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when they'll finally manage to put it to orbit and come back without a dramatic issue, the space station will already be decommissioned, sad for Boeing
interesting, but we need the ability to also say no, using cuda core, quantization, distillation and vibe coding. do you think it's achievable with rust ?
Re:Instagram Addiction on Wednesday May 21, 2025 @11:26AM (#44052514)
I'd suggest you to use firefox on your phone. you can install many extensions there. then you could use an android debloater app to remove chrome completely from your phone
I don't think you can do 1. without distilling & quantization
isn't it breaking the one package one responsibility principle?uncle bob wouldn't be happy, it doesn't seem clean
you might need to upgrade your vercel plan
Re:ClojureScript 1.12.42 on Sunday May 18, 2025 @09:18AM (#44021209)
I like how they try hard not to say just "structs". another one is "codes like a class, works like an int". as if they were ashamed of the word struct. value type semantics is just that, plus few extra rules for some reasons (forced immutability is one of them iirc).
Re:The Perverse Incentives of Vibe Coding on Thursday May 15, 2025 @02:41AM (#43992438)
At best, the only useful thing I can get from chat gpt, deepSeek, or grok is keywords I can search on Google to find a valid solution to my problem. I get so frustrated with them that I almost never use LLMs, except for fixing grammar or translating. It's not because I'm against them, but because they are useless to me and a massive waste of time.
Re:I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @02:50AM (#43981596)
I did someting like this for a hobby project of mine: https:/nbittich.github.io/adana/
Re:I failed a take-home assignment from Kagi Search on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @02:44AM (#43981574)
Although I agree with you regarding leetcode and the lack of feedback on rejections, I honestly don't understand the dislike for take-home assignments. If you truly enjoy coding, you could see them as an excuse to work on a new hobby project.
isn't it fat shaming? or because it's some bad guy, is it allowed? what if I'm fat, and don't want to answer
Re:An update to our pricing on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @03:20AM (#43759820)
this kind of flag is the trust me bro we hear since forever
Re:GIMP 3.0 Released on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @01:25AM (#43396046)
Try krita, it's open source, it's easy to use and has lots of features
Re:uBlock Origin Forcefully Removed by Chrome on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @12:03AM (#43263061)
Glad I switched to Firefox years ago.
Re:Why Clojure? on Sunday February 23, 2025 @03:34PM (#43152964)
I tried clojure long time ago, honestly what made me give up is when I saw a java stacktrace in place of a proper error message when learning it. Also the repl was slow. The UX sucked, I wonder if they improved that
I've the maximum muted words (200), literally muted country names so maybe that's why my feed is clean ish. Wish there was no limit though, still get some ai stuff sometimes
Just tried it, says it's fcked but I don't agree. There is zero political tweets on the feed analyzed, yet it says center left; it's basically just tech tweets.
Re:We need to protect the protocol that runs Bluesky on Saturday January 18, 2025 @11:01PM (#42753446)
The internet of the 2000s was good because it didn't have these "discover" and "for you" algorithms. If you were interested in a subject, you actually had to search and filter results to find what you wanted; no AI choosing for you. If you're not interested in politics, you shouldn't see political content, unless you specifically search for it.
Re:Standards First Web Framework on Friday January 17, 2025 @08:18PM (#42744912)
No thanks. I'd prefer to build my next project without any framework rather than install yet another cli on my machine.
Because they use code mirror to build their ide
Re:Why Linux is not ready for the desktop, the final edition on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @04:41AM (#42557621)
Using Linux as my main os since 2017, I'm neither a gamer nor a total nerd/linux fanboy. Using my laptop as any casuals (except for dev). Although I do have issues sometimes with it, it's most of the time because I'm trying to do something super specific for my job, and it requires technical knowledges. Otherwise, the way normal people uses a PC nowadays is 1) start the pc, 2) open the browser .
Re:The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding on Friday December 06, 2024 @06:07AM (#42338636)
The article itself sounds like written by chat gpt :D
> Obtaining the SDP involves the following steps: 1. Register for a myQNX account. 2. Request a free licence. 3. Download QNX Software Centre. 4. Install the SDP on your computer

You lost me at step 1.

Re:Rewrite It in Rails on Monday November 04, 2024 @05:08PM (#42046502)
It's funny also because this is basically what you read when you arrive on the landing page of rust: A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Crud are still software I think

Re:Rewrite It in Rails on Monday November 04, 2024 @05:06PM (#42046477)
Sparing few allocations at the risk of making the language inconsistent is an extremely bad way of building a programming language. If you write async code, rules are not the same than non async code. I am using rust for 4 years, I think I have a good enough level with it and thank God I kept my objectivity. Btw this is at the first page of the rust website, not "c++ replacement" : A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Re:Rewrite It in Rails on Monday November 04, 2024 @05:01PM (#42046413)
Lol it's funny how often I get "but rust is not for making crud", although I never said I was using it for that.
Re:Rewrite It in Rails on Saturday November 02, 2024 @07:10AM (#42025622)
Async vs non async code. It's basically two different languages imho. generics are also a big pain to work with, specially along with lifetimes. I have fun working with rust now that I am good enough at it, but I kept my objectivity in the process of learning it.
Re:Rewrite It in Rails on Saturday November 02, 2024 @03:56AM (#42024779)
Rust is a language built by extremely smart people, unfortunately their focus is more on type theory and sparing few allocations than building something useful and coherent for blue collar devs like me. When I read a blog post on rust, I literally don't understand half of it, although I'm working with rust since 2020.

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