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calmingsolitude
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Comment #49194512
Flora Incognita and PlantNet are not open source, so they cannot be published to F-Droid. However, iNaturalist is and the apk can be directly installed from the GitHub releases pag…
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Comment #49132507
No. I’ve heard this argument multiple times before - “let the human review and write tests” - and sure it might work, but this is almost never practiced. AI makes coding a lot fast…
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Comment #49002954
How does this compare with solutions that currently exist to solve this problem, say for example ngrok?
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Comment #49002804
Basically all of Graphene's RCS issues have been fixed[0]. Additionally, your stance seems somewhat unusual - GrapheneOS isn't only meant to be used by people that have "something …
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Comment #48975565
I still use it because I like how easy it is to use extensions on iOS but definitely agree that there are a lot of UI bugs. Listing the most prominent ones just in case the dev is …
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Comment #48802985
Have to agree. Unsure why the page is comparing with docker/cloud shell instead of jslinux/webvm.
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Comment #48796464
Eh, millions of households have a smart speaker that's constantly recording and I doubt that the majority of people that use one have truly internalized the ramifications of having…
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Comment #48415201
If I were to hazard a guess, Valve was apprehensive about releasing the steam machine/frame this year because the high memory prices would mean that they'd have to price the steam …
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Comment #48217619
You've advertised twice on this thread about your site, but I personally find the UX to be worse, not to mention the phantom scroll issues and (imo) the tasteless animations.
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Comment #48144393
Parent is simply pointing out the incorrect usage of "empirically", which should typically only be mentioned when you've tested it yourself.
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Comment #47977435
Because he's paid to deliver code that works. Letting an AI agent do everything would be fine if it didn't make any mistakes, but that's far from reality.
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Comment #47792011
> if you edit those [LLM tropes] out, or ignore them, you can’t really argue that the writing produced by these models is objectively ‘bad’ any more. Well, it isn't good either and…
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Comment #47790462
Although not disclosed on this page, the author's name is mentioned on their other projects[0]. > Our founder, Todd Bruss, is currently battling Cancer. Through it all, he continue…
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Comment #47774892
This was true a few years back, but in recent times Creality has fallen victim to quality control issues, a huge number of printer variants and generally having a not so great out …
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Comment #47679272
Thanks for the update. The usage of an affiliate link feels quite dishonest here because the hyperlink says bunny.net but then opens up bunny.net/?ref=xxxx
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Comment #47673073
What trust model? Is there anyway to verify that an app from the app store is the same as the one the developer uploaded?
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Comment #47526883
IMO closing issues via stale bot is fine, the problem is locking issues so that no further conversation is allowed on the issue. Multiple times, I've encountered multi-year old iss…
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Comment #46957252
Working on an alt-tab window switcher for wayland compositors! Currently only supports Hyprland but working on adding support for others as well. Check it out at https://github.com…
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Comment #46902382
When I read the first sentence, I expected the author to use `git bisect`. However, what the author seems to have done is used a prompt with claude that probably looked something l…
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Comment #46898883
The challenge outlined by the article is the lack of communication regarding the change in availability of Debian volunteers themselves. TFA doesn't mention issues regarding recrui…
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Comment #46409688
This is a pretty cool project and I think the comments here are being overly negative. Sure, removing the constraints that the eBPF verifier requires might encourage more complex a…
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Comment #46049526
Here's the problem: your reply is factually correct, but it doesn't address the GP's overarching complaint - the start menu is simply not performant. And since the code powering th…
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Comment #45912659
Visiting this site on mobile is not great. A good portion of the screen is covered by a sticky header and there is no underline or feedback when a link is clicked. Additionally, it…
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Comment #45912281
This is because many of the "native" windows components like the start menu are written in react native.