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by alentred 5d ago
I absolutely love it, and this correlates perfectly with Polya's math problem solving [1] combined with Fail Fast [2] . [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It [2] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by alentred 6d ago
Very nice post, I love computer history and lore and this fits just right! I would also add ZX Spectrum keyboard with all the keywords on it. G/GOTO, L/LET, P/PRINT etc. Was lots of fun. We should have engraved common actions
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by alentred 6d ago
Somewhat related: I live in France but have learnt computing on a QWERTY US keyboard back in the days, not AZERTY. As a result the only keyboard layout I can use without losing my sanity is a QWERTY US MacBook with a Canadian layout - I hav
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by alentred 8d ago
In Europe, mostly suburban towns that grew quickly in the 60s and the 70s around the big cities to distribute the rapidly growing urban population, or in the outskirts of those cities, from what I have seen. Among related examples would be,
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by alentred 8d ago
> Sharing information is an act of love Most AI companies are not sharing it, though. They appropriated it and resell it.
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by alentred 8d ago
I have visited quite a bit of small towns that were actively built I suppose in the 60-s, and often see abandoned ambitious or even grandiose projects like a park here, or a community center there - fully built but totally deserted now, oft
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by alentred 9d ago
Wow, I admit I didn’t know about this. According to my coarse reading of the news sites it seems like there was no association in fact, but I won’t insist on anything, I only learnt about this now.
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by alentred 9d ago
>Sometimes when I find someone to look up to and admire, I later find out there is potentially some dark reality to them I too feel exactly what you are saying. I also think that a lot of good role models are simply often among less visi
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by alentred 9d ago
Ha! I just checked it out (had to install IntelliJ for this!) and it is still there!!! "Help" -> "My productivity".
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by alentred 9d ago
I remember when I was using JetBrains IDE they had this feature that would list all shortcuts and IDE features and how frequently I use them. This was excellent for feature discovery. I would regularly check it out and scroll to the list of
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by alentred 9d ago
A lot of this kind of choices are rather opinionated and personal preferences. But anyway, I think the closets thing I can think of is oh-my-zsh.
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by alentred 15d ago
> When we detect signals that you may be under 18 Excellent. So, I can trigger that by asking why my mum wants me back at home by 10PM?
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by alentred 16d ago
> I have had three mirrorless Sony cameras (albeit two secondhand) Wait wait wait. Secondhand you say? We need to dig into that now. Was it a purchase by a binding agreement? Was it an original camera or did the owner made a 3D-printed c
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by alentred 17d ago
-= CAUTION, SPOILERS =- This got me on "cyanide blue", and I was ROLLING ON THE FLOOR LAUGHING on "Approaching usage limit". I can barely stop laughing now and my stomach hurts. I mean, Thank You!
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by alentred 18d ago
Remember when everything was iSomething? The original iPod and iPhone created a real trend back then. Seems like many AI products ride the same wave now. Open WebUI, OpenHands, OpenUI. I am a bit more dubious about this affiliation, though.
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by alentred 18d ago
I would be very interested in a similar benchmark for *KV cache* quantizations. I use Qwen3.8 27B Q4_K_M for coding sometimes and therefore need a relatively long context. I settled on q8_0 because it is the only way to fit the model + 100k
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by alentred 23d ago
Which probably explains why it is a good idea to use distinct LLMs for generation and review. Like, generate code with Codex/Sol and review it with Claude/Opus for example.
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by alentred 24d ago
I am using DNS filtering on mobile, and noticed a new trend on some websites that detect an ad blocker: they force a browser native alert message which effectively blocks the page, followed by a page reload when the alert is dismissed. Wond
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by alentred 24d ago
If the new feature looks random and unexpected and causes users to go to Reddit -the developer is doing terribly bad UX, and equally bad marketing and customer support. A proper announcement done the day of the release, or an embedded notif
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OpenHands: Self-hosted control center for coding agents(openhands.dev)
1 points by alentred 1mo ago|0 comments
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by alentred 1mo ago
With so many AI product launches, I don't even understand anymore what's serious and what's a joke. Collectively many recent product launches look like we are building a big lab to study sociology using British humour, utteri
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by alentred 1mo ago
You do realize that there is a large spectrum of occupations between a self-employed software developer, and a "corporate NPC", don't you? And, do you really reject all counterarguments outright, like you heard all of them al
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Software engineering at a proprietary trading company(newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
3 points by alentred 1mo ago|1 comments
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by alentred 1mo ago
It is worth mentioning that there are other options like NextDNS and similar, which complement uBO(L) nicely.
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by alentred 1mo ago
Oh, thank you for telling me this. Trying it out now.
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by alentred 1mo ago
Oh, goody goody goody! Can't wait for a Q4M with *MTP* support. Does anyone know if there are plans for it? I am currently using Qwen 3.6 on RTX 3090 and I have to admit that without MTP it would be too slow to be acceptable for me (30
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by alentred 2mo ago
I am not sure I understand, how is this different from a devcontainer or other similar techniques? On another topic, can't help but notice that "leading coding agents" somehow does not include Pi.
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by alentred 2mo ago
Great article. Nice pragmatic and cool-head take on what is going on. Thank you for posting this. Side note: I so forgot about the "Don't make me think" book! Thanks for reminding this exists. I submit this should be part of
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by alentred 2mo ago
A good example of how a wrong assumption ruins something (in tech, products, and life in general). I love the feature idea, but the assumption that a sudden brisk run equals theft obviously ruined it. Well, easy for us to say in retrospect,
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by alentred 2mo ago
You seem to contradict yourself, or at least actually support the OP's point. If you don't define yourself with your job, but have other self-identities outside, there is nothing sad about having different takes to the amount of p

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