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by KronisLV 1y ago
They cynic in me wants to point out how for many (most?) of the programmers out there, they aren't working on novel problems that need a lot of involved thinking or using that gray matter to come up with something innovative. Instead,
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Another user of Roo Code here, I really like that I could hook it up to either OpenRouter or Anthropic/Google directly, for different use cases - for the most part I enjoy using Claude, but when their rate limits hit (e.g. when I neede
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Over here in Latvia they established a deposit system where drinks cost more to buy at the store but you get that money back (store credit, or you can just donate it) when you bring the bottles/cans to a drop off point. I haven’t reall
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Migrating to SSG is definitely one of the options! I do wonder what other CMSes people do enjoy, though. My blog runs on Grav, a flat file CMS that still allows me to easily keep the content in Git, while also having some dynamic content an
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I'm in the top 20% of salaries in Latvia, which in absolute terms is still pretty bad (not even close to 6 figures). That said, I was pretty lucky in that I don't have debts: I got my Master's degree mostly for govt. funds du
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> How do you keep hitting that publish button, over and over again, knowing there’s no one on the other side? > I don’t know. I’m still trying to figure it out. Realistically, by just writing something and hitting the publish button.
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Nowadays I export my presentations as PDFs. Even that once failed me. I was to give a presentation about a paper I did at my university and I had used some fonts in it that I rather liked. The problem was that the computer didn't like
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I feel like in an ideal world, this would start in the DB: your query referencing objects and in what order to return them (so not just a bunch of wide rows, nor multiple separate queries) and as the data arrives, the back end could then pa
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Parcel lockers are yesteday's technology in comparison. They're still wonderful for small deliveries, which are maybe 95% of everything I order. You can even redirect them or reschedule them easily, since a lot of it is based
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Honestly, Blender is probably the best example anyone could bring up - thanks for that, they really did wonders with the UI/UX!
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Doesn't seem like the thing with the best usability for me (how my eyes scan information, in that regard the old site would be better), but it does seem aesthetically different and kinda cool. Plus, good job on not putting a whole bunc
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by KronisLV 1y ago
It was an internal app, a GUI to configure a CLI tool in a user friendly manner. For that use case, I essentially built a local SPA with Vue that can also call some endpoints on server side software that we also host. There, the rendering d
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by KronisLV 1y ago
A few months ago, I experimented with Wails and Tauri on Windows. The builds did indeed take unreasonably long with the Rust option and were way faster with Go, no idea why but I ditched Tauri because of that since Wails did more or less th
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> that the only hope and dream they have is: to become an “influencer.” I might be too introverted for that sort of thing in the first place, but that sounds like hell, having to pretend in front of a bunch of strangers just to get click
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> A week after launch they sent out a user survey and nearly every respondent complained about the flat UI. When have most users ever enjoyed a new UI in a system that they're used to? Genuinely asking, because while I enjoy things
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Some that I've seen: SeaweedFS: https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs (Apache 2.0) Garage: https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/garage (AGPL) Zenko: https://github.com/scalit
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by KronisLV 1y ago
IoC is nice (or DI as a concept in particular), but DI frameworks/libraries sometimes are a mess. I've had my fair share of Java and Spring Boot projects and it breaks in all sorts of stupid ways there, even things like the same e
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> Moreso than nearly any other language backwards compatibility has been key to java. The Java 8 and 8+ divide very much works against this. It was a needed change (much like Python 2 vs 3) but nowhere near pleasant, especially if some o
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by KronisLV 1y ago
I really like the JetBrains IDEs, both for Java and .NET, it feels way more pleasant to write code and refactor it than just in something like Visual Studio Code (which still feels better for utility scripts). They have pretty good run prof
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> What on earth are you running that has such a bad GPU driver that it can't handle chrome/firefox, yet also is so niche that they don't have driver workarounds for it? Fun fact, for the longest time ever on Windows 10 the
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> How did these clowns manage to make my mouse cursor laggy? It is incomprehensible for me to live in such a big bubble with such a big paycheck and then spend zero brainpower on systems without graphics acceleration. I have a dual GPU s
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> First here, we understand that Docker needs to generate revenue. Creating a foundational technology and not having revenue to grow the business is hard. At the same time, the notice period is what one may consider short. If the money w
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> The "danger" here is the movement towards an object-oriented design instead of a SQL-first approach to querying the database. That might just be an inherent problem with object oriented languages, you probably have some mappi
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> The money is still “there”, so probably no lawyer can say BMaC has “stolen them”—you just can’t neither receive “your” money nor, at least, give them back to those who sent them. Lawyering aside, really now? If someone holds money that
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> They make the simple queries slightly simpler, but they do not help you for the harder queries. — me I dont think it’s possible to say they’re always bad when offering an example of when they make things better. In my eyes, it’s pretty
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> There's a part of me that thinks, maybe we'd all be better off if we set the bar for success of a business at "sustains the lives of the people who work there and itself is sustainable." This would be beautiful in a
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> …when switching Lumen (UE5's realtime global illumination feature) to the lowest setting, this results in completely flat lighting for the vegetation but is needed to get an acceptable base frame rate (it doesn't solve the ra
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> it's still a far cry from your ~200 Mb Electron hello world. I think that projects that ship packaged web apps but attempt to use the system native web views where available are really nice, like Wails: https://wails.io
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by KronisLV 1y ago
Thank you! This was super useful!
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by KronisLV 1y ago
> code retention charts I really liked those charts, I wonder how you can generate them, whether there's a tool out there that you can just feed a Git repo into or something.

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