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by dismalaf 1y ago
In my chats with 2.5 Flash it gives me the direct sources lol. Also not going to lie, I've found 2.5 Flash generally gets straight to the point with sources a lot quicker than Pro. To the point I don't really use Pro. Edit - jus
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by dismalaf 1y ago
The Gemini app is pretty good at giving sources.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
I do. My HTC Amaze had nice soft-touch plastic on top of an aluminum back, was slim (for the era) and grippy. Also had a Galaxy Note (forget which one) that had a leathery soft touch back, was very nice. The physical design of phones def
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Phones are too slippery these days. Everyone makes them of smooth glass or metal.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
> Trying to train them to use whatever app Google currently uses for video calls Everyone I know uses Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp these days. Both of which are cross platform, even web (so can use on a desktop browser). Also, the cur
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by dismalaf 1y ago
I prefer Pixel phones, for slightly different reasons. One, it takes really good photos. Better than phones with supposedly better specs. This is big for me, I have a 3 year old, being able to snap photos that look great with no effort is
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by dismalaf 1y ago
It's difficult for enterprise to bet against C# or Java and I kind of get it. Following the crowd is a form of hedging your own career, if things go south you won't get fired for it, but if you bet on an obscure language and fram
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Odin code: package main import "core:fmt" @export sayhi :: proc() { fmt.println("Hello World") } Key is the "@export" statement. Then build Linux dynamic library by doing &quot
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by dismalaf 1y ago
> Python is best for working with LLMs Just curious how you're integrating LLMs... Self hosting? I've been using RubyLLM and find it pretty decent for my needs, it's also improving at a very rapid rate. But it does focus
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by dismalaf 1y ago
True. Ruby JIT has increased performance for some tasks you'd drop down to C for back in the day... All the gains Ruby has made in the last few years are pretty incredible. I never picked it because of performance reasons but it&#x27
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Ooops my bad. Been too long.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
> - Rails handles our API, domain logic, and billing workflows. > - Go powers services that need high I/O concurrency or long-lived network connections. > - Rust handles CPU-bound jobs. It's always amazed me than the disc
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by dismalaf 1y ago
SPAs are one of those things that few apps truly need. And honestly, these days, if I thought I truly needed an SPA I'd probably just write it in a compiled language that spits out WASM. But Rails is hard to beat for CRUD apps.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
In Haskell there's also dot (edit - my bad, not dot, pipe) syntax which allows composing functions left to right. I believe Nim also has it. Just as a few more examples.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
What's crazy to me is that ROCm and SYCL are open-source, but somehow more difficult to install and support less hardware for their respective brands than CUDA does for Nvidia...
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by dismalaf 1y ago
> Is there a market for apps that use local LLMs? Without a doubt. Companies like Mistral and Cohere (probably others too) will set up local LLMs for your organisation, in fact it's basically Cohere's main business model.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
NeXT machines were hardly mass market user machines... They were almost exclusively developer machines. Also Chrome does have stuff like SSH extensions. That being said, some of the computing paradigms of the 80's and early 90's
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Netscape had editing tools. Firefox has editing tools. Chrome has editing tools. I think Safari does too? Like, Netscape Composer came OUT of Navigator...
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by dismalaf 1y ago
My approach to vibe coding: The chat apps are pretty good at internet searches without all the ads and SEO crap. So I use the chat app, it's okay at context (knows which language and framework I'm using) and can basically get me
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by dismalaf 1y ago
> web browser was also an editor Ummmm all the browsers I know of are also editors... Are there any that aren't? Edit - does no one use dev tools anymore? No HTML? No vanilla JS and CSS? Everyone just using TS, React and gluing t
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Nim is nice but I can't really find a use for it. Maybe it's because I started out on dynamic languages (Ruby and R) where I got used to writing in a dynamic language and then rewriting bottlenecks in C++. Nim is in the awkward m
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Developer productivity matters...
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Rust was backed by Mozilla at first and now it's backed by Amazon, Google, Microsoft and others... Go and Rust don't compete, Go has a GC, they're in fundamentally different domains. Google also uses Rust, among other langua
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Honestly I find Gemini Flash gives better answers than Pro for a lot of things. The Gemini chat app is really good at leveraging Google search, the Pro model overthinks for some tasks, so getting Flash to just search for the relevant thing
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Yes I bookmark sites. Just in my normal browser. If it's important or often used it gets a spot in the browser bar. Otherwise gets filed away in some folder in my bookmarks.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Yup I have no particular interest in the topic but I have always enjoyed history, archaeology and the study of philosophy/religion so a lot of what he talks about intersects with things I enjoy so I watch.
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Ah, your first comment said "can't win". Which is different than "always loses".
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by dismalaf 1y ago
Tic-tac-toe is solved and a draw can be forced 100% of the time...
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by dismalaf 1y ago
"Occult" means hidden practices. So it covers both non-mainstream religious/mystical/magical practices, but it also covers "hidden" beliefs within religions. Stuff like Kabbalah is considered occult, as it Chr
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by dismalaf 1y ago
This is super cool. There's also a popular YouTube channel called "ESOTERICA" in which an academic expert on the occult presents a lot of occult topics from a scholarly point of view (as opposed to the woo often associated w

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