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by jchw 5mo ago
You should look into how often people are using rectangles with buttons on them. They may be a bit archaic, but they are my preferred input method. For example, thanks to rectangles with buttons, the other people in my vicinity do not need
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by jchw 5mo ago
Did you reply to the correct parent comment?
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by jchw 5mo ago
Probably also worth dropping this here in the off chance someone here will be part of today's lucky 10,000. http://toastytech.com/guis/ At first glance it looks like this is much more breadth over depth. Quite an
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by jchw 5mo ago
I don't remember where it was originally written, but Qt used to have a fantastic Qt Quarterly about API design that included "The Boolean Parameter Trap", which advised several potential solutions to this very problem. Of co
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by jchw 5mo ago
I had pondered the same thing about other package ecosystems in the past, in general. Now with the benefit of hindsight we can comfortably say that the absence of known (!) attacks doesn't really say anything about how relatively diffi
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by jchw 5mo ago
I argue that strlen is actually still quite often the number you need+want, because possibly the main use case for it is determining how many bytes long a string is.
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by jchw 5mo ago
I don't trust it anymore. I'm using LAN mode today, I have little incentive to update. If I update to anything, it will certainly be third-party modified firmware.
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by jchw 5mo ago
I made the tragic mistake of getting a Bambu printer (an X1C, with AMS even...) right before they gave all of us the middle finger. I now have it offline, running out of date firmware, connected to a special WiFi network that is isolated fr
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by jchw 5mo ago
Exactly my thoughts. I am unfathomably angry and I want to contribute to any effort to dismantle Google as a company.
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by jchw 5mo ago
I think we are agreeing.
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by jchw 6mo ago
How does that change anything? It doesn't matter if you categorize it as software or not, unwanted is unwanted. And frankly I just flatly disagree, you could certainly make the case that model weights are a form of software.
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by jchw 6mo ago
It's additional software that many users didn't ask for, don't want and will not be aware of. Reminds me a bit of back when installing software was a minefield due to all of the integrated "promotions" for things li
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by jchw 6mo ago
Are you implying that Xi Jinping is not real? I'm pretty sure that's not how that snowclone works...
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by jchw 6mo ago
I tried this on NixOS, but it doesn't seem to be easily reproducible. There's no /usr/bin/su - okay, fine: I changed it to /run/wrappers/bin/su, but that didn't work, and I think the reaso
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by jchw 6mo ago
> 42.9 units of insulin from a single photo. That’s not a rounding error. That’s a potential fatality. Shit like this is why you shouldn't involve AI output in your writing process. It's especially ironic in an article about LL
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by jchw 6mo ago
I want to respect the guidelines for the good of the community, but at this point it isn't serving the community well for there to not be backlash against the rising flood of AI-generated garbage. It was really truly bad enough when it
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by jchw 6mo ago
I think HN is just fucked. A lot of people either genuinely don't see the problem with having a bunch of AI-generated slop garbage on the frontpage, or they are themselves posting it so they have a personal stake in not seeing anything
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by jchw 6mo ago
Unfortunately it really is running this slow with Llama.cpp, but of course that's with Vulkan mode. The VRAM capacity is definitely where it shines, rather than compute power. I am pretty sure that this isn't really optimal use of
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by jchw 6mo ago
Yeah, I was doing split tensor and it seemed like a wash. The Arc B70s are not huge on compute. Right now I'm only able to run them in PCI-e 5.0 x8 which might not be sufficient. But, a cheap older Xeon or TR seems silly since PCI-e 4.
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by jchw 6mo ago
32 GiB of VRAM is possible to acquire for less than $1000 if you go for the Arc Pro B70. I have two of them. The tokens/sec is nowhere near AMD or NVIDIA high end, but its unexpectedly kind of decent to use. (I probably need to figure
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by jchw 6mo ago
I don't care anymore, if it happens to violate HN guidelines: Please, authors. Please write your own damn articles. We can absolutely tell that you're using Claude, I promise. (I mean, it might not be Claude specifically this
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by jchw 6mo ago
I tried to set up a partner account for driver signing last year (as a business entity) and it already seemed basically impossible. I think they're getting ready to just simply not allow it at all. This is stupid. If Microsoft wants pe
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by jchw 7mo ago
> Today, that vision isn't just proven: it's powering the industry's most significant SDKs. > This shift isn't about "using Open Source" — it's a strategic choice for technical robustness. OK Claude.
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by jchw 8mo ago
> Coloring book will be available only on Copilot+ PCs. To use Coloring book, you will need to sign in with your Microsoft account. Can someone please explain why these two things are ever simultaneously true? You buy the stupid Copilot+
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by jchw 9mo ago
I promise you, everybody understands the general idea, but adding a built-in store to your operating system is far from a neutral action that has no second- or third-order effects. It isn't that it somehow affects "free" pa
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by jchw 9mo ago
> The other thing is package availability: it's amazing on Nix. Plus, they remain relatively fresh on the unstable channel. How's that on Guix? The article says it seemed good. If you want a quantified look, Repology has some s
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by jchw 9mo ago
The Google Pixel 10 can give you notifications when your location is tracked in this manner as well. I turned it on and have been notified a few times. It is interesting that we let this happen. Modern phones are very useful devices, but th
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by jchw 9mo ago
Nobody in this comments thread appears to be confused by or misusing the term "free software". We're talking about free software vs (commercial) proprietary software. > I am still surprised most Linux Distros haven't
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by jchw 9mo ago
The entire point of the free software movement is to promote free software principles and software rights. What I think many Linux distributions would prefer is a model where companies who do benefit from selling software and hardware are
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by jchw 9mo ago
I believe I have zero Alkaline batteries left in my house and I'm relatively surprised that pretty much everything works fine. If anything, I suspect the only problem is that some devices have an inaccurate account of how dead the batt

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