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by jlokier 5mo ago
That should work, but you need an Ollama Cloud account and for much usage you need to pay the Ollama Cloud $20/mo or $100/mo subscription fee. Using the API from DeepSeek or OpenRouter also requires a fee, but it's a differen
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by jlokier 5mo ago
I cleaned a Samsung A53 under the faucet about 2 years after purchase brand new, using only a little water. It failed soon after from water damage. I had to get it dried out and a new screen fitted, and some functions never worked properly
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by jlokier 6mo ago
It was true! I really do have Turbo C, Unix V7 C and Sun C compilers in my CI workflow, alongside modern GCC for C23 and C++26, Clang, MSVC, Fil-C and Tinycc and others.
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by jlokier 6mo ago
In database engines that use page locks, the locked page size can be different from the file/mapped/allocated page sizes. If you still have excessive locking while using smaller page locks, there are other ways to reduce contenti
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by jlokier 6mo ago
As with Google accounts, it's not hypothetical, it's a risk. People do occasionally get locked out of being an Apple developer for reasons they cannot foresee. > Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for
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by jlokier 6mo ago
Perfect! I was just doing some Turbo C development inside DOSBox-X inside Debian GNU/Linux inside VMware Fusion inside macOS this morning.
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by jlokier 6mo ago
That price at Vultr gets you 1GB of RAM, and 25GB of relatively slow SSD. The KV cache of your Claude context is: - Potentially much larger than 25GB. (The KV cache sizes you see people quoting for local models are for smaller models.) - W
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by jlokier 6mo ago
To avoid collisions, you moved physical jumpers on cards that might conflict, to select among a small range of addresses, I/O ports and/or IRQ numbers. For example if you had two identical network cards, or SCSI disk controllers,
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by jlokier 6mo ago
For neural net gradient descent, automatic differentiation etc, the widely used ReLU function has infornation carrying derivatives at +0 and –0 if those are infinitesimals.
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by jlokier 6mo ago
Apple laptop CPUs have hardware memory compression and exceptionally high memory bandwidth for a CPU, and with their latest devices, very high storage bandwidth for a consumer SSD, so the equation is very different from the old DOS days.
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by jlokier 6mo ago
Here's two "raw" methods: 1. Use "git rebase -i commitid^" (or branch point, tag etc), ideally with editor set to Magit, set that commit to "edit" (single key 'e' in Magit) and let the rebase con
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by jlokier 6mo ago
Even though VMware Fusion (for Mac) is free* and very good, Broadcom is pushing me away to Parallels for silly reasons. The reason: No matter how I try, even as a registered customer, I can't find a way to download current versions .
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by jlokier 6mo ago
Working on multiple branches in parallel is literally what Git was created for, and how it's been used since the very first version 20 years ago. Other commenters mentioned worktrees, which let you check out different branches at the s
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by jlokier 6mo ago
> You can just mess around and make it presentable later, which Git never really let you do nicely. I'm surprised to read that, because that's how I've always used Git (and GitHub). That's what I've understood
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by jlokier 6mo ago
Examples I've seen in similar systems: - Receiver tried to create a file before receiving attributes of the directory containing the file. Receiver author assumed it would always receive directory attributes first and create the direc
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by jlokier 6mo ago
Technically, SQLite's locking is NFS safe, provided NFS's implementation of fcntl() locking is working correctly. I don't know if S3 Files implements fcntl() locking or does it correctly. But if it does, I believe SQLite sho
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by jlokier 6mo ago
Why is it "wade through" if there are 10 clearly distinct but dependent commits, but comfortable if it's 10 stacked PRs instead? They are basically the same thing, presented ever so slightly differently. I think in most team
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by jlokier 6mo ago
> the open arms embrace of subscription development tools (services, really) which seek to offload the very act itself makes me wonder how and why so many people are eager to dive right in Here's a reason not in your list. Short v
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by jlokier 7mo ago
I know it's just anecdotal, but I looked for COBOL salaries a couple of years ago, curious about this "paid well". The salaries were ok but not good for COBOL. Here's an anecdotal Reddit thread about it. https:/&#
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by jlokier 7mo ago
I don't think that's likely to explain jankiness. I do know my way around terminal screens and escape codes, and doing flicker-free, curses-like screen updates works equally well on the regular screen as on the alternate screen,
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by jlokier 7mo ago
I have that problem too, and it's a banking app I use nearly every day. Needing to turn Developer mode off and on every time I open the app is really annoying. It was extra annoying when I needed to log all my phone's Bluetooth HC
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by jlokier 7mo ago
*> the clipboard manager [...] If anyone has a recommendation that feels native I use Maccy ( https://maccy.app/ ). I've been very happy with it, and wish I'd installed it years earlier than I did. It's open
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by jlokier 7mo ago
An extractor fan is the kind of consistent noise that good signal processing and voice recognition ought to be able to strip out, especially if using a dispersed mic array. Even if your voice is much quieter (to your human ears) than the f
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by jlokier 7mo ago
Indeed, and this change of philosophy shows up in the pthread (POSIX threads) API, which returns error values directly (as a negative integer) instead of setting the errno variable.
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by jlokier 8mo ago
> in fact Apple does bundle a power adapter with their laptops, just not on the cheapest models. Here in the UK, they no longer include the power adapter even with the top models. I just specced out a fully-loaded M5 Max Macbook Pro, 12
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by jlokier 8mo ago
I'm on 5G right now and it just struggled to load the HN front page due to local network congestion. At times of day when it's not congested it reaches 60-90Mbyte/s in the same physical location Spotify just gave up while try
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by jlokier 8mo ago
I think the idea is for the child see their friends in person... not call, text, or internet. So even if their own child has no phone at all, they have access to the internet through other children's unlimited mobile access.
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by jlokier 8mo ago
Something I didn't see in the other comments is users who are using the startup's service for work, as an employee. Why wouldn't you choose the simplicity of "sign in with Google" if your work email is on Google Wor
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by jlokier 8mo ago
Both available choices "share the information with Google" for most people. The majority of email account creations use a Gmail or Google Workspace address, so Google gets the information either way, and in Europe most use Androi
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by jlokier 8mo ago
My comment was about push service sharing generally, not banks, from a technical point of view that many people aren't aware of but may find interesting. Clearly, real-time notifications are useful with many apps, notably real-time mes

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