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boyter

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About boyter

websites: https://searchcode.com/ https://boyter.org/ https://bonzamate.com.au/ email: ben@boyter.org twitter: @boyter

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49033608

    Tooting my own horn here for search but give https://github.com/boyter/cs a go. You can have a http server up if you like (even modify the templates) and have it sync your repos fo…

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    Comment #49015290

    It came to a head with that story about the kid making a clock and getting in trouble. Leo was all in on one side that it was about racism and such, with John suggesting he fell fo…

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    Comment #49014775

    When Leo cut off Dvroak and CJal I turned out. You really do need that sort of personality for people to bounce off otherwise its less entertaining.

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    Comment #48469690

    Came here to post than and you already did. Thank you!

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    Comment #48187872

    You are welcome. Glad to hear its working for you. I have a few ideas I am working on to improve its relevance too that I hope pan out.

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    Comment #48176452

    Grep prints out every matching line. For some searches a LLM might do it will get a lot of noise, and it might have to make that search because it cannot be specific. Targeted sear…

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    Comment #48175368

    Interesting. I too have been working in this space, though I took a different approach. Rather than building an index, I worked on making a "smarter grep" by offering search over c…

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    Comment #48087582

    Been working on https://searchcode.com/ again which I bought back, albeit as code search tool for LLMs. It solves the “should I use this library” by allowing the LLM to inspect sea…

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    Comment #47929911

    Many Muslims drink anyway. A lot of those in Iran brew wine/beer in their house. Tobacco in Australia has been taxed to the point we have a huge black market for it now. You would …

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    Comment #47929825

    Id be ok with that if wine had the same taste. No alcohol free wine tastes even close, and none of them are good in their own right. Some of the non-alcoholic beers are pretty good…

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    Comment #47744278

    I reimagined https://searchcode.com/ since I realised LLMs have issues when it comes to understanding code you want to integrate. It’s useful for looking though any codebase, or mu…

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    Comment #47537807

    I read this when it came out and having written similar things for searchcode.com (back when it was a spanning code search engine), and while interesting I have questions about, We…

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    Comment #47508391

    The disk cache has a huge impact. However they claim it’s for multiple searches so it should be in it.

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    Comment #47500557

    Such a good read. I actually went back though it the other day to steal the searching for the least common byte idea out to speed up my search tool https://github.com/boyter/cs whi…

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    Comment #47474387

    Its pretty easy to step over those limits. Also localhost and presumably this are good for validating your logic before you throw in roles, network and everything else that can be …

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    Comment #47216207

    All of the above. Stop reading the news. It makes you depressed or angry. Go hiking. Walk on the beach. Play with a dog or your children. Climb a tree. Leave the slave slab phone a…

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    Comment #47134745

    Chased the wrong thing. It’s the 1% lows that matter more generally.

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    Comment #47133790

    If you have a high frame rate to start with it’s pretty nice and feels smoother. But a low frame rate turned into a high one looks good but feels laggy. So arguably you never need …

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    Comment #47118380

    Not familiar with that tool. What follows is my best guess based on what I am seeing. Serena looks to be a precision tool. Since it uses uses LSP its able to replicate a lot of wha…

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    Show HN: CS – indexless code search that understands code, comments and strings

    I initially built cs (codespelunker) as a way to answer the question, can BM25 relevance search work without building an index? Turns out it can, and so I iterated on the idea, bui…

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    Seems to be a load issue, hopefully easily resolved Request URL https://lightwave.so/api/register/ephemeral Request Method POST Status Code 429 Too Many Requests