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3mo ago
> Whatever they do in their country is their own problem. Idk to me it feels like human compassion and ethics dictates that you at least have to care a bit even about the things in other countries. Otherwise all sorts of horrible domesti
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3mo ago
I mean a radically different view is that the SERVER should just give you the data and process your requests, without necessarily caring much about what you are - a browser or some other automated system, or a desktop client, where each has
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3mo ago
> Summarize the key arguments. Do some work. I'd still take at least a blog post with relevant information over nothing, but yeah, that is fair.
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3mo ago
> which makes handling errors mandatory Unpopular take, but I personally also believe that unchecked exceptions in Java and other languages like that are an issue - because it makes too easy to miss where things could go wrong, instead o
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3mo ago
I often hate how loaded/incendiary Ed Zitron's tone is and don't like some of his takes, but I wouldn't call it "some random blog". I run a random blog, that guy's closer to being a proper journalist: htt
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3mo ago
Yeah, it's very overpowered and should be nerfed - they still haven't patched the cookie consent dialogs out. To expand upon the silly comment a bit, not sure about this particular initiative, but to me it very much feels like som
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3mo ago
> Most web developers are perfectly capable without understanding the intricacies of the file system or OS, even though the browser sits on top them. This will mess you up if you ever need to store a significant amount of files on the fi
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3mo ago
I feel like most hardware to run LLMs on is shaped wrong for individuals. It's either having a model struggling along with like 5-10 tokens per second on unified memory, or data center cards with hundreds of GB of VRAM consuming more t
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3mo ago
> The other thing that the "LLMs write code camp" misunderstands is that writing was never the bottleneck. Anyone who's seen tech debt where each item is well known and understood but just big in scope knows that this isn&
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3mo ago
> At medium effort it drops to almost half K3’s cost, and is probably sufficient for 95% of coding tasks. I've also found that Kimi K3 on Max reasoning is benchmaxxing a little bit, High is probably enough for most dev work as long
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3mo ago
Because I already run everything else, including databases and web servers alongside apps in containers. I don’t want to have to install packages on the host system or pollute it with configs in case I need to get rid of something or migrat
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3mo ago
> A good starting point would be docker-mailserver which is a full mailserver suite deployable via Docker with sane defaults. I am running Docker Mailserver because it's one of the very few options that were actually easy to adminis
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3mo ago
> Based on my entirely subjective experience, the $100 Moonshot plan using only K3 is comparable to the $200 Anthropic deal using the whole Fable allocation and Opus 4.8 for the rest. For me, the Moonshot 100$ plan felt like it gives me
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3mo ago
> Engineers can finally address security and tech debt! I’ve been gradually moving test coverage up, updating packages with CVEs (even if in some cases it’s more like a migration), fixing more bugs, writing load testing solutions, fixing
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3mo ago
> Until this attitude changes, the great software quality decay will continue. It won’t change cause nobody cares to do anything other than complain, I don’t see developers quitting en masse from companies that refuse to pause feature ch
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3mo ago
> I'm not sure why there seems to be a consistent set of design mistakes that LLMs tend toward. Probably something to do with the training data and how it’s weighted. It’s the same how the writing is essentially full of overused phr
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3mo ago
> I am the person responsible for that decision, and I take that with the utmost seriousness. I also somehow didn’t hear that the leadership is taking a pay cut either, if money is so tight.
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3mo ago
I believe that everyone could benefit from such a CLI regardless of AI. Hell, take the AI money and build actually useful stuff with the hype money - I personally think ALL GUI software should be possible to fully interact with and control
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3mo ago
> The worst part is that I frequently work with small businesses in Austin and know that this is from a place of complete ignorance rather than feeling a sense of ownership in art/design they did not do. > Yes I also understand m
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3mo ago
> Highly debatable. When your highest cost is developers salaries. I think everyone always is needlessly partisan when ORMs get mentioned. Personally, I view it like so: * using something separate from your ORM for migrations *can* b
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3mo ago
Bitcoin lets me send my friend abroad money with minimal BS, I quite like it (other services like Wise take more commissions and have more delays), but also realize there's a lot of scam prjoects etc. out there. Then again, Codeberg as
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3mo ago
> How much time do you spend on your setup vs getting a lot of stuff shipped by paying for Fable 5? Relatively speaking, quite little (and it's more interesting than some of the stuff I'm otherwise shipping), I mostly just expl
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3mo ago
In long form tasks, across multiple harnesses (Claude Code, OpenCode, Kimi Code, ZCode) my cache rates are typically 96-99%. I don’t think that’s particularly out of the ordinary. Do people have different experiences with other harnesses? W
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3mo ago
Using the same software you might use at work and getting better at it, perhaps even exploring simpler distros like K3s, k0s, Minikube or whatever people use nowadays.
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3mo ago
OpenCode has a desktop version, it's decent: https://opencode.ai/download
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3mo ago
I wish they'd embed the Code UI as a tab, similar to Claude Code Desktop. There's really no real reason for those tools to be separate and for them not to give me something a bit nicer than just a TUI in the terminal. They already
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3mo ago
> Euro-Office liberates the ONLYOFFICE code base Oh that and the following paragraphs are salty, after all of the mess of Euro-Office violating their copyright (OO's arguments about which may or may not hold up in court). Personally
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3mo ago
To be honest, they have both 5 hour caps, weekly caps and also monthly caps: Total usage 12.85% Resets in 2026-08-17 5-hour usage 71.97% Resets in 07-20 03:14 7-day usage 31.29% Resets in 07-24 10:14 Still, I ca
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3mo ago
Can confirm, I see these monthly prices on both pages: Moderato: 19 USD or 15 USD annually Allegretto: 39 USD or 31 USD annually Allegro: 99 USD or 79 USD annually Vivace: 199 USD or 159 USD annually However, they're saying that the pl
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3mo ago
Currently using their 100 USD subscription, considering going up to their 200 USD subscription, because the model is approximately as capable as Opus (maybe sometimes better, sometimes worse) but less annoying to use in practice, a bit less
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