big-and-small

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by big-and-small 11mo ago
This. I wouldn't pay to use it, but big context windows are amazing for programming and especially prototyping when you can keep whole codebase in context. Gemini's 1M is amazing.
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by big-and-small 1y ago
> I would have thought supporting libcurl and libxml would also be in a company's self-interest. Unfortunately majority of companies don't have something special they really need to add to cURL. They okay using it as is
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by big-and-small 1y ago
Nuclear fusion was always 30 years away (c)
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by big-and-small 1y ago
Copyleft licenses are made to support freedom for everyone and particularly end-users. They only limit freedom of developers / maintainers to exploit the code and users. > Does GPL help the linux kernel get investment from it's
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by big-and-small 1y ago
It's very noticeable: https://pcpartpicker.com/trends/price/memory/
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by big-and-small 1y ago
With this attitude you'll never get investments...
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by big-and-small 1y ago
Such underrated comment. You can really have 500MB of dependencies for your app because you're on MacOS and it's still gonna be fast because memory use have nothing to do with performance. Pretty much the same with JavaScript - mo
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by big-and-small 1y ago
It's have nothing to do with "figuring it out". Both mining and processing been figured out decades ago. But rare earth mining is disaster for ecology and western countries just don't want to pay the tall and deal with p
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by big-and-small 1y ago
> Really? Secure against the exploits and methods these tools 3 letter agencies employ? Before First Unlock data on your device is as safe as your password safe. It doesn't really matter if you use Android, iOS or any other devices
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by big-and-small 1y ago
1M context is amazing, but even after 100k tokens Gemini 2.5 Pro is usually incapable of consistently reproducing 300 LOC file without changing something in process. And it actually take a lot of effort to make sure it do not touch files it