixed this in the design stage itself. Post-facto reframing/renaming never seems to go well. Especially once the mass produced cheap stuff starts being churned out, and there's no c
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by the_lucifer 5mo ago
Looks like your image host has rate limited viewing the shared images, wanted to give you a heads up
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by the_lucifer 5mo ago
> I tend to disagree to a point: their laptops have great internals but are terrible from a usage perspective — I like to imagine their system board in a Thinkpad X1 Carbon chassis with native Linux! > But HW is at least improving (eg
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by the_lucifer 6mo ago
> Ollama user with the opposite question -- why not? What am I missing out on? I'm using it as the backend for playing with other frontend stuff and it seems to work just fine. Used to be an Ollama user. Everything that you cite as

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