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by lgl 4mo ago
Agreed, I'm pretty sure the Chinese are currently much, much better at long term thinking and have already reached the conclusion that llms are transformative enough generationally, that assuming a few more years or decades of Moore&#x
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by lgl 5mo ago
> People keep opening issues about "unsafe usage" in the codebase. This PR solves that problem at the root by introducing a yolo! macro and replacing all 10,421 instances of unsafe {} across 732 files. This is actually pretty f
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by lgl 5mo ago
Due to the copilot nerfing recently I've switched to codex and gpt 5.4 (and now especially 5.5) have been doing pretty great. But even codex has these super weird time limits. It's really starting to show that these companies must
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by lgl 6mo ago
Sorry if this seems blunt, but in what planet have you've been living in that you're still not aware that google, meta, bing and pretty much all ad companies have been serving huge amounts of scams and malware since the dawn of ti
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by lgl 6mo ago
Google Before: “Advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased toward the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.” After: ~75–80%+ of revenue comes from ads Facebook Before: “Facebook is not about making money… it
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by lgl 6mo ago
Long are the days of DO being a super hoster imho. Hetzner and many other "cheap" clouds ate their breakfast and their reaction was pretty much zero. Still an awesome service and platform.. but no longer worth it price wise as it
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by lgl 6mo ago
Brilliant, highly recommended short story! Ted Chiang rarely disappoints.
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by lgl 7mo ago
Hey Rod, your last name seems portuguese(?) Congrats on this, not only you got credits on a feature movie, you got one of the good ones. Cloud 9 for you, enjoy!
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by lgl 7mo ago
You may see this as a rant but it's in fact a very valuable recommendation that apparently people no longer take seriously. The path of least resistance is not a good way to do business or provide good service to your customers.
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by lgl 7mo ago
No, just a regular Pro subscription. Apparently it's not just me, Github seems to have removed these models from the "Student" subscription [0] but it seems as it was also removed from regular "Pro" subscriptions as
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Ask HN: Did GitHub remove Opus and Sonnet from their Copilot Pro subscription?
14 points by lgl 7mo ago|8 comments
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by lgl 7mo ago
Ok sure, but Y2100 is not really "next generation" :)
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by lgl 7mo ago
> the next generation of Ai companies will be easily valued at 10T I'm not sure where this conclusion is coming from. We're very likely already in an AI bubble so I'm thinking that open/free models will eventually dil
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by lgl 7mo ago
I'm in the process of building v2.0 of my app using opus 4.6 and largely agree with this. It's pretty awesome but still does a lot of basic idiotic stuff. I was implementing a feature that required a global keyboard shortcut and a
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by lgl 8mo ago
The interface... Oh.. the terrible terrible UI on desktop... Switch tabs, come back.. it refreshes everything and you can never go back. Comment threads with 100+ comments with only a "show more" link, which again.. se previous pa
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by lgl 8mo ago
> I keep switching among these subscriptions every month to not miss out on any of the offerings for too long; ChatGPT Plus <-> Gemini Pro <-> Claude. I wonder why many people seem to be doing this instead of just going for a
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by lgl 8mo ago
The SI on Peter Hamilton's Commonwealth duology is pretty badass!
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by lgl 8mo ago
This! Both FTL and Into the Breach are evergreen games imho.
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by lgl 8mo ago
> Half-life was amazing, and not because it was Quake 2. Half-Life used the GoldSrc engine [0], based mostly on Quake 1 and also some parts of QuakeWorld and Quake 2 [0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoldSrc
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by lgl 9mo ago
Sure I'm very familiar with the donation banners etc but still, how unnecessary are they really? They have no actual "product" to sell and no ads. At the same time I imagine a huge amount of traffic, that has surely gotten mu
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by lgl 9mo ago
Except for their unnecessarily incessant fund raising. [citation needed] Fixed.
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by lgl 9mo ago
I am not a python guy so I did not know this person nor his framework. But the tone of this message from his peers and the fact that this man kept working and contributing to open source (and software in general) until the end is deserving
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by lgl 10mo ago
Diabotical was heavily inspired by Quakeworld/Quake3/UT arena shooter FPS. https://www.diabotical.com
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by lgl 10mo ago
Still developing and maintaining LumoTray [0] - a multipurpose tray app for Windows. [0] https://lumotray.com
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by lgl 10mo ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/927
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by lgl 10mo ago
Always awesome content from Fabien Sanglard! +1 Quake 1/Quakeworld gladly live on! I'm a big fan for many years so I always encourage anybody to try it. [0] Still one of the best FPS ever built imho. The community [1] keeps on imp
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by lgl 1y ago
Something else. I.e.: ditch React and go with Vue/Nuxt :-)
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by lgl 1y ago
Hey, I didn't really find the MS store to be hard to use, but it's for sure the weakest of the "app stores" when it comes to discoverability. That said, it has become a bit better with Windows 11 and as time goes by Wind
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by lgl 1y ago
LumoTray [0] - A multi-purpose system tray app for Windows. It is currently: - Wallpaper manager with multi-monitor support and multiple image sources. Change wallpapers daily, hourly, etc. - Lockscreen image manager with the same modes as
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by lgl 1y ago
So... The LLM only goes into effect after 10000 "old school" if statements?

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