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by KronisLV 1y ago
> delete entire unit test file & have claude generate a new one Why not just add new tests or refactor the existing ones? Seems kind of silly. Aside from that: - if you don't like AI tools and can afford to do so, then look
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> The biggest 'rug pull' here is that the coding agent company raises there price and kills you're budget for "development." Spending a bunch of money on GPUs and running them yourself, as well as using tools tha
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> "Now we don't need to hire a founding engineer! Yippee!" This feels like a bit of a leap? That's like saying "I just bought the JetBrains IDE Ultimate pack and some other really cool tools, so we no longer need
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> The marginal cost of adding new software is approaching zero, especially with LLMs. But what is the price of understanding, testing, and trusting that code? Higher than ever. I’m not sure about that: the code LLMs generate isn’t catego
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> My gut feeling as that no matter how much additional and specific language we add to any bill of privacy rights, there will always be holes or work-arounds due to interpretation and semantics. Nobody will ever write a perfect law and y
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Recently took some of these in Germany, was a pretty pleasant experience! It was a bit odd how the ticket prices seem to fluctuate a lot over there based on timing (like 20 EUR if you buy half a week ahead of time, closer to 40 EUR nearer t
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I found that ProtonDB is quite helpful in figuring out how many games will or won’t run well: https://www.protondb.com/ You can even log in with Steam and get the summary for your exact library, for anyone curious.
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Nvidia as a whole has been fairly anti-consumer recently with pricing, so I wouldn't be banking on them for a great cpu option. If they’re swimming in the AI cash and the consumer GPU segment isn’t that important ( https:/&#x
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by KronisLV 1y ago
We migrated from Slack to Teams and while it does work, it’s also not very good (UI/UX wise). We also did try out Rocket.Chat and Mattermost and out of all of those Mattermost was the closest to Slack and the most familiar to us.
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I have to say that after switching to Windows 11, I don't hate it as much as I thought I would. I'm still a bit upset that they took away vertical taskbars from us, but some things like multi-GPU support is better than in Windows
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I recently ended up having a multiple hour long conversation with a friend of mine about the potential impact of LLMs and similar tools, which I then made into a blog post: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/ai-artisans-and-b
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I wonder how different things would be if the CPU and GPU supply chain was more distributed globally: if we were at a point where we'd have models (edit: of hardware, my bad on the wording) developed and produced in the EU, as well as
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I don't really use any PKM tools outside of an instance of Kanboard and OpenProject for tracking the stuff I want to do in the future, but because of my mTLS setup and limited hardware in my homelab, using them ends up feeling slow and
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I have a pretty bad Kolink case and have to mount the fans in the front instead of the top, otherwise it gets too crowded: https://kolink.eu/Home/case-1/midi-tower-2/others/quantum.ht... Without the side
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I had both an A580 (not an A770, but at least something from that generation) and then later a B580, at one point even both in the same computer, side by side, when I wanted to use one for games and the other for encoding: https:/&#x2
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Asked trans friends, doesn’t seem to be the case. More about often being very uncomfortable with the bodies and/or role in society they had, dysphoria and all that. I guess also most cis folks would enjoy being attractive, whereas when
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by KronisLV 1y ago
That is amusing but I remember HikariCP in an older Java project having issues with DB connections against an Oracle instance. Thing is, no settings or debugging could really (easily) narrow it down, whereas switching to DBCP2 both fixed wh
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by KronisLV 1y ago
That’s a nice analogy! Though one might argue that the walk in of itself would be good for your health (as evidenced by me putting on some weight after replacing my 30 minute daily walk to the office with working remotely). One could also d
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Lovely write up! Personally, I just settled on Tailscale so I don’t have to manage WireGuard and iptables myself. For a while I also thought that regular SSH tunnels would be enough but they kept failing occasionally even with autossh. Oh a
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> I think most software engineers need to draw a class diagram from time to time. Sounds a lot like RegEx to me: if you use something often then obviously learn it but if you need it maybe a dozen or two dozen times per year, then perhap
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> The price was likely too high, though that is debatable. To me it feels like even in the modern day, products that would be considered okay on their own are more or less ruined by their pricing. For example, the Intel Core Ultra CPUs g
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> I still don't understand the benefit of relying on someone/something else to write your code and then reading it, understand it, fixing it, etc. Friction. A lot of people are bad at getting started (like writer's block,
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I'm in Riga, even here public transport is like 1.5 EUR for a ride and you can use a phone app to scan a QR code to register a ride, as well as buy a ticket right there in the app. I also use Bolt (similar to Uber) for when I need to g
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by KronisLV 1y ago
It seems like people agree that EU alternatives are nice and that open source software is great... but even in software development the people making the choices still opt for databases like Oracle or SQL Server and the large US-centric clo
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by KronisLV 1y ago
If you wanted accurate statistics for each language, you'd probably have to go closer to the source: - How many downloads for the compiler/runtime/toolchains have? - How many downloads do the packages on the package man
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Docker has made self-hosting so much easier and painless. Mostly agreed, I actually run most of my software on Docker nowadays, both at work and privately, in my homelab. In my experience, the main advantages are: - limited impact
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Self-hosting doesn’t mean you have to buy hardware. After a few years, low-end machines are borderline unusable with Windows, but they are still plenty strong for a Linux server. It’s quite likely you or a friend has an old laptop layi
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by KronisLV 1y ago
With the advent of unoptimized UE5 releases becoming the norm and the mentality of shipping badly broken games by default and them only being in a good state years later if at all, I’m not sure running an LLM on device would be a good idea.
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I really liked the map markers from a practical point of view and the combat also felt way better (hits landing when it looks like they should ). Definitely a different type of experience, though.
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Personally, I really liked using Liberation Mono ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts ) or Google Cousine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croscore_fonts ) because their readability at smal

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