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desertkun

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    Comment #43967134

    I don't think sending your emails to somebody else for LLM inference, whomever that might be, is a viable business model. Unless it is completely local, I would never use it.

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    Comment #43367797

    How did you make the UI? It looks really nice.

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    Comment #43209346

    Now we're talking. Thanks!

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    Comment #43199365

    Did you consider JetBrains licensing model? I don't like renting software, I'd rather buy it upfront, but JetBrains with their fallback licenses really got me – you get your perpet…

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    Comment #43199292

    Ah! I was so happy I can put postman to rest. What I didn't like is the landing page did not clearly communicate I am installing a non-free product with a trial, so I uninstalled i…

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    Comment #43178147

    Yes, however I do not see screeps as constrained environment – AFAIK you can allow yourself to write sloppy code and get your task done. Here I focus instead on sheer performance o…

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    Comment #43178041

    Can you put a screenshot of what it is going to look like into the repo's readme?

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    Comment #43169927

    When you clone yourself you spend energy – and you must specify how much energy you sacrifice. With explosive cloning you will die fast. At least that's my assumption, this is all …

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    Comment #43169918

    Actually, I've been referenced to this already, but I have completely missed it. I have been messing around with Z80 processor for some time and given how it's slow and simple I ha…

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    Comment #43153132

    Does it allow to setup up two tasks, convert webm to mp4 and convert mp4 to webm, such as all I have to do is drag-and-drop into some shortcut?

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    Comment #43143810

    I once tried to slap TLS/SSL stack onto ZX Spectrum – so HTTPS connection on it worked, but it took solid two minutes to just load a certificate – sometimes you gotta do the "I mad…

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    Comment #43143738

    I don't get it, why didn't he just use ffmpeg?

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    Show HN: A competition game to write bots for the most efficient algo

    I had an idea on a competition in a highly constrained environment: 32x32 matrix, with bots running code you write! The live site is https://kingofthegrid.com/ . Each bot emulates …

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    Show HN: Competition to write the most efficient bot to be King Of The Grid

    Out of boredom I've created a competition where the goal is to write the most efficient both to be King Of The Grid. Code: https://github.com/kingofthegrid/king-of-the-grid Rules: …