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by culebron21 5mo ago
I wonder, how much of the discussions on the results of agentic coding is just LLM slop.
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by culebron21 5mo ago
Sadly the imperative is, as often, a call to everyone to be good guy and make less noise. Unfortunately, it doesn't work, neither at personal level, nor at global. One may be quiet, but what if your friend/acquaintance/fellow
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by culebron21 5mo ago
...just noticed it's 16". Toshiba did the same on 14" laptops.
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by culebron21 5mo ago
I feel the opposite -- with half-size up/down keys, it's too easy to mis-press them. I guess it's a matter of habit.
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by culebron21 5mo ago
Finally someone made a laptop with PgUp/PgDn/Home/End column, like Toshiba! Thank you!
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by culebron21 5mo ago
I tried Zed several times, and still VS Code + Sublime win. 1. In Zed, all my Rust files are reformatted on save. (I also code in Go, and don't like this approach at all.) 2. It takes ages to find out where to configure the language se
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by culebron21 6mo ago
As a user of a folding bike, I don't care that parts stick out of it, but I'll agree it's on the limits of geometry, and folding isn't elegant -- and when it's folded, it's still quite big.
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by culebron21 6mo ago
When I moved to downtown a big city, I bought a Chinese folding bike and it was awesome tool, replacing a good deal of e-scooter and taxi rides. The one I bought in '23 cost ~€250, plus ~€50 for a sprung saddle, long saddle tube and mi
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by culebron21 7mo ago
"Snuffkin (Snusmumriken) and the ring", that's what I see. Or Mummy troll. I saw some cartoon adaptations of the LotR, never liked it much because of the dead seriousness, but this makes it carelessness, which probably could
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by culebron21 7mo ago
This is so awful. Great job!
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by culebron21 8mo ago
Could anyone explain, please, where's the 100x acceleration they mention? The screen records compare 36 seconds to 13 seconds, that's roughly 3x. Also, this piece: > 100x speedup is achieved by comparing HH with bidirectional
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by culebron21 8mo ago
It was weirdly fascinating to read. And also now I get why tech journalism contemplates the idea of 20/40/60% people being useless -- they don't invent it, nor made scientific prediction -- they just saw those junkies in the
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by culebron21 8mo ago
The English description says "Russia, 1987". This is incorrect. It's 1984 (before the Perestroyka polity), Uzbekfilm studio in Tashkent (now Uzbekistan). Interestingly, the crew surnames are some Uzbek, some Russian, some Kor
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by culebron21 9mo ago
Sure. She's very resentful and puts labels on everything and everyone. Her discourse, from what I remember was like "in Russia, there's no this, no that, no life, etc." Just no point to seriously discuss what she says. I
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by culebron21 9mo ago
Kasparov as usually exaggerates. As a Russian, I can think of only 2 cases he may refer to: 2002 riot after world cup match, when a crowd watched Russia team lose to Japan, then went to destroy displays and cars in Moscow center. It was fol
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by culebron21 9mo ago
Ok, I remember people complaining of this, so I have got it wrong.
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by culebron21 9mo ago
XML was a product of its time, when after almost 20 years of CPUs rapidly getting quicker, we contemplated that the size of data wouldn't matter, and data types won't matter (hence XML doesn't have them, but after that JSON g
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by culebron21 9mo ago
Android isn't any better, every new version every year, it's becoming a buggier and buggier Tamagotchi that demands attention every half an hour, and has a gazillion contradictory settings that never work. My phone, model 2023, ha
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by culebron21 9mo ago
Soviets did this in 1918-20, without DNA analysis, of course. https://ru-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0...
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by culebron21 9mo ago
I took a look at the source code -- well, what if it's a working thing -- and of course, 2 files in, there are instructions that panic (i.e. crash the host process), all over the code, just everywhere, in every API method. That's
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by culebron21 9mo ago
The author of that show hn post wrote that it's a project that grew to "production ready". Reading her source code, I see a bunch of wrappers that, upon any error, will panic and crash the whole process. This is equal to proj
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by culebron21 9mo ago
I live in a completely different city, a post-soviet one, with dense streets, 9-storey apartment buildings. But still it's hard to socialize. It's the same both in the center, and on the fringe with large micro-districts, where th
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by culebron21 9mo ago
I had interesting flights in end of june from St. Petersburg to Novosibirsk. It departed at around 23:00, and you saw sunset and still a dawn. As the plane flew mostly at latitude of 60°, the dawn in the north was always there, and 1.5 hour
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by culebron21 9mo ago
On a long haul flight, the crew usually tells everyone to shut the window blinds, because many people want to sleep, so you don't get to see the sun.
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by culebron21 9mo ago
No, we either walk or use public transit, and we have central heating. Yes, this explains the difference.
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by culebron21 9mo ago
I think such scaling as the author suggests, can be done in the head. 57g is roughy 3/4 of 80g. It's trivial to take 3/4 of almost anything. 250g -> ~180..185g, 40 -> 30, 50 -> 37g. Unless you do bakery, where propor
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by culebron21 9mo ago
How does a household use 1,500+ kWh per month? At my home, we sometimes get above 200, in summer with AC we may score 300 kWh, but how do you consume 5x of that? Is it heating?
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by culebron21 9mo ago
I'm from Russia. There's no such special department there, nor police shoots at anyone in a car. They do chase, then after some minutes, if nothing works, shoot at tires. There's no rule, nor drilling to shoot then think, nor
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by culebron21 9mo ago
In year 2000 I dreamed and wrote an essay imagining future 15-20 years ahead, that I'd be happy to have a voice-controlled teapot. That I'd tell it "a cup of tea", and it would boil it, exactly for my own big cup. Or sev
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by culebron21 9mo ago
Oh, nice. Yeah, Python got gazillion new versions, incompatible, in million folders in sys.path, and sys.path different in different places, and recently they started to menace you to shutdown old versions (I get such warning, that 3.9 will

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