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Re:Spotifast: A native Rust Spotify client with Winamp skins on Thursday October 08, 2026 @08:30PM (#50014417)
I don't know how these things work, so my question might sound stupid: if this app can connect to spotify to play songs, that means it has the sound data of a song in a byte array, then it can write the byte array to a file and use a bunch of available tools to convert that file to mp3?
Re:Floci: Locally emulating any cloud service on Saturday September 26, 2026 @09:21PM (#49862388)
Could you tell us more about it? I'd love to hear about the use cases of cloudflare and AWS service combinations.
Re:We need to stop using Stored Procedures on Saturday September 19, 2026 @10:16PM (#49771946)
I don't have any concrete examples at this moment to show the advantages of using stored procedures. So, suppose that we have to update 2 tables A, B if data in table C satisfies some conditions. Then stored procedures allow us to send only 1 request to the db while with the update commands we have to send at least 2 requests.

    > I'm not addicted to the internet or my smartphone. I'm addicted to information
You're not the only one. Everybody is like that, I guess.
Re:GLM-5.3 is now open-weight on Sunday August 30, 2026 @07:27AM (#49497740)
I saw GLM-5.2 on build.nvidia.com/models before, but it's not there now. Hopefully nvidia will host GLM-5.3 soon.
Is Chris Titus's tool able to remove the built-in Weather app (I haven't had a Windows machine with admin right for too long to remember that)? If yes, do we see 1 more GB of RAM free after running that tool?
Re:Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick on Thursday July 30, 2026 @07:55PM (#49117384)
Ah, got it. Those devices are like computer virus which don't need a computer to live on.They can make DDOS attacks if they want to. So, buying these devices at a cheap price is like renting out your IP address and your Internet connection.
Re:Kimi-K3 Releases on HuggingFace 7/27 on Monday July 27, 2026 @06:25AM (#49067501)
Now I hope that nvidia will host it for free :-)
Re:Topcoat: The full full-stack framework for Rust on Thursday July 23, 2026 @11:02PM (#49030785)
The last loco.rs release was 1 year ago. I wonder what happens with it.
When Firefox has an internal adblock like Brave, I will come back.
There are projects like this: urlx, curlio.
Today is Jun 15. So, I wonder if somebody + AI can rewrite curl in Rust in 1.5 months. I think it's possible if that person knows all curl features. However, does that person even exist?
Re:Raspberry Pi 5 – 16 GB, $350 on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @07:26PM (#48484181)
What are they used for? Its CPU's PassMark scores an average of 4,246. A quick check on AMZN: https://www.amazon.com/KAMRUI-Mini-PC-i3-10110U-Bluetooth/dp... uses AMD Ryzen 4300U (scores 7364), 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD, supports 3 4k (maybe 30HZ) monitors at the same time. That mini pc cost $289.
Re:Chuwi Minibook X: the netbook we deserve on Sunday May 31, 2026 @08:53PM (#48351458)
That $350 price tag is good for that configuration. Not sure how fast the USB-c ports are. It should have an HDMI 2.0/2.1 port. Mini PC's with the N150 CPU support 2 4k@60Hz monitors.
Re:I'm Tired of Talking to AI on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @12:25PM (#48296607)
> I asked the business owner a question about a business task. He sent me a ChatGPT screenshot with the answer. I replied that it had nothing to do with my question and everything there was wrong. A minute later he sent me another ChatGPT screenshot.

If this happens to me, it's a sign that they don't want to talk to me and I'm going to be let go.

Re:Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore on Monday May 25, 2026 @08:25PM (#48273511)
> Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore Not true for me. I still read the "Learning Rust in a month of lunches" although I ask AI to write Rust code all the times.
Re:Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @02:28PM (#48211957)
> It's not surprising that an LLM would produce different specs for the same work on different runs This is what I don't understand: AI is a computer program with its own data. If we give the same input to that computer program every time, why does it produce different outputs every time? Or does the input include LLM data + our prompt + some random data that computer program picks from its Internet search?
Re:Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025) on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @01:55PM (#48211515)
The thing that impresses me most is that the author knows everything (from the high level architecture to the small details) of "multi-Paxos consensus engine" (I have no idea what it is, but it must be very complicated) and can write everything out for AI to read (or did he/she use an app to convert speech to text)?
Re:I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows on Saturday May 16, 2026 @12:23PM (#48161558)
So, the complaint is that Linux (Fedora + KDE Plasma) is unstable after a week of usage and daily update? I'm not sure about Fedora as I'm using Arch (also with KDE Plasma on wayland). Everything is very stable for me. I `paru -Syu` whenever I remember or when VS Code shows at the lower corner that there's a new version.
Re:Linux Terminal Memory Usage on Monday May 11, 2026 @05:47PM (#48101099)
I'm using wezterm in KDE Plamas in Wayland.
Has anybody done like this with Rust (e.g. https://github.com/LiveGray/100-Days-Of-Rust)?
Re:Do you even need a database? on Thursday April 16, 2026 @08:42AM (#47792163)
Before reading that post, I would use sqlite/duckdb for everything related to data. After reading that post, I will use sqlite/duckdb + Rust for everything related to data :-)
But the energy prices (electricity and gas) don't go down :-( Then "renewables generate more power than natural gas" is not very meaningful.
But ... when you use the WAL mode, you have 3 files :-)
> the free tier will initially provide 50GB of monthly data Is it per machine or profile or ip address or something else? I switch from Firefox to Brave a few months ago because the markdown in aistudio.google.com is not displayed correctly in Firefox. I wonder if anybody has the same issue or that issue can be fixed.
Does the Java team use AI? If not, they should use it to give us more features and better performance in a release.
No need of colored functions because that Java green thread returns a Future<Value> not Value like colored functions
Re:Can I Run AI locally? on Friday March 13, 2026 @08:55PM (#47372114)
Not sure if there's anybody like me. I use AI for only 2 purposes: to replace Google Search to learn something and to generate images. I wonder where there are not many models that do only 1 thing and do it well. For example, there's this one https://huggingface.co/Fortytwo-Network/Strand-Rust-Coder-14... for Rust coding. I haven't used it yet, so don't know how it's compared to the free models that Kilo Code provides.
Re:A Grand Vision for Rust on Monday March 09, 2026 @12:29PM (#47311260)
I agree. IMO, Scala can be written in Li Haoyi's way and it's a pleasure to work with. However, the FP and Effect Scala people are too loud and too smart that if I write Scala in Li Haoyi's way, I feel like I'm too stupid. I like Rust because of no GC, no VM and memory safe. If Rust has features that a Joe java programmer like me can't understand, I guess it'll be like Scala.
I wonder how big 1300, 1400, ..., 2200 Elo chess engines are.

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