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> I don't understand how Codex can blunder so badly. I imagine that even if they would be using vibe-coding, surely they must have some good engineers. So why is there such severe …

The sound only does not work from the laptop speakers; wired headphones work perfectly. Sometimes you want your laptop speakers to produce sound. So an external sound card does not…

There is a common problem with Realtek ALC3306 on Linux (Kernel Bug 213159). This affects many Lenovo laptop models. For example, my fairly old Legion S7 15IMH5 laptop also does no…

Maybe. I've been programming in C++ and also in Python for almost 20 years. And I'm just happy that Python has finally started to have convenient tools for packaging and dependency…

What for? Support legacy CI/CD pipelines or something like that? uv.lock already contains locked versions of all dependencies plus a lot of other needed metadata.

> Just a few months back I said I would never use uv. I was already used to venv and pip. No need for another tool I thought Really? :) requirements.txt is just hell and torture. I…

It's true. msgspec has incredibly fast msgpack serialization. It's a shame so few people know about it.

Yes, the links are now in the headers. The author has updated the post.

Funny how the author doesn't give a single link in the post. The reader has to go searching, spend time to find the things the author writes about. Well, a simple example: Awesome-…

This thing can "fix" tests, not code. It just adjusts tests to incorrect code. So you need to keep an eye on the test code as well. That sounds crazy, of course. You have to consta…

> The user experience is similar to Notion Honestly, it sounds like a judgment call because Notion is truly a monstrous thing. It slows down terribly and it's just plain uncomforta…

Joplin uses SQLite DB to store data, not markdown files. Moreover, you can't even change the directory where this database is stored, which is pretty funny for an open source appli…